Final Fantasy VII Remake

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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8148 Ratings

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  1. DaBigBoss
    Dec 26, 2020
    0
    This game is just a geniality if u dont played yet give a oportunity and enjoy it
  2. pyhriel
    Jun 10, 2021
    0
    This game is pretty average. The gameplay, though not my favorite, is ok. It is fun to play with, has some strengths and weaknesses. I feel that the lack of possibility to change your materia during battle to be very counter strategic (mainly against bosses). Basically you can use the asses ability during the battle to know the strengths and weaknesses of your enemy, but that only tellsThis game is pretty average. The gameplay, though not my favorite, is ok. It is fun to play with, has some strengths and weaknesses. I feel that the lack of possibility to change your materia during battle to be very counter strategic (mainly against bosses). Basically you can use the asses ability during the battle to know the strengths and weaknesses of your enemy, but that only tells you whether or not you are equipped to fight it or not, you can't adapt to the information. As a general rule, I just pushed through, whatever the information was, and if I got defeated I'd set my materia according to the knowledge I gained from the battle. This is not an elegant design.
    Otherwise, the gameplay is fun. A bit rough on the edges, but it is fun.

    The pace of the game is what is best in my opinion, it is like a long interactive cutscene. It is very entertaining. Though, my issue with it, is that it doesn't feel like a coherent story. It feels more like a series of "cool scene" and "cool pseudo philosophical speeches", but all the parts don't really fit together. Especially the escalation in the last chapter, where you go from C to W, but you skipped everything in between.
    In my opinion, they should've kept the story centered on midgard, and just gradually hint at the bigger picture, rather than try to force feed it to you. The avalanche and helping Aerith storyline, are the parts I like best about this game. It's not that I don't want the epic proportion drama with Sephi and all, it's just that it made no sense in that part of the story. And honnestly, the whispers should just not be there. They're both a narrative cop-out on the designers part, and they just confuse everything behind the guise of being "to evolved" for you to understand.

    Anyway. I still had fun playing it, at least the first time. Playing it again, kind of exposed the narrative flaws even more. Also the hard mode is not that fun (and for those among you who care, yes I did beat it, and only a few bosses gave me any real troubles). The way they added difficulty in the hard mode is by removing elements of gameplay, which I find is rather dull. Removing uses of items takes a system out of the game, and limiting your MP input kind make you not use magic all that much. It is harder, but not in a fun way.    … Expand
  3. toshimik
    Jan 1, 2021
    0
    Wish SE won't ever touch another older FF if they're gonna do this to them...
  4. Harryik
    Feb 2, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Где же Русская локализация? Хотя бы субтитры сделали, почему Sony плевать на своих фанатов???… Expand
  5. ResIpsa
    Dec 31, 2020
    2
    It's so incredibly bad that I had to make an account just to warn people. The combat is horribly janky, poorly designed and executed, and just not fun. (It's not that it's difficult! It's just that it's not worth playing. And the "Classic" mode is an abomination and nothing at all like the original.) It tries to mix action with turn-based and fails miserably. I was skeptical of FFXVIt's so incredibly bad that I had to make an account just to warn people. The combat is horribly janky, poorly designed and executed, and just not fun. (It's not that it's difficult! It's just that it's not worth playing. And the "Classic" mode is an abomination and nothing at all like the original.) It tries to mix action with turn-based and fails miserably. I was skeptical of FFXV because of the action, but it actually worked--because the game doesn't try to do two things at once, so it's fun and I ended up loving it. FFVII is just another awful ARPG that yet again encourages game developers to make terrible ARPGs. Additionally, the minigames are excruciatingly awful. (The Honeybee Inn dance sequence was a prime example of how not to make a rhythm game.) More so than the original FFVII minigames, and that's saying something.

    It somehow manages to be more boring than the original despite fleshing out the world. It doesn't flesh out the world that well--mindless, meaningless sidequests abound. I did appreciate the bigger role AVALANCHE's characters play--but that's about it. I simply couldn't bring myself to care about any other additional characters. The story meanders and it seems like 75% filler. Not a good look.

    The remade versions of old tracks are pretty great, but the new tracks are utterly forgettable. The graphics are incredibly uneven--moreso than FFXV!--with a lot of nice graphics, but some that belong in the early PS3 era. (And the notorious blurry/pixelated textures that looks imported from an early PS2 game.)

    Honestly, if this game weren't a remake of a beloved classic, it would be rightfully panned. As it is, people do the whole "OMG FFVII!" thing and it's pretty sad. Heck, even I am going to do it when I buy the second one, just to see if the transition out of Midgar helps any.    … Expand
  6. BlackBerry2015
    Feb 27, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Отсутствие русской локализации это очень плохо и подло. Тем более игру продают за фулл прайс.… Expand
  7. CannibalFish
    Jun 10, 2021
    0
    Stop doing timed exclusives and release the game properly on PC and Xbox. Don't be a scumbag.
  8. the_red_bear134
    Apr 29, 2021
    0
    People who think the games story should be judged only after all parts are out are deluded and suffering from severe buyers remorse which they wont admit to.

    After witnessing that absurd ending, the game or series or whatever the fanboys want to call it is already ruined. Imagine reading an amazing novel and then all of the sudden the writer puts a chapter about nothing but **** in the    People who think the games story should be judged only after all parts are out are deluded and suffering from severe buyers remorse which they wont admit to.

    After witnessing that absurd ending, the game or series or whatever the fanboys want to call it is already ruined. Imagine reading an amazing novel and then all of the sudden the writer puts a chapter about nothing but **** in the middle. That is the effect that this last chapter of FF7 Remake has on the overall story,

    Oh and lets not forget Square's deceptive marketing. "Oops we didnt want to call it FF7 Reimagining Part 1 of 3 because people wont buy it because it sounds **** because it is ****    … Expand
  9. NOGAS123456
    May 2, 2021
    0
    The people who rate this 10/10 are either paid shills or have lost touch with reality.

    What on earth are they trying to do with the story? All the unnecessary additions seem to be there so Square Enix can justify splitting the game for extra $$$$. Pathetic how far the company has fallen since the 2000's
  10. Tzol
    Mar 6, 2022
    0
    Un-Fun
    Tedious combat system like FF15
    Repetitive
    Feels like half a game packed with filler.

    Pro's
    Great music.
    Looks good
  11. alexwang
    Mar 18, 2022
    3
    10 for the main story
    -7 for your fxxking mini game
    If you can’t make it well, then don’t make it.
    The trash mini game totally ruined my experience.
  12. Rats_Off_To_Ya
    Mar 18, 2022
    2
    Visually, just unbelievably amazing coming from a fan of the game. Exiting the apartment to the view of the upper plate and the slums of Sector 7 just simply perfect, and sets the tone for the rest of the perfect visual delivery.

    However, story starts to show some red flags that are first apparent with Sephiroth getting shoved into the story right from the get go. Storyline continues to    Visually, just unbelievably amazing coming from a fan of the game. Exiting the apartment to the view of the upper plate and the slums of Sector 7 just simply perfect, and sets the tone for the rest of the perfect visual delivery.

    However, story starts to show some red flags that are first apparent with Sephiroth getting shoved into the story right from the get go. Storyline continues to get more muddled in the narritive as it gets closer to the end of this first part.

    I'll continue to applaud the visuals and the work the PC mod community has done but not looking forward to the story in parts to come.    … Expand
  13. Pon3
    Mar 29, 2022
    0
    Ethics department ruined this game They clearly have too much power I thought they were safe from this western bs but it's bad and turned a good game to ****
  14. Salty_McSalt
    Jun 24, 2022
    2
    We wanted a remake for years. So many years that two decades passed us all by and then we finally got it. I would have loved to say that the wait was worth it. That it was worth it to wait a little longer for the game to be ported over from the PS4 to PC... I do. I truly wish I could say that...

    The game is graphically excellent. The voice acting is great (for the most part). That's    We wanted a remake for years. So many years that two decades passed us all by and then we finally got it. I would have loved to say that the wait was worth it. That it was worth it to wait a little longer for the game to be ported over from the PS4 to PC... I do. I truly wish I could say that...

    The game is graphically excellent.
    The voice acting is great (for the most part).
    That's all we wanted.

    Sadly, they decided to mess with the story.
    A story that had a constant sense of urgency.
    Now; we have side quests that make the sense of urgency evaporate in the blink of an eye.
    Sephiroth is introduced ludicrously early.
    And what the hell is with all the ghosts in capes?

    WHAT THE HELL?!?!

    In one scene they're terrifying Sector 7, with you beating the sh*t out of them as they attack you for seemingly no reason, and the next time you see them they're helping you?!?! What the f*ck is that for poor consistency? After the first major encounter with them, it was if the incident never happened!

    Barretttttt: "These ghost things are bad!"
    Cloud: "Ugh. Yeah. Ugh."

    And that's it! It's as if the ghost terrorizing Sector 7 never happened.
    They're completely forgotten about!
    Didn't happen!?

    As for Cloud:
    Someone: "hahaha funny joke"
    Cloud: "Ugh!"

    Every God damn five minutes!
    It's like reading a typical Reddit thread; nauseating, repetitive, and cringe.

    Like I said, the game is graphically brilliant, voice acting is done well (with the exception of Cloud's script work, which should be shoved up Nomura's a**) but they messed with the story by diluting it down and padding it with content that.. frankly... makes me wish I was glad I pirated the game.

    I stopped playing it at Aeris' house.
    I've uninstalled it.
    Glad I didn't buy it.
    Glad I pirated it.
    It's that bad.

    I can't tell you how many times I've played the original version.
    More than 40+ play throughs in 20+ years?

    I've bought/owned it on the PS1, PC, iFad, PS4, back to PC with Steam...
    I've bought this timeless classic multiple times on different platforms.

    F*ck you, Nomura, you ruined this one great opportunity with Reddit-Tier Padded Cringe.

    The remake is a padded out disappointment.

    They would have been better off leaving the original story alone.

    I'm reinstalling the original version, via Steam, as I type this. I prefer it.    … Expand
  15. Tomplexthis
    Jul 7, 2022
    4
    I hate this game, i like this game, They completely Vomited out the heart and soul of the original, for money, they split the game up for money, there is a great game here, but this is the first 3 hours of the original 45 hour story of FF7, there are awful textures in this game that look like 1997 year old Jpeg files, terrible padding, terrible characters, ham-fisted in dementors, TheyI hate this game, i like this game, They completely Vomited out the heart and soul of the original, for money, they split the game up for money, there is a great game here, but this is the first 3 hours of the original 45 hour story of FF7, there are awful textures in this game that look like 1997 year old Jpeg files, terrible padding, terrible characters, ham-fisted in dementors, They lost what made ff7, Life and Death, and just made another Kingdom Hearts, but with the skin of ff7 on it, this game is about destiny hearts and darkness, and i hated it. but it still wasn't terrible, even though iam disgusted with everything this game stands for. it is definitely Greedy. and i just wish it was gone.

