Deeply loved it, would love to replay it a number of times. SO easily got me invested into FF7 as its own franchise within FF, couldnt ask for a better intro into it. Was expecting a simple fun time and now here I am, batshit insane, dissecting every piece of knowledge from all the games and that silly movie too and crying over the announcement of part 2. Can't really name a single thing that bothered me about it, I just love it with my whole heart! Also loved it even more after playing the original game, the growth is just stunning.

I shouldn't give this game a full 5 stars bc I have issues with it... But in spite of its obvious flaws that drive me mad I love it with my whole heart. Probably the best JRPG experience I've had in a very long time. Such a wonderful and compelling story with gameplay that I found so addicting for some reason LOL. Also it gave me Alvis so that makes this 4 stars at least automatically. I will always wish it had better character writing for the majority of its main cast (outside of Shulk and maybe Melia), which is why it'll never be 5 stars with me, but the fact that it manages to be one of my all time favorite games anyways speaks volumes I think.

I fully didn't expect anything much from this game going into it, and yet here I am a year later still fixating on it. What a fucking ride. A must play experience imo, in spite of its flaws. If I were being more objective I would give it a slightly lower score because of the problems I have with it (which I am very loud about disliking) like it’s definitely not a perfect game but man... My heart's deep fondness for it makes me kinder to it. Undeniably one of my all-time favorite games for life. Kaname date you absolute jezebel i need him so bad I desire him carnally. What did Uchikoshi put in this man to make him so attractive to every lesbian in the world. Oh also this game has Mizuki route so immediately GOATED.

If I sat down and wrote an actual in-depth review for this game it would be at least 80 pages long, and I played this like 3 years ago. I'll try to summarize the basic points shortly. It's a game I kind of love, but also kind of hate. Definitely one of the best cast of characters in the series thus far, but I don't feel it's able to do enough with all of them. Routes are a cool idea on paper unless you've played Fates and you already know Intsys are going to find a way to fuck it up again. First half of the game becomes unbearably dull to replay after a first experience, and it just gets harder to want to replay after each route. The general gameplay involving the Monastery and teaching/training your students and all of that stuff is also really fun during your first run, but after that it just became a slog to get through for me. Also I really couldn't care less about Byleth as a protagonist. This review has already gotten too long so I'm cutting myself off. TLDR: 3 stars for Claude and anyone else I like but mostly Claude.

Such a hard game for me to rate. Noctis and the bros are its all-time best highlight, such an easily lovable group of dudes who I adore deeply, and that alone carries the stars I'm giving this game. The rest of this game, unfortunately, left me wanting. I wish I could say I enjoyed it more, but the gameplay just wasn't for me, and even immediately after finishing the game I couldn't explain to you a single thing about the story with a gun to my head because it was so poorly written. While playing, all I could think about was how confused I was and how much I wanted it to be over. As much as I love the main 4 and will gladly consume any content about them, it's not a game I'll ever see myself personally being inclined to replay.

I'm seriously debating what score to give this game. I really, REALLY don't care for it. It has some of my favorite characters, I think the lore's pretty neat, and the battle gameplay's a total improvement from 1, but other than these positives, I REALLY hated a lot of it. It has some (shockingly to me) genuinely amazing moments that I'll always remember, but unfortunately they're few and far between, and overall it was a game I felt could've been made better in about a hundred different ways. Zeke and Jin save this from a lower score.

Utterly insane loads of fun. Not a huge fan of the gameplay only because I'm not much of a hack and slash kind of guy (guy who sucks at hack and slash games) so at first I wasn't super invested, but playing the game on easier difficulties so I could focus on what I LOVED about the game (its characters, its story, its humor, just so much of its unique and over the top design I can't even begin to properly name and explain everything here) made it so very enjoyable for me to get through. Couldn't ask for more as a lesbian dying for more games centered around charming sexy women being charming and sexy. First game that ever felt catered TO ME AND MY PREFERENCES!! (<-- boobies liker)