Final Fantasy VII Remake

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  1. SuineUzumaki
    Apr 13, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am a huge Final Fantasy fan. I have played the original Final Fantasy VII and was completely open minded to whatever direction the new dev team wanted. I was so prepared and ready to give this game a 10/10. But as you can tell by my score, I was let down. And this is all just my opinion, if you enjoyed the game I am happy that you were able to, I unfortunately was unable to. Also, spoilers ahead so be warned!

    To start off, I'll state what was good about the game. The character designs are amazing. I fell in love with the new updated looks. The game can be absolutely enjoyable. I would say that 30-40% of the game is nearly perfect. Anytime the game focused on the main beats of the story, the game was a blast to play. Playing the Don Corneo beats, going to Wall Market (experiencing Honey Bee), fighting Reno and Rude, etc. All of it was wonderful. The combat can be rather enjoyable and challenging, which is always good to have. They fleshed out the characters a lot more than the original and at points made them feel more relate-able than the original. Cloud and Tifa's relationship is more well-rounded, Barret was toned down a little (could have been more well-rounded in my opinion), Tifa and Aerith's friendship is brought to light. Even Biggs, Wedge and Jessie are more thought out. But as I stated before that's roughly 30-40% of the game. The rest of it was absolutely a disappointment.

    There are so many issues that I have so I will do my best to cover all of my issues here:

    - The music is downright hard to hear. I have seen some comments on how the music doesn't compare and to be honest, I agree. It is lackluster in comparison to the original.

    - Jessie is completely written as a desperate thirsty lady who cannot wait to get into Cloud’s pants. It is a shame that they drove her character from being attracted to Cloud to being downright almost begging him to have sex with her. If anything, it made me hate her character and made me not care about her at all.

    - The textures in this game are horrendous. I do not know what the issue is. I cannot tell if they did not render the right textures into the game or if they have an issue of textures changing from long to short distance. For example, Cloud’s apartment doors, walls, windows, the bricks on the Leaf House, etc. It reminds me of Sonic ’06 which makes me so sad that I have to compare it to that.

    - I have to remind myself that Materia is even a thing in this game as it feels like it was an after thought. It’s there for nostalgia and nothing else.

    - Sephiroth comes into this game way too early and for no real reason. He shows up all the time for no real purpose to the story. Sephiroth only shows up so early here simply to tease the fanboys and fangirls. It has no plot relevance at all.

    - The script. I was 100% prepared for there to be changes in the story and would have welcomed them as long as they made sense to the overarching theme, plot, characters, and so on. If I am being honest, my original time spent in Midgar was maybe 6 hours, 10 hours at most if I am being generous. In my opinion, the original Midgar script felt fleshed out. It was the inciting incident, it banned the group together and got me prepared to fight Sephiroth and save the world. But that is just not the case here. It is completely dulled out and flushed out to a microscopic amount that it is extremely boring. The sense of urgency for example in many key moments is completely gone simply because we need to spend a full chapter and two boss fights in a train graveyard for no reason. As a player it was infuriating. The story is so hard to find through the mountain of quests, dulled out chapters, crazy long dungeons, and way too many unnecessary boss fights. 50% of this story can be cut out and it would be for the better. It feels as if this was only fluffed out to hide the fact they did not have the open world map or mechanics figured out yet. And I can't even talk about the ridiculous additions near the end, it was awful.

    - There are issues with the combat despite the fact I said they can be thrilling and fun at times. First off, the camera does not follow your target if you are locked onto them which can be extremely frustrating. Secondly, the ATB is infuriating at times. Charging abilities is totally alright, in fact the Summon and Limit Breaks are done well in this game. But the fact that enemies have home-seeking abilities that hit you while you are using an ATB to use an item or spell and then knock you out of it taking your ATB with it, is so frustrating. It makes the system feel as if it is based on luck. Aerith’s AI is wonky and does not do anything unless you control her, at least in my experience. You can get stun-locked so easily and it is extremely frustrating. The dodge system barely works, running around acts as a better dodge.