    There is way too much padding and slow down in this game, you can barely move, it feels like molasses, and it holds your hand.    … Expand
  16. Rovix
    Aug 9, 2023
    0
    The worst action game I've played recently
    And one of the worst cash grab operation made by Square Enix, for stole money with the fanservice mist.
    Unfortunately they have just ruined the whole sense and story of the original FF7 just for that....
  17. ImprudentDev
    Jul 18, 2023
    1
    Really great game, I had a lot of fun, but...
    I'm **** angry
    like really really **** angry So I spent 80 bucks on FF7 Remake yeah? I spent 40 hours on it yeah? turns out theres a part 2 It's PS5 exclusive meaning that if I want to see the entire story, I either play the OG game or Buy a PS5 WHAT THE **** DID I PAY 80 BUCKS AND SPEND 40 HOURS ON?! I got ****ed over hell I even    Really great game, I had a lot of fun, but...
    I'm **** angry
    like really really **** angry
    So I spent 80 bucks on FF7 Remake yeah?
    I spent 40 hours on it yeah?
    turns out theres a part 2
    It's PS5 exclusive
    meaning that if I want to see the entire story, I either play the OG game or Buy a PS5
    WHAT THE **** DID I PAY 80 BUCKS AND SPEND 40 HOURS ON?!
    I got ****ed over
    hell I even **** bought the prequel expecting to play that after finishing FF7
    And guess what
    there's literally no reason to **** play it now
    So I wasted another 80 bucks on that
    Thanks Square Enix
    oh good the oG FF7 is only 11 bucks
    still not less pissy
    they could have atleast marketted it as Part 1
    how hard could it have been to write 'Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 1'

    - Me in a discord chat

    Good game, really mad    … Expand
  18. sweed1234
    Apr 21, 2020
    1
    Brilliant game did everything right except the ending was horrible, confusing and may ruin the game. Hope they explain it properly and do away with most of the whisper nonsense. Too much padding and filler. Too much nonsense, not the remake I had in mind. Do not appreciate this rubbish, will play part 2 by buying pre owned.
  19. Strife_life
    Apr 20, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game I grow up with the original ff7 it was perfect till the end were they shat on the og story line by saying it was the bad ending like ur a remake get a grip of ur self ur never do what the original did for JRPGS back then and to fight ur future selfs is a big up urs to us og fans and the timeie whimy multivers is bull **** as a ff14 player I’m used to god tier story telling so for this iconic game I expected no less **** s we sure Enix ff14 for life… Expand
  20. Thesgnuk
    Apr 20, 2020
    4
    Oooh, Square enix...
    You just had to do the nomura magic trick and change the story uh?
    I Mean, we alll wanted a remake, we shouted that for years, and the community wanted a remake that doesn't go off the rails Was that too much to ask? You had to go crazy interdimensional space stuff timeline vortex in the last hour? Dunno about the rest of you guys but i felt the last part was    Oooh, Square enix...
    You just had to do the nomura magic trick and change the story uh?

    I Mean, we alll wanted a remake, we shouted that for years, and the community wanted a remake that doesn't go off the rails
    Was that too much to ask?
    You had to go crazy interdimensional space stuff timeline vortex in the last hour?
    Dunno about the rest of you guys but i felt the last part was weak and uninspired, and i ENJOYED every moment until then. What a shame, but at least i know that to expect from the project
    And seeing the recent SE works (FFXV, KH3).. well you get the idea of what to expect    … Expand
  21. Jolleygreen3
    Apr 28, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you want to be throw into left field with lazy writing this game is for you, if you want the game you grew up with youlle still like this game for the mechanics but the way they added the arbiter of fate boss fight to hint to you that you arent getting FF7 story anymore is a huge let down. I didnt want a remake story, I wanted the old story with new remade graphics… Expand
  22. NooShame
    May 2, 2020
    0
    - Characters that make you uncomfortable (childish manga acting)
    - Spoils with end story revelations
    - Boring fillers
    - Harry Potter inspiration ...
    - Magnetic enemies attacks you can't evade

    Play FF7, it'll cost you nothing and you'll get a lot more.
  23. TCGoudy
    Apr 11, 2020
    2
    Its technically a game, but this version is way too linear and anytime you try to explore youre halted with invisible walls, but later within the same chapter if you choose to explore then or backtrack youre not halted. Side missions are not naturally rewarded when talking to random people, everything has a guidance point so you pretty much are spoon fed the way. Also way too many loadIts technically a game, but this version is way too linear and anytime you try to explore youre halted with invisible walls, but later within the same chapter if you choose to explore then or backtrack youre not halted. Side missions are not naturally rewarded when talking to random people, everything has a guidance point so you pretty much are spoon fed the way. Also way too many load transitions and time wasting mini-games that arent fun (i.e. "crane game").

    Flip side, the battle system is for the most part great, however its annoying that im forced to start with cloud every time when i would rather start with aerith or tifa for a while instead of transitioning in battle. plus you have to wait to build atb to even view a characters spell list in combat when you may not remember which character has what spell or ability, thats more poor design choices i dont agree with, like wise healing outside of battle is a chore now because you have to keep menu hoping even with the 'remember cursor' option enabled.

    im halfway through the story and TLDR: repetitive battles, poor design/ level management choices, feels like youre checking boxes instead of playing an RPG, and lack of exploration. Battle system is alright once you get the hang of it, and i appreciated some of the 'foundational' story line they implemented such as backgrounds of other avalanche members , etc.    … Expand
  24. duffz
    Apr 24, 2020
    1
    ‪70 euros for maybe a fifth of the original game (and no... about 30 hours playtime is not a full final fantasy game). And then it is not even clearly communicated when the next part will appear. Sorry, but this is a rip off and not what this classic deserves.
  25. HappyHermyHype
    Apr 12, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Not really great... Less than 1/3 of the original for full price and stretched with boring quests... only good things are the new battle system and the graphics… Expand
  26. tec
    Apr 15, 2020
    4
    A clearly style>substance / visuals>gameplay case.
    I looks gorgeous but behind the facade you see a very simple, straightforward and not subtle at all exposition of the first 4-6 hours of the original FF7 stretched into 30-50 hours boring running down hallways, looking at menus and watching another cutscene.
    Granted, the fights are entertaining for the most time but not very challenging    A clearly style>substance / visuals>gameplay case.
    I looks gorgeous but behind the facade you see a very simple, straightforward and not subtle at all exposition of the first 4-6 hours of the original FF7 stretched into 30-50 hours boring running down hallways, looking at menus and watching another cutscene.
    Granted, the fights are entertaining for the most time but not very challenging at all or simple try and error if you don´t analyze your enemies. Also being interrupted every Bossfight because he needs to show you either his next stage or a new move, is very offputting.
    Minigames are very spare and mostly very basic like push buttons in correct order, or push buttons quickly in correct order, or push the goddamn triangle, rarely hold triangle.
    Dungeons are just hallways with more monsters on your way, each time with a big one waiting for you at the end. Materia boils down to a simple system where you equip the one you like, and with each won battle, AP will be added to level up your materia after a dozen fights. Multiplying Materia trough mastering is gone. When the game picks up in action, it´s almost over again.

    Very dissapointing, if you waited over a decade in hope to see a decent game out of this remake, and you get a kingdom hearts on rails copy in the ff7 universe but only the beginning which is the atrocious part of the original game. Too bad because if they expanded it to the whole world, it could be epic but it´s just another JRPG which is to scared of jumping over his shadow.

    TL;DR: Simple style over substance with nothing breathtaking or groundshacking.    … Expand
  27. supercriticguy
    Apr 20, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The worst part about quarantine is being stuck in the same building as Kingdom Hearts 4--err, FF7 Remake.

    First half of the game was great. Second half was padded to hell and back with so much filler that it was a struggle to get through. The fun pretty much ended after Wall Market.

    Though I wasn't enjoying myself anymore I kept going, unaware of just how bad it was going to get. Near the ending the (original) story is hijacked and becomes Kingdom Hearts--and as a writer (and someone with enough intellectual capability to boil an egg) nothing could be more disappointing.
    I saw the signs early on but I never thought they would culminate into quite possibly the worst plot decision possible.

    Random ghosts interrupting Aerith's introduction scene, forcing her to emit Vanille's orgasm sounds, and then chasing her down an alleyway? Weird, awkward, but entirely in-line with modern Japanese storytelling.

    Cloud having a seizure and Sephiroth appearing every 5 minutes, dispelling any potential mystery or build-up? Ham-fisted, but the narrators masturbating about how great their villain is was not unexpected.

    What I did not expect was for Aerith to suddenly and inexplicably become a possessed, all-knowing arbiter of time. I didn't expect the party to so easily walk through a fate-portal without asking what was going on. I didn't expect to kill the God of Fate. I never for a second thought that Sephiroth would kill Barret and then Barret would be revived Kairi-style. I didn't think that Fate had been controlling everything up until now, rendering everything I did in the last 40 hours meaningless.

    I can't believe they messed up this badly. If there was a BINGO card featuring all the ways *not* to write a story, FF7R will have filled out every square. It's impressive in an apocalyptic coronavirus kind of way.

    I'm sure there's an alternate version of me in a different timeline multiverse that *can* believe they messed up this badly. You just have to kill some fate gods to release me from those chains. But it's too late, because I'm already dead because Sephiroth killed me. Oops, now I'm alive again. Thanks, Fate! Hashtag Game of Thrones.    … Expand
  28. TheGamerGirl
    Apr 26, 2020
    3
    Final Fantasy 7 has been my favorite game of all time for over 20 years now. I grew up with it, fell in love, and replayed and enjoyed it multiple times over the years.

    Sadly, playing the Remake quickly shows that SquareEnix is doing their own thing, and doesn't really care to follow the original too closely. There are some scenes that are 1:1, some are made better with additional    Final Fantasy 7 has been my favorite game of all time for over 20 years now. I grew up with it, fell in love, and replayed and enjoyed it multiple times over the years.

    Sadly, playing the Remake quickly shows that SquareEnix is doing their own thing, and doesn't really care to follow the original too closely. There are some scenes that are 1:1, some are made better with additional elements, and generally everything looks amazing with great graphics, voice acting, and orchestra music.
    But everything is ruined by an ending that is a slap in the faces of the original fans, practically telling us that the future FF7 Remake games will not follow the original storyline and there's freedom ahead.
    Oh and let us revive a character who is, or was, otherwise dead in 2 games and 1 movie. Because alternative timelines make everything possible!
    Next thing we know, some random, unlikable character will become a new main party member, and major story events from the original will not even happen to make a completely different game.

    Go into this knowing this is NOT a remake, maybe a reimagining.
    As someone who thinks the original story was very close to perfect the way it was, this is utterly disappointing.    … Expand
  29. baerenknuddler
    Apr 12, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The whisps, the ending, time travel, ... Sorry, FF7 had a simple but powerful story. That story made that game great. But SE **** it up.… Expand
  30. YokaiChallenger
    Apr 12, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The spiderman movies have been rebooted 3 times. All having shared the same characters and story arcs to an extent but changing certain aspects of the STORY and character motivations. Devil May Cry was rebooted the same way, altering the look and feel of the series but keeping the characters of Dante, Virgil and others although the STORY was drastically altered. The thing is, these games and movies never promised to be a remake or sequels of the series.

    Don't belive what many are saying about people giving the game a low rating because it takes place only in Midgar. Many fans of the game itself, myself included, are upset over "bait and switch" SE has done with the game promising a remake when in all honesty, this is a reboot. Much of the original story remains the same with some additions up until about the 20 hour mark where they just throw what we knew out of the window in place of a "defy fate," time travel story akin to a KH game. Characters that should have died, don't and events that should have happened late in the story are forced into the Midgar segments. There is also a ton of filler, "kill this monster" and fetch quests as well that provide a ton of padding. There is a part in Sector 5 were you have to move a giant robotic hand for Cloud and Aeris to make it across the slums. Cloud is literally and errand **** boy during the Sector 5 and 7 segments of the game.
    Some of the new characters like Rosche and the trio from Wall Market were unnecessary in my opinion. On the other hand, the more fleshed out backstories for the original cast was nice though. Honestly, much of the first half is really good. The music is great, the battle system is actually pretty dynamic once you get the hang of it. Voice-acting is good. Seeing all of the original areas redone was jaw-dropping. This is what those who have been waiting 14 years after seeing the tech demo back in 2005-2006...

    What people are mad about is the butchery of the ending and the uncertainty of the future games. It's clear that there will be parallels worlds and what if scenarios. I wouldn't be surprised if a certain character doesn't die later in the story or Sephiroth becomes a good guy. People are upset because of the lies SE have spouted...it's not a remake...its a reboot. I'd even go as far to call it a glorified spin-off.    … Expand
  31. thegreatreviw
    Apr 29, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 1. Sephiroth. He hit the nail on the head, the original game handled him perfectly. Escaping your cell in Shinra headquarters only to see all the Shinra personnel have been slaughtered by...something, and getting only a peek of this terrifying force in the original was perfect. In this, his line about Sephiroth having no life and appearing every hour is about right. This was more about telling then showing, and the original let Sephiroth's carnage tell his story.

    2. Destiny. Everything involving these ghosts including the final fight is Kingdom Hearts level grade A **** I only hope this is the end of that garbage.

