Square Enix recently released a helpful patch for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth that ushered in a litany of quality-of-life improvements, including a fix for a Platinum Trophy-breaking bug. One unmentioned hero Rebirth’s recent changes is a subtle yet effective rewording of its final battle’s game over screen that had players mistakenly restart the entire encounter from the beginning.
Rebirth, like Final Fantasy VII: Remake, has a progressively difficult multiphase final battle boss run. Upon failing the final phase, Rebirth greets you with a game over screen with these three options:
Players who clicked "Retry from This Battle,” assuming it would spit them out moments before their untimely deaths, were instead sent to the start of the final boss run — effectively negating upwards of an hour of hard work players put in to get to where. This caused players to storm online forum pages with posts pointing out that the correct retry option — in this case, “Retry from Before Current Battle” — was worded in such an unnecessarily contrived way that they were doomed from the start. It would appear that this gamer headache is now a thing of the past.
Players on the r/FFVIIRemake subreddit spotted a much more straightforward change to Rebirth’s final game-over screen. Now, the top option reads “Retry from Current Phase.” Folks celebrated the unceremonious menu change, lauding Square Enix for paying attention to the community’s upheaval over it while sharing anecdotal tales about how misclicking the final boss menu led to them rage-quitting.
In our review, we wrote, "Final Fantasy VII Rebirth impressively builds off of what Remake set in motion, both as a best-in-class action-RPG full of exciting challenges and an awe-inspiring recreation of a world that has meant so much to so many for so long."
Isaiah Colbert is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow them on Twitter @ShinEyeZehUhh
