11 Things You Didn't Know Were Possible In FINAL FANTASY 7 REBIRTH 

*OG only? Remake only? Or both?* -BoomstickAlex _(I accidentally called the Dark Claw a "Deathclaw". *Shakes fist at Fallout!)_

Extra tips: - The three hit ranged attack synergy skill Cloud gets with Red and Barret has a secret fourth and slightly more powerful shot if you press the stance button (triangle) at the end of the three hit synergy skill combo, plus it lets you quickly activate punisher mode. - You can swap characters in combat by pressing up or down on the dpad, everyone knows that, but if you press up or down on the dpad WHILE holding the block button R1, the character you control will teleport (I think the game calls it Tag Team attack) to the enemy and immediately start hitting him, so you can go crazy chaining attacks. Really useful. - You can manually trigger Cait Sith’s Moogle Kaboom ability (the one that makes his moogle swallow a bomb and explode when the moogle HP is depleted) by using the dodge dive ability, which destroys the moogle. No more waiting for enemies to destroy it, Cait Sith becomes an AOE damage beast with this! - Some of you might not have noticed this, there are different attack animations depending on when you press the stance button with Cloud to activate Punisher mode. You can counter AND perfect counter by simply pressing triangle the moment the enemy attacks, instead of R1. You can do a Helm Splitter to quickly drop flying enemies or go back to the ground with a heavy attack if you press triangle mid air during an air combo. You can quickly move behind the enemy and avoid a front hit with a fast slash by pressing triangle during the repeating slashes of the punisher mode combo. Super useful too. - Yuffie’s Foxflame synergy skill changes elements according to her current ninjutsu element, really useful to pressure enemies weak to an elemental type and break enemy parts. ✌️✌️✌️✌️

Bro. Wtf. This is actually the most useful "things you didn't know" game video I've ever seen on youtube, period.

The deeper you get into this game the more crazy it is. Such an amazing evolution of an old classic. As an og fan. I am happy

I watched my dad play the Original FF7 on the PS1 when it came out; without a guide or assistance. I played it a few years later when I bit got older, and I had strategy guide to help me. The fact my dad figured out as much as he did back in his mid 30s playing after work and on weekends; will never not impress me. Now years later I'm in my mid 30s playing the remakes with him watching. It's a lot of fun. I enjoyed the original. It's my 5th favorite Final Fantasy, and I'm really enjoying the remake series too.

A good hidden mechanic is with Tifa and the auto unique ability materia. It is said in the materia description that she will use unbrittle strength, but what it doesn't say is that she will automatically spend her triangle attacks right after staggering an enemy to increase the damage multiplier

I got 67 hrs of game time and still I've learned alot from your video. Thanks alot. Thumbs up :)

Bought a ps5 to play this. I went through crisis core, got the Ff7 remake platinum, watched Advent children complete in anticipation. Game is amazing. Was not ready for the opening.

OG 7 player here. I obsessed with 7 as a teen and beat it multiple times and owned several strategy guide books. I went back and beat Remake for a 2nd time and Intergrade for the first. I just finished that yesterday (2/28) and I am so excited for this!

OG and Remake, both great in their own ways. Loving Rebirth now.

The L2 and R2 for shortcuts is amazing! I was wondering why I still had to go through so many menus sometimes

this is hands down the best video of the format for any video game i’ve ever seen. well done. you earned a new subscriber

Genuinely ridiculously useful video. Got the game yesterday, gotta go work for 8 hours and then i can squeeze in another gaming session. With GENUINELY VERY USEFUL TIPS. Wtf im shocked.

Great job on this, bunch of tips I hadn’t heard anywhere else. Thanks

The expand command shortcut is a game changer, I felt the other option where L2 and R2 was useless if I wanted to pause I’ll press X then L2 or R2 to choose the character

OG

always so quick and detailed, thanks Alex

So many handy tips in this. Thanks Boomstick.

Ngl, I lost it at 2:59. Great video-great tips o7 and all of the above. I love the world and characters. So jazzed!

Oh maaan, you got the best tips ive seen in the past few days! Thanks a lot!

i'm in the grasslands still getting familiar with the battle system. super happy and love the game already!

Nice tips! Definitely applying when next I play.

Great tips I wasnt aware of. Thanks!

OG fan here! Fancy seeing another Boomstick around! You showed up on my recommended when I've been trying to keep myself from getting spoiled from Rebirth~ Great tips!

Die hard FF7 fan and played the OG as a literal child and replayed it later as a young adult right before Remake so it’s safe to say I love FF7 and I’m not even a huge Final Fantasy fan in general I’ve only played 10 and Kingdom Hearts games is where I really got introduced to the cast of FF7. I absolutely love your vid even tho I’ve played through the game and have like 120 hours I learned something new from this! You make really informative vids that are really well made! Bravo! I’m definitely subscribing!