    3. Ghosts/lack of ugency. The whole ghost train graveyard **** could have been fine. If it was done while you were building up your rep as a merc? That would have been fine, maybe great. The fact that you know the plate is going to be brought down, AND CAN SEE IT UNDERWAY and have to take your time to deal with some dead children and some sort of reaper of souls instead of getting the **** to the pillar was incredibly painful, and really detracted from the urgency. Focused on Aerith's walking, which was also annoying, but I was about to scream at my television that we're screwing around with ghosts while we had important **** to get to.

    The voiceacting and dialogue was fine, though I'll grant him the grunting was garbage. The dude's on the train were supposed to be robotic shills. The Rude/Aerith exchange was weird, but cherry-picked from what was otherwise fine. Jessie was a very welcome change, legitimately a highlight of the game. Avalanche getting fleshed out was one of the best changes, if anyone of those three were annoying it was Wedge.    … Expand
  32. FF7End
    Apr 19, 2020
    0
    I'm very sad to see how FF7 has been disgraced. Graphically it looks very nice, the combat system is interesting even if you have to consume a lot of Ether. But the soul of the game is dead. Characters are uncomfortable expressing feelings out of the situation and too manga-like. There's too much speeches to artificially extend the game's life. You're literally flooded !
  33. Giuliani
    Apr 20, 2020
    0
    Everything is Beautiful in this game, but the scenario is a real shame!
    What about the "Watchmen of the fates" 'idea? I hate it Nomura, it's a real insult for the true FFVII fans.
  34. klkevinkl
    Apr 16, 2020
    3
    The biggest problem of the game is its inability to decide whether it's an action game or an RPG. The combination ends up feeling like someone lazily cobbled the two together without a concern about how it worked. The main feature is circled around using enemy weaknesses to pressure them, then stagger, and finally damage/kill them. The problem with this is that enemies have super armorThe biggest problem of the game is its inability to decide whether it's an action game or an RPG. The combination ends up feeling like someone lazily cobbled the two together without a concern about how it worked. The main feature is circled around using enemy weaknesses to pressure them, then stagger, and finally damage/kill them. The problem with this is that enemies have super armor and do not flinch until you can pressure or stagger them. Bosses will change patterns several times over a fight and make it harder to do this each time with the occasional instant kill in their final form. Melee characters also have a hard time hitting the mobile aerial units because they were not designed for that. This is especially noticeable for someone with short reach like Tifa who sometimes fails to hit them even if they are right in front of the target in the air.

    Item uses (not allowed in hard mode by the way) and spells are limited by the ATB bar which you get two charges of. Some skills require one, others require two. There is a special skill to get three bars for a fight, but you will rarely have the opportunity to use it, making it a waste. This is different from previous games, but they probably wanted to make magic and items more meaningful compared to their other games. But by doing so, it ends up making a lot of other things in the game like materia linking kind of useless.

    The game's story is okay, but the end is rushed. There's a ton of good voice acting too. The problem comes towards the end when a lot of things are not explained and all of Cloud's headaches and freak outs throughout the game are visions that we do not actually see until near the end of the game. This is fairly important, yet we the player as Cloud never actually see them until the end.

    Overall, this feels like a halfway experiment between incorporating the old more turn based elements of the RPG genre with the elements that are normally only found in action games. If they decide to make a sequel, they should just abandon the older RPG elements in favor of the action elements they are already favoring to make it better rather than try to keep elements they clearly have no interested in just for the sake of nostalgia.    … Expand
  35. ScrapBrain
    Apr 12, 2020
    3
    A patchwork assembly of elements from the original game set into a revisionist story that fails to deliver on the moniker of a 'remake'. There are certain sections that are pitch perfect in its delivery, though the end of the game summarily discards the legacy of its source material and has a pacing problem throughout. Texture issues plague the game, including one large sequence where theA patchwork assembly of elements from the original game set into a revisionist story that fails to deliver on the moniker of a 'remake'. There are certain sections that are pitch perfect in its delivery, though the end of the game summarily discards the legacy of its source material and has a pacing problem throughout. Texture issues plague the game, including one large sequence where the background textures are so low-resolution it pulls you completely out of the experience.

    There are nice things in this game; The character models and environments are fantastically realized, and the music is well produced and catchy, pulling favorites from the original game and remixing them in a more modern style - but as an RPG this game rests on its story, and if you're looking for a heightened, more intricate retelling of the original story, this most certainly is not it. This is a new story that uses elements of the original game to tell a new story with the same environments and characters, and some scenarios to it's own detriment.

    At the end screen I felt as though I had been punched in the stomach. If you've never played the original, sure, go nuts, I'm sure you'll have a great time...but if you love the original game, and want to see the rest of the excellent story of the original play out, you're going to be sorely disappointed.    … Expand
  36. Jevinigh
    Apr 12, 2020
    1
    IT'S HALF A GAME!! IT'S LESS!!

    Devoid of any of the wonder of the original; stripped of any depth and left a shallow reflection of it's former self!! The game is all show and tedium! It's 20~Hours long without the cut scenes!
  37. Blitz6699
    Apr 15, 2020
    3
    This game could of at least gotten us to Juno. Or, right before. Im almost twenty hours in and just got to the sewers..... There is way to much fluff in the game. Meaning, there is stuff there that goes on for the sake of going on. You know, to make the game longer. It's to validate the creator's decision to split up the game into many pieces. And, get more of your money. The battle systemThis game could of at least gotten us to Juno. Or, right before. Im almost twenty hours in and just got to the sewers..... There is way to much fluff in the game. Meaning, there is stuff there that goes on for the sake of going on. You know, to make the game longer. It's to validate the creator's decision to split up the game into many pieces. And, get more of your money. The battle system is okay. I dont like how your allies dont do much unless you control them. And, if you dont control them they basically stand there getting killed. It also takes a long time to fill their gauges. Why? Only two ATB gauges/bars. Really!!?? I do have to say the boss battles are really fun.

    They messed up the materia system. I'm not going into detail here, because it makes me angry. I also really don't like how the game let's you jog for a bit, slow you down for no reason, then back to jogging again, then walking again. I hate this with an absolute passion. I think I am being more critical than what needs to be done. But, the things I dont like I ABSOLUTELY HATE. FF7 original is my favorite game of all time. I don't think I'll get the next few iterations of the game. I'll wait for them to all come out at once. I'm afraid I dont think I would have played this game if I wasn't on qarenteen.    … Expand
  38. Dunderkarlsson
    Apr 18, 2020
    3
    Do not buy this game at full price

    I'm a long time fan of the Final Fantasy-series with relentless hours logged towards original game. The original FF7 contains a fantastic story, immersive atmosphere and brought an addictive gameplay to the genre. The remake is a big bowl of crap. Do not believe the fan boy-hype. The good -The battle-gameplay with a mix of turned based action    Do not buy this game at full price

    I'm a long time fan of the Final Fantasy-series with relentless hours logged towards original game. The original FF7 contains a fantastic story, immersive atmosphere and brought an addictive gameplay to the genre.

    The remake is a big bowl of crap. Do not believe the fan boy-hype.

    The good
    -The battle-gameplay with a mix of turned based action and classic ‘hack and slash’ works quite well and is fairly entertaining yet a bit repetitive.

    -The lightning effects, especially in the battles, looks and feels great.

    -The music stays true to the original, meaning one of the best soundtracks out there.

    The bad (the oh so bad..)
    -They managed to f-up the original and excellent story with extremely non-logical quests and plot, even for a J-PRG where you will go from laughs to irritation after a chapter or two.

    -The voice acting is not bad itself, but the dialogue/script is just gibberish and mostly made of "reactionary sounds" (ehum! ehm?! ah! huh?!). At least in the original you could visualize the character mentally, but in this game basically all characters sound and acts mentally challenged.

    -The story or quest "puzzles" (push the lever, find the keycard that's right in front of you, go to the place marked X on the map) is made for kids. Combine this with the 3-year old dialogue (probably written by Uwe Boll) and this game would fit kindergarten-game-night quite well.

    -Normal difficulty setting (which is the only one available starting the game, either that or easy) is a breeze. Just use your abilites and that's it.

    -The animations are ok, but the characters facial expressions are either dead or hilarious.

    -Camera movement have not changed really since 1997.

    -The game studio says that they are releasing additional episodes due to the massive map and world. The actual playable area in each chapter and scene is however very small. Sure, there is a ton of details and back-drops..that you never get to interact with. This is a linear game no doubt about it.

    -The movement of characters, especially when going under or sliding through something is annoying and bulky.

    If this game would have been released as a stand-alone game without any reference to the old game it would have been shame whipped all the way to the summer PSN Store Sales.

    Do not endorse this kind of games, being release 2020 after seeing massive AAA-titles. Go play the original instead and spend your money on something else.

    On a lost note; Metacritic needs to do something about the "either 0 or 10"-grading.
    (I’m also sorry Uwe, your movies are bad but not FF7 remake-bad).    … Expand
  39. RamManRamsay
    Apr 18, 2020
    4
    So let's get this out straight away.....its not a remake of FF7, its game where about 20% of it is based on about 10% of FF7. So let's break that down.

    Everyone knows that its only the midgaurd section that is included, and the actions that do follow the path of the original, I.e. the opening and main plot to destroy the reactors, is an amazing nostalgia trip of the original, and a visual    So let's get this out straight away.....its not a remake of FF7, its game where about 20% of it is based on about 10% of FF7. So let's break that down.

    Everyone knows that its only the midgaurd section that is included, and the actions that do follow the path of the original, I.e. the opening and main plot to destroy the reactors, is an amazing nostalgia trip of the original, and a visual treat, save for some of the most noticable texture streaming pop up in recent times. However it's what happens between these sections that let's the game down so badly.

    Once you're given the freedom to run around midguard, the problems become evident quickly: busy work. There are lots of side missions, but they all involve the same basic mechanics and reuse the same locations over and over. These locations, thought often stunning, suffer from poor texture optimisation and steaming outdoors, and long empty corridor sections inside to hide each hub area loading in the background.

    The new story additions too are very our of place, and in particular the motorcycle sections and boss there seems very at odds with the rest of the grotty setting, complete with controls so bad that it leaves the impression that your playing a 90's arcade game. The graphics too outside of the main story, especially these sections, are often poor - one mission to a residential area has you walking around a completely pristine neighbourhood that would look more at home in the sims than FF, and it utterly spoils the deep of the game. Its painfully evident where the new story elements are being written.

    For die hard fans of the mechanics of the original, classic mode is offered but it's really nothing more than an AI controlled version of action mode, which in itself is too often hidden behind a screen so busy you just mash buttons randomly and hope for the best.

    Summoning is also hugely disappointing, with the ability to do it control to only boss level battles where the game decides you should be able to do it, and choosing which character to use - if you pre-ordered prepare to see the Chocobo Chick, the least useful of all, on a VERY regular basis. In fact at one point the game let me summon Ifrit and I had genuinely forgotten I even had him.

    The realtime combat also means that confrontations are less frequent than before, and normally feature only one or two creature types per large area, pressumably due to memory limitations.

    The games transition to 3D also lends to some amazingly glaring "linear path" moments....one early in during a factory missions sees you running down a path with wooden fences on each side and coming to a section which has fallen over, but which your character refuses to cross because.....reasons.

    The game does look amazing, and the main FF7 story is as compelling as ever, and I challenge any fan of the original not to get chills during the opening section, but the forced realtime combat, frequent confusing and bland level design, numbingly boring side quests and unskippable dialogue, and poor summoning mechanics take so much away that I didnt enjoy the experience nearly as mich as the demo. In fact, after the first 4 hours, I'd day it's not even worth playing.

    And that's before we even discuss the guiding "ghosts" which serve as nothing more than a mechanic to allow them to dispense with the open map sections in the next installment, and diverge away completely from the story we all love.

