FF7 Remake is a fucking fantastic game but it's very hard to rate because this is just chapter 1 of a trilogy and I don't know where this is going to go.
However, the characters are incredible, the story is engaging, the world is fun to explore, the sidecontent is meaningful, the environments are perfectly recreated, the gameplay is extremely fun & in-depth without being confusing, and ofc the OST fucks.
But this game is also setting up a lot of things to become more than FFVII... from defying fate, to reviving characters that should be dead and introducing characters from the compilation that are simply not good... But a lot of those elements are only being introduced here. They haven't really been explored, we dont know to what extend it will be implemented so I can't really judge it yet.
But for now, I can't deny that really like it. The game is so good that it genuinely just makes it work. If it keeps this up, this trilogy could fix everything from the compilation and retel the OG story with some interesting twists. It might not be better or as good as OG but it might be able to confidently stand next to it.. But they could also easily mess this up, as this is an extremely ambitious and risky direction to go in.
For now I would give the game a solid 4.5 stars.
If this trilogy somehow pulls it of, I'll gladly up that to 5stars, but if it falls off, this score can definitely drop. It'll always be "a good game" but there are too many unknowns and if the answers to those questions suck... I dont think I'll like this game as much as I do now (I lowered it to 4stars after seeing that Rebirth doesnt really do anything interesting with this ending, this game still good tho)
However, the characters are incredible, the story is engaging, the world is fun to explore, the sidecontent is meaningful, the environments are perfectly recreated, the gameplay is extremely fun & in-depth without being confusing, and ofc the OST fucks.
But this game is also setting up a lot of things to become more than FFVII... from defying fate, to reviving characters that should be dead and introducing characters from the compilation that are simply not good... But a lot of those elements are only being introduced here. They haven't really been explored, we dont know to what extend it will be implemented so I can't really judge it yet.
But for now, I can't deny that really like it. The game is so good that it genuinely just makes it work. If it keeps this up, this trilogy could fix everything from the compilation and retel the OG story with some interesting twists. It might not be better or as good as OG but it might be able to confidently stand next to it.. But they could also easily mess this up, as this is an extremely ambitious and risky direction to go in.
For now I would give the game a solid 4.5 stars.
If this trilogy somehow pulls it of, I'll gladly up that to 5stars, but if it falls off, this score can definitely drop. It'll always be "a good game" but there are too many unknowns and if the answers to those questions suck... I dont think I'll like this game as much as I do now (I lowered it to 4stars after seeing that Rebirth doesnt really do anything interesting with this ending, this game still good tho)