Honestly, pretty good. You can tell the system where it came from based on the limited animations and the amount you could put on screen at once. You can even tell the Kingdom Hearts DNA in the game. Not that that's a bad thing, of course.
The story itself is pretty marvelous. Zack stands out as a great protagonist since most of his reactions to what's going on around him feels incredibly human, which is vital in the world of FF7. It fleshes out the greater story and really makes the romance of Zack and Aerith quite believable, albeit a short lived one.
Sephiroth is also a stand out in his game, as this is the first of a few times where he isn't depicted as completely insane. I'm grateful that Ever Crisis is going to go into more of Sephiroth as a character, because what I've seen here is pretty stellar.
I will say that as a negative, it tied too many things together. Like Zack knowing Yuffie, or naming Seventh Heaven. There's a lot of characters that didn't need to be tangentially tied into the prequel. But that's a problem with prequels in general, rather than this specific story.
If you're a fan of FF7, you probably already own this game. As an outsider to the series, I'm not sure if this is the best place to start. It's too late for me to really see if that's the way to go about things, since I played FF7 at initial release. But it's definitely a good action RPG, and that's all it really needs to be.
The story itself is pretty marvelous. Zack stands out as a great protagonist since most of his reactions to what's going on around him feels incredibly human, which is vital in the world of FF7. It fleshes out the greater story and really makes the romance of Zack and Aerith quite believable, albeit a short lived one.
Sephiroth is also a stand out in his game, as this is the first of a few times where he isn't depicted as completely insane. I'm grateful that Ever Crisis is going to go into more of Sephiroth as a character, because what I've seen here is pretty stellar.
I will say that as a negative, it tied too many things together. Like Zack knowing Yuffie, or naming Seventh Heaven. There's a lot of characters that didn't need to be tangentially tied into the prequel. But that's a problem with prequels in general, rather than this specific story.
If you're a fan of FF7, you probably already own this game. As an outsider to the series, I'm not sure if this is the best place to start. It's too late for me to really see if that's the way to go about things, since I played FF7 at initial release. But it's definitely a good action RPG, and that's all it really needs to be.