Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020)

I finally rolled the credits on FFVII:R today and absolutely loved it! I'm going to write up my personal review soon to detail my thoughts on the game and post it later. In short, I can see why some players may feel like there is some "fluff" to the game but that's not my take on it. There was an astonishing amount of detail throughout the entire game which made its presentation absolutely breathtaking. As such, it made a lot of the backtracking and side quests very interesting since I would often pick up on small details that I had missed the first time around.

I've heard and read often that players feel like Square Enix just stretched it out but I don't feel that way at all. I feel as though they were able to explore a lot of character detail that wasn't possible at the time the original was made.

Sure it wasn't perfect. but we can say that about any game out there. When you take that out of the equation, I feel like Square Enix has been very faithful to the original and breathed so much life into the characters that we love. I'll be going into more detail about how I feel about the characters when I review it. Until that time, I can't recommend this game highly enough!

I should have played the demo before buying this. I don't know why I didn't it was a dumb move on my part. Everyone told me that the game was amazing, so I just took their word for it.

The combat is way too frenetic, and reminds me of the Batman Arkham games, whose combat I very much disliked. It's just not really what I was looking for. That first boss as tough for me because I had trouble paying attention. I didn't feel like I had enough control for the combat to be fully active, but also don't have enough control for it to be passive, either. I get that that's the entire thing, jumping back and forth between action and menus with one feeding the other. I guess I just don't like that middle ground.

I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying that I played the first hour or so and regret purchasing it.

Oh, and every time I want to open the menu to choose an ability I accidentally hit triangle instead of X. Every. Single. Time.

i love this game. i loved ffvii and ive played that one A LOT and i played through it again like last year so im a good target for this remake of one iof the most popular games ever made. im like five hours in so lets get down to my impressions so far and look theyre none of them crazy plot spoilers (i would not have been spoiled had i read these before playing) but if youre just seeing this on the grouvee homepage and want to go in totally blind then dont read this:

anyhow its fun and im gonna play more and i wish line breaks werent so complicated on grouvee

So I'm getting close to the end of Final Fantasy VII Remake (I'm about 30 hours in, and I know I'm close to the end because I've played the original). I've hit that weird place in games where I feel the need to stop playing so much because I don't want the game to end. I did this recently with the old PSX Lunar: SSSC (I'm at the final save point) and a couple of other games. I just like this game so much I don't want it to end, but I can't do anything but continue with plot. Back in the day, I would just restart the game. I restarted FFVII twice: first at the end of the first disc, then right before the last dungeon. I just needed more of the game and so just started again.

Does anyone else do this, or do you just beat the game and play it again?

Got my platinum trophy last night. Had a real good time with this. I have a blinding affection for this world and these characters, and I thought Remake did them justice. Like many, the original was my first JRPG and really opened the door to a lot of wonderful games for me. My feelings on the controversial ending are mostly positive. I don't love the execution but I'm fascinated with what it is trying to do.

I thought the hybrid action/command combat system was great. Felt like a fully realized version of that FFXV was trying to do, and mastering it in the hard mode playthrough of FF7R was very satisfying.