Awesome tips. Thanks man!

What’s crazy is I’ve been watching FF7RB videos for the last week & I just ran into this video. Definitely the most useful I’ve seen so far

Awesome tips. OG player x7 and loved beating the game each time.

The goat with the quick tip video

I had no idea about the mini map thing very helpful!

Both - awesome video, great tips. The team mate dodge sounds like it would take some practice to pull off consistently but would really benefit, especially on hard mode

I'm definitely going to use that camera setting. Also, the mechanic with the dice is so clever, I would have never thought of it.

These are actually awesome tips, wish I knew about most of these at the start, just hit chapter 13 😂 Good work mate!

Love the tips! And Love the game. Played the original years ago, and now playing it again, switching between the og and Rebirth.

OG, thanks for the tips!

My daughter’s name is Aeris…. That should tell you which I played first 😂

"Overkill! Eat it Neil..." Subscribed so fast afterwards 🤣

OG. Also, thank you so much for this list! I'm configuring my menu settings for the battle camera especially.

BOTH and thank you square enix owes you for making sense of their defunct tutorials subscribed

I just got to the second area after the swamplands. Did everything there was possible to do in the grasslands. All of these incredibly useful tips would have been great during my first 16 or so hours. 😂 amazing video with amazing tips. Thank you!

Dude. This is actual useful information. I didn't know a lot of this stuff! Thanks for this! (OG FF7 here!)

This is incredibly useful. Best video of this kind easily

This is the most helpful Rebirth tips video on RU-vid!

At last an actually helpful video and not just things that the game tels you... Nice work man .

Just got out off the first open zone with everything done (rn entered chapter 3) and love everything so far! Going for the platinum as well

I’ve played the OG one countless times. So to see it fleshed out more how it is now is amazing!

OG I played this for hours yesterday and I love it. Thanks for the video

This helps a lot. I bought it a while ago but just started playing it this week. I’ve played the both OG and remake 😎 love them both

thank you for this video, sincerely so helpful. i really appreciate it

Great tips! Especially the dodge, shortcuts and battlecam will come in handy. Also I've completely missed the potential of Grandhorn in QB, so frustrating when the AI blocks your route when you're about to unveil your masterplan! Time to put Grandhorn in my strategy

Top tier video- so helpful thanks!

OG that played remake. Cant wait to play this game.

I was playing this over the weekend and was like I need some Boomstick tips on this game. Sure enough video. Thanks

OG for sure, but loving the new stuff! Thanks for the tips!

Man this is good! I knew the combat was deep but didn't know there was this much flexibility.

OG here. I was 12 years old. Formative in my development.

BOTH. Just got my hands on FF7: Rebirth and I'm having a blast. This video was super helpful. Keep it up dude!

I'm 42, so OG practically every FF game haha

Most of the options things listed I never knew as I never go in there. Other's are nice to know so video was overall very helpful. As for liking the game, I am loving it. It brings back Nostalgic moments while introducing new ones. Also everytime I see Tifa on the screen it's like seeing a Celebrity I really like lol.

OG and Remake/Rebirth. Rebirth is probably hands down one of the best games I have ever played. Absolutely incredible - what a journey!

OG here loving these, I fully platinum FF7 remake I preparation for this... loving it!!!

Both - this was some great info. I am on Chapter 8 now - currently going after the protorelic in Corel. Cactaurs are as annoying as they have ever been! My tips: 1) Equip the "Auto Wepon Ability" Materia on everyone so whoever is not being controlled pops off an ability; 2) Barett's Iron Shield (default: R1+X or R1+O) is extremely useful for damage reduction and he gets lots of ATB using it.

I've played both. In chapter 9 of rebirth. Thanks for the vid super helpful!

Thanks for the useful tips! I’m a Remake only guy. I’ve always known about the popular ff7 characters and the amazing soundtrack, but I’ve never played the original. Maybe I’ll play it after rebirth:)

OG player; FF7 and FF8 were the first Final Fantasy games I ever played on the PS1 at 12 years old. Now I'm 32 playing the remake. I can't believe I'm getting the privilege of playing one of my all time favorite childhood games as an adult in such a way that makes it feel like I'm playing/experiencing the story for the FIRST TIME again while simultaneously enjoying nostalgia for a story I am realizing I both know extremely well and not at all I hope this marks an era of Final Fantasy Remakes. I would LOVE to see 8, 9, 10/10-2, 12 and the 13 saga get this treatment

Thanks man! I have terrible drift and the lock on tip is game changer for me! Now I don't have to use the damn sticks to switch targets😂

Og player here who got really into the game right around the time advent children came out, then crisis core, that was my adolescence and that world and story means so much to me! Playing Remake and Rebirth (literally have been following this since the 2005 ps3 tech demo) has been the most gratifying emotional gaming experience. Seeing places I’ve only ever imagined in hyper triple A graphics! Recognizing the characters dialogue spoken out loud rather than me and my friends individually voicing out the text! I cry!

