This review contains spoilers
I'm surprised I never wrote a review on this, but here goes. This game is amazing. I played with the restoration patch, so I don't have to complain about audio and visuals.
What I liked about this game was that it has Kefka, probably the best villain in all forms of storytelling. Also, the fact that Kefka splits this game into 2 acts, with the latter being better, makes this game far more impactful. Most (keyword here) of the characters have their own dedicated development scenes, which allows you as the player to decide which one you feel is the main protagonist. The opera scene of World of Balance was a masterpiece to go through.
What I didn't like was the fact that a good chunk of characters gets zero development, or that their development is ruined by a censoring Nintendo. I understand that there are 14 characters, but Gogo, Relm, Strago, and Umaro didn't need to exist. There are also the characters you don't use who get left out in development. Finally, there's a whole plot point of magic no longer existing and that when your team finally gets magic you use it to stop Kefka, but there has to be a fine line between making magic accessible for plot reasons and making it insanely overpowered. There was a tower in World of Ruin where it felt like "spam Ultima or die."
There's just a lot of missed potential, but this game is still probably one of the best Final Fantasy games ever. Too bad it doesn't get nearly as much attention as 7. I would really love to see a FF6R just like the FF7R.
What I liked about this game was that it has Kefka, probably the best villain in all forms of storytelling. Also, the fact that Kefka splits this game into 2 acts, with the latter being better, makes this game far more impactful. Most (keyword here) of the characters have their own dedicated development scenes, which allows you as the player to decide which one you feel is the main protagonist. The opera scene of World of Balance was a masterpiece to go through.
What I didn't like was the fact that a good chunk of characters gets zero development, or that their development is ruined by a censoring Nintendo. I understand that there are 14 characters, but Gogo, Relm, Strago, and Umaro didn't need to exist. There are also the characters you don't use who get left out in development. Finally, there's a whole plot point of magic no longer existing and that when your team finally gets magic you use it to stop Kefka, but there has to be a fine line between making magic accessible for plot reasons and making it insanely overpowered. There was a tower in World of Ruin where it felt like "spam Ultima or die."
There's just a lot of missed potential, but this game is still probably one of the best Final Fantasy games ever. Too bad it doesn't get nearly as much attention as 7. I would really love to see a FF6R just like the FF7R.
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@SiammeDarc personally i think there's a lot to actually catch up on before jumping into the remake project because, well, let's just say it becomes clear there's a double meaning to the name "remake". my personal order for things to do in terms of ff7 would be:
a) play the original game, preferrably on steam so you can get the mods you want (things like upscaled textures, voice acting, ambient noises, redone sfx, retranslation since it has a very rough english translation, and more)
b) play crisis core, preferrably the remake that dropped in 2022 crisis core reunion. doesn't really matter the platform for this one since it's everywhere
c) watch advent children complete, the "complete" version of advent children with like 20 extra minutes of stuff
d) (optional and not really recommended, but it creates some understanding of regame 1's dlc) dirge of cerberus for the ps2. not recommended because the gameplay and plot itself are awful, but i would say at least familiarize yourself with the characters and maybe just watch a plot synopsis on youtube instead
e) remake and its dlc. nowadays i think the dlc comes with just purchasing the game for the first time.
f) rebirth
g) regame 3, whenever that comes out and if you're still interested
a) play the original game, preferrably on steam so you can get the mods you want (things like upscaled textures, voice acting, ambient noises, redone sfx, retranslation since it has a very rough english translation, and more)
b) play crisis core, preferrably the remake that dropped in 2022 crisis core reunion. doesn't really matter the platform for this one since it's everywhere
c) watch advent children complete, the "complete" version of advent children with like 20 extra minutes of stuff
d) (optional and not really recommended, but it creates some understanding of regame 1's dlc) dirge of cerberus for the ps2. not recommended because the gameplay and plot itself are awful, but i would say at least familiarize yourself with the characters and maybe just watch a plot synopsis on youtube instead
e) remake and its dlc. nowadays i think the dlc comes with just purchasing the game for the first time.
f) rebirth
g) regame 3, whenever that comes out and if you're still interested
aight ill start with the steam version then
thanks for the detailed suggestion <3
thanks for the detailed suggestion <3
SiammeDarc
17 days ago