    What should have been amazing is in reality a run of the mill action slasher riding the coat tails of legend.    … Expand
  40. gguile
    Apr 19, 2020
    1
    It's a shameless cash grab that does not stay true to the original. Instead they just split the game up into 4-5 parts and added a bunch of fluff everywhere. Also, a lot of the facial animations are distractingly terrible.
  41. Finalfantasyki
    Apr 21, 2020
    3
    Last chapter does not do justice and seems very fairytale like. It would have been an 8 as most of the story was captured nicely with good sense of realism until the last chapter.
  42. posta
    Apr 26, 2020
    0
    My god... As someone who didn't get a chance to play the original one, I was excited to try this out. The game started off well - but what the hell happened?! Lazy writing, that's what happened. Why the hell did the writers feel the need to add this whole alternative reality/destiny trope? It's cheesy and unnecessary. The ending is just rubbish. A letdown of epic proportions.
  43. Hydrae
    Apr 28, 2020
    3
    What the **** Square Enix?
    People just wanted to see the game with updated graphics, you even went as far as creating an actual okay "modernized" combat system, modern in quotes because modern doesn't necessarily mean action oriented. All the hard part was done graphic wise and combat/customisation wise, why did you have to **** it up by changing the story, it was already super convoluted    What the **** Square Enix?
    People just wanted to see the game with updated graphics, you even went as far as creating an actual okay "modernized" combat system, modern in quotes because modern doesn't necessarily mean action oriented. All the hard part was done graphic wise and combat/customisation wise, why did you have to **** it up by changing the story, it was already super convoluted but it was beautifully paced, minor tweaks? Sure. Adding some side content? Why not. But why just blowing up the whole thing?
    The longer I keep watching square Enix work the more I believe they don't understand that sometimes less is more, and they don't understand why people used to love them, a shame coming from the guys who were so great at making perfectly crafted games decades ago.
    It feels like a middle finger to anybody who wanted this, I know people would say that the game is not that bad, but it was supposed to be a masterpiece and it could have been so much more than just an ok game with pretty graphics    … Expand
  44. zspturbo
    Apr 18, 2020
    4
    This game is so bad it has made me re-contextualize my childhood love of jrpgs. Are the Japanese losing it?

    It’s not fun, at all. It’s just pretty. That’s it. This is a nostalgia cash grab. They put no effort into making this an enjoyable experience, just making it look good in a promo. Every action has a 2 second pause as the animation runs for the character to pose, then open the door,    This game is so bad it has made me re-contextualize my childhood love of jrpgs. Are the Japanese losing it?

    It’s not fun, at all. It’s just pretty. That’s it. This is a nostalgia cash grab. They put no effort into making this an enjoyable experience, just making it look good in a promo.

    Every action has a 2 second pause as the animation runs for the character to pose, then open the door, then slowly walk through. Want to open a chest or something? Better walk straight up to it perfectly. And let’s not even talk about the speaking animations - characters mouths literally move like a **** ps3 game. And the characters? Holy **** if you thought final fantasy 15 was bad, wait until you see this. Barrett is a ridiculous racist overblown joke, and Tifa is literally a hentai character. She behaves with the cutesy little facial expressions and gestures that make it clear this was written by someone who doesn’t interact with humans, a hikkikomori or whatever. Can’t take it seriously at all. And then the Turks... oh god the Turks are so terrible. The most ridiculous unrealistic cartoonish bull**** of all time, and it makes NO sense. Overall, Square really messed up the voice acting and it destroys the storytelling aspect by taking you completely out of the experience.

    And the gameplay is absolute trash as well. You control one character in battle, and you’re lucky if the others do much at all. Outside of battle, they spent more time on background graphics than the things you interact with. The slums are laid out in a completely meaningless way, it’s just some random streets that are stretched out for no reason!

    I have nothing good to say. Avoid this game. Even if you’re nostalgic - preserve your nostalgia by not playing this. If you have to, watch someone else play on YouTube, but for the love of god don’t give these people your money.    … Expand
  45. PabNAC
    Apr 20, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First 17 chapters of the game were amazing and mostly fateful to the original, then the ending happens.. this is not a remake but a sequel to Advent Children, and that is not even the worst part but the horrible way in which they presented this new plot. 8/10 for 90% or the game, 1/10 for the ending.… Expand
  46. Nimler
    Apr 21, 2020
    4
    Honestly I think a lot of people rating this very high are blinded by the hype that this game has come with. The game has issues for me. The battle system been one. Not what I wanted to see in a ff7 game at all and yes I know it's 2020 but a good old-fashioned system would now be refreshing again amid all the action titles that are out on the market today.the game has some very bad textureHonestly I think a lot of people rating this very high are blinded by the hype that this game has come with. The game has issues for me. The battle system been one. Not what I wanted to see in a ff7 game at all and yes I know it's 2020 but a good old-fashioned system would now be refreshing again amid all the action titles that are out on the market today.the game has some very bad texture issues if you look at it and has a lot of character clipping when running through areas to which Squares answer it to not run through the areas rather than to sort the issue. I know my opinion is in the minority but it's still a valid opinion and I didn't enjoy this game at all I'm very disappointed that Square didn't make a game for the fans that wanted it but for the masses who like to bash buttons.… Expand
  47. Hasuki
    Apr 20, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS

    Firstly I think a lot of the positive reviews come from people who have not finished the game. Finishing it completely changed my opinion of the game.

    Good standalone game but this isn't a remake, it's FF7-2. I'm judging this as a remake.

    Where to start on this game.

    So I'm a huge fan of the original and with the remake I expected some differences from the original, which is fine as long as it sticks to the story.
    This is what made the original so good, the story itself but even more so the way it was told.

    This remake covers disc 1 of the original so covers midgar only.

    For the most part it stays true to the original right up to the last couple of chapters. (i really enjoyed it up until the shinra building)

    Lets start with the graphics:

    First couple of chapters, they look amazing but as the game goes on the graphics get worse, looks like a PS2 game in places. If I didn't know better I'd say Square put the most effort into the start of the game to hook people. After that it really is poor graphically and badly needs patching.

    Gameplay
    They have gotten rid of the turn based system and now realtime. It's isn't bad and I liked it after getting a handle on it, but would have preferred the original. It turns the game into an action game more than an rpg imo, which they also did with the story in a way, but we will get to that.

    I don't like how Red XIII is now not a playable character, they have dumbed down the materia system, less summons, less use of summons. Overall the combat is good but they have tinkered with it too much imo.

    Story

    This is where the they game falls on it's face unfortunately. They introduced new ghosts of destiny which I didn't like but not a game breaker. They made some changes in who survives the pillar scene, no big deal.
    Where it starts to fall apart is the shinra building. They skip over a lot of tension building in the shinra section, show way too much of Seiphorath, introduce some time/alternate dimension nonsense with the ghosts of destiny and pretty much have you fight Seiphorath in a battle similar to the last battle of the game in the original.

    With part 2 of the original, you were being built up to who/what Seiphorath was and what has happened with Cloud, in part one of the remake they have taken elements from the final part of the original game which completely removes any of the mystery.

    One of the main things I noticed, near the end in the building it was playing the seiphorath music, like the original, to build tension.
    In the original it worked as there were a lot of unknowns. In this it was out of place, I was running around hacking and slashing like an action game, had already seen lots of the main boss so there really was no tension at all, just another generic boss. Some heavy guitar would have been more appropriate.

    Overall this is a decent stand alone game but this isn't a remake, and I'm judging it as a remake.

    They could probably wrap the whole game up in one more part now as they have chucked so much of the game into the final chapters and just made a load of stuff up which wasn't in the original.

    I was eagerly awaiting this game for years, now it's out and the follow up will come in a couple of years, it's very meh.

    Fans wanted a remake, not a rewritten story with ghosts and alternative dimensions, frankly. If they hadn't screwed up the ending so badly this would have been a solid 8/10.

    Wouldn't surprise me if you told me Kojima directed this, convoluted nonsense. Again I was open to changes, but the changes are childish and nonsensical at the end which don't make me worry about the next chapter, but make me have written it off already.

    If you are a fan of the original, AVOID.    … Expand
  48. 4139614715
    Apr 19, 2020
    2
    The visuals are beautiful, the music is stunning, the voice acting is... hit and miss. The combat feels like it tries to split the difference between Final Fantasy and Devil May Cry and ends up missing out on the best things that both of those styles bring.

    The expanded characterization for the Avalanche crew, the improved inter-party characterization is all very very welcome, but    The visuals are beautiful, the music is stunning, the voice acting is... hit and miss. The combat feels like it tries to split the difference between Final Fantasy and Devil May Cry and ends up missing out on the best things that both of those styles bring.

    The expanded characterization for the Avalanche crew, the improved inter-party characterization is all very very welcome, but setting up the purists who are looking for an unadulterated walk through the plot of the original game as the badguys and then symbolically killing them is both a really lame piece of storytelling, and intensely disrespectful of exactly the people that clamored for this project in the first place.

    That's on top of giving you most of the classic weapons, materia, and bosses from the original game just in Midgar, which leaves you wondering "Well now what? Do I just go back to level 1 and have to collect the nailbat again for every game after this one? Are they going to throw the original plot entirely out the window?"

    I am not excited to find out. I do not have any faith that Nomura will reign things back into a traditional style after having written this entire game as a giant middle finger to "doing it the way it's supposed to be done."    … Expand
  49. Face
    Aug 2, 2020
    0
    Just no. Why in the world would they feel the need to do what they did with the story? It's absolute garbage now. Don't waste your time. Boycott Square-Enix.
  50. Belarus_neckoby
    May 4, 2021
    0
    21 век на улице . А разработчики до сих пор положили на русский язык . Так вот я тоже положил на разработчиков . не вижу смысла ставить выше единицы
  51. RevolverF0X
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    FF7 remake is neither a faithful remake, or a good standalone game. Judging it on its own It feels incomplete, and is poorly executed. Gameplay is repetitive, Combat is button mashy and unsatisfying, level design is the worst of the generation, the story telling is fan-fic quality, the voice acting is atrocious, and the graphics range from very impressive to the worst last gen had toFF7 remake is neither a faithful remake, or a good standalone game. Judging it on its own It feels incomplete, and is poorly executed. Gameplay is repetitive, Combat is button mashy and unsatisfying, level design is the worst of the generation, the story telling is fan-fic quality, the voice acting is atrocious, and the graphics range from very impressive to the worst last gen had to offer.

    It commits the unforgivable sin of being a hunt the button prompt game, or worse, a find the cutscene quest. constant interruptions. The game is so much more preoccupied with telling its bad story, that it will take control away from you. Even early on i was fighting a scripted camera that wouldnt let me look left or right entering the shanty town the first time. There are times when there are 2 directions to go, but if you dare not go the way they intended, Your character will ignore you and start walking back with a warning on screen.

    Judging the game as a remake it completely fails. For starters its NOT a remake, and its incomplete. All the previous complaints are still true but then you add on that it ruins a classic. This isnt nostalgia goggles, I played the original AFTER this. Though incredibly outdated, still has much better storytellying. For example Sephitroth in the original game is the most well introduced and teased villain in almost any game. Here he appears without context an hour into the game, and just keeps showing up after.

    I could go on and on. The smaller things I dont even have time to mention in this review would be bad enough to ruin the game, but Ill just end by saying this affront to a classic was UNPLAYABLE to me. Ive played many games I havent enjoyed, but this is the first game Ive ever played that direspected gaming history as a whole.    … Expand
  52. Felnze
    Jul 7, 2020
    2
    It doesn't take long for this game to show it's true colors. Chapter 2 is the genesis from which all story related problems arise, with nods to Advent Children, the constant pushing of Sephiroth, and the introduction of the Whispers. Even in regards to game play, you are consistently greeted with a "Warning" signal if you dare to stray from the extremely narrow path laid out before you.It doesn't take long for this game to show it's true colors. Chapter 2 is the genesis from which all story related problems arise, with nods to Advent Children, the constant pushing of Sephiroth, and the introduction of the Whispers. Even in regards to game play, you are consistently greeted with a "Warning" signal if you dare to stray from the extremely narrow path laid out before you.

    The short length of the story might be forgivable, if the post content was plentiful enough. However, we are only given a hard mode with a few extra arena battles thrown in. Even Final Fantasy 13 provided various quests and an open field to play around in when the story was reaching it's last stretch. Some "fans" seem to miss the point that cutting out a second trip through the sewers and the over bloated length of a subway could have allowed for a trip to Kalm or the Chocobo Farm. Who doesn't want those things? Easy answer: People who don't care about FF7.

