Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020)

If any game needed a visual remake, it was final fantasy 7. The original looked like it was a play made with melted bobble head dolls and cardboard scenery. It is the most visually unpleasant game I've played and probably for this reason it was never my favorite final fantasy, like everyone else. In this regard the "remake" delivered. the game looks visually lovely in the style of a modern game. kudos for that. The gameplay is updated and enjoyable, giving some extra flair while maintaining the strategy. The characters are more chatty and you get to know them better. previously flat uninteresting characters are fleshed out and loveable. I found many of the main characters unremarkable in the original but now find myself very attached to them. New events and mini games are added that flesh out the story and serve as a fun distraction. That additional is not all good. many of the side activities are just busy work and even the main story has a lot of filler activities when you're impatient to get on with it. the end is especially guilty. it drags and drags pointlessly. This isn't a death sentence itself. Some characters take different actions and one notably appears much earlier and does different things. that didn't bother me to much until the end and I'll get to that. So what's the problem? The problem is ghosts. Before we continue, beware from here on: spoilers (please hear that in River Song's voice, I would appreciate it). You'll notice right away, there are ghosts showing up at key plot points. constantly swarming around and getting in the way. These weren't in the original. for good reason. They are new. This remake isn't a remake. It's a remake of the timeline, not of the game. These ghosts are fate..guardians? clever, yes? hmm. I applaud the attempt at innovation and subverting expectations, or trying anyway, but this is just annoying. The game was advertised, for years and years, as a faithful remake. it begins appearing to be that. it makes the plot deeper and the characters more lovable. then, when it's almost done, it takes these annoying distractions and makes them a major plot point in order to tell you this is an entirely different game. A mjor character is killed and revivied within moments, senselessly, and the plot starts ripping apart at the seams. You then abandon the game itself in an almost fourth wall breaking way and battle the ghosts in an incomprehensible sequence of nonsense. it culmiantes in a statement that the game won't follow the original story at all from here in future releases. it's insulting to be told you're getting one thing, start to get that thing but better, then have it ripped away and replaced with existential fate prattling plot diarrhea. I'd play nier automata if i wanted that. I'm not even the biggest fan of final fantasy 7. I didn't care much about it. what really hurt is this game made me care about it, then made me angry at it. So much that I might just play the old game and see if i appreciate it this time. It was still fun. I'll say that. the parts that I enjoyed, I enjoyed them a lot. everything is well made. I'm not going to say the game is utter garbage or a bad game, it's not. I'm just personally disappointed in the story choices made. The developers have every right to make this game this way. You should still play it. probably.

beautiful remake of a legendary rpg --- i enjoy the battle system for the most part, definitely takes more planning and preparation before running into a group of enemies or the bosses. i'm slightly annoyed that we only got this portion of the game. i played about 50+ hours and that's including the grinding in colosseum and virtual system (not necessary). some parts of this game feel like unnecessary fluff (reminiscent of the hobbit movies, if the original FF7 game was the hobbit book).

Con este juego me pasa algo super raro que no me había pasado nunca con un Videojuego. Final Fantasy VII Remake es, sin duda, uno de los jegos mas importantes para mi. Llevo esperando su salida desde que me enteré de que existía practicamente y, aunque no poseo una gran nostalgia ya que me pasé el original bastante tarde (hace un par de años), si me sentía parte del gran acontecimiento que supone sacar un Remake de uno de los juegos mas queridos de la industria. La cuestión es que mi hype hacia el producto era desmedido y mis espectativas casi imposibles de alcanzar, pero, llego el 10 de abril y en cuatro dias me pasé el juego por el que llevaba esperando meses y meses. El juego sin duda alguna me parece una maravilla, de hecho, cuando me lo pasé vine a la página a ponerle las 5 estrellas que creía que se merecia, pero un par de dias después y dandole vueltas, ya no estoy tan seguro. Lo mas extraño es que no logro ponerme de acuerdo y he aqui el sentimiento raro del que hablaba al inicio, no logro encontrar un punto medio donde pueda considerar el juego de mi agrado o no. Es una sensación rara, como si no supiera decir si algo realmente me gusta o no. Por un lado, hablando de los apartados del jeugo, la recreación de Midgar en cuanto a diseño de escenario me parecen, y sin exagerar, de la proxima generación directamente, pero por el otro, estan partes de la historia que me parecieron alargadas de más, que sin aportar nada a la trama principal la vuelve tediosa y aburrida en algunos casos. También, por un lado esta el sistema de combate que me parece lo mejor que se ha hecho en un JRPG en mucho tiempo, que si se convierte en el estándar del género, no me molestaria lo mas mínimo, pero, por el otro lado estan algunos aspectos que cambiaron del juego original que no me terminaron de convencer, al igual que algunas interacciones de personajes que parecen sacadas de un anime cualquiera y no de uno de los mejores Videojuegos de la historia. Y así muchas mas dualidades que no me dejan ponerme de acuerdo en decidir si el juego me gustó o no. Es como si en algunas cosas el juego me pareciera perfecto y en otras una completa basura. Pero la verdad es que al final no me arrepiento de haberlo jugado y que, con todos sus fallos, ha logrado mantenerme fuera del mundo durante cuatro dias enteros. Ahora tengo curiosidad por ver como termina esta historia. A lo mejor cuando juegue todas las entregas de este proyecto, mi opinión cambie.

I'm about 16 hours in. I really like most of the game. But.... I feel like the game is trying to do something it just isn't doing. The immersion seems to be such a thinly laid veil that it really breaks too often. Also, every time I move from cutscene to gameplay I get about 5-10 seconds, where my character is just frozen in place. Is this just my slow HDD or have other people been experiencing this?

I've been playing FFVII Remake since last Friday (it was tough to get it on Good Friday, a fast day...). It's been pretty much all I had hoped for it to be: detailed, deep, bringing enough of the original without forcing it. Strangely, the only real complaint I have is that there aren't enough battles and grinding. I played the original game in high school when it came out, and it's awesome to revisit the world!

I tried to play the original sometime around 2005-06 but after being spoiled playing Mario N64 and Final Fantays X with 3D graphics and voice acting, I couldn’t get into this game. When I heard about the remake, I absolutely knew I had to play it and jfc, it does not disappoint. I’m breathless with its perfection after six hours in and I can’t wait to spend every waking moment playing. The only bitterness is knowing that I’ll have to wait who-knows-how-long for the sequel.

I won't be able to get this for another couple weeks, but I"m very much looking forward to giving this a shot. Everything I've seen from the gameplay side bar a few enemies looks pretty good, and I've kinda spoiled myself on a lot of plot elements of which I've already enjoyed what I've seen of that (Some of the backlash similarly has also incited more of my curiosity). Can't wait to give this game a thorough shot!

Couple hours in and it's everything we wanted. Midgard is gorgeous, it's fun to explore, there's a lot to do and voice acting is great. Fan service is omnipresent in a good way (collecting songs is my favorite so far). Sure the side quests aren't as good as the main content but generally speaking the game is a real tribute to the original masterpiece.