I'm not here to hate on the game, I genuinely want to enjoy it more, I'm a huge lifeline FF fan, I love the VII world and story and characters, Remake was a great experience, but something isn't clicking about Rebirth and I keep losing motivation and bouncing off it. Last thing I did was reach the Midgardsormr boss and had some trouble so turned back to power up a bit.
I don't mind the extra fluff of side quests, side activities, and minigames and such, but there's just something about the core gameplay I feel like I'm missing. Combat just seems like going through motions, like I'm choosing actions based on nothing and it usually works out and sometimes it doesn't and I can't really tell why, how do I form a strategy? Why engage with all these stacked up mechanics like swapping characters and synergies and ATB commands if it doesn't make a noticeable difference from just attacking normally? And if I'm mistaken and there is a significantly more optimal approach then nothing's really pointing me in its direction, I'm just mindlessly cycling through options available to me on cooldown timers and I feel nothing.
EDIT: Everyone, yeah obviously I KNOW I can just not like something and leave it, but I don't feel anything close to distaste for the game, I think there's just a lack of rewarding feedback on my actions. Surely there's people on here who actually finished and fully enjoyed playing Rebirth, yeah? I just want to hear out what you like about it if you do, maybe tips on finding the depth of its systems if there is any a beginner might miss, or point me in a direction for min/maxing effectively since there's so much going on it's hard to sort out what really matters.