FF7 Remake feels more like a very promising foundation for the next two games in this trilogy rather than a great standout title on its own.

It's certainly enjoyable, mainly thanks to its excellent writing and characters which kept me hooked, but a few minor issues stopped me from really loving FF7 Remake as its own game: The slow pacing due to excessive padding, the incredibly linear progression aside from a few open areas; and very repetitive environments of narrow, washed-out corridors.

I also wasn't a huge fan of the combat and boss mechanics of the base game, though both were greatly improved in the Intermission DLC - the changes of which appear to be reappearing in Rebirth and beyond.