    This is something we've all been trained to accept: spindly little area maps, repetitive sphere grids, and stagger mechanics that have been done to death. After all of that, we need to go back to FF8 and FF9 to even come close to what would be considered a 3D Final Fantasy game. We need to wake up and get out of this. The customers who have been pouring countless dollars into Square Enix products (in hopes that the company will deliver) deserve better than this. You deserve better.    … Expand
  53. Lostasa
    Apr 18, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am going to start out with Game-play, it's amazing I loved every second of it, very fluid and engaging imo it's an 8/10. Moving on to Sound I believe it's a little underwhelming during slow points but ramps up and is great during big battles and scenes so 7/10. Visuals I can only say breath taking it's so great to see the characters and world that I love so much looking as beautiful as it does 9/10 and I have heard of others talking about texture issues but I only saw it maybe once or twice so it didn't affect me. Now for the part that ruined it for me the Story, well what can I say they did such an amazing job for like 95% of the game step for step it was amazing but as soon as I hit the end of the highway and the game became Kingdom Hearts and I was fighting the Darkness it all fell apart, with them making this a new story it's not what I nor a lot of fans were looking for, the Final Fantasy 7 story was already confusing and full and they could have fleshed that out and made it perfect like they were doing for most of the game but for them to add alternate time-lines and whatever else they plan it just ruins it for me so I hate to do this but the story gets a 3/10. This is just so disappointing and I wish they hadn't gone down this path. This is my review for the first installment of the "re-imagined" FF7 series. If for some reason this ending doesn't do what it's portraying it's going to do in the second installment (rewriting the whole story line) and this is just what the original story was supposed to be like but with limitations of the time couldn't be I will change my rating after I play the next game, but for now it looks like they done f***ed it up imo.… Expand
  54. Punkit
    Apr 12, 2020
    4
    Los gráficos son una risa con patas, las texturas son de play 3, lineal a no más poder y lo más importante el final... Cambiarle el nombre a este juego porque no es un remake.
  55. Barneycat
    Apr 15, 2020
    1
    Most of the game was an enjoyable retelling of the PlayStation one classic - save for the heavy handedness of the Shinra, ahem, I mean Square-enix's newly formed 'ethics department'. Their work is evident in removing any and (possibly) all deaths from the game as well as reframing and changing some of the actions and motivations of the self described eco-terrorists avalanche. Nope, noMost of the game was an enjoyable retelling of the PlayStation one classic - save for the heavy handedness of the Shinra, ahem, I mean Square-enix's newly formed 'ethics department'. Their work is evident in removing any and (possibly) all deaths from the game as well as reframing and changing some of the actions and motivations of the self described eco-terrorists avalanche. Nope, no deaths here, we are all just super nice terrorists. Jenovas blood from the lavatory scene is changed from red to a nice sparkly purple as if they are terrified to show red like a like a prime time TV sanitory pad commercial and Aerith was no longer kept captive and experimented as a child - she was just staying there and "it was not too bad and she was treated well"... how nice. It kind of makes her mother's actions, as she dies trying to get Aerith to safety, a little less meaningful, cos, you know, it wasn't so bad living there apparently...
    Square enix seem to have Disney-fied themselves. The ending presents a **** show starring a Kingdom hearts like convoluted plot exploding all over the last hour of the game as our protagonists fight the physical embodiment of fate. Yes, fate incarnate - in some kind of parallel universe, dimensional plane, where time and space is frozen. Snore. After defeating the giant heartless, I mean the physical embodiment of Fate, golden rain sparkles across time bringing anyone who died back to life and ruining decade old storielines that people love and and were hyped about seeing in a remake.

    It was so close to being exactly what people wanted but, like eating a tasty sandwhich with a **** surprise on the last bite, you can't help but feel that somehow the overall meal is ruined.    … Expand
  56. r3zuri
    Apr 15, 2020
    4
    I feel like I was bait-and-switched. Aside from the ridiculous ending and the last few chapters, this seemed like it was a faithful retelling of the game I loved. The characters and dialogue and set design was so, so great. And then they threw it all away with an absolute mess of an ending. I feel so sad.
  57. OGFF7FORME
    Apr 16, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is not a remake. It is a re-imagining/sequel to the original ff7. It is not meant to be played instead of the original JRPG. The audience is expected to have a familiarity with at least the original game and Crisis Core. The "remake" follows the original game somewhat, often stretching out plot points as much as possible to make the game seem longer. Tasks that took 10-20 minutes in the original game now take over an hour, because Cloud needs to walk as slowly as possible down narrow hallways and play cutie pie waifu simulator at regular intervals.

    Cloud also spends a lot of time doing thrilling side quests such as finding cats and killing rats in a junkyard.

    Additionally, there are new and exciting fanfiction characters who add nothing to the plot except filler. That is what this game basically is: a double decker filler sandwich with a little bit of plot holding it together.

    Why did I rate it a 4, you may ask? The combat is pretty fun. The graphics and music are good. And sometimes the game surprised me by being faithful enough to the source material that I felt like I was actually just playing the original with upgraded graphics. Then, the spooky time ghosts would show up, and I would realize that nope, I was still playing an expensive Kingdom Hearts fanfiction.

    You know how a lot of people play the original game every few years? They're going to keep doing that. You know what they're going to do with the remake once the initial hype of seeing their favorite characters in HD wears off? Toss the game in the back of the closet until they are looking for stuff to throw in the Goodwill donation box.    … Expand
  58. T3h_Danger
    Apr 21, 2020
    2
    Some of it looks nice but the new combat system is a failure to update a working game mechanic.
    99% of fights are too easy to an embarrassing degree, with the last 1% being overpowered misery factories.
    Some goals they present you with are difficult because there are SO few opportunities to battle.
    The story is a bloated boring mess and only a small portion of the original story.
  59. BigBullet
    Apr 22, 2020
    3
    The Good
    -The combat isn’t half bad. The tactical menu is pretty cool and lets you plan + execute your strategy nicely.
    -There’s some nice banter and dialogue between the characters in some scenes which I thought was neat. -The music can be a bit too much at times but other than that it’s mostly good. The Bad -LOTS of padding which ruins the pacing throughout the game. -While the combat    The Good
    -The combat isn’t half bad. The tactical menu is pretty cool and lets you plan + execute your strategy nicely.
    -There’s some nice banter and dialogue between the characters in some scenes which I thought was neat.
    -The music can be a bit too much at times but other than that it’s mostly good.

    The Bad
    -LOTS of padding which ruins the pacing throughout the game.
    -While the combat is alright, some parts bother me. For example, it’s easy to have your attack interrupted. I wish summons were a bit cooler as well. -Inconsistent graphics. Some textures look good, while others look absolutely terrible. The Ugly
    -Anything involving the ghosts, time traveling, or alternate universes. I have no idea why they thought introducing all of that crap into the game was a good idea. The last sections of the game go off the rails HARD and basically cements that this game really isn’t a remake but a sequel which is really messed up if you ask me. Overall the game has some good stuff, but it’s ultimately soured by all of the terrible stuff.    … Expand
  60. Hell_son
    May 1, 2020
    0
    Everything is done to make a maximum of money using FF7's past notoriety. Too much talking, excessively caricatured characters, theatrical scenes, corridors and narrow corridors to artificially extend the life of the game to the point of nausea ! All is all is mixed, twisted. It's a huge smokescreen that can only impress shallow people. Even the story of a Call of Duty is better done.Everything is done to make a maximum of money using FF7's past notoriety. Too much talking, excessively caricatured characters, theatrical scenes, corridors and narrow corridors to artificially extend the life of the game to the point of nausea ! All is all is mixed, twisted. It's a huge smokescreen that can only impress shallow people. Even the story of a Call of Duty is better done.

    The truth is that SquareEnix can afford to do sh*t because Final Fantasy 7 was a masterpiece. Some of us deny that truth.

    I redid FF7 at least 6 times. Each time I enjoyed reading all the dialogues. In FF7R, I skipped the dialogues several times, just in the first run ! Among of those who gave a 10/10, how many will do this game again and watching all the cutscenes ?    … Expand
  61. Zands
    Apr 16, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Guess we're exiting the timeline where FF7 was such an emotional masterpiece directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi and entering the one where Tetsuya Nomura got his job instead of being only the character designer. Because the original story was obviously not good enough if it had people still begging for a remake 20 years after it's original release. Good thing Nomura got us with his fate ghost and other kingdom hearts BS.

    Seriously, how can you manage to nail every uncertain aspects of a remake and F up the story?
    What was the point of creating a special comity to ensure the upcoming FF games would keep true to their roots if you can't prevent the guy from doing that?    … Expand
  62. shubbledubbledi
    Apr 16, 2020
    3
    To call this a Remake is almost false advertising. The final few hours of this game are a giant FU to every player of the original and amount to what can only be called a complete reboot of the game, with a heavy dose of the Nomura/Nojima narrative nonsense combination as the cherry on top.

    This game ends on such a poor note that I have no choice but to heavily mark it down. Up to the    To call this a Remake is almost false advertising. The final few hours of this game are a giant FU to every player of the original and amount to what can only be called a complete reboot of the game, with a heavy dose of the Nomura/Nojima narrative nonsense combination as the cherry on top.

    This game ends on such a poor note that I have no choice but to heavily mark it down. Up to the final few hours the game wasn't perfect, and many of the additions or changes were questionable, but many additions were also quite enjoyable and it did not diverge majorly from the original (with some notable exceptions).
    Where the sequels to this game go from here is anyone's guess, but it certainly won't be Final Fantasy 7 anymore.    … Expand
  63. FF7remakeSUCKS
    Apr 19, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game was in development way too long to suck this bad. The music was decent, but the graphics suffered from texture pops. The game is filled with bland and filler side quests, and the ending story makes this not a scam. It's called a Remake so I was expecting changes, but what they remade this into sucks.… Expand
  64. leonre
    Apr 20, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I feel like rose-tinted-glasses are the only reason this remake was a success.
    As you play through the beginning from the first reactor to the slums and Seventh Heaven this game seems great, it seems like it stuck with the original game and it keeps the same tone, atmosphere, and story. As an individual that grew up playing the original FFVII, I was in love, it was beautiful to see these scenes recreated, and the beginning filler quests were things like pest controls or finding cats, some obvious filler, but hey, it's the beginning of the game and Cloud's trying to get his name out as a merc, so it was passable and made sense he was stuck doing small-fry work.
    It only went downhill from there, the filler became more tedious, and my god is there filler, it's a chore by the halfway point, the only thing that drives you onward is the fact that the scenes that stayed true to the original are amazingly done, the music, voice acting, emotion and love put into it is felt through. Yet an even amount of iconic scenes are ruined by the addition of the Dementors, which not only ruin old beloved scenes, but also their meta-narrative will rip you out of the story once you figure out their purpose.
    The characters are amazingly well done, they sound exactly like I always imagined, their personalities fit the original game so well, doing away with the one-dimensional husks the compilation made them. Definitely the best part of the remake.
    The use of Sephiroth is atrocious and just ruins his character and the mystery behind him, killing what tension the original had.
    The last step that made me simply want the game to end so I could stop being disappointed was the Shin-Ra HQ, there was so much linear pointless corridor filler I thought I was back in FFXIII. At one point I forgot I was in the HQ because I was desperately trudging through trying to make it end. This is the same place where you meet Red XIII, a main character than is no longer playable, and the excuse given was his character wouldn't be developed enough to justify him being playable(?) even though he fights side by side with you for pretty much every fight, because screw you Red XIII fans, you should've been Cloud or Tifa fans instead.
    After that the iconic "trail of blood" scene is butchered because the developer is now afraid of blood so you follow purple goo in an otherwise spotless HQ, which is the least intimidating thing I've ever experienced. Then you get a pretty awesome Rufus fight, which was the only good thing about the HQ besides taking the stairs.
    Then the ending simply becomes Kingdom Hearts and completely changes the story so it's officially no longer the original FF7, Cloud and co. transcend realities and fight Dementors and Sephiroth while Advent Children anime fight scenes happen, Cloud almost defeats Sephiroth right there, which further makes remake-Sephiroth a joke and no threat whatsoever.

