I can't fully recommend this game compared to the first game....

Rebirth is full of filler content and not in a good way. Want to 100%, hell want to 50% the game? Climb endless towers, perform menial tasks and fetch assignments that add nothing to the narrative but are necessary for character progression and Materia collection. Speaking of the filler facilitator NPC, Chadley...he is literally the worst thing in the game. He was bearable in Remake as a short excuse to get Materia out of Shinra, but giving him a huge presence in this game was a mistake. He's unbearibily annoying and I auto skip every time I see his stupid face on the transponder. The game is a slog to get through, Remake had moments of filler but they weren't anything close to this bad. Even the filler content here in Rebirth treats you like an idiot with all the obvious go here markers and endless ability to mulligan. I will be finishing the game and likely torturing myself because I love FF7 but dear lord I hope they don't do this again in Part 3.

The main narrative is fine but WAY smaller compared to the filler portions, unlike remake that had a pretty decent balance between the two, and didn't oversaturate its side-questing.