How to Get Rank 3 in Glide de Chocobo Course 2 in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth 

Square Enix really went all out ensuring that Rebirth had some of the best and worst minigames in the series

i just wish i wasn’t fighting with the camera the entire time

I platted mortal shell but THIS , this mini game alone pushed me over the edge

I got the platinum trophy in Final Fantasy seven’s first game. But the staggering amount of frustrating mini games in this might just prevent me from doing it again. The fact that I haven’t even seen anyone talk about this trial as one of the more frustrating things speaks volumes to how frustrating some of the worst stuff is. I know these things are just a minute long or so, but they all really feel so much longer, and so much more time goes into doing them perfectly

Didn’t even know dive bombing was a thing until this video, thanks!

Thank you! No tutorial on this one although it was really needed! The amount of times I flew right through 500 rings and didn’t get the points….finally made it

I didn't even know you could dive bomb and come back up 😂

One of the typical frustrating chocobo trials in the FF franchise. I hated this one next to the chocobo race in FFX lol.

Difficulty jump from 1 to 2/3 is absolutely diabolical. Also so impossibly difficult with broken controls. This at least helped me get rank 1 in course 2 and 3 lol :)

I was only aiming to pass it and this helped a great deal. Thank you... Will echo others thoughts, fightimg the camera is annoying, and as an oldet gamer... I played a lot of flight sims, so pushing up to go back up goes against instincts... Also, The Analouge Stick Control... Smooth as butter, a little TOO SMOOTH! They are so sensetive it very easy to throw yourself off course... Which i did! Will come back to rank III the course, just glad i got through at all! It is a tough one.

Thank you!!!!! Took me about an hour to finish this one. Those last few rings kept killing me!!! Great guide

I gave up after 3 hours. I couldn’t even get to rank 1. Guess I’ll try it again. Everytime I dived bomb, I would try to go back up and it wouldn’t go up far enough. I would end up on the ground.

The VO really helps a lot, thanks. On to course 3, FML.

Thank you! All of your guides assisted me in mastering all courses!!!!

You are really a savior for me on this one really appreciate it man, you got a new subscriber. Keep up the great work.

Thank you again. This was the first video that came up for me and is the one that I was searching for

Thanks bro i did it after I watched your vid. I had everything until the end and the fact you said push up until you can’t anymore was all the difference

Woow. I didn't even know you could dive bomb. That's the first thing I tried and I just fell. So good to know you actually can. Thanks dude. Happy gliding guys!

I failed so many times, I could not figure out how to ascend. You HAVE TO nosedive in order to go back up. Thanks for this video. I got a passing score even though I didn’t get to the finish line which is good enough for me at this point.

Didn’t even know dive bomb and then pulling up to go high again was a thing until watched your video. Nice well explained voice over here helped me as well do what was needed. Got it after just a few tries 😃👍🏻

Okay we gotta work on our explainations here cause visually its hard to tell what's going on at a glance. You do NOT pull up early or rather too early. The biggest hurdle is the last stretch because part of it is the camera so thanks Squeenix but the other part is gaining the required height. The key to an effective dive bomb is the height of the start of your dive. During the last one game forces you drop your glide so you won't miss the 500 point ring. Try not to do this. If you can hit the tip of the target with the chocobo you're in good shape to immediately after start your dive bomb. Your pull up should not be a thing until you actually touch the target. Combine that with pulling up and never letting go and you'll reach the required height

Thanks for the letting go of R2 tip, when that 500 ring was low I'd start dive bombing early and it kept throwing me off after that and I'd always be too low for either the next 500 or the first of the 2 ending ones meaning I'd have to restart. Now on to number 3 😬

Your video helped me. I figured dive bombing down and going up was the idea and I tried that but I guess maybe I wasn't holding up long enough. Thank you for the video explaining the idea as the game does not. Not perfect, yet....but at least completed the shit.