    This is not a remake of the original FF7 like it was advertised, they said there would be story changes, but given the name "remake" I feel like many (including myself) assumed it would just be changes of things like the addition of Roche, or characters like Leslie Kyle and Kyrie getting some side-arcs, things that weren't in the original but could still reasonably exist alongside the original story we expected, added content that has some level of quality that wasn't in the original, to give more life and playtime to Midgar.
    Not that this would actually be a literal spinoff that isn't even close to the original FF7 and should be considered an entry in the compilation. We asked for a remake or remaster for years, and they said that's what we were getting, so it's not unreasonable to think people would expect a FF7 remake, not a spin-off under the guise of a remake. While technically the name makes sense, being a remake of the original storyline, and how they're "remaking" destiny. SE could have said they were completely changing the entire plot, but they chose not to, they chose to mislead customers. It's deceitful and my final strands of respect for the company left with this remake, Makes me miss the days of Squaresoft.    … Expand
  65. turbolag
    Apr 26, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I wouldn't recommend this game to a fan or non fan. There isn't that much content in the game, it's just spread across points of waiting for no reason. Waiting to push buttons and side quests that are obviously an afterthought for filler. There is nothing remake about this. It's a reimagining of the story that completely breaks the story and the franchises existing cannon past and present. The killing destiny loophole at the end doesn't really save anything.

    There isn't anything really rewarding in the game as it's all basically handed to you. Vending machines always have deals on items for battles and money is excessively plentiful. The game is painfully linear, even worse than midgar was in the original game. The combat is painfully simple and unengaging coupled with micromanaging that is more tedious than helpful to the situation.

    The voice acting is terrible most characters sound mentally damaged and awkward. Barrett is God awful. The only thing redeeming to this is the name. If this was any other franchise or any other FF remake it would be laughed out of town.    … Expand
  66. Binxybrown
    Apr 21, 2020
    2
    Pros:
    combat is pretty good even though I am not a fan of kingdom hearts like combat.
    Voice acting and graphics are 10/10 Music is okay 6/10 experience new character growth moments for members of avalanche as well as Cloud Cons: Plot is not the same as original and it is worse for it Music is not as good as the original, although new songs are okay the remixes of old music felt    Pros:
    combat is pretty good even though I am not a fan of kingdom hearts like combat.
    Voice acting and graphics are 10/10
    Music is okay 6/10
    experience new character growth moments for members of avalanche as well as Cloud

    Cons:
    Plot is not the same as original and it is worse for it
    Music is not as good as the original, although new songs are okay the remixes of old music felt tacked on and didnt always fit
    Pacing was very slow, some areas felt like they were intentionally dragged out. This happens less frequently the further into the game you get, but even just before the end of the game there is a section that just felt tacked on

    Will get into SPOILERS here:
    They added a new plot element about the main characters and sephiroth fighting against fate, at the end of the game you literally kill the arbiters of fate who have been doing weird **** all game and distracted from the main story considerably.

    This new plot element subverts the themes of the original for seemingly no gain, I was really happy for the majority of the game's new content but none of the scenes with these fate monsters really made sense as a player and when it was finally explained it felt cheap. After beating the game the existence of this plot line has basically destroyed my hopes for the next titles to actually tell the real story.

    Should have called it FF7 Reimagined    … Expand
  67. DanePhillips34
    Apr 16, 2020
    0
    First of all, I'm a big fan of the original Final Fantasy VII game. I don't have time to play games nowadays so I really wanted to buy this remake for my son, but after reading the reviews from this website, I will definitely not.

    It's pretty clear that this remake is a scam, not full game (Midgar part only?), action game (No thanks), and worst part, story drastically changed. So    First of all, I'm a big fan of the original Final Fantasy VII game. I don't have time to play games nowadays so I really wanted to buy this remake for my son, but after reading the reviews from this website, I will definitely not.

    It's pretty clear that this remake is a scam, not full game (Midgar part only?), action game (No thanks), and worst part, story drastically changed.

    So basically, Squaresoft is selling a new Final Fantasy VII action game with a new story that covers only Midgar part as a "Remake"? (Fraudscam at its best.)    … Expand
  68. kleeptomaniac
    Apr 16, 2020
    3
    I enjoyed 90% percent of this game, until the ending happened and the writers decided they weren't making a remake anymore. Why did a remake people have been waiting for, for decades have to be ruined because of the writers massive ego.

    I wanted the original story of FF7 remade, not an alternate take or reimagining.
    **** you Nomura.
  69. icemeetsfire
    Apr 25, 2020
    1
    I will give this a 1/10 for being 1% of the full game which is Loosely the game how it was. I also give this game the new title being of Part 1 , so it wont be as misleading. And I will also give this a 10/10 for being a Final fantasy game that is awesome if you never played the original. Now the true criticism is about to happen. The original game was like reading a book being read. TheI will give this a 1/10 for being 1% of the full game which is Loosely the game how it was. I also give this game the new title being of Part 1 , so it wont be as misleading. And I will also give this a 10/10 for being a Final fantasy game that is awesome if you never played the original. Now the true criticism is about to happen. The original game was like reading a book being read. The Remake is like a movie based of the MIdgar portion but very poorly written. This is Square Enix saying F%&^* you to the true fans. If you are a true fan, Please lets do a petition and Have Square Enix redo this game. Because this is definitely a big disappointment to everyone that is a true fan and not a fan boy. Thank you for your time.… Expand
  70. TheLittleMelo
    Apr 11, 2020
    3
    Como juego no está mal, sin embargo peca de numerosos defectos típicos de las últimas producciones de SE (y en general de los videojuegos recientes que se consideran AAA). Todo se centra en mostrar unos decorados, entornos y batallas espectaculares a nivel gráfico (aunque esto ya no sorprende a nadie) pero luego las mecánicas de gameplay son anodinas. No esperaba nada en términos deComo juego no está mal, sin embargo peca de numerosos defectos típicos de las últimas producciones de SE (y en general de los videojuegos recientes que se consideran AAA). Todo se centra en mostrar unos decorados, entornos y batallas espectaculares a nivel gráfico (aunque esto ya no sorprende a nadie) pero luego las mecánicas de gameplay son anodinas. No esperaba nada en términos de exploración y movimiento por los escenarios puesto que es un remake, pero aún así es todo muy lineal y plano. El sistema de batalla ha sido cambiado siguiendo la estela de FFXV, abandonando innecesariamente los turnos para ofrecer más acción, no es necesariamente malo pero no hay necesidad de hacerlo, además es tedioso en el sentido de que los enemigos son sacos de boxeo con HP alto...
    La historia se la medio cargan y para colmo esto es el trozo de un juego. Todo el contenido "extra" es mero relleno innecesario y poco agradecido. Existe infinidad de rpg mejores que este saca cuartos (incluso algunos de la propia SE, como Octopath Traveler).

    Si al menos hubiese venido el juego completo le podría poner un 7-8; así no puede llevarse un aprobado.    … Expand
  71. Jahgro
    Apr 24, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don't even know what to say. What a terrible game and ending. Just awful storytelling, and pacing. I am honestly in complete shock at how bad it was.… Expand
  72. wolfmanHack
    Apr 22, 2020
    3
    The success this game may be achieving is basically the result of a good marketing operation, nothing more.
    They built a massive hype about it over time through interviews, previews and **** so that fans would become more and more excited, but if you look at it as it is, this game is actually very poor.
    I can somehow understand people rating this so high, because I really wanted to    The success this game may be achieving is basically the result of a good marketing operation, nothing more.
    They built a massive hype about it over time through interviews, previews and **** so that fans would become more and more excited, but if you look at it as it is, this game is actually very poor.

    I can somehow understand people rating this so high, because I really wanted to love this game as I loved the real FF7 playing it 23 years ago.
    Yet to truth is... this is not FF7. It just don't look, sound or feel like FF7 in anyway.

    I'm sure real fans of the original get what I'm saying. All the sense of mistery, of haunting, melancholy and beauty of life expressed by the original have been replaced with... well... flashy visuals. That's pretty much it. They basically sold the very soul of the game to buy an empty good looking body.

    The trick here is: all the good you may be experiencing playing this remake belongs to the nostalgia; thus belongs to the original.
    Visually they actually made a good job to reproduce every place as we remember it. But, when the nostalgia effect ends, nothing remains and you will begin to see the game for what it is: a PROLOGUE to the original story, diluted with some generic and meaningless content which simply does not belong to FF7.

    But, let's split it up a bit. The following are huge mistakes which alone would be enough to ruin the game at once; and we have all of them:

    1. THE EPISODIC CHOICE
    You don't split an RPG in episodes. Ever. You completely destroy the sense of continuity, you reset the tension built until the moment you interrupt an episode, you break the story, you fail to deliver a sense of greatness and massive world; and most of all you lose one of the core concepts of an rpg, that is character building.
    What's the point of even level, equip and customize characters if they go to oblivion at the end of the episode? The character state at the beginning of the next episode will be just reset to some standard point, thus they will not be MY characters. Can you tell how possibly bad is that in this archetype?

    2. SUBQUESTS AND PADDING CONTENT
    What do you get if you merge a lot of water with good wine? Better wine? I think not. More likely more wine, but with a horrible taste.
    That's basically what they did here. They interrupted the storytelling several times to make the player do some generic meaningless quest.
    Well, side quests don't belong here, they belong to open world games. For a reason.
    And reason is, you have a world to explore and what you want to do in this world is up to you.
    You just can ignore them, or some of them, and still have a massive world to explore.
    This is not the case. There's no reason to pause a thrilling story from being told, well... unless you don't have much of a story to tell, having cut it. (see point 1)

    3. MAJOR STORY CHANGES
    This one is pretty obvious. You don't want to change the story everyone remembers to something different. On top of that you put in it elements from the original showed as "future visions". Why would you that? Fans will get upset because they were asking to re-experience the story like they remembered; new players just won't understand it in the first place, not knowing the original story.
    Furthermore, you don't do this in a game you call remake. This is just not what people expect, at a point that feels scam-like, misleading and insulting.

    Again, this is not FF7. You cannot simply put a logo, characters and skins onto a generic empty game and hope it will become what you are trying to shape. Things just don't work this way, it's not something that a decent company in gaming industry would EVER do.

    Things are, this game is out since 2 weeks, so people is understandably still excited about it, but it will be easily forgotten in few months.
    The reason we are all talking so much about this remake is the glorious game the original still represents after 23 years.
    And 23 years VS few months gives a very accurate idea of the difference between the two.    … Expand
  73. deriksagetwitch
    Apr 13, 2020
    1
    This is Kingdom Hearts masked as a Final Fantasy game. There's so much padding and purposely slowed portions of the game, it really makes it feel like they watered down a 10 hour portion of the original game into 30 to 40 hours. Make no mistake, the combat feels nice and the graphics are just top notice, unless you're in a section that doesn't load well. Some of the design choices forThis is Kingdom Hearts masked as a Final Fantasy game. There's so much padding and purposely slowed portions of the game, it really makes it feel like they watered down a 10 hour portion of the original game into 30 to 40 hours. Make no mistake, the combat feels nice and the graphics are just top notice, unless you're in a section that doesn't load well. Some of the design choices for enemies are severely questionable and a lot of the content is superfluous.

    All in all, I really didn't like this game. That's my opinion. They've lowered the RPG bar on this one and made it an Action Adventure. A really shallow Action-Adventure 'RPG.' It reminds me a lot of Jedi Fallen order in that regard.

