This review contains spoilers
I think this review will just be considered a spoiler review. Cause I think most of the people interested in this game already have it and I doubt I'd be able to convince anyone who's not interested. Let me just say that if you're expecting a 1-1 remake of the original Final Fantasy VII then you will be disappointed. It's not the exact same game that you remember, though from what I understand it's still respectful of the original Final Fantasy VII.
So I'm just gonna get my biggest problem with Final Fantasy VII Remake out of the way. My issue isn't with the story or the core gameplay, but the difficulty. I'm gonna explain specifically what I mean by that in a bit cause I've never had a problem with a game like this before.
A few years ago, I picked up FF7 Remake and played it on normal difficulty. Managed to get a few hours in until I reached a Cloud only fight and got walloped. After that defeat, I simply put the game back on the shelf. Years later, I bought the PS5 version on sale and decided to give the game a second chance, but this time on the easy difficulty. The difference in challenge was surprising, I was struggling on normal and now the game is practically a cake walk. Even bosses didn't challenge me much. What's happening here?? Is this just a skill issue or is the difficulty on normal not adjusted correctly?
The combat is a good mix of what people want and what people expect. It's real-time, but going into the command menu slows down time until you make your decision which is a nice middle ground between turn-based and real-time.
Being able to separately upgrade each weapon is cool at first until you realize that they all have their own individual skill trees that you have to upgrade one at a time. It was so tedious, I really hope they fix this in future entries and just give each character a single skill tree regardless of the weapons you have.
There's a little too much filler at times, it got to the point where I could obviously tell that there's padding. It wasn't too bad though as I enjoyed some of the filler. That chapter with Jessie was fun as hell.
Overall, I'd say that I really enjoyed the story. Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Aerith are all great characters, but my favorite character is Jessie. 😭
As we reach the end of my review, it's time we talk about that final chapter and the ending. I know not everyone is on board with the ending, but is there really any other way to remake a game on such a big scale that means so much to so many people? When else would you have the chance to change things and explore ideas of fate and destiny? This just makes the future entries in this remake trilogy more interesting because we don't know what's going to happen next. Will Aerith live or will she still die? I guess we'll find out when Final Fantasy VII Rebirth releases.
So I'm just gonna get my biggest problem with Final Fantasy VII Remake out of the way. My issue isn't with the story or the core gameplay, but the difficulty. I'm gonna explain specifically what I mean by that in a bit cause I've never had a problem with a game like this before.
A few years ago, I picked up FF7 Remake and played it on normal difficulty. Managed to get a few hours in until I reached a Cloud only fight and got walloped. After that defeat, I simply put the game back on the shelf. Years later, I bought the PS5 version on sale and decided to give the game a second chance, but this time on the easy difficulty. The difference in challenge was surprising, I was struggling on normal and now the game is practically a cake walk. Even bosses didn't challenge me much. What's happening here?? Is this just a skill issue or is the difficulty on normal not adjusted correctly?
The combat is a good mix of what people want and what people expect. It's real-time, but going into the command menu slows down time until you make your decision which is a nice middle ground between turn-based and real-time.
Being able to separately upgrade each weapon is cool at first until you realize that they all have their own individual skill trees that you have to upgrade one at a time. It was so tedious, I really hope they fix this in future entries and just give each character a single skill tree regardless of the weapons you have.
There's a little too much filler at times, it got to the point where I could obviously tell that there's padding. It wasn't too bad though as I enjoyed some of the filler. That chapter with Jessie was fun as hell.
Overall, I'd say that I really enjoyed the story. Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Aerith are all great characters, but my favorite character is Jessie. 😭
As we reach the end of my review, it's time we talk about that final chapter and the ending. I know not everyone is on board with the ending, but is there really any other way to remake a game on such a big scale that means so much to so many people? When else would you have the chance to change things and explore ideas of fate and destiny? This just makes the future entries in this remake trilogy more interesting because we don't know what's going to happen next. Will Aerith live or will she still die? I guess we'll find out when Final Fantasy VII Rebirth releases.