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Played the hd version on steam also more thinking 7.5/10
if i was rating this game purely off of story it would probably be a 9 i adored it aside from a couple issues but most of those are minimal. I loved tidus, yuna, auron and khimari and the story was mostly engaging throughout. my only complaints story wise are that it kind of dragged until auron joined the party, rikku and lulu are extremely underutilized, and wakka is an insufferable character 3/4s of the game and then apologizes once for his batshit insane racism and everyone just moves on he sucks so bad.
Gameplay wise is really where i have problems with this game. The one great thing i will say is that I love the battle system and how you can freely change characters with no reprecussions mid turn. I also love how if you buff a character and switch them out they will still be buffed when they come back. Aside from that the music is really amazing.
Now for the bad I have a lot of complaints.
1) I played with a mod that gave the whole party ap. I probably would have dropped the game without it the game would be a grindy slog without it
2) Late game boss design sucked ASS (mainly yunalesca and jecht) too many status effects used that you cant really do shit about if you dont have the right armor. I probably would have dropped the game in the final boss room if i didnt have boosters cuz i wasnt grinding and backtracking for god knows how long to beat one boss
3) which brings me to the customization system which is horrible. All of the abilities require way too much shit to get especially for a while party i dont wanna spend an hour stealing off of the same enemy
4) the sphere grid system also sucks ass and is super unintuitive. i can kind of understand the idea on paper but the execution is poor especially with needing spheres to activate nodes if it was just ap it would be so much better but having to grind for levels as well as grind for items to access those levels is such a shitty system and its hard to make you characters stronger when none of the paths have anything you want
if i was rating this game purely off of story it would probably be a 9 i adored it aside from a couple issues but most of those are minimal. I loved tidus, yuna, auron and khimari and the story was mostly engaging throughout. my only complaints story wise are that it kind of dragged until auron joined the party, rikku and lulu are extremely underutilized, and wakka is an insufferable character 3/4s of the game and then apologizes once for his batshit insane racism and everyone just moves on he sucks so bad.
Gameplay wise is really where i have problems with this game. The one great thing i will say is that I love the battle system and how you can freely change characters with no reprecussions mid turn. I also love how if you buff a character and switch them out they will still be buffed when they come back. Aside from that the music is really amazing.
Now for the bad I have a lot of complaints.
1) I played with a mod that gave the whole party ap. I probably would have dropped the game without it the game would be a grindy slog without it
2) Late game boss design sucked ASS (mainly yunalesca and jecht) too many status effects used that you cant really do shit about if you dont have the right armor. I probably would have dropped the game in the final boss room if i didnt have boosters cuz i wasnt grinding and backtracking for god knows how long to beat one boss
3) which brings me to the customization system which is horrible. All of the abilities require way too much shit to get especially for a while party i dont wanna spend an hour stealing off of the same enemy
4) the sphere grid system also sucks ass and is super unintuitive. i can kind of understand the idea on paper but the execution is poor especially with needing spheres to activate nodes if it was just ap it would be so much better but having to grind for levels as well as grind for items to access those levels is such a shitty system and its hard to make you characters stronger when none of the paths have anything you want
Holy fuck man such an incredible and gripping experience i have some minor gameplay issues here and there but overall an extremely enjoyable gameplay loop and such an incredible story especially route c d and e
This review contains spoilers
Im really unsure of how to rate this because up until the last two hours or so I thought this game was pretty much perfect. A few missteps with bosses in areas they shouldnt have been or some areas being drawn out and one major area cut but overall incredible. The build up to the forgetten capitol was also incredible and really had me feeling every emotion. I also loved the zack storyline at that point. However, the ending was incredibly disappointing to me.
SPOILERS AHEAD
This game did not need a grand finale. This is what most of the problems come back to. Aeriths death should have been sudden and short and heartfelt. I loved how it was being done aside from the whispers up until jenova. I thought the jenova fight was great the music was great but then it kept going. we did not need what felt like 20 forms of sephiroth. there was little to no focus on aeriths death because they wanted to make the worlds converge. The worlds converging was especially dumb because it felt like there could be so much more done in the zack timeline and the worlds converging would fit perfectly into the final fight in the northern crater where a grand finale would be fitting. The worlds converging also created the worst part to me which was giving cloud more personality issues at this point. I dont like that could seemingly does not know she is dead. In the original when aerith dies that is the first time in the whole game that cloud actually feels something. But none of that is present here. he does not say anything about his pain to sephiroth like in the original. there is no goodbye with the party. and worst of all we dont even get to see him lower her body into the lake. also i dont like whatever the shit with the black materia was in the final cutscene. It feels like they were trying way to hard to go above and beyond with this ending and lost sight of what made the scene so iconic and impactful in the first place.
SPOILERS AHEAD
This game did not need a grand finale. This is what most of the problems come back to. Aeriths death should have been sudden and short and heartfelt. I loved how it was being done aside from the whispers up until jenova. I thought the jenova fight was great the music was great but then it kept going. we did not need what felt like 20 forms of sephiroth. there was little to no focus on aeriths death because they wanted to make the worlds converge. The worlds converging was especially dumb because it felt like there could be so much more done in the zack timeline and the worlds converging would fit perfectly into the final fight in the northern crater where a grand finale would be fitting. The worlds converging also created the worst part to me which was giving cloud more personality issues at this point. I dont like that could seemingly does not know she is dead. In the original when aerith dies that is the first time in the whole game that cloud actually feels something. But none of that is present here. he does not say anything about his pain to sephiroth like in the original. there is no goodbye with the party. and worst of all we dont even get to see him lower her body into the lake. also i dont like whatever the shit with the black materia was in the final cutscene. It feels like they were trying way to hard to go above and beyond with this ending and lost sight of what made the scene so iconic and impactful in the first place.