    Overall, it was amazing during the story and boring when it wasn't.    … Expand
  2. RancidGorbag
    Apr 15, 2020
    3
    Why is Final Fantasy VII so beloved among fans? Because it has such a compelling story and fantastic combat system. The remake falls short on both accounts. The AI was disappointing and it was a pain to have to sort through the menus to use abilities. To call it a remake is misleading. This is a reimagining pioneered by the most infamous director in video game history. It was 30 hours ofWhy is Final Fantasy VII so beloved among fans? Because it has such a compelling story and fantastic combat system. The remake falls short on both accounts. The AI was disappointing and it was a pain to have to sort through the menus to use abilities. To call it a remake is misleading. This is a reimagining pioneered by the most infamous director in video game history. It was 30 hours of Nomura building up the the moment he could tell us that he's going to make this game into whatever he sees fit.… Expand
  3. 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
  4. Oluckyasian24
    Apr 16, 2020
    3
    If you are looking for a turn base strategy/tactical game that challenges you to think - this aint it. Aside from beautiful graphics, everything else is lacking. This is an action game playing on people nostalgia for a cash grab. Sure it makes for a great movie - but do you want to pay $180+ to watch a movie you already know the ending to? Huge disappointment... if its not broken - dontIf you are looking for a turn base strategy/tactical game that challenges you to think - this aint it. Aside from beautiful graphics, everything else is lacking. This is an action game playing on people nostalgia for a cash grab. Sure it makes for a great movie - but do you want to pay $180+ to watch a movie you already know the ending to? Huge disappointment... if its not broken - dont fix it. No one will remember this game a few years from now. All the memorable soundtrack are original ones; the side quests are literally like WoW classic and the gameplay is button mashing galore with barely any strategy involved. You can run through the entire game using a few types of materia, difficulty is non existent. Over hyped big time… Expand
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Benor
    Apr 17, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. game was great then that ending happened and turned a great story it kingdom heart BS… Expand
  9. Oneiltroy
    Apr 16, 2020
    3
    As a huge final fantasy fan I have to say I was guttered at how easy they've made this game. You no longer have to manage your potions or really be carefull at all, you can just smash your way through everything and guess what even if you do manage to fail, you can just keep retrying the battle untill you pass. Summons are pretty much auto pilot. It looks stunning however what made theAs a huge final fantasy fan I have to say I was guttered at how easy they've made this game. You no longer have to manage your potions or really be carefull at all, you can just smash your way through everything and guess what even if you do manage to fail, you can just keep retrying the battle untill you pass. Summons are pretty much auto pilot. It looks stunning however what made the game great for me was the turn based fighting and tactics that need implementing in order to succeed. Not just hack and slash!! Truly dissapointed… Expand
  10. Skire
    Apr 17, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is almlost perfect until the final part. It's not fair selling a 'REMAKE' while breaking the original story. This is not a remake.… Expand
  11. Thorongil
    Apr 17, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There are certainly some good things about Final Fantasy VII Remake like the visuals and some of the mechanics but overall i found it disappointing. First off the claim that this is a full Final Fantasy game is not accurate. If I were to complete most of the original games content it would probably take around 100 hours of game play while the remake, including side quests, took me about 50 hours of gameplay. Secondly the decision to keep the game completely in Midgar is, simply put, baffling. In the original Midgar is basically a tutorial that takes about 7 hours to complete. Some of the scenes in the remake feel unnecessarily drawn out and exhaustive. This would have been fine if they were adding to and enhancing the original story line but most of the time they weren't. Although you see Sephiroth quite a bit in this new game he doesn't add much to the plot. He rarely speaks and when he does it doesn't have much meaning. I don't recall hearing him ever talk about his mission of finding the promised land! The remake seemed even more linear than the original and often forces you to take a certain path and there's no need for that. But one of the most disappointing things about the remake is the ending. It is an attempt to be this epic conclusion but it just ends up being a convoluted mess that doesn't make much sense. It also has nothing to do with the original and almost makes you feel like you have completed the entire story line without any further installments needed. In summary i would call this Final Fantasy 7 reimagined, not a remake. It plays out like someones interpretive blockbuster movie not like the RPG we know and love.… Expand
  12. 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
  13. Tydeous
    Apr 18, 2020
    3
    I would say it was an 7-9 rating until I hit the final chapter (chapter 18). The immense retcon to the story and the future of the setting was enough to utterly ruin the game's story and the future of the series. I won't be buying a sequel.
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. Solid_Igor
    Apr 30, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is Excellent when it is what it was marketed for, a Remake.
    But the ending is atrocious, a middle finger to long term fans.
    it gets extremely convoluted because they added lame plot devices that betray the essence of FF7. Timetravel doesn´t belong to the FF7 lore.
    Sephiroth is not Ultimecia.
    They transformed this game from an outstanding Remake to a Sequel/Reboot full of Nomura´s nonsense.
    If you loved the story of the OG stay away from this game, mostly because of the last chapter.    … Expand
  21. coldnoggin
    May 2, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. *Spoilers*

    I wish I stopped playing after I left the Church. The whispers were terrible!!!! The story was murdered...I'm not contributing money to following chapters. An awful awful game    … Expand
  22. RatsOffToYa
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    -
    SquareEnix released what might the be greatest psychological horror of 2020.
    The game starts out with everything you can hope for and more, breathtaking visuals in one of the greatest video game settings, the city of Midgar. Just opening the door from Cloud's apartment for the first time and the sheer scale of the plates in full detail along the view of the slums you see in front of    -
    SquareEnix released what might the be greatest psychological horror of 2020.

    The game starts out with everything you can hope for and more, breathtaking visuals in one of the greatest video game settings, the city of Midgar. Just opening the door from Cloud's apartment for the first time and the sheer scale of the plates in full detail along the view of the slums you see in front of you, all to explore in all its glory...the pleasure is intoxicating. Sure you sense something amiss, but it is quickly shrugged off since the first reactor mission went so perfectly.

    You start to see a few red flags here and there, an unrelated motorcycle character comes to form and vanishes like a tv one episode villain, and you start to see less and less effort put into the side characters and side quests that feel painfully robotic or badly scripted and voiced. But worry not, the core story was still there, shining in all its glory...side characters and side quests never mattered and can be quickly skipped past.

    Some more hours pass, the ghosts...you've seen them again, and your early interpretation that they're similar to voices of the lifestream isn't cutting it anymore. Worry not you tell yourself, the train graveyard is coming up, surely a wonderful tie in to fighting in the train graveyard is what SquareEnix is after.

    The first moment of shock, the first reasoning for the ghosts/whispers. The party is told that the ghosts are arbiters of fate trying to control the party's path...and they're in a Final Fantasy 7 game. Your deepest fears have come to light, and while the game doesn't delve on them much...you already know it's too late, an unlit stick of dynamite will follow you from here on out.

