Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Developed by Square Enix · Square Enix
Action RPG · Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S · 2026-06-03
“One of the best RPGs of the decade finally escapes the PlayStation, as long as you do not touch the Xbox performance mode.”
Two years and over a hundred and twenty-five perfect scores later, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has wandered off the PlayStation plantation and onto Switch 2 and Xbox Series. The game underneath is still magnificent, a sprawling, generous, ridiculous reimagining of a beloved classic that earned its forty Game of the Year awards honestly. None of that is in question. What is in question is whether your chosen box can actually run it.
The Switch 2 version is the genuine surprise, a thirty frames per second technical achievement that has reviewers using words like impressive without irony, with only the expected dips in the wide open areas. Nintendo's hardware punching at this weight is the story nobody quite expected when this game first launched as a PlayStation showpiece. Square Enix squeezed a console-defining epic onto a handheld and mostly got away with it.
Then there is Xbox, where the sixty frames per second performance mode is reportedly buggy enough that critics are openly telling people to avoid it. Buying the most powerful console in the lineup and being advised to switch off the performance mode is a special kind of insult. The base game is a ten. The port discipline is a coin flip.
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The underlying game remains a generous, gorgeous, decade-defining action RPG with forty Game of the Year wins behind it.
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The Switch 2 port is a legitimately impressive thirty frames per second showing on far weaker hardware.
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Streamlined Progression options open the sprawling epic up to newcomers and the time-poor.
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It finally frees a PlayStation exclusive for Nintendo and Xbox owners who waited two long years.
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The Xbox sixty frames per second performance mode is buggy enough that reviewers advise avoiding it.
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Switch 2 frame rate still dips noticeably in the larger open environments.
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Asking the most powerful console in the room to drop its performance mode is a rough look.
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Two years late to these platforms means much of the audience has already finished it elsewhere.
Switch 2 owners who missed the PlayStation original and want one of the generation's best RPGs in handheld form.
Xbox players expecting a flawless sixty frames per second showcase, and anyone who already platinumed it on PS5.
Your website, CV, or whatever you made. I'll roast that too.
A full teardown from €2,99. No mercy.