I love what this game does to Zack, honestly he's my favorite character in FF7 after his characterization in this game, and this is 100% worth playing and ties in well with the original game.
Every scene that involves building on the story from the original is great, and the emotional scenes really get to me, especially the ending.
...But man oh man, EVERYTHING that was made up for this game with the copies and Genesis the pretentious poet just feels soooo terrible, it's just this overwritten shlock with a wannabe Sephiroth, and it just sucks because you already know how it ends, it didn't exist in the first game so it all has to go poof and not matter by the end, and it doesn't, Angeal at least provides the basis for Zack's growth, but everything with Genesis is pure fluff filler.
The combat is just okay, I've heard it's way better in the remaster, so unless you hate his new voice actor, like me, I'd give that a whirl instead, it fixes up the problem like the attack system being a bit too slow and clunky, and the fact that hitting attack makes you run straight to the locked on enemy, whoever the fuck that may be and just swings, and running to attack is instead a dash to attack.
The DMW is completely fucking insane, just a constant roulette wheel spinning that will stop your gameplay for 10s if it's close to getting something good so it can play a limit break, it's totally luck based so you might get like 6 in a row or nothing for 5 minutes, this system is honestly terrible but at least it's patched up in the remaster to not lock you in place as much, and I can't say I'll be missing the game locking up to show me a roulette wheel and pictures from the cutscenes in the game.
Progression is also atrocious, you can ONLY level up from rolling the same numbers in the DMW, not from killing mobs, and the levelling is glacial anyhow, so if you fall behind you're just going to be getting level checked by attacks that deal more damage than you have health, it's really obnoxious, but again, the remaster fixes this.
100% worth the play for FF7 fans, more so than any of the remakes, and 110% if you want to play the remakes, but I'd recommend the remaster simply because of how much better it plays, even if Zacks' voice acting is awful.
Every scene that involves building on the story from the original is great, and the emotional scenes really get to me, especially the ending.
...But man oh man, EVERYTHING that was made up for this game with the copies and Genesis the pretentious poet just feels soooo terrible, it's just this overwritten shlock with a wannabe Sephiroth, and it just sucks because you already know how it ends, it didn't exist in the first game so it all has to go poof and not matter by the end, and it doesn't, Angeal at least provides the basis for Zack's growth, but everything with Genesis is pure fluff filler.
The combat is just okay, I've heard it's way better in the remaster, so unless you hate his new voice actor, like me, I'd give that a whirl instead, it fixes up the problem like the attack system being a bit too slow and clunky, and the fact that hitting attack makes you run straight to the locked on enemy, whoever the fuck that may be and just swings, and running to attack is instead a dash to attack.
The DMW is completely fucking insane, just a constant roulette wheel spinning that will stop your gameplay for 10s if it's close to getting something good so it can play a limit break, it's totally luck based so you might get like 6 in a row or nothing for 5 minutes, this system is honestly terrible but at least it's patched up in the remaster to not lock you in place as much, and I can't say I'll be missing the game locking up to show me a roulette wheel and pictures from the cutscenes in the game.
Progression is also atrocious, you can ONLY level up from rolling the same numbers in the DMW, not from killing mobs, and the levelling is glacial anyhow, so if you fall behind you're just going to be getting level checked by attacks that deal more damage than you have health, it's really obnoxious, but again, the remaster fixes this.
100% worth the play for FF7 fans, more so than any of the remakes, and 110% if you want to play the remakes, but I'd recommend the remaster simply because of how much better it plays, even if Zacks' voice acting is awful.