It's always a weird experience to not connect with a game that everyone else seems to love. But this game just did nothing for me. I really had to force myself to finish it, to be quite honest. It's just... too... long. Everything takes longer than it should. So many unskippable and incredibly slow animations. Every quest is padded to an insane degree. The entire design of the game revolves around justifying the bad decision to break a single game into three so they can charge you triple the price. The open world filler stuff is truly dire. The story has already devolved into pure anime nonsense after two games. There were so many points during my playthrough that as I pushed onward, I sat there thinking, 'man I really wish this was an RE4R style remake that was just the same game but better.' I guess it just wasn't for me. The music is amazing and some of the cutscenes were incredibly well-directed, but on the whole... this just isn't FF7. It's a Kingdom Hearts game (with all the negative that entails) with a FF7 total conversion mod on it. Ironically, this year's Like a Dragon IW is a far, far better Final Fantasy game than the actual FF game we got.