Original FF7 is 10/10 and in my top 10 games of all time. I'm a massive fan and beat it a few months before this game originally came out but i havent really gotten around to playing remake until last year and i finally beat it this year (2024). I love how they brought Midgar to life, I think the combat is a really cool evolution of ATB, I think aerith is way better compared to OG, Probably my favourite part of the game was Meeting aerith for the first time all the way to the end of don cornelo. Personally midgar was never my favourite part of the original game but I thought out of most JRPGS ive played Midgar is probably one of the best openings to a game.
Probably my biggest gripe is how the game is dragged out artificially with QTE-like events for no reason (like going between walls or crawling under things) and theres aton of them too, another huge gripe I have is Combat, Which I actually think has alot of potential, its just when you fight a boss you fill up the stagger bar and at times i think im going sicko mode but then the boss does a cutscene and goes into second phase and completely deletes your stagger bar and this annoyed the everliving shit out of me. and overall personally sometimes the combat can be a bit much, I think I prefer the original just for how chill it is until you gotta go ham on a boss. Comparatively to the Original game FF7Remake so far feels like a mid-2000s anime adding in alot of filler inbetween the source material and like alot of filler added in anime alot of it feels like in the grand scheme of it, it doesnt matter too much. I think if played remake during 2020 or 2021 I probably would have loved the sephiroth fight but when I was playing it I was just confused and it kinda felt really weightless too.
Probably my biggest gripe is how the game is dragged out artificially with QTE-like events for no reason (like going between walls or crawling under things) and theres aton of them too, another huge gripe I have is Combat, Which I actually think has alot of potential, its just when you fight a boss you fill up the stagger bar and at times i think im going sicko mode but then the boss does a cutscene and goes into second phase and completely deletes your stagger bar and this annoyed the everliving shit out of me. and overall personally sometimes the combat can be a bit much, I think I prefer the original just for how chill it is until you gotta go ham on a boss. Comparatively to the Original game FF7Remake so far feels like a mid-2000s anime adding in alot of filler inbetween the source material and like alot of filler added in anime alot of it feels like in the grand scheme of it, it doesnt matter too much. I think if played remake during 2020 or 2021 I probably would have loved the sephiroth fight but when I was playing it I was just confused and it kinda felt really weightless too.