Love both the OG and the Remake project

I didn't figure out the Grandhorn trick until the last Queensblood match of the game. There are a few of those replacement-style cards that are an absolute must to win the final match. You basically have to block the final opponent from making any more moves as early as possible, since each move they make powers up the mean queen card.

Ive beaten the games story and wow there was a lot i didnt consider. The fov, the L2/R2 for teamate quick actions. Huge difference

OG! The synergy addition is CRAZY. 🎉

OG! I’m chapter 9 and having a great time. That alt character dodge mechanic blew my mind.

OG - I'm a 71 year old Grandma who has been playing Final Fantasy since it first came out on Nintendo. I played every version to 13 and then switched to Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim, then Horizen Zero Dawn and Forbidden West. I was really looking forward to the remake for FFVII and am playing it now. So far, I liked the original much better but I'm getting used to the new version. I'm only on Chapter 4 so still early in the game. It doesn't seem as open world as the original and I'm not crazy about the mini games or the card game but liking the battle system.

OG🎉😊 this was a wonderfully helpful video 🙏🏻 loving the game so much

So many things i learned. I am humbled to suscribe to your channel.

Actually amazing tips and tricks

OMG this helped so much. Thank you/

‘97 OG on PS- obsessed. Rebirth- convoluted. Queen’s Blood keeps me going though. Thanks for all the info!

OG OG OG. Such great tips thanks!!!

Amazing need to know info!

I'd never played the original game before playing the remake/rebirth games, but I played the demo for Rebirth and the scene with the cameraman happened taking the picture of Tifa/Cloud/Sephiroth, and I said to myself "This is such a weirdly specific moment that it feels ripped entirely from the original game, and yet I've never heard of it." It was sort of a moment of realizing that my pop culture and general Final Fantasy fan knowledge might be enough to get me through the games, but not enough to know everything that was going on. So I bought the original game and played it and found myself having a surprisingly good time with a game that for all of its deconstruction elements is a lot deeper and wackier than pop culture or Square themselves would acknowledge. Looking at you, Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus. Anyway, I've played Remake at this point and am taking a break before getting to Rebirth.

Both. Thanks for the tips!

Best Tipps that i See! Thx

I'm 43 years old, so both. I bought the first FF7 before I even had a Playstation to play it on, because I've been such a huge for so long. I played the original on the NES when it was new. I was 7 at the time, and loved it.

These are great! thanks you

OG 7. I actually did a 100% (all achievements, sidequests, etc) run of ffvii before playing Rebirth. I had already platinumed ffvii Remake before. But man, this entry in the series is just unforgettable. This might be a take, but Rebirth is just about everything I wanted out of ffxvi but didn’t get.

I played the OG and finished it more than 60 times in 27 years. So glad they finally did a remake! Thanks for the video!

It just occurred to me that u can place an arcane ward at a safe distance, Aerith can teleport there and call team members to double cast

3:00 I wasn't ready for this

Cool stuff. Will definitely update some settings once i get to play again. The battles seem a bit too convoluted so far especially compared to remake. There's just so much to do. Not entirely a bad thing though, the game's definitely lots enjoyable

I got a pro controller and love the button mapping, so I can customise it in a more convenient configuration, example is that I swapped l1 and r1 to the back panel button, which frees up my fingers for r2 and l2.

OG over here. I was 16 in 1997 when i first play FF7. Its been my favorite game since. I still play it once a year.

I can finally watch videos after beating the story in 72 hours. Grandhorn really elevated my Queen's Blood decks once I started using them. I like using decks where you destroy your own cards to power up cards like Tonberry. So much fun.

YOOOO THESE ARE CRAZYYY LMAO 100 hours in and still so much to learn! :D

OG, 7 was actually my first ever RPG back when I was a kid. I’m glad that I haven’t missed any of these mechanics, though I definitely need to use the synergy skills more now that I’m in Ch. 11 of hard mode. Either way I’ve gotta wait for that G-Bike patch so I can continue the hunt for platinum. Not looking forward to the final boss on hard lol

102 hours in and you still told me stuff I didn’t know, very well done.

OG here. Thanks for the tips. These were great!

OG, still have my jewel case copy. Have also played it on switch. I have 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 on my switch. Love that thing.

OG here thank you for the helpful tips!!!

OG! Not going to lie, when the original game came out, like 27 years ago now, I used to imagine that I was Cloud and absolutely fell in love with the OG game! This new game though, blows away even my own imagination from back then! They did such an amazing job!