    I don't want to spoil it, but the ending made zero sense to me... that's AFTER playing it and then watching it live-streamed... and here I am, still confused.    … Expand
  74. sonicpsv
    Apr 16, 2020
    0
    So, this **** is what you called REMAKE? Seriously? I have waited for 5 years for a real remake of origin 7 and SE you just made another KH? Please stop Nomura, don't use the same way to make different titles, it's definitely not a FF game.
  75. Xudaiokojima
    Apr 15, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Worst Game with episode ruin this legend old one is better episodes pay to play no thanks this game finish outside Midgard + different story i didn't like… Expand
  76. Satan6564
    Apr 21, 2020
    0
    Nul pas aimé du tout j’en suis à la moitié du jeu et le relancer et un calvaire jeu couloirs système de combat chiant et long le moindre mob est un sac à pv pour rajouter de la durée de vie pff plusieurs années d attentes pour ça pfff l original est à des années lumières de celui ci c’est bien dommage
  77. Adri-un
    Apr 29, 2020
    0
    Perso (mon avis) je ne comprends pas comment on peut être fan du premier ff7 et carrément adorer la première partie de ce remake... elle est beaucoup trop longue ET tellement ennuyante, on peine à faire évoluer ses personnage car trop peu de combat (par contre pour marcher tu marches), je me suis jamais senti autant enfermé dans les couloirs d'un jeu, c'est presque angoissant je trouve,Perso (mon avis) je ne comprends pas comment on peut être fan du premier ff7 et carrément adorer la première partie de ce remake... elle est beaucoup trop longue ET tellement ennuyante, on peine à faire évoluer ses personnage car trop peu de combat (par contre pour marcher tu marches), je me suis jamais senti autant enfermé dans les couloirs d'un jeu, c'est presque angoissant je trouve, les quêtes annexes sont ridiculement inintéressantes (matière grise sur off ça passe suffit de suivre la flèche...), les combats sont bordéliques (voire vraiment inégaux pour certains) je suis dégouté de voir qu'ils ont pris autant liberté pour modifier le jeu... tout ce que j'apprécie de ce final c'est ( en dehors des graphismes ) tout ce qui n'a pas était modifier par rapport à la version original... (donc pas grand chose)… Expand
  78. Furballcleaner
    Apr 30, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If i was to give a one sentence review of this game it would be "A classic case of a epic story ruined by needless padding".

    I have played the original numerous times over the years including recently so i am not looking back with rose tinted glasses when i say the original was one of the most epic and moving games ever created with overall brilliant gameplay.
    The story telling was outstanding and well ahead of it's time, I felt attached to all the main playable characters and even on repeated replays i still feel sad when Aeris (or Aerith) dies. I hated Shinra, even more so because i felt it was terrible what they did dropping the plate on the slums and overall the world felt epic and well designed with every part having it's place.

    I had some trepidation starting the game as i was not impressed with FFXV combat in particular and the story was weak but after playing the first mission i was very impressed with what they had done with game including the combat which seemed like they had kept the best bits of the original combat style while modernising it in just the right way.

    It then slowly started to fall apart...

    You soon start to realise that 'expanding on the original story to flesh out Midgar' really means just add a load of increasingly repetitive, boring and incoherent fluff to a great story which only serves to ruin it.

    The playable area itself is actually quite small with you repeatedly sent back to the same area which is particularly noticeable with the final batch of side quests which entail revisiting every single zone you have already been to, sometimes for the third or fourth time.

    Most of the areas you traverse seem artificially stretched to elongate the game and justify releasing this small part of the story as a 'full game'. There were a number of sections in the latter half of the game in particular where i had to take a break as i was frankly bored of snaking around the most elongated route possible and return to the game later once my brain had stopped dribbling out of my ears.

    For the story it would seem the developers have taken the 'alternate timeline' route that is now standard for milking a franchise.
    If done properly this can be done well but this has not been done well because the new bits seem little more than pointless, boring, badly written filler. Where the remake sticks to the original story and expands on it properly it is generally great but almost every time it diverts from the original story the writing, the voice acting and even the context seem out of place.
    Who is Roche? Apart from being some annoying idiot on a motorbike? He is introduced like he is going to be an ongoing rival who will challenge you throughout the game as you become stronger and then is never to be seen again...
    What the hell is that totally out of character dance thing with Cloud? Cloud is portrayed as the strong, macho brooding type who has a good heart but gets very defensive and clams up whenever it comes to opening up yet stick him in a gay club and he turns into a queen. (i know cloud went drag in the original but at least true in line with his character he protested).

    They try to reimagine the shock of Aerith dying but having Barrett killed instead and it manages to be possibly the most lame and unemotional incident of the whole game as you just know he isn't dead.
    Overall, even knowing the story i felt nothing throughout the game apart from disappointment. I didn't care about any of the characters, that the slums had been destroyed or when Jessy or Biggs died.
    I didn't find myself hating Shinra or find any of the bad guys particularly sinister.
    Overall the main story points 'just happened'.
    It is obvious that they want to open the story up so they can do as they please with it and this is why i won't be buying the follow-ups as whenever they drift from the original story it is just poor.

    Combat started out good but there are major flaws. I found Cloud the most boring character in combat, made worst by the fact that the right stick is both the camera and the target change so you constantly change target while just trying to see what is going on (that is when you can actually target the thing you want to target) which makes melee particularly annoying but even comparing melee characters Tifa was much more interesting to play.
    A good chunk of the materia seem situational at best particularly as status elements were used sparsely by enemies.
    Summons are only available when the devs feel you should have them where this restriction on their use ironically makes them feel less epic as they feel contrived.
    Classic mode is an insult but honestly i reverted to it in the end as my time was being wasted enough and i just wanted to see it through, but i still i gave up after the after Barrett 'dying' as i couldn't take it anymore.

    If you want to know this epic story, play the updated original game with the 'cheats' that eliminate the 'boring' bits    … Expand
  79. TaRaNtAs
    Apr 26, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Отвратительные диалоги с надрывными разговорами по полчаса прямо под угрозой неминуемой гибели, графоманское пережёвывание простейшей мысли каждым из персонажей (особенно в главе с обрушением плиты), Клауд с вытянутым хлебалом может стоять прямо под прицелом гатлинга и ждать, пока откроют огонь, действовать крайне несоразмерно обстоятельствам, уметь прыгать с сальтухой в один момент сюжета и не уметь в другой… Повествование затянуто до невозможного: герои шарятся по заводу; проходит два часа — герои всё ещё шарятся по заводу. Геймплей — отдельная песня. Видимо, Номуре очень захотелось вернуть всем его 1997-й, поэтому даже на залезание себе в карман тратятся очки действия: копим очки, огребаем, лечимся, копим очки, огребаем, лечимся, повторять до бесконечности, пока кому-нибудь из болванов не понадобится Phoenix Down, а на лечение очков уже не останется. А потом в конце появляется этот босс… а за ним ещё один… а за ним ещё один, а за ним ещё один, а за ним ещё один, а за ним ещё один, а за ним ещё один. И где-то посередине покатушки на мотоцикле. Во время которых тоже будет босс. И каждый босс затыкивается по полчаса без промежуточных сохранений. Я не эксперт в серии, но в FFXIII мне гораздо больше понравилась боевая система (где не нужно было перекидывать руны между персонажами, а потом боевую пати ВНЕЗАПНО тасовали, и можно было бесплатно залезать в карман), а в FFXV было гораздо интереснее бродить по миру (в отличие от вечной помойки в FF7R).… Expand
  80. Mr_Anderson
    Apr 20, 2020
    2
    tldr; making this game episodic killed it. Think of the Hobbit.

    I played these types of games for the leveling/grinding experience. You start off as an ant and by the end you were a God. The fact this had a good story was icing on the cake. Square dropped all of that in lieu of focusing entirely on the story, which is now packed full of needless filler. This is to say nothing of possibly    tldr; making this game episodic killed it. Think of the Hobbit.

    I played these types of games for the leveling/grinding experience. You start off as an ant and by the end you were a God. The fact this had a good story was icing on the cake.

    Square dropped all of that in lieu of focusing entirely on the story, which is now packed full of needless filler. This is to say nothing of possibly the worst fetch side quests I've ever encountered in a game. Ever. The pace has been entirely thrown off and ALL of your progress will be deleted at the end of each episode, which will take until the end of upcoming console gen . I had max health at the end of this this one... *facepalm*

    I have zero interest in the others now. What a wasted opportunity. I am literally playing the original again. Graphics are old, but endearing. I get the full leveling, materia, grinding, endgame system, AND the original story as intended when Square used to know how to make FF games.

    At least they get their attempt to triple dip their crown jewel since that's really what this was about. This was less of a labor of love and more of a labor of greed. Money is all that matters to them and it shows - Typical out of touch corporation. SE is quickly becoming the EA of Japan.

    Square absolutely dropped the ball as expected. They changed too much. If all they did was upgrade the graphics it would've been amazing. This is not even remotely a 5 star game, but don't take my word for it. The average rating for this on here is 3 out of 5 stars. 'noigh said.    … Expand
  81. DG7490
    Apr 22, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ahhhhh ! So close but yet so far....graphics are great for the most part, with some eyeball watering bad textures that look like they leaped across from the original 97 version that need to be patched out. The battle system is decent, and pretty fun and the summons have great animations. Voice acting is good and the sound is epic in parts.
    ...then the issues start to creep in ! Most people who fell in love with the original would have been jumping like a teenager again as you progress through the story until you realise early on that its trying to fill out its content, dragging its arse across the floor like a dog with worms. Slowing you down and squeezing you between gaps to literally pad out the game to hit the golden 30hr mark ..its starts to change key elements of the story, but you can live with it..what you cant get over is the childish surreal nonsense Nojima adds to this so called REMAKE. Adding **** characters, twisting the plot until it reaches its climax and totally ****s on the original..different timeline, characters that should be dead are alive and the biggest elephant in the room revealed..'its too expensive to make the full game in this fashion'...so it lures you in with a faithful first section of the game then they change the whole thing at the end and leaves the door open for Square Ennix to do whatever the hell it wants going forward with a bull**** Kingdom Hearts twist that a two year old could have made up. Its akin to the last installment of Star Wars, lures you in with old characters then totally destroys the originals lore and great story telling...if that pissed you off, then be prepared for a REMATCH with this REMAKE...it gets lots right, and some parts are magic, but it just seems like an elaborate ruse to get your hard earned cash before they recreate the whole story with the next parts of this multi faceted release the way they want. I hope to god Im wrong, but its got all the hallmarks of trying to please everyone and ending up not knowing where the hell its going !    … Expand
  82. alandeanavery
    Apr 26, 2020
    0
    Absolute garbage. It's well rendered garbage, but garbage nonetheless.

    At no point in the game are you afforded any real freedom as would be the hallmark of the original. Everything about this game is designed to be a drag. In 23 years the only technological advance is a dramatic uptick in the number of invisible walls. They've managed to make a game that is less interactive than    Absolute garbage. It's well rendered garbage, but garbage nonetheless.

    At no point in the game are you afforded any real freedom as would be the hallmark of the original. Everything about this game is designed to be a drag. In 23 years the only technological advance is a dramatic uptick in the number of invisible walls.

    They've managed to make a game that is less interactive than the original.    … Expand
  83. jgcuna
    Apr 15, 2020
    1
    Se juega bastante con la nostalgia de los fans, juego visualmente bueno y con una historia agrandada en personajes con poca relevancia en la versión original de playstation 1, sin embargo se corto demasiado zonas secundarias ya conocidas, el juego esta incompleto en historia no es ni el primer disco de los 3 que conformaban el videojuego original, precio inaccesible para una historia incompleta
  84. LuGaMi
    Apr 11, 2020
    3
    El jugo graficamente esta bien pero no es top de graficos, La historia llega ser afectada por el cambio de controles, pasando de un RPG a uno mas encaminado a la acción cuando se enfrenta con el enemigo, Añadiendo que la historia no esta completa y falta contenido, su precio muy elevado para estar sesgado, lo cual influye en la percepción en su totalidad del juego, si tu lo juegas porEl jugo graficamente esta bien pero no es top de graficos, La historia llega ser afectada por el cambio de controles, pasando de un RPG a uno mas encaminado a la acción cuando se enfrenta con el enemigo, Añadiendo que la historia no esta completa y falta contenido, su precio muy elevado para estar sesgado, lo cual influye en la percepción en su totalidad del juego, si tu lo juegas por primera ves te quedaras sin entender su totalidad lo que es algo frustrante, por todo la modificación del juego se encamino para ser un Juego POP desapegado de sus orígenes y mas comercial, claro vendiendolo por partes.… Expand
  85. lyekay1
    Apr 16, 2020
    0
    First loot boxes, now games are being split in episodes where you have to pay? Nah this aint it, sorry Square bot you lost me as a fan. I'm tired of this man, rather wait and release a full game then do this. I've been a fan since the PS1 days.
  86. TroyNT
    Apr 19, 2020
    0
    8.0 Is about right. Parts of the game were stretched out to fill and make this it's own game. It is, 40 hours of content! However, some of that content just drags on and seems a little too exhausting, versus grind-y/fun. While not a big part, there is like 10% of the game that is MMO fetch quests. Yuck.
  87. Kingofparis
    Apr 16, 2020
    0
    Tetsuya, stop, please. This is some kingdom hearts level **** in this game
    And the ending...
  88. misterblasty
    Apr 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This NOT a full game. Square just charged you $60 to play 1/4 of the original game. To be clear, the game ENDS when you leave Midgar, and now they expect us to pay another $60 for the next installment whenever that is finished (we waited 24 years for 1/4 of a game, so guess how long the rest will take.)

