this is…. not a good game. i can see the vision, and maybe if i had played the PSP version i could fully appreciate what this game was trying to be, but if i have to hear “Activating Combat Mode” one more time i think i would explode. the dialogue is so disjointed, it’s almost giving Silent Hill except.. not on purpose. some of the interactions are so awkwardly written i wonder how this made it past a playtest.. then again, these problems are probably due to the updated models and i believe they re-recorded the voice acting (could be wrong but i know Zack has a new VA). even though i was playing on normal difficulty, the battles hardly even changed in difficulty, it was crazy how i was one-shotting nearly every enemy in end game. i very quickly obtained the strongest of each spell and there wasn’t really much i could do after that.
the only reason i’m awarding this game 2 stars is because i do adore the Final Fantasy 7 universe, could see the message it was trying to convey, and the OST was fantastic.