    You play out the game enjoying what you see while knowing a truly darker evil lies beneath the gorgeous visuals. Then just as you feel the game is reaching its end with no cataclysmic destruction, looking as though this first episode will be left safe, the destruction begins. You are thrown head first into the abyss. There is no saving explanation coming, your greatest fear has truly come alive...THIS...IS...KINGDOM HEARTS. Timelines, time travel, and plot ripped asunder. The thing is more terrible than I can describe, an incoherent jumble of nostalgia, story switching, and everything Nomura.

    You lie awake, asking the same question...Why? it comes to no purpose or gain, but you continue to ask...Why?
    Alas, the first is over and you know they will come again, again, and again...worse than the last.

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    I wish everyone well as they dive through the later parts of a great game turned milk machine.
    SquareEnix lured their wide eyed prey and struck hard and fast.

    -    … Expand
  23. Sasori_Nagashi
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    Simplistic gameplay to the highest measure, messed up and changed the story, slaughtered iconic pieces of music... I could go on but it doesn't deserve it.
  24. Daeandor
    Jun 23, 2020
    3
    This game was good until you get to the Shina HQ. However after that my experience goes into the trash. I was expecting changes, however nothing like this. It's a slap in the face. It ruined the game for me. I'm very concerned about the series as a whole going forward. It's just like the last of us part 2. Advertised to be something its not.
  25. 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
  26. IntrovertRobot
    Sep 11, 2020
    3
    A game that is just a padded mess. The bad guy shows up too soon. Some stuff that would take 5 seconds to do in the OG takes 10 years in the Remake. There's also this **** love triangle in the game which also sucks. The combat is okay but sometimes the AI freaks out and breaks. Lastly, the dialogue is just terrible, everything that made the dialogue good in the OG is terrible now. 3/10
  27. aoi000
    Jul 7, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Before the game release, Square Enix said that they would add "little additions" to the story, but these "little additions" totally ruined the whole remake. It would have been fine if Square Enix told me they would be changing the plot a lot. The story was changed drastically in the last chapter, which is very disappointing. I feel like I got tricked after playing chapter 17 and 18.

    I accept plot change if the decisions that the characters made were reasonable, but the remake was unable to convince me. To me, the biggest question is why Aerith wanted to change her fate. The group saved the world in the original game, but after defeating the whispers, they may be unable to do so this time. The game failed to explain why Aerith took this risk and decided to change her fate. Also, the existence of whispers was unnecessary and incomprehensible. You can just let the characters act differently from the original game, and explain why they made a different choice this time.

    I also did not like the filler chapters, such as chapter 10, 11 and 15.

    The graphics, music and combat system were great so I did not rate this game 0.    … Expand
  28. GerardCS
    Jul 19, 2020
    3
    buen sistema de combate para un FF, pero definitibamente no es FF7, se supone que estiran la historia para poder contar mas sobre la trama, pero si quitases el capitulo 14, el 16 y el tramo final del ultimo capitulo, te quedabas igual, no te perderias nada, no aportan nada, estirado artificialmente y sin escusas para ser vendido por fasciculos.
  29. neilmagic
    Apr 18, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pros:
    Graphics - beautifully designed, models all highly nostalgic

    Characters - nice designs as with graphics, visually this game is a masterpiece

    Music - again a great job here and lots of nostalgic renditions of original pieces

    Cons:
    Gameplay - the battle system is a huge downgrade from the original, if I wanted a hack and slash or press X as fast as you can many options such as devil may cry or kingdom hearts are available.

    Story - every new introduction and change from the original is a bad idea, they all have a sense of "why the hell is this happening" and / or "who the hell is this??". This feel massively padded out at times and also it's rather linear, you could argue it is just midgar which in the original also is, but the argument that this was a "full game" cannot also take the cake and eat it. The whole time / dimension thing is a load of crap to try to appeal to all basis to give a sense that anything can happen - I don't like this at all and it's a real sellout. The biggest sellout of all though is the Sephiroth appearances, this shows zero build up to the character, he should not be seen at all throughout the entire midgar section, this along with the time displacement crap has ruined the story for me. I give it a 3/10 for the reasons above, a lot of effort and love went into this, but it was led astray from the very start and it's one of gaming's biggest disappointments for me ever,the original game is a solid 9.5/10 just for some context and I would argue if you're new to the game and characters, play the original and forget this mistake of a game.    … Expand
  30. Grimlocksmash
    Sep 9, 2020
    3
    All the reviews told me to love a battle system I just wasnt in love with. After beating the game I wondered if I'd have even played it without loving the original. It felt like playing the characters of final fantasy 7 inside the horrible battle system of final fantasy 15. It I wanted an action rpg I'd play the witcher. I expected greatness and got a downgrade.
  31. Alden14
    Oct 15, 2020
    3
    This is honestly the worst final fantasy game I've ever played. It is so bad that I felt the need to make a metacritic account. I'm on chapter 15 out of 18, cursing myself for being too stubborn to just get rid of the game.
    Its possible that all the hype made me view it in too favorable a light before going in and I'll give that it was a decent nostalgia trip given that I played the    This is honestly the worst final fantasy game I've ever played. It is so bad that I felt the need to make a metacritic account. I'm on chapter 15 out of 18, cursing myself for being too stubborn to just get rid of the game.
    Its possible that all the hype made me view it in too favorable a light before going in and I'll give that it was a decent nostalgia trip given that I played the original when I was 8.
    Problems:
    For a game that requires so much jumping, just add a jump button. Any dexterous action that is required outside of combat is so tedious that I've found myself screaming "WHO WOULD DESIGN THIS!? WHO MOVES LIKE THAT ON MONKEY BARS!? DAMN YOU STAIRS!"
    The combat is alright, but honestly feels like a step back from FFXV. I understand that they were trying to make a combat system that could combine action and jrpg but it honestly feels like they half-assed both and relied on nostalgia for sales. The included "classic" mode is a joke and cant be used in any difficulty above easy, which is laughably simple.
    All of the exploration outside of combat is also made exceedingly tedious by the slow movements that seem oddly placed. "Oh, a 6" wide bar is in the way? Let me just spend the next 10 seconds ducking under it even though I was just sprinting"

    Pros: the soundtrack is fantastic and revisiting old memories with amazing graphics is pretty cool.

