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- I love Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

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In fact, it's a flawless game

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if you ignore all of the flaws.

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One of the biggest offenders is no doubt

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the presence of a certain AI companion.

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No, I'm not talking about the Kotaku bot,

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I'm talking about Chadley,

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who interrupts you left and right

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as you're going about the world

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doing perfectly riveting things,

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like activating towers
and scanning crystals,

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and all other sorts of things.

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If you've played even
just a couple of hours

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of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth,

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you have undoubtedly
encountered this character.

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He's mandatory for all of
the open-world activities,

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and given how much the game
relies on the combat simulator,

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he's kind of pretty important there too.

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Unfortunately, there's
just too much placed

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into this one character.

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So while you have a lot of
interesting story stuff,

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and even more than a few
really good side quests,

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Chadley just takes up the rest of the game

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with his misogynistic bullshit.

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What do I mean by that?

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Well, there's another AI companion

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that was introduced in
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

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that of Mai, a sort of
feminized Chadley, if you will.

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While Mai is plenty annoying on her own,

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spontaneously erupting
from your controller

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every time you're trying
to complete Fiend Intel,

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Chadley will frequently
interrupt her diatribes

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to tell her to shut up

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and to tell her that he didn't program her

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to say certain things.

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That's all of the
qualities we love in a man.

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Open-world activities can
be actually quite chill,

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especially when you've got a soundtrack

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as good as Final Fantasy VII Rebirth,

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I could just really do without
the chattering chatbot.