As an epic RPG, Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth has a ton of fights. Typically the battle doesn’t go your method and it’s clear you’re headed in the direction of a “sport over” display. However don’t fear, Rebirth has a helpful characteristic that may reset practically all battle sequences within the sport, bringing you again to the beginning for a neat little redo. The one drawback? The battle reset menu has a few of the most complicated language in all of Rebirth. Yeah, even the ending’s simpler to determine than this.
You in all probability know what I’m speaking about: the dreaded “Retry From This Battle” vs “Retry From Earlier than Present Battle” confusion. Nicely, I don’t blame you for being perplexed—it’s a really weirdly worded characteristic, and ought to be a top-of-mind drawback for Sq. Enix to iron out in a future patch. However till such a time comes, right here’s how this characteristic truly works and what this display means.
Retry From This Battle or Earlier than Battle, Defined
In my time testing out precisely what the battle restart choices do, I’ve discovered that the sport isn’t fully in line with the way it applies every selection to varied encounters. And the way Rebirth defines a “Battle” doesn’t assist, because it appears to make use of the time period to refer to 2 or three completely different sorts of gameplay options.
If you happen to’re preventing a boss and there’s a pause for a cutscene midway by and after that cutscene you proceed preventing the boss with a diminished well being bar in a brand new fight sequence, you’ll see two choices when hitting the menu button and choosing Retry Battle:
- Retry from This Battle
- Retry from Earlier than Battle
Choosing “This Battle” will ship you to the start of the battle, with fight engaged, that means you’re instantly thrust into within the begin of it. This can be a nice possibility should you simply need to wipe all the Battle and begin from the start, with the intention of nonetheless preventing.
Selecting “Earlier than Battle” will ship you to the moments proper earlier than you interact within the battle, that means you’re out of fight and should do no matter that sequence requires you to do to provoke the battle (equivalent to strolling previous a sure level). It’s best to select “Earlier than Battle” if you wish to again out of preventing altogether to go do one thing else (assuming you’re not at a degree within the story that doesn’t allow you to exit and traverse the world, equivalent to the sport’s concluding collection of boss fights).
Retry from Earlier than Present Battle, This Battle, or Earlier than Battle, Defined
In case you are preventing a boss who shifts into a brand new kind and has a completely new well being bar, or there are waves of enemies all contained throughout the similar battle, the Retry menu will get complicated, as you’ll now have three reset choices:
- Retry from Earlier than Present Battle
- Retry from This Battle
- Retry from Earlier than Battle
The perfect instance of that is the ultimate battle of the sport, so to keep away from spoilers I gained’t point out who you’ll battle (although you may in all probability guess). Let’s say you’re preventing Monster 1 in a collection of battles, adopted by Monster 2, then Monster 3.
Let’s say you’re preventing Monster 2 after besting Monster 1. “Retry from Earlier than Battle” works the identical as earlier than: You’ll return to a non-fighting a part of the sport. “Retry from Earlier than Present Battle” will ship you to the start of Monster 2’s battle sequence. In the meantime, “Retry from This Battle” will begin you at Monster 1’s battle sequence.
“Present” is a key phrase right here. That’s referring to the present battle you’re preventing. The issue with the second possibility is the “This Battle” language may sound prefer it’s referring to the very battle you’re engaged in proper now, however that’s not the case.
Whereas I stay extremely interested by many aspects that went into Rebirth’s improvement, the language of the retry battle display might be my primary query Did this confuse individuals in playtests? Is that this a translation challenge? Are different individuals confused? No matter why that is the way in which that it’s, simply know that “Earlier than Battle” takes you out of fight fully, “Present Battle” resets a particular section of fight, and “This Battle” resets all the battle.
I want I didn’t want to put in writing a information for such a factor, however right here we’re. Have enjoyable!
