In Ultimate Fantasy VII Remake, gamers had the possibility to totally discover the movesets of Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Aerith by way of an prolonged keep in Midgar. Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth provides a number of new playable celebration members. Whereas we already coated how a kind of new playable characters, Crimson XIII, controls (learn extra right here), this time, we’re speaking about one other playable celebration member: Cait Sith.
The cat creature joins the celebration in the course of the course of Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth following a short cameo in Ultimate Fantasy VII Remake. Similar to Crimson XIII, he turns into a playable character for the primary time within the Remake trilogy in Rebirth. Because the staff started adapting the underappreciated character for gameplay becoming the Remake trilogy and, specifically, Rebirth, they seemed in direction of Cait Sith’s authentic Ultimate Fantasy VII mechanics.
“For Cait Sith, we wished to maintain intact the actually enjoyable components from the unique, just like the cube assaults and the luck elements in his battle play; that is proven in Rebirth as properly,” director Naoki Hamaguchi tells Recreation Informer. “In fact, given its very cute look, it will have a extra quirky and indulgent combating fashion versus the extra orthodox battle fashion of Cloud.”
Battle director Teruki Endo agrees with Hamaguchi’s need to rely closely on the unique components prevalent in Cait Sith’s fashion. “It actually goes again to taking a look at and analyzing what’s on the core of those characters going again to the unique,” Endo says. “For Cait Sith, there are these luck-based skills; we actually wished to specific these in Rebirth. Ranging from there, we’d then construct upon it with instructions and actions we felt have been appropriate for this character. It isn’t simply the case for [new additions like] Cait Sith or Crimson XIII, however the identical video games for different characters like Cloud or Barret. Seeing what combating fashion or battle expertise gamers consider or think about when taking part in as Cloud or Barret, after which analyzing this on a extra micro degree allow us to categorical it as we do in Rebirth.”
Cait Sith begins battle as a singular character, with the choice to assault, carry out a particular capacity generally known as Kitty Wallop, or use a luck-based command like Fortunate Roll. Nonetheless, the principle differentiating issue for Cait Sith’s battle fashion lies in his capacity to summon a secondary character to assist and, within the course of, change his fight mechanics utterly.
“By calling a Moogle into battle, Cait Sith’s battle fashion will change,” Hamaguchi says. “You possibly can leap off and management Cait by yourself. In that case, the Moogle is simply an A.I. character that battles by itself. When the HP is depleted to zero, it disappears, however you possibly can name it once more to make it seem once more. There are assaults you possibly can solely do whenever you’re solo and never on the Moogle, however there are some you can solely do whenever you’re using it.”
Throughout a hands-off demo exhibiting off a facet mission (learn extra right here), Hamaguchi, who’s giving the demo, reveals off Moogle Mine, a capability the Moogle can use whereas on the battlefield. This capacity spreads mines inside a radius of the Moogle, damaging any enemy that will get shut sufficient to 1. Whereas I wasn’t the one controlling the motion, it did appear to be a reasonably impactful move from Cait Sith and the Moogle.
Crimson XIII additionally joins as a brand new playable character in Rebirth, bringing one other distinct fight fashion
As with all party-character pairings, Cait Sith has Synergy Talents with each different character within the celebration. Sadly, I solely acquired to see one in every of Cait Sith’s Synergy Talents, but when it is any indication, we’re in for some enjoyable interactions with the opposite characters within the celebration. Hamaguchi prompts a Synergy Capacity between Cloud and Cait Sith. The end result is likely one of the zaniest assaults I’ve seen within the Ultimate Fantasy Remake trilogy thus far. Cait Sith summons a Moogle, who grabs Cloud’s Buster Sword whereas Cloud rides on its again. At the same time as Hamaguchi touts the juxtaposition between Cloud’s extra orthodox fashion and Cait Sith’s over-the-top, extravagant fashion, their mixture on this Synergy Capacity feels pure and becoming whereas additionally being utterly wild and foolish.
I can not wait to play extra of Cait Sith and learn the way he interacts with the opposite characters when Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth arrives on PlayStation 5 on February 29. For extra on Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth, you’ll want to take a look at our unique protection hub by visiting the banner under!
