Decent little game.

This game has a really neat thing going for it with the way the squad system works and how you are able to give them orders and directions in order to complete missions in a strategic way, however it's very easy to just utilize the default setup for your AI squad's routes and just brute force your way through missions so I wish they put a little more effort into making sure you had to be smart and tactical.

Another thing is that around the final third of the game you start getting Doms, and they basically almost trivialize every mission from there on out because they are so much better than the Zakus and Goufs that it's ridiculous.

All in all good game, final two missions are stellar and a lot of fun. Could have used some more MS and weapon variety, but still enjoyed it. Can definitely recommend it to any Gundam fan.

Went into this game expecting a much improved version of the original's Midgar arc, and came out with the realization that sometimes less is more.

For the most part FF7R is perfectly good game. Especially in the combat aspect, considering I was expecting it to be dull and brainless, but I ended up liking the combat quite a bit, even if I thought a lot of the enemies or bosses were extremely annoying to fight. I just really appreciated how radically different each character felt, which made them all fun to use.

My main issue with the game is I just felt that outside of the Wall Market section, every attempt to expand or pad out the story was extremely dull and uninteresting. There were so many times I just wished I could end some new section of the game to continue to the next part of the story.

This issue affected the ending the most for me, because I absolutely hated the final boss(es) and how even after escaping Midgar it felt like the game just kept going and going. Gotta give props to the game for giving you the "this is the point of no return" notice -three separate times-.

I don't even have a problem with the 'ghosts' and the whole 'fate' plot element, I just felt like having a big huge epic boss fight for no other reason than "it's the end of the game so you gotta have one" was really annoying, and especially what came AFTER that, it just seemed like the devs were blowing their load way too early.

Lastly, and probably my #1 biggest gripe is that the soundtrack is extremely forgettable. Pretty much every new rendition of a song feels inferior to the original, ESPECIALLY J-E-N-O-V-A. FF7's original soundtrack is so memorable, but the orchestral renditions of Remake just seem like noise to me.

I went into this game expecting caveman Devil May Cry and I was not disappointed. Seems to me like the game has the same vibe and soul as DMC, even in how Zan calling himself "The Super Ultra Sexy Hero" reminded me of stuff like "Smokin' Sexy Style".

The controls and combat are pretty primitive and janky but honestly it still works surprisingly well. I also have to applaud the devs for actually including a lock-on mode, which helps mitigate a lot of the bad camera in the game, most of the time.

I imagine back in the day the game was seen as more of a 3D beat-em'-up of sorts but nowadays it's easier to compare it to character action games.

Sadly the game's main story is pretty short, beatable in about just a couple hours depending on how well you do, and there's not much else to do besides beat the game again in a higher difficulty. Not surprising that a PS1 game of this nature lacks in extra content but I still would have appreciated maybe a longer story mode.