it's definitely an improvement over the psp game except for the voice acting (i literally switched to japanese because of how much i dislike zack's new VA compared to the og) and like the music where they like remade some songs but like a lot are still the same as on the psp so why would you do this and i also think for most of the different songs the OG ones were just better lol
the story is unchanged and i'm very biased towards it because it was my first FF game (don't do like me don't play this game before FF7 it's a mistake bc it spoils some extremely big stuff from FF7) and even like my first game with an actual story that i can think of. replaying it now after so much time and more knowledge of the FF7 universe (i did replay it one time after beating FF7 but that also was years ago) i still extremely like it, zack is just such a cool character. there are definitely some issues with it (mostly genesis related) and replaying it now i can definitely see the psp pacing (like it's way shorter than i remembered it) but unless you're a guy who doesn't like FF7's story being messed it's enjoyable especially if you enjoy how fucking stupid some of it can be
the gameplay is the big improvement the game got, combat doesn't suck anymore because it's not as stiff, the DMW doesn't interrupt you mid fight, you can even skip the cutscenes for it and choose not to use the limit breaks, it's definitely not as fun as FF7R but it's not bad either, it's good enough but with if you like being broken there's a lot of option to do so. The game itself is fairly short tho 100% all the missions takes time cause there's 300 of them, it's a bit of a tedious process at times but i like part of it because tackling on hard missions where you get killed in one hit bc you're not supposed to do them now is a thing you can do, which i did, and i personally think it's fun. The superboss is legit impossible on hard mode tho that's funny (there's an undodgeable attack that deals 99999dmg even with maxxed out defense and removes your phoenix down) getting 100% DMW sucks tho it's legit just RNG lmfao
the story is unchanged and i'm very biased towards it because it was my first FF game (don't do like me don't play this game before FF7 it's a mistake bc it spoils some extremely big stuff from FF7) and even like my first game with an actual story that i can think of. replaying it now after so much time and more knowledge of the FF7 universe (i did replay it one time after beating FF7 but that also was years ago) i still extremely like it, zack is just such a cool character. there are definitely some issues with it (mostly genesis related) and replaying it now i can definitely see the psp pacing (like it's way shorter than i remembered it) but unless you're a guy who doesn't like FF7's story being messed it's enjoyable especially if you enjoy how fucking stupid some of it can be
the gameplay is the big improvement the game got, combat doesn't suck anymore because it's not as stiff, the DMW doesn't interrupt you mid fight, you can even skip the cutscenes for it and choose not to use the limit breaks, it's definitely not as fun as FF7R but it's not bad either, it's good enough but with if you like being broken there's a lot of option to do so. The game itself is fairly short tho 100% all the missions takes time cause there's 300 of them, it's a bit of a tedious process at times but i like part of it because tackling on hard missions where you get killed in one hit bc you're not supposed to do them now is a thing you can do, which i did, and i personally think it's fun. The superboss is legit impossible on hard mode tho that's funny (there's an undodgeable attack that deals 99999dmg even with maxxed out defense and removes your phoenix down) getting 100% DMW sucks tho it's legit just RNG lmfao