It's finally here. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has made the leap from PlayStation to Windows PC via Steam, ready to wrap you in a one-winged embrace of pure nostalgia. But in 2025, nostalgia alone is perhaps not enough.
Indeed, the amount of people out there excited for Final Fantasy 7 is diminished in a post Fortnite, post Genshin Impact world. Final Fantasy isn't the powerhouse franchise it once was, even if it holds a special place in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of gamers of a certain age. It's this unique needle that Square Enix finds itself charged to thread: how do you accommodate the warm and fuzzy nostalgia of the game's core fans, while appealing to the "modern" gamer, whoever that is.
