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Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII serves as a prequel to the events of the original Final Fantasy VII following the story of Zack Fair a rookie SOLDIER operative with a dream of becoming a hero and tasked with the mission to find the missing SOLDIER Genesis Rhapsodos with the help of his mentor Angeal Hewley. Zack also meets many other iconic Final Fantasy VII characters along his journey like Aerith, Cloud and Sephiroth among others and it really helps to give them all even more depth and development (Especially Sephiroth) than they already had in the OG Final Fantasy VII.
Crisis Core back on the PSP was already a great game, but Reunion is without a doubt the definitive version. Not only giving massive graphical updates using assets from Final Fantasy VII Remake, but also adding major quality of life improvements to the combat making it fast and more fluid and fixing the "Digital Mind Wave" slot machine mechanic so it's nowhere near as tedious as it was in the original and even including fully voiced dialogue. However there are some aspects of Crisis Core Reunion that still feel a bit outdated and PSP-like such as the smaller scale areas and reused assets for the (tedious) side missions (There's 300 of them by the way which is a bit excessive and it's not worth doing them all IMO)
To me most of the time prequels feel unnecessary, but Crisis Core is one of those rare exceptions which only help to add more depth and detail to the world and characters of Final Fantasy VII and Reunion truly blurs the line between remake and remaster in the best way possible only enhancing an already great experience with more fluid combat, fully voice acted dialogue and massive graphical updates among other things making Reunion the definitive way to experience this iconic PSP classic.
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII serves as a prequel to the events of the original Final Fantasy VII following the story of Zack Fair a rookie SOLDIER operative with a dream of becoming a hero and tasked with the mission to find the missing SOLDIER Genesis Rhapsodos with the help of his mentor Angeal Hewley. Zack also meets many other iconic Final Fantasy VII characters along his journey like Aerith, Cloud and Sephiroth among others and it really helps to give them all even more depth and development (Especially Sephiroth) than they already had in the OG Final Fantasy VII.
Crisis Core back on the PSP was already a great game, but Reunion is without a doubt the definitive version. Not only giving massive graphical updates using assets from Final Fantasy VII Remake, but also adding major quality of life improvements to the combat making it fast and more fluid and fixing the "Digital Mind Wave" slot machine mechanic so it's nowhere near as tedious as it was in the original and even including fully voiced dialogue. However there are some aspects of Crisis Core Reunion that still feel a bit outdated and PSP-like such as the smaller scale areas and reused assets for the (tedious) side missions (There's 300 of them by the way which is a bit excessive and it's not worth doing them all IMO)
To me most of the time prequels feel unnecessary, but Crisis Core is one of those rare exceptions which only help to add more depth and detail to the world and characters of Final Fantasy VII and Reunion truly blurs the line between remake and remaster in the best way possible only enhancing an already great experience with more fluid combat, fully voice acted dialogue and massive graphical updates among other things making Reunion the definitive way to experience this iconic PSP classic.