I feel like I really tried with this game. First of all, I never played the original, but i imagine 1 full game has gotta be better than a 3rd of a game stretched out into 1 full game. To be honest though I never would have tried it if it wasn't on PS+, occasionally I want to play something I dont normally like, and this didn't win me over.

The combat i'll say, is really fun. I like the blend of turn based and action combat, but unfortunately, at least in the bit i played, there just isn't enough of it for me to keep going. Every 5 minutes i have to listen to another poorly written generic line of anime dialogue that makes me wanna chuck my controller. A bit hyperbolic, but man i really do not care about ANYONE in this game. From what I understand, this is about the first 6-8 hours of FF7 put into a 40ish hour game, and man, you can really tell. This is more stretched out than persona, I cannot stand how everything screeches to a halt every hour so i can 'get to know' the characters i guess, but they're all boring and I don't care about them, and I don't wanna hear their damn anime grunting anymore.

Someone make this games combat and either write a better story or just take it out entirely and i'll be on board. This isn't it for me.