At the beginning of the year I went back and replayed Final Fantasy VII Remake to get ready for Rebirth and I finally got around to playing the Yuffie DLC Episode Intermission.

Before I get into the DLC, I still love Remake but when I played it again I did see a few more flaws with it this time. It did seem to me that the creators where trying to streach out the Midgar section a bit too much but on to Episode Intermission. There will be some spoliers for both Remake and Episode Intermission as I feel like I can’t properally explain my feelings without them.

This DLC follows the character Yuffie, who has come to Midgar with the help of Avalanche to attempt to steal materia from Shrina. Yuffie is joined on this mission by fellow Wutaian Sonon Kusakabe. In terms of when this story takes place it is set between the bombing of Mako Reactor 5 and the fall of the Sector Seven Plate.

This DLC is split into two chapters the first follows Yuffie as she makes her way to Avalanche headquaters to meet up with Sonon. During this section there are a few side quests that can be done and you do get to see many of the other characters from Remake but you are not allowed to interact with them.

Once they obtain Shinra idea cards the second chapter begins. Yuffie and Sonon attempt to inflitrate Shinra to find the materia but are spotted by Scarlet. Instead of alterting security she desides to test out new wepons on them. It is in the Shinra section of the DLC where the most happens. As you continue through Scarlet sends out Deepground to deal with Yuffie and Sonon which allows us to see Weiss and Nero for the first time and we have to fight Nero to escape Shinra. At the very end there is a short sceen with the main group getting a ride from Choco Bill and Zack showing up at the Sector 5 Church as a tease for where Rebirth is headed.

In terms of game play its very similar to Remake with some slight differences do to the party members and the fact that you can only control Yuffie directly. They also introducted Synergized actions during battle where Yuffie and Sonon will do a tag team move against the enemy.

Overall, I loved this DLC but there was some things that I wasn’t expecting. I would have loved to see Yuffie interact with the characters from Remake but for the plot I understand why we couldn’t and I wasn’t expecting Deepground to become such a big thing. Its becoming clearer and clearer that the developers expect you to know information from all the Final Fantay VII games that came before. The only other critism I have is that the ending switches tone very quickly as we have a very sad sceen followed immediately by Yuffie humming on the back of a Chocobo.