    Square: I will NEVER, repeat NEVER buy another Final Fantasy game, thank you for ruining something dear from my childhood because of your greed and incompetence.    … Expand
  89. Crevanille
    Apr 25, 2020
    0
    The game is not a remake it is a reboot. Square Enix Lied and don't want people to know the truth that's why there flagging anyone posting walkthroughs of the games ending. They even went as far as to threaten Shirrako with a lawsuit. If this is the way Square Enix wants to do things now than I will never again buy any of there products.
  90. Dog4life
    Apr 21, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Finally a good and tactical combat system, way superior to FFXV. Character models are impressive and very detailed.
    BUT lot of low res textures and mediocre details .

    The level design is absolutely terrible : corridor , go right /left , straight corridor. Linear and very boring , major letdown .
    By chapter 14 this was beginning to be a drag.
    Secondary quests are mostly bland fetch quests and totally forgettable.

    It seems more a walking simulator at times , then a true flashed out action jrpg.

    I hope the sequel part 2 at least build up on the great new combat system . Overall a big let down.    … Expand
  91. Gaaracl
    Jun 18, 2020
    2
    The game should be called FF7 Remake, should be FF7 Midgar. The game loses all of what made FF7 what it was, turn base combat, freedom to do whatever you wanted to do whenever you wanted, etc.

    This new FF15/13 using FF7 name and characters is just a really really good story with a linear playthrough, when you can't even turn back because you simply can't. the game tells you where to go,    The game should be called FF7 Remake, should be FF7 Midgar. The game loses all of what made FF7 what it was, turn base combat, freedom to do whatever you wanted to do whenever you wanted, etc.

    This new FF15/13 using FF7 name and characters is just a really really good story with a linear playthrough, when you can't even turn back because you simply can't. the game tells you where to go, when to go and how to do it, leaving nothing for you to do, FF7 even in Midgar let you do whatever you want however you wanted. Battle music is gone, materia system how it was it's gone, same with summons, and the way you get them it's absurd. and the max level 50 it's ridiculous, only FF1 and Final Fantasy Mystic Quest had that kind of limit and we are talking about one of the best FFs ever, the VII. To be limited to a level 50 cap its just absurd.    … Expand
  92. dark0153
    Aug 15, 2020
    0
    **** graphics (ps3 textures), bad combat mechanics, poor lip sync and voice acting, over-hyped, full of **** mini games
  93. Thebigbumaloo
    Jun 27, 2020
    4
    I got half way through the game before I sold it. The graphics are pretty great, the music is great, but the gameplay is average at best during combat. That’s not the real issue though, it’s the voice acting. The voice acting, on paper, is solid, but the inclusion of anime noises is SO prevalent that it’s impossible to listen to a single conversation without cringing or rolling your eyes.I got half way through the game before I sold it. The graphics are pretty great, the music is great, but the gameplay is average at best during combat. That’s not the real issue though, it’s the voice acting. The voice acting, on paper, is solid, but the inclusion of anime noises is SO prevalent that it’s impossible to listen to a single conversation without cringing or rolling your eyes. Hard pass.… Expand
  94. meop
    Jun 27, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Final Fantasy 7 remake is a visually beautiful game. It has excellent voice acting and the combat isn't a complete disaster... those are the only reasons this review isn't a zero.

    Understand, I am reviewing this game as a fan of the original Ginal Fantasy 7. These tpes of games are important because of their story. Lots of games have flashy combat or beautiful graphics... this type of game must get the story right.

    Final Fantasy 7 remake fails at this most critical of priorities.    … Expand
  95. riotgerms
    Jul 24, 2020
    4
    I was having a decent time until i got to the Honey Bee Inn part of the game. They make you dress up like a woman and dance with a gay guy and the whole thing just made me ill. I don't want to play a game crammed to the gils with homosexual and transsexual **** The graphics are great, really shows off what a PS4 Pro can do, but I really wish the devs would not have **** on one of my allI was having a decent time until i got to the Honey Bee Inn part of the game. They make you dress up like a woman and dance with a gay guy and the whole thing just made me ill. I don't want to play a game crammed to the gils with homosexual and transsexual **** The graphics are great, really shows off what a PS4 Pro can do, but I really wish the devs would not have **** on one of my all time favorite media properties. I couldn't even play that Honey Bee part in front of my wife and kids, it was just sick. I'm so disappointed this SJW **** has infected Japan too.… Expand
  96. dismybrowseacct
    Nov 16, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have been looking forward to this game for a long time but I was blown away by how badly Square screwed this remake. I completed the platinum so it's not for lack of trying to like the game.

    1. The game can't decide if it's a action or rpg game. So it decided to be a movie.
    2. We were told that they were only releasing the first disk because we'd get to explore Midgar. There are 8 sections to Midgar, we explored the same 3 timy sections as the original so no new areas were added.
    3. There was no exploring of any kind. The few times the game opened up to allow you to explore it was done in the most cookie cutter manner imaginable.
    4. The magic system was hard capped to add a fake level of difficulty. You can reach 9999 HP but 2x MP up resulted in around 200MP for most users.
    5. Hard mode removed items all together and wouldn't let you easily regen magic. This kind of artificial difficulty to a hard mode is pathetic.
    6. For some reason Square forgot in both this game and 15 that they had this nice thing called the Gambit system since FF12. By not including the gambit system the extra characters are pretty much useless in most fights unless you keep switching between them. Given that this is no longer a turn based game switching between characters was cumbersom.
    7. The final battle of the game was a ripoff of Advent Children. Once the wing came out I was so pissed that I still had a hard mode playthrough to cleanup for the plat.
    8. The game was 80% padding with one to many unskippable conversations.
    9. A good part of the games maps were setup so you could walk/listen to story or have you squeeze between something just long enough for the next area to load. The levels were so tiny and boring it was pathetic.

    Overall I'm so dissapointed with this game that I am officially done with Square. I've played every FF since I was a kid in the 80's and this is one of the biggest cash grabs I've ever seen from a company riding the coat tails of IP from when it was a functional studio.

    To add insult to injury when is part 2 coming out? No one knows because Sqaure's release cycle is god awful.    … Expand
  97. Yucuvu
    Oct 2, 2022
    0
    This game is, basically, scam.
    Since it isn't a true "Remake", but a soft reboot/sequel.
    Nobody asked for this, but Nomura wished to rebuild his Compilation of FF7 mess....
    Ended up to create an incomplete cinematic game, with a bad gameplay, and a corridor simulator game.
    Don't waste your money on this.
  98. makojuice420
    Oct 23, 2022
    0
    Quite possibly the worst game ever made. What starts as something that looks promising quickly turns into a bigger let down than C19 in 2020! You are better off just watching someone stream this game and save your money. Soulless cash grab with paid positive ratings / paid censorship of negative review's
  99. Nythya
    Oct 29, 2022
    0
    A boring piece of crap. Don't waste your money.

    Since this was the result of this cash grab created by Square Enix, and the childish/cringe Nomura mind. This is the objective demonstration of how much Nomura actually cares about all the people that simply asked for a faithful remake. 0 The gameplay is a mess, the plot is a cringe show of stereotype characters, and a nonsensical    A boring piece of crap. Don't waste your money.

    Since this was the result of this cash grab created by Square Enix, and the childish/cringe Nomura mind.
    This is the objective demonstration of how much Nomura actually cares about all the people that simply asked for a faithful remake.
    0

    The gameplay is a mess, the plot is a cringe show of stereotype characters, and a nonsensical trash.
    A cutscenes every 20 minutes and a totally linear maps don't incentive the 0 exploration of the game, with also atrocious side quest.
    And this mess is only a portion of the original game, rewritten for create a new FF7 Compilation (again), and continuing to milk the same story for the next 2 generations...
    (without counting the ff7 Intergrade exclusive DLC.......)    … Expand
  100. Kitika
    Apr 17, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First of all, I've finished the game, so I'm going to talk about the entire content and not just the demo. (No spoilers though).
    Indeed, the demo was really in the spirit of the original is this and that explains most of the sales. But how many people actually played the game with it?
    Indeed the game is quite beautiful, even very beautiful at times. However, there is a huge problem with the physics of the engine. A lot of objects on the ground are moved when you crash into them. I can understand this when you crash into a small plastic stud, but a 200 kg steel beam? this is quite ridiculous. Then, the majority of dialogue scenes in the form of cinematic are plan-plane, no real gestures, in short, this is the level of animation of the years 2010... in the end, it hasn't evolved since FFX. Most of the dialogues are very badly written, unlikely. Since The last of Us I haven't seen another game being able to tell me "it's credible!", the only interaction I found credible was Cloud and Jessie, the rest was forced, badly played or pure filling. A lot of filling for not much in this remake. Moreover the game is enormously sanitized, never the slightest drop of blood or evidence of physical violence makes the whole thing very unbelievable...
    As for the main story of the FF7 Midgar game, it's basically correct but nothing more (the ending is just absolutely rubbish). For the rest, I'll go to the Spoiler zone.
    Otherwise, the music is either nice (well, only in the playable part of the demo, which takes the theme of the game) and then, in everything else, or it's massacres of the original themes (the TURKs theme for example, what a horror). Either from the insipid nightclub sound... but hey, since de Nobuo Uematsu doesn't deal with FF musics anymore, they are only interchangeable background musics and not musics designed to express an emotion or an atmosphere.
    Then, the fighting system... I didn't know that the future of jrpg was dark drunk and even slower and more boring... it goes at the beginning, but becomes very quickly heavy, repetitive and slow. Maybe the solution found to increase the playing time .
    Anyway, my ideas are in a mess, but clearly, this game doesn't deserve the notes (probably made only on the demo) of the game. It's a game that relies only on nostalgia to ensure its sales, but taken as a standalone on a new license would have been an average PS4 game and not a "best-seller".

    POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT

    But for me this game is to FF7 what Star Wars 7 and Star Wars 4 are to FF7, that is to say an identical narrative, but without impact because it's very badly brought. For example, Sephiroth is shown as the big bad guy at the end in a completely stupid fight just to make fan service advent children. There is absolutely nothing that says Sephiroth is the bad guy before the last 10 minutes. Moreover, the previous comparison remains valid, I felt like I was playing a design game by Disney. No one dies, no more stakes, everyone comes back to life.
    And as for the ghosts, which is a deus ex machina bad, but so bad... Those ghosts are only there for people who finished the game in 1997 saying, well, you wanted the game from then? well, we don't want to do it again. I see the ghosts as being the players wanting to force the story to be the same as it was back then, and the developers saying to force fate and tell people who want to play a remake **** you, we're changing the story". In that case, don't do a remake, release FF16... But hey, considering the quality of 15 and 13-213-213-3, Square clearly has no more aura. This is the last Final Fantasy I buy. In my mind the license is definitely dead.    … Expand
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  2. Mixed: 10 out of 126
  3. Negative: 0 out of 126
  1. GameMAG
    Sep 14, 2020
    90
    Final Fantasy VII Remake is the game we've been waiting for from Square Enix for so long. Atmospheric, interesting and exciting all your attention modern jRPG with an interesting story and spectacular battles. To achieve the ideal, the project only needs more even graphics and all the content from the original release. If you were waiting for a turn-based classic with new graphics you will most likely be disappointed, since the game has changed a lot. Everyone else is happy with the release of the first really powerful single-player release from the internal Square Enix studio for many years. Especially after the failure of Final Fantasy XV.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Aug 20, 2020
    80
    A good remake of the introductory part of the cult-favorite Final Fantasy VII. It improves on the original game in almost all aspects, yet lacks in scale and drops the ball at the very end.
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  3. Finger Guns
    Aug 10, 2020
    90
    What matters is still intact, and that’s the heart and soul of one of the greatest stories in video game history. It’s a return to form that has felt a long time in coming, and what’s even better is that there’s still at least two more games of this quality to come...They can’t mess this up, can they?
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