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Engaging battle system, generally well-written character interactions, great visuals and music, but unfortunately that wasn't enough to keep me playing when the game as a whole has such a godawful pacing. Most of the attempts at expanding on the dungeons/set pieces of the original game end up being pointless filler just to turn the Midgar portion into a full-length game, even though no one really asked for that.
By the time I got sent to the sewers after the Wall Market segment, I just didn't care anymore, thus I ultimately decided to drop this snoozefest and go play something else while I still had my cousin's PS4. The story was also losing me the more it went on, I wasn't liking the fact that Sephiroth was appearing every 5 minutes, the way those ghost things worked seemed completely arbitrary and don't even get me started on the hints that Aerith's fate might be changed.
To be honest, I don't think FFVII even needed a remake in the first place. The original game is perfectly fine as it is aside from maybe the graphics, a couple of late game materias being utterly broken and the shitty english translation, and all of those can be addressed with mods and/or patches if they bother you so much. Even so, the fact that this is what we ended up getting for a FFVII remake is pretty regrettable anyway. Yes, I know this is just the first part and all, if you liked FFVII Remake and want more, then good for you. As for me, I'll just pull a Cloud and say: Not interested.
PS: To give this a little bit of credit, it was an improvement over the Compilation of FFVII. Not that it means much, since a literal turd is better than the Compilation of FFVII, but it's something, I guess.
By the time I got sent to the sewers after the Wall Market segment, I just didn't care anymore, thus I ultimately decided to drop this snoozefest and go play something else while I still had my cousin's PS4. The story was also losing me the more it went on, I wasn't liking the fact that Sephiroth was appearing every 5 minutes, the way those ghost things worked seemed completely arbitrary and don't even get me started on the hints that Aerith's fate might be changed.
To be honest, I don't think FFVII even needed a remake in the first place. The original game is perfectly fine as it is aside from maybe the graphics, a couple of late game materias being utterly broken and the shitty english translation, and all of those can be addressed with mods and/or patches if they bother you so much. Even so, the fact that this is what we ended up getting for a FFVII remake is pretty regrettable anyway. Yes, I know this is just the first part and all, if you liked FFVII Remake and want more, then good for you. As for me, I'll just pull a Cloud and say: Not interested.
PS: To give this a little bit of credit, it was an improvement over the Compilation of FFVII. Not that it means much, since a literal turd is better than the Compilation of FFVII, but it's something, I guess.