A game that was made entirely for its final scene. Everything else is there to justify having a whole game leading up to an important but very well hidden scene from the original Final Fantasy VII stings as hard as possible.

This game has some fun world building in it, and when it's adapting known backstory from FF7 it's pretty okay. All of the new stuff is... pretty bad. Angeal, Genesis, Hollander, all of these new characters feel like creations from a fan-fiction. At least they nail Zack pretty well. He's a very likeable guy who is also the world's most normal man surrounded by theater kids who can't shut the hell up.

Speaking of Zack being likeable -- I wonder if the final Remake game will have any writing addressing how Zack, despite being likeable, did a lot of bad things under Shinra's employment. It was all through the lens of him believing he was being a hero, of course, but that honestly makes it worse. I think the series will continue to view him as another cool guy, but I'd love his Shinra service and how he had a part in the war with Wutai to get examined more.