Thank you! I wasn’t figuring out the dive bombing on my own

I realised that you can control the bird with both analog sticks. So using one stick for moving left & right and the other stick for diving & pulling up helped for me

At :35 the best info, thank you so much

Thanks! This is the 2nd video of yours that helped me

I’m impressed! This is not easy. The camera controls are too sluggish, and HUD doesn’t do a good job of indicating when you’ve had enough “dive time” to activate the upward swoop maneuver. Minor critique of the commentary during your flight: it’s not realistic to “let go of R2 for a second”. In 1.0 seconds without the R2 button activated, the chocobo will drop hard and quickly. If the player does want to release R2 temporarily, it needs to be only for a fraction of one second. Honestly, it’s not designed well - there needs to be a little bit more forgiveness in how rapidly the bird drops after disengaging R2 - probably adding in 0.2 or 0.3 seconds’ delay between trigger release and the sudden plummeting. Give those of us with slightly slower reflexes a chance, Square Enix 😅. Until the gliding gets patched, though, the player should aim to (if one must release R2) only release R2 for the absolute minimum amount of time possible before re-engaging R2.

Mofu I have been watching all your vids to help clear these damn minigames. I love FF7 Rebirth so far but damn some of these have been a big greasy lol. Thanks for keepin me sane over here >_>;.

Thank for the video, needed to see it in action instead of reading tips and tricks

It’s absolutely absurd they tied so many side quests to the terrible mini-games.

Massively helped, got it maybe 3rd try after watching this, I can't believe I was stupid enough not to realise the ascent button after diving...

Man I could not get a handle on the dive bombing at all, so this helped alot. Wish they just let you control the camera, would make seeing where I was going so much easier.

I love this game as an RPG, but I'm way beyond sick of being forced to play these annoying ass minigames to get through quests. As much as I love the game otherwise, minigames are really making me hate playing it. I really don't think I'm going to buy the 3rd one if it's like this.

3rd time you saved my day, man, thanks again!

how did you even get the camera to look downward? Whoever designed this minigame needs to get fired, because they apparently forgot games are supposed to be fun, just like the ones who designed the lightning bolt dodging, butterfly catching, chocobo racing in FFX.

I finally did it! After more than +3 hr the trick is to try to touch the rings in the middle and the most important to only move the joystick to up or down, whenever its the case. For example not only up bc its not going to work.

Can you tell me what your camera settings are? You have such a different view than I do.

Thanks a ton for this!

LIKE for you! PERFECT EXPLAINED, short and perfect. Thanks! With exact point in which we have to up and down!

Got it 3rd try with this video! Thank you!!!

The worst part of this minigame is that with most point based minigames in FF7, they usually give you more points than you need for the top score. So you can miss one or two and still get the reward. But on top of the awful controls, terrible camera, and inconsistent hitboxes, they expect you to be perfect with this one.

How do you turn off the motion sensor on the controller for this

Hold left when you come up from that last five bomb! Those two moving 500 targets we're always to the cfar left for me.

after watching this, got it on my 11th try, thank you! 😁

How did you get the camera to work for this mini game????

The amount of times I floated through a ring and it didn’t count is making me hate this game more and more every day

I have managed to get everything but those last 2 moving 500 rings. They never seem to line up for me. If I veer to try to get them, I definitely won't hit the last 2 stationary ones, I just loose too much momentum. Is there anyway to time this so that they'll be in my path?

I didnt know you could pull up from a dive bomb and get air!!!! Ahhhhhhh so helpfull!!!!! Thank yoooooooou! 🎉🎉

I had no idea I could divebomb till this video, thank you xD

I knew I could dive, but I didn't know I could zoom back up like that. I feel so dumb now lol. Thanks!

Cowboy killing it as always

Not sure if I’m having a bug or something but when I descend to that first 300 and try to immediately ascend the chocobo doesn’t go up at all. The Ascend control that shows on the side is always greyed out as if I’m already max height…

Noice! Made it look easy, wish my own attempts were as smooth!

First try after watching this video, thanks!

I found that I had to time my start with the gate on far left of screen at the top or else o couldn’t get the gates in second half of the course

For anyone having trouble with the last few and getting the height you need, instead of releasing R2 for a split second, you actually should start divebombing through that lower ring. Starting it earlier gives you more height when you pull up and you can actually force yourself through the last few rings by hitting the projector machines until the game corrects you into the ring.

Rank 3 on first try 😁 Thank you!!! 😆❤️

Jesus, thank you! so glad thats over. Now onto the next goddamn minigame...

This is so hard. I can't even get the rank 1 to pass it. How long do you wait to hit r2 to start the glide so everything lines up? When I play they are all over the place

I can never get the dive bomb right, mine doesn’t want to dive for some reason

Thank you omg i'm trying for platinum this minigame was confusing LOL

Thank you!

The dive bomb is broken, randomly doesn’t work. If you pull up even for a millisecond, it screws up the dice bomb I kept bumping the left stick, having both sticks control the same thing is bad design

THX MAN ILY U R THE BEST

Great video

That was useful thanks

I was so focused on the course I didn’t realize going up was from pointing up and not a fan blowing you up

Thanks dude !

Thanks bro, didnt know you could get air back with divebombing and pulling up

I would have never get this thanks bro

Course 2 was the hardest for me to get rank 3. I’m glad another mini game done now.

Great video bro, didnt get first but close enough

I cannot fly back up, thats why i only have the first rank in all of them, i do not dive because the going back up doesn’t work. What’s the trick to it?

I'm having difficulty with the last couple of sections. I'm definitely getting good height, but i think the last two moving 500 rings usually end up on the left for me and by the time i get through them, i dont have enough height for the last two 500s fo r landing. how are you timing it so that you don't have to swivel so much through that last section?

I got it thanks a lot man.

Do you get any achievements for completing this mini game?

1:20 Once i divebomb here i never recover the correct altitude and make it to the last two.

Nice video thanks

Ty dude got it in 5 tries after watching this

It’s a good thing I don’t care about platinums because eff this. Great walkthrough all the same.

I need help this is awful. Its the last dive bomb. You just don't have enough height. You will either miss one of the moving targets or the highest target at the finish line

The chocobo won't pull up after she's dive down, how do you do that 🤔?.

For some odd reason when I pull up on analog sticks nothing happens

Can someone please explain why when I pull UP my bird never raises in the slightest???? It just slowy drops....

I did about 16 tries and failed for even rank 1 till this video saved me 😂

Whenever i dive bomb, they dont come back up as fast and i end up floating to the ground.

Thx for tips. A good mini game in general, but the tutorial didnt provide enough info, esp divebombing, up (hover) and down(small dive) to both control the chocobo & manevuer a bit on the camera.

Tip: just use one stick to move and don't adjust the camera. Trust that you will land where you need to when ascending too. Once you memorize the path, it becomes easier. Also, don't let go of R2 near the end. Instead, just dive very briefly.

Thanx for that I didn't know u could push up and down

Do you need to beat rank three to plat the game?

What do you mean hold up?? I tried and Aponi wouldn't ascend at all.

Bro your tip videos are saving my sanity.

i tried to do that dive bomb trick before i saw this video and it wouldn't go back up. thanks game! lol

How were you so lucky to have those last two moving rings line up? Every time I get there, they move in completely opposite directions, killing the momentum needed to get the last two rings!

Edit: Wait I think I got it now! For some reason pulling up isn't working for me. 😅 I wonder if theres a way to invert these controls cause that would help me a lot i think. I'll keep giving it a try tho. Thanks!

Perfect ❤

How is your camera so far out? Mine is right up my chocobo's cloaca that I can't see what's ahead

Wish there was a side by side screen showing the hand notions on the controller with the video. I can't figure out how to pull up. I've repeated your steps but nothing works!

The last 4 are where the issues arise. Seems as if it is RNG