    Bottomline: while watching me play, my wife would often say "oh that's so pretty!" well so is a Corpse Flower but that doesnt mean you want to spend 40 hours with one.    … Expand
  32. nda777
    Jan 21, 2021
    3
    This is not a remake as the story is totally different! This is a lie.

    The combat system is really good, the new music versions are nice and Tifa, Barret and Cloud are beautifully rendered. Other than that, this game is not a remake and abuse of cheap tricks such as corridors, labyrinths, slow animations to slow down the pace. Moreover, the characters are using too many anime mimics and    This is not a remake as the story is totally different! This is a lie.

    The combat system is really good, the new music versions are nice and Tifa, Barret and Cloud are beautifully rendered.

    Other than that, this game is not a remake and abuse of cheap tricks such as corridors, labyrinths, slow animations to slow down the pace. Moreover, the characters are using too many anime mimics and the overall tone is apparently serieux but still very much more childish than the original. Please change the name of this game, I will not buy the 'sequel'...    … Expand
  33. Under8tedX
    Feb 3, 2022
    3
    I don't know what to really say, apart from i didn't really enjoy it.. I didn't really like the combat system because, its not turn based and it feels more like a hack and slash than anything else. The camera is god awful, the way the camera and cinematics works was really annoying. I mean your trying to walk/look one way, but its dragging you to look in the direction the game intends forI don't know what to really say, apart from i didn't really enjoy it.. I didn't really like the combat system because, its not turn based and it feels more like a hack and slash than anything else. The camera is god awful, the way the camera and cinematics works was really annoying. I mean your trying to walk/look one way, but its dragging you to look in the direction the game intends for you to go. And the story isn't that good either. it all takes part in midgar tho, and i wasn't really hooked on the story, it was kind of boring to be honest (different from the original). There are similarities here and there with the story of the original. But it has really pointless side quests, pointless bosses (most of them) and really a pointless combat engine. Its too chaotic and hectic, too much going on in battles. I think the original FF7 is still a way better game than this one, because at least to me games are not about graphics. I mean why do we play games in the first place? For graphics? or for "GAME PLAY"? This game wasn't too disappointing since i never played it on release. But when i saw it for 10$, i bought it and said "what the hey" why not. Also i should add, it draaaaaaaags on like nothing i have ever played before.Like i said, it all takes place in midgar and it drags on pointlessly, not really adding anything relevant to the story. This really pales in comparison to the original and doesn't even hold a candle to it.… Expand
  34. Queso_chip
    Mar 5, 2021
    3
    This was the most disappointing game in recent memory. I have no idea how it got nominated for game of the year. The story moves at a meandering pace with constant sections of forced walking (hate these in any game.) The combat on normal difficulty goes from super easy with many enemies, to nearly impossible against others without rhyme or reason. The story is a convoluted mess and superThis was the most disappointing game in recent memory. I have no idea how it got nominated for game of the year. The story moves at a meandering pace with constant sections of forced walking (hate these in any game.) The combat on normal difficulty goes from super easy with many enemies, to nearly impossible against others without rhyme or reason. The story is a convoluted mess and super cheesy. It's free now on Plus so there's no harm in giving it a shot for free I guess. I got it on sale for $25 and do not think it was worth it.… Expand
  35. ArkLovecraft
    Jan 1, 2022
    3
    I enjoyed the original game and I found this a bad game very well dressed.
    Cinematics are cool, of course, but gameplay is horrible. Slow on exploration parts and frustrating in combats, where the cameras are an absolute disaster. Puzzles are tedious and absurd.
    The story is very confusing. We do not know why what happens or what the bad guys want to do ... and there will be a second    I enjoyed the original game and I found this a bad game very well dressed.
    Cinematics are cool, of course, but gameplay is horrible. Slow on exploration parts and frustrating in combats, where the cameras are an absolute disaster. Puzzles are tedious and absurd.
    The story is very confusing. We do not know why what happens or what the bad guys want to do ... and there will be a second part.
    Let someone else play it.    … Expand
  36. DanteRashidi23
    Mar 27, 2021
    3
    So, i've never been Square Enix fan whatsoever. Because they game not apply for anybody, i think. But i was thinking to Ff7 remake, but it looks good and I've never experienced FF. so, so far, my thoughts. Gosh nooooooooo. This game litireally waste of time. Here is something, i experienced. So cheesy dialuges, c'm on what year are we living. Combat, ylu cant ru or doge from enemy attack,So, i've never been Square Enix fan whatsoever. Because they game not apply for anybody, i think. But i was thinking to Ff7 remake, but it looks good and I've never experienced FF. so, so far, my thoughts. Gosh nooooooooo. This game litireally waste of time. Here is something, i experienced. So cheesy dialuges, c'm on what year are we living. Combat, ylu cant ru or doge from enemy attack, it is just keep following you. Stupid enemies like freaking rat will kill before you kill them. My dualshocked died in the middle of boss fight and nothing i died. Bc nobody while making game, didnt think that, whap happens, if their controller dies what they will do? Seriousl,y, nobody had experienced this. C'm on it is 2021. Graphics looks good, but if you loom closer, ughhhh. Anyway this game sucks. Probably fans will love it. But waste of time.… Expand
  37. WoofAlot
    Mar 31, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Characters are over acting, and corny most of the time. Was expecting an open world like the original ff7 but its just a stretched out game in midgar. It's too biring.The magic is just not there.… Expand
  38. finalreviewer
    Sep 9, 2021
    3
    I wished it was.
    But it isn't. It just isn't.
    And it isn't in such an unacceptable way that I felt the to write it down here, as my first review. Let's start with what they haven't botched: the graphics (well, mostly) and some parts of the story. Especially Shinra Tower was nice. I even almost thought about forgiving what the game did to me. But now on to the longer list of    I wished it was.
    But it isn't. It just isn't.
    And it isn't in such an unacceptable way that I felt the to write it down here, as my first review.

