Second playthrough. First one was in... 2002, probably?
Beat it without touching the Weapons, building any crazy materia setups or doing any of the big sidequests because I went into North Cave to pick up an item, got lost, and ended up fighting Sephiroth by mistake. Will likely be going back to lv99 the shit out of things because the modern ports have loads of great quality-of-life features that take the sting out of min-maxing a JRPG.
The game is still beautifully tight (you can beat it in 20 hours without really trying!) and has probably my favourite cast of Final Fantasisers outside of VI, which this game clearly takes a huge chunk of its inspiration from.
Don't think I can be bothered playing the remake after this - knowing it's just Midgar, a miniscule portion of the entire saga, just doesn't sound very interesting. And how can you really improve what's in here?
Beat it without touching the Weapons, building any crazy materia setups or doing any of the big sidequests because I went into North Cave to pick up an item, got lost, and ended up fighting Sephiroth by mistake. Will likely be going back to lv99 the shit out of things because the modern ports have loads of great quality-of-life features that take the sting out of min-maxing a JRPG.
The game is still beautifully tight (you can beat it in 20 hours without really trying!) and has probably my favourite cast of Final Fantasisers outside of VI, which this game clearly takes a huge chunk of its inspiration from.
Don't think I can be bothered playing the remake after this - knowing it's just Midgar, a miniscule portion of the entire saga, just doesn't sound very interesting. And how can you really improve what's in here?