Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020)

i'm not entirely sure what to rate this one, so for now i'll sit on a 3. i think i'll be able to rate this properly once i'm done with the platinum.

the music is fantastic, the banter between characters was really good (especially if you chose to take the stairs instead of the elevator). hard mode isn't as bad as i thought it would be with maxed materia, it is super satisfying taking down bosses i struggled with on my first playthrough (hellhouse, bahamut etc) with ease.

i replayed til the end of disc one of the original just to get myself in the groove of ff7's world before going into the remake. i was lucky enough to get my copy a week early, so i've had more time than anyone else to try put together my thoughts on it and i still can't seem to figure it out. i have a lot of questions about the direction this is going to take after that ending.

overall, i had a fun yet confusing and maybe a bit conflicting experience but there is still a lot here that i am fond of.

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!

buckle up, this will be very long and emotional. First things first: FF7 is my favorite game of all time. The original, to me, is not only the ultimate masterpiece in gaming, but also something that shaped my entire life. With that said, let's go.

This game is beautiful. Everything in it makes me want to cry! Every detail, sound effect and animation. A lot of heart was put into this project and it shows. I absolutely loved the soundtrack. It's a mix between FF7's OST and FFXIII's "modern vibe". It works just fine with the Remake. Every little (and huge) sound in this game is perfect. It oozes high budget. The combat is also great. It's not perfect, but it's the natural and positive evolution of FFXV's. It's challenging and rewarding. Pulling off a good ATB combo makes you feel like a badass. The stagger system can make things hard, but once you figure out what to do, it's fine. Overall, this is the best hybrid I can think of between the Classic TBC and the modern one. The best parts in this game happens when it follows the original. New additions are great, but nothing beats the story when it gets down to business. Everything was incredibly reimagined and it made me tear up more times than it should. Also, thank god for the mini-games!

But the game fails sometimes. If in one side, things are beautiful, on the other, things can get ugly. There is padding everywhere. Unnecessary filler is spread throughout the whole game. This game could easily go past Midgar, if the devs wanted. And I'm not talking about the sidequests. The quests are super nice! I'm reffering to story bits and gameplay pieces that just feel out of place. Many things feel out of place in this game. Which leads me to my biggest disappointment: They changed the ending. I won't spoil things, but basically, Square paved the way to **** with the original story. They might change everything after what they did by the end of the final chapter. Honestly, it breaks my heart. Things just got very convoluted and nonsensical. I was not expecting the EXACT same thing, but I DEFINITELY wasn't expecting whatever happened in the conclusion. I guess I hoped for an upgrade in an already superb story, but what I got was only 70% of that... Maybe I wouldn't feel this way if this was the FULL remake experience.

In the end, this is an incredible remake. Every Final Fantasy fan should play. Actually, every RPG fan should play it! What it does right, it accomplishes wonders. But what it does wrong... Well, here's to hoping that the second part comes soon and fixes the story for the best, because on the gameplay area, the nailed it.

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.

Square Enix should have marketed this a little differently. Some changes were to be expected, but most fans are going to be surprised by the later chapters, and in more than by ways SE used to keep content fresh.

Beautiful game, excellent expansion of characters we already knew, and a new take on the story. It was nice being able to switch from normal to easy mode for that last battle, which had way too many Kingdom Hearts vibes by the way, but that's expected of Nomura.

I'm used to the old ATB but adapted pretty well to this battle system. I enjoyed most of the side quests (Hojo's chapter was admittedly tedious).

Honestly, fans of Chrono Cross may be more pleased with this than fans of the OG FF7. Being a huge CC fan myself, I'm intrigued and waiting to see what else SE comes up with.

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.