    Let's start with what they haven't botched:
    the graphics (well, mostly)
    and some parts of the story.
    Especially Shinra Tower was nice.
    I even almost thought about forgiving what the game did to me.

    But now on to the longer list of things that are absolutely insufferable:

    The battle system is completely borked.
    You are basically just button mashing until you win,
    with little rhyme or reason to it.
    It's no fun.
    No, non at all.

    It isn't really helped by the fact that many enemies are absolute hit sponges.
    It is just an absolute joke.
    Just that no one is laughing.

    The fact that there are *lengthy* enemy-filled and otherwise uneventful corridors *everywhere* doesn't help things.

    On to the story (which was the only reason I kept playing):

    There are stupid ghosts.
    everywhere.
    Which contribute nothing
    nothing to the actual plot.
    They are annoying.
    properly annoying.
    But they serve
    server to foreshadow
    the end of the story

    which is an absolute mess.

    It is on a level of clusterf*** that is hard to describe. - Imagine Game of Thrones last season but with the authors high on something significantly worse than LSD. I have not yet seen such an obscene amount of bullsh*ttery in a single place, in a single 20 minutes.

    Do yourself a favor and do not get to the ending. You do not want so see it. It is just. Urghh.
    Even if you make it through the 30 hours of padding before it: Just quit as long as you can.

    The conclusion: If you want to suffer through 40 hours of mostly hoping the game would end, then this game is for you. And if you like gigantic letdowns.

    And in all honesty I have no idea where all those good reviews on here (or in general) come from. - They have to be majorly blinded by nostalgia, actively trying to get rid of their time or being paid for their opinion.    … Expand
  39. GallusUpstart
    Jan 3, 2022
    3
    What a wasted opportunity. I find this game so dull with absolutely terrible pacing with my overall experience of this game being of frustration and boredom.

    Sure the graphics are great, but what’s the point in beautiful graphics when the world is lifeless and not interactive, or, that those graphics are locked behind poorly hidden loading screen areas? Sure, the combat CAN be thrilling,    What a wasted opportunity. I find this game so dull with absolutely terrible pacing with my overall experience of this game being of frustration and boredom.

    Sure the graphics are great, but what’s the point in beautiful graphics when the world is lifeless and not interactive, or, that those graphics are locked behind poorly hidden loading screen areas? Sure, the combat CAN be thrilling, but 90% of the time it feels messy. I’ve never felt in control of a combat situation. It’s so tightly ‘on the rails’ that it feels like a VR experience. There is almost 0 exploration because the gaming areas are so small. The voice acting and dialogue are terrible, childish and irritating. The RPG elements are so shallow and a bit pointless. Levelling up weapons with SP points? Sounds great, if you had any incentive to chose a progression path, but you just have to select ALL of the upgrades so what’s the point? Same as equipment, it’s just generic “next version is better” drivel. All of this was fine 20 years ago but not anymore. I think the worst thing about this game is the wasted opportunity. We all know and love the ff7 story, the world and the lore; so why not let us experience it from a new angle? Why not have midgar be an open world experience? Why not have a job/class system? Why not have mechanics for interacting with the world? *sigh* it’s just another lazy game with a premium price tag and I’m not looking forward to any of its expansions or future FF remakes….    … Expand
  40. 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.
  41. aaronnmp96
    Jan 30, 2023
    3
    The best thing about the game is its Gameplay, was it so difficult to keep the original story?
  42. mrBouargg
    Jun 18, 2023
    3
    Beau jeux mais vraiment dessus que ce ne soit plus le monde ouvert de la première version
  43. 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
  44. Needles_Kane
    Apr 16, 2020
    2
    I bought this game, looking forward to revisiting the epic battle between Cloud and Sephiroth that I played around 23 years ago when I was a junior in high school. Never did I consider that a game titled "Final Fantasy VII REMAKE" would ONLY cover the first 10-15% of the original game. Name the game appropriately. Title it "Final Fantasy VII REMAKE: Episode I" or "Final Fantasy VII REMAKE:I bought this game, looking forward to revisiting the epic battle between Cloud and Sephiroth that I played around 23 years ago when I was a junior in high school. Never did I consider that a game titled "Final Fantasy VII REMAKE" would ONLY cover the first 10-15% of the original game. Name the game appropriately. Title it "Final Fantasy VII REMAKE: Episode I" or "Final Fantasy VII REMAKE: EXTREMELY HALF-ASSED EDITION" or anything other than a highly deceiving title. The game looks great, but fleshing out a roughly 5-6 hour portion of the original into a 40 hour game is not the same as remaking the original 40 hour game.

    This is simply not covering the part of the game that made many of us fall in love with Final Fantasy VII. Is this game a must play? Sure, but it's highly upsetting that they would title it like this when it's really not a remake of a highly beloved game in full form.

    I am giving the game a 2 as we only got 15% of the game. I am generously rounding up to a 2 from a 1.5.    … Expand
  45. Alpha17x
    Apr 12, 2020
    2
    This game suffers from a severe technical issue on the PS4 Slim in which it will frequently false-trigger a data corruption error when no corruption has actually occurred. A true data-corruption error crashes the game entirely but in FF7 Remake the game will continue to run behind the error. The only reason you have to stop playing is that closing the error message forces closure of theThis game suffers from a severe technical issue on the PS4 Slim in which it will frequently false-trigger a data corruption error when no corruption has actually occurred. A true data-corruption error crashes the game entirely but in FF7 Remake the game will continue to run behind the error. The only reason you have to stop playing is that closing the error message forces closure of the game.

    One SSHD and one SSD, both passing all diagnostics with flying colors, 3 reinstalls, two database rebuilds. The game is amazing but I can't recommend buying it at this time.    … Expand
  46. kstud1
    Apr 11, 2020
    2
    That's right square, milk us for all you can get, let's take a original playstation game which was sold complete and cost $30.00 twenty three years ago and split it into 4 games and sell each for $60.00, great way to treat you fan base.
  47. 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
  48. 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
  49. TheMarcosBay
    May 11, 2020
    2
    Wtf was that ending? Did Square enix ran out of ideas? This **** happens qhen you let nomorua lead anything., it was this way with XV and now FFVII. This is NOT a remake is just some generic hack and slash with FFVII themed skins. A remake is supposed to bring the feeling of the original in a modern technology, but then they com with this complete change of the plot with Harry Potter'sWtf was that ending? Did Square enix ran out of ideas? This **** happens qhen you let nomorua lead anything., it was this way with XV and now FFVII. This is NOT a remake is just some generic hack and slash with FFVII themed skins. A remake is supposed to bring the feeling of the original in a modern technology, but then they com with this complete change of the plot with Harry Potter's Dementors wich breaks the plot and OH MY GOSH why Sephiroth decided to be a Hollywood star? He appears at each 5 min, ripping off the mistery around him. You build the villion image in your head because you barely see him in the original and now he's almost the main character the much he shows. Wanna know what a good Remake is? Play Metroid Zero Mission.… Expand
  50. orkha
    Apr 17, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is not final fantasy 7. This game is a weird universe reset where the new final fantasy 7 has a very pretty and fun combat system but completely forgot what made the original combat system decent and what made the story so enthralling. Final fantasy VII remake fails horribly in keeping my attention. A game about saving a planet has been dumb down to one city and it's woes. Instead of caring about all of creation we care about sector 7, or some other slum. I'm 27 hours in and at this point I've given up the idea that I'll ever see sephiroth inside of all volcano as he's one-winged angel form flying in some ethereal place all in an attempt to defeat him before the super materia meteora brings destruction to everyone. Instead I'm confident that if you play this game you'll be bored to tears from shortcuts in the inability to control your own f****** character. I promise you are not missing out if you do not buy this game. at the very minimum I promise if you expected to have a good final fantasy 7 experience then I'm letting you know it will not be a final fantasy 7 experience in the first place. Good luck with what you do with your money and your time… Expand
  51. kitsura
    May 27, 2020
    2
    I would have given this game a 10/10 in 1997. But more than 20 years have passed and while other franchises have invented engaging open world FF7R is still stuck to a super linear gameplay system. Also FF had decades and more than 15 titles to come up with a decent battle system but what is this hybrid monstrosity of a combat system that is tagged on to FF7R? Franchises like Ys have goneI would have given this game a 10/10 in 1997. But more than 20 years have passed and while other franchises have invented engaging open world FF7R is still stuck to a super linear gameplay system. Also FF had decades and more than 15 titles to come up with a decent battle system but what is this hybrid monstrosity of a combat system that is tagged on to FF7R? Franchises like Ys have gone from strength to strength, improving their already awesome OST and combat system with each new title but it seems like FF is still stuck in the 90s.… Expand
  52. ulukinatme
    May 5, 2020
    2
    After waiting 23 years for a decent remake, I'm sad to this this thing is a disappointment. The combat is so incredibly awful, it's just clunky and isn't enjoyable. It's built for kids that get bored unless they're pushing the Square button 10,000 times a fight. Regular attacks only serve to build ATB for meaningful actions, so you're forced to mash Square over and over which is tediousAfter waiting 23 years for a decent remake, I'm sad to this this thing is a disappointment. The combat is so incredibly awful, it's just clunky and isn't enjoyable. It's built for kids that get bored unless they're pushing the Square button 10,000 times a fight. Regular attacks only serve to build ATB for meaningful actions, so you're forced to mash Square over and over which is tedious and in no way actually fun. The AI is useless for any character you're currently not controlling. They basically stand there and do nothing or super light damage until you decide to assign an action to them. I almost find it hard to believe Square Enix spent 5 years on this thing and they couldn't just implement the original combat style in that period of time (Don't get me started on "Classic" mode, it's a sad mix of the new standard and the old, bugs and all). It's obvious SE has catered to a younger generation and they've given long time fans the finger.
    I really wanted to give this thing a 0, but the graphics and music lived up to the expectations at least. The voice acting was good in most cases too, although Aerith is now unbearable to listen to, she just comes off as annoying unfortunately, so VA took a hit. Side quests are a hit and miss, did they really have to break this game into multiple sections so I could chase cats and play darts? Other than the Biggs/Jessie/Wedge mission there really wasn't anything worthwhile that was added in terms of story.
    There just isn't enough content in this title to call it a full game, shame on Square for misleading fans and breaking up a perfect story for extra dollars. What a horrible way to treat your fans, but I've come to expect that in recent years given their Gatcha games and sad titles. Dragon Quest 11 is the only decent thing they've released lately.    … Expand
  53. NicoCC
    Aug 22, 2021
    2
    FIRE NOJIMA AND NOMURA!!!

    This game is mediocre at best. People that gave is above a 5 are brainless robots, and they clearly don't know what a true JRPG should look and play like. Let's begin: 1. All the grunts and head nods within conversations are not how people talk. The conversations are very cringe. 2. I understand Cloud is more serious and cold, but this game made him    FIRE NOJIMA AND NOMURA!!!

    This game is mediocre at best. People that gave is above a 5 are brainless robots, and they clearly don't know what a true JRPG should look and play like.

    Let's begin:

    1. All the grunts and head nods within conversations are not how people talk. The conversations are very cringe.

    2. I understand Cloud is more serious and cold, but this game made him seem mentally retarded.

    3. Is Tifa Cloud's love or not? From this story, it doesn't seem like it. And neither is Areth. I'm so confused.

    4. Most of the levels of the game are boring.

    5. Most of the side quests are pathetic and boring. Who the hell thought it would be fun chasing cats?

    6. Minigames are alright, but still not that fun.

    7. Items and Materia...etc. are whatever. I still don't understand how things work.

    8. Can I have one boss fight without some bs cinematic interruption? Ffs.

    9. Replay value: 0.

    The Japanese clearly have lost their sense of storytelling and game development. The classic FF7 is a million times better!

    FIRE NOJIMA and NOMURA ASAP!!!!
    RIP JRPGs.    … Expand
  54. Peter19
    Jun 20, 2020
    2
    Final Fantasy VII Remake is an extraordinary game, but I think they were able to make the entire game without the need to divide the content of the original game into indefinite parts.
  55. BoardGameNoob
    Mar 28, 2021
    2
    People giving this game such high ratings are **** This game is NOTHING like the original, and the hack-n-slash inescapable damage **** combat is a piece of literal **** No. NO! No combat breaks. No way to block an attack to interrupt the bull****. This game is not an 8, a 9, or a 10. Whoever rated it that never played the original, ever, not even once. Go home. This game sucks and I'vePeople giving this game such high ratings are **** This game is NOTHING like the original, and the hack-n-slash inescapable damage **** combat is a piece of literal **** No. NO! No combat breaks. No way to block an attack to interrupt the bull****. This game is not an 8, a 9, or a 10. Whoever rated it that never played the original, ever, not even once. Go home. This game sucks and I've finally had it. I deleted it. I'm not playing on Easy combat mode because Easy is so incredibly stupid that it's not a challenge at all, and Normal is such cheating, frustrating, imbalanced **** How many times have I used Access to find out what the hell to do, only to read "tactical data not available." It's clear that Square has NO more talent left. The game is linear garbage, and the voice acting is total crap (as well as the messed up story). No, this is not FF7. Stop calling it that. This is a cash grab, nothing more, nothing less.… Expand
  56. the-down-of-man
    Apr 15, 2020
    2
    SE and Nomura killed my childhood and my favorite game. I don't wanna play a Kingdom Hearts like, I just want Final Fantasy VII Remake. The game is great 'till the last section, but then... VOMIT.
  57. 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
  58. 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
  59. wenawenawena
    Apr 10, 2020
    2
    -Falsely advertised as a remake
    -Dumb meta commentary and timeline-changing KH-esque plot changes
    -Padded to oblivion
    -Midgar is barely expanded
    -Terrible looking textures
    -Horrid design of side characters
  60. JulsH
    Apr 10, 2020
    2
    Sorry but the ending destroyed the game. The mediocre Gameplay didn't help and the fact they didn't really advertise how this isn't the full game is just a bad joke. It feels incomplete (because it is) and rushed. I didn't even play the original. I can't imagine how the og fans must feel. I'd rather play ffxv again...
  61. ixion46
    Apr 10, 2020
    2
    If Kingdom Hearts 3 was the straw to break the camel's back for Square, then this game is the one to put the camel out of it's misery with a bullet of mediocrity.

    The problem with overhyping a game leads to exactly this problem: the ability to critique every nook and cranny of it's features, good and bad. Unfortunately, this one has mostly bland to downright poor qualities. Unlike    If Kingdom Hearts 3 was the straw to break the camel's back for Square, then this game is the one to put the camel out of it's misery with a bullet of mediocrity.

    The problem with overhyping a game leads to exactly this problem: the ability to critique every nook and cranny of it's features, good and bad. Unfortunately, this one has mostly bland to downright poor qualities.

    Unlike the original game, the remake has been artificially extended cinematically and gameplay wise, mostly repeating the same points over and over in game. Some new story elements have been added, but they don't appear to impact the game in a positive way at all, and frankly; weigh the story down more than it should.

    Yes, Midgar looks pretty, sure. But the world feels empty, just like in some of other Square's latest games. The NPCs have little to no purpose, they don't feel like people and they do not contribute much to the world at all, they are little more than rocks for the protagonist to either step on or around. Serious missed opportunities to expand the lore and mystique of the game more than just some fetch quests and extermination missions, or being stuck with a bore-fest of walking around and listening to everyone talking about what to do, instead of actually doing it.

    The voice acting, at least in English, is downright dreadful and cringe. Gone are the great VAs that made Advent Children a joy to watch and characters we enjoyed as kids in Kingdom Hearts. Instead, we have contradicting characters that regularly make asses out of themselves repeatedly in the majority of scenes, especially Barret and Jessie, all complete with horrible voice acting.

    The combat is passable, though more often than not it's just a series of button mashing, though strategy itself doesn't really have much use in the game. It's mostly just half-baked, and personally, feels even more so than it did in FFXV.

    This game feels very unfinished, and just a fragment of an original game that's being charged for $60 on top of preorders and other editions, this needs to stop.

    I highly doubt Square thought this through when they announced the game -five- years ago, and I doubt even more so that they have a detailed plan going forward, but I will remain highly skeptical of the company that I was once enraptured by.    … Expand
  62. westparker
    Apr 10, 2020
    2
    This remake is not what I expected as a fan of the original game. From the beginning the urgency and excitement of the opening bombing mission is absent and is a sign to things to come, with the entire Midgar section padded out in the most disappointing fashion, with new tedious missions, and remarkably, massive changes to the story that show us that this is not a remake, but a totallyThis remake is not what I expected as a fan of the original game. From the beginning the urgency and excitement of the opening bombing mission is absent and is a sign to things to come, with the entire Midgar section padded out in the most disappointing fashion, with new tedious missions, and remarkably, massive changes to the story that show us that this is not a remake, but a totally different game altogether. The characters and the setting might look familiar, but this is not Final Fantasy VII. The story is different, the pacing is different, the characters act different. And not in a good way.… Expand
  63. Cwarner
    Apr 10, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I fell like i should have seen this coming. For the first hour or so, i was sold. If i put it down after two hours in, i'd have rated it a 10.

    The story just derails so quickly. I don't know exactly when it happened or at what point, but i just realized i was bored to death. After the first mako reactor blows up, its like a completely different game. A little added content is always appreciated, always helps flesh the story out, but this game quickly hits the point where it loses sight of the original story completely and ends up going down mindlessly boring tangents.

    Then, at one point, it hit me and i remembered having read something a while back about how Square Enix planned on putting this out in episodes. Suddenly, it all made sense; all the mindless padding, the drawn out cutscenes, needless dialogue and slow animations. They have done literally everything they can to draw this installment out while adding nothing of real substance to the experience. It's all just to pad the little bit of plot they chopped out so they can extend it into a long, grueling cash in.

    The worst part is, i could have probably stomached it, maybe, if they intended to make it a two part deal, but now I'm hearing three episodes? four? FIVE? At $60 a whack! Not only is this practice a horrific trend in the industry, costly for the average gamer, but it also completely drains the overall experience of enjoyment. Nothing like playing through a fifth of the story and waiting four months to a year for the next chapter to come out to help you lose interest entirely.

    If you're going to prey on my nostalgia, at least do it right.

    I have a feeling this one will be on sale quick, so maybe just wait until then. Better yet, wait a year or so until the 'Complete Edition' comes out, and at least then you'll get the whole game and only get stung for full price once, not to mention pick up all the overpriced dlc they no doubt have planned for this title.    … Expand
  64. mediarama
    Apr 11, 2020
    2
    So incredibly disappointing. It's pretty sad how people are defending this game. Imagine being okay with just 40 hours of content in a triple-A release?! This game is way too short and an incomplete experience. And the problem isn't that it deviates from the original story, its HOW it deviates. Such lazy storytelling. Without spoiling it here, the writers are basically making it up as theySo incredibly disappointing. It's pretty sad how people are defending this game. Imagine being okay with just 40 hours of content in a triple-A release?! This game is way too short and an incomplete experience. And the problem isn't that it deviates from the original story, its HOW it deviates. Such lazy storytelling. Without spoiling it here, the writers are basically making it up as they go and have no regard for arguably the greatest jrpg of all time. It's just a cash grab. Watch out for fanboys over-selling this one - they will do anything to justify their purchase to others, just so they can save face. Wait for the full version to come out, or wait for a sale at least.… Expand
  65. 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
  66. Ttttttt111
    Apr 12, 2020
    2
    It’s just so boring. When I played the original I didn’t sleep, I played all the time. This game feels like a chore. The extra characters are obnoxious, and there is no autonomy. I feel like I’m being held hostage by what the game developers are trying to show me instead of letting me have my experience playing the game. Too many narrow passageways and slow dialogue. When I realized thatIt’s just so boring. When I played the original I didn’t sleep, I played all the time. This game feels like a chore. The extra characters are obnoxious, and there is no autonomy. I feel like I’m being held hostage by what the game developers are trying to show me instead of letting me have my experience playing the game. Too many narrow passageways and slow dialogue. When I realized that was happening, I was like “oh that’s how you fit a 10 hr game into 40 hrs”. I like the battle system and am open to change I just could not stay awake for this after a while. Booooring !… Expand
  67. Borderjumper14
    Apr 12, 2