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WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! Get a taste of FF7 Rebirth with a demo covering the “Fall of a Hero in Nibelheim” chapter where you get to play Sephiroth.
The launch of Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth draws near as many fans eagerly await the continuation of their adventure post-Midgard. For those of you who cannot wait for the Feb. 29 release date, Square Enix has got you covered with a two-part demo. The first and accessible FF7 Rebirth demo covers the “Fall of a Hero in Nibelheim” chapter where Cloud recalls his past.
In this chapter, Cloud shares with his friends the story of when he conducted a mission with Sephiroth back in his hometown, Nibelheim. Story aside, this is the part of the demo where you get to play Sephiroth and experience his combat system.
You also get to try out the new piano mini game that everyone has been raving about! This demo takes about a maximum of two hours to complete. Here’s everything you need to know about the FF7 rebirth demo.
How Sephiroth combat works
Sephiroth’s combat system may seem daunting at first as he plays like a character from a fighting game such as Tekken or Street Fighter.
Successive inputs between the “Square” and “Triangle” buttons will allow Sephiroth to perform various branching finishers with his Masamune. You can also hold the square button to shoot a magic projectile for a ranged attack.
Sephiroth’s special attacks or branching finishers
Retaliation Stance:Sephiroth is also able to defend himself by pressing the R1 button to change into the Retaliation Stance. Now, instead of his normal attacks, Sephiroth can attack and parry at the same time until an enemy breaks his stance or until he reverts back. If an enemy attack connects with his parry, press triangle to follow-up with Counter, then once more for Retaliation.
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Sephiroth’s abilities and synergy skills
Sephiroth also comes with two abilities: Zanshin and Hell’s Gate. Zanshin is a ranged slash attack while Hell’s Gate is a downward smash that is basically a stronger Skyshatter. Once again, you can follow-up with a “Triangle” to unleash an even stronger version of your abilities.
In addition, both Sephiroth and Cloud have their own sets of Synergy Skills to coordinate powerful attacks against the enemy together. Each skill has its own distinctive function:
Finally, the Synergy Ability, Double Helix, is Sephiroth’s and Cloud’s ultimate finisher, which inflicts a lot of damage to the enemy while rapidly increases its stagger bar. After using this ability, Cloud gains an additional point to his Limit Gauge while Sephiroth temporarily gains unlimited MP.
Playing the piano in the FF7 Rebirth demo
Outside of combat, one of the things you can do in this part of FF7 Rebirth demo is you get to explore Cloud’s hometown in Nibelheim. The most exciting aspect is probably visiting the Lockhart residence, home to Cloud’s childhood friend, Tifa. There are a number of things that you can interact with at her home. So be sure to check them all out for some interesting dialogues!
That said, the one that you cannot miss is playing the piano. You can find the piano on the second floor inside Tifa’s room. There, you will pick up a music sheet, which is the first of many, to learn how to play Tifa’s theme with automated guidance. However, if you are a musical genius, you can tryplaying the piano manually. Some have already attempted to do so and are pretty good at it!
FF7 Rebirth demo introduces new materia
This part of the FF7 Rebirth demo also introduces you to a number of new materia which wasn’t around previously in FF7 Remake such as:
And that is it for this part of the FF7 Rebirth demo on the “Fall of a Hero in Nibelheim” chapter. The second part will be out soon on Feb. 21 where you get to explore the highly anticipated FF7 open world experiencing focusing on the story at Junon.
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