Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PS5) - Chapter 7: Those Left Behind (pt.1) - The Sit-Up Challenge (4K)

The party expands! The chapter opens up with Yuffie asking to join the team, and Cloud dismissing it with a well delivered "cool" at 00:32. The conversation greatly reflects the PS1 random encounter for her. I could have extended it out a bit with one last "no", as in the previous video, but I went with the positive option a step early to increase relationship points with her. This chapter starts with some mini-games. With my ability to travel restored, I make my way back to Junon to get a song I missed. After getting A rank at 14:50, I head back to Costa Del Sol to do more quests. I spend a few hours running Chadley's quests, and at 1:19:00 I head back to town and do some regular quests. I'm soon doing a bunch of mini-games and aiming for high scores, while dealing with Johnny-clones. I soon hit a wall on the main quest however. Johnny wants a Tonberry King Crown, but I can't get one yet. Plus I can't access the area with more info for Chadley. There is one quest left after this, and it can be a real pain - Bodybuilders in a Bind. This one starts with Jules around 2:30:40, and starts with a standard monster round-up. Of course that's not enough, the game has to be cruel, and at 2:43:31 they start the Sit-Up Challenge. I keep the haptic feedback on my triggers for this, otherwise those green circles are impossible. For the Sit-Up Challenge, at 2:58:55, I make my first attempt against the last round with Jules, and it's a brutal run. What makes this one real hard is how long it takes - those turbo clicks get tiring! By the time you get good at this mini-game, it's an endurance test. It takes a couple of failed tries before I win it at 3:02:04 and pull a 54 point run, burying Jules at 49. With this all done, I start the ascent up Mt. Corel. Next up - Chapter 7: Those Left Behind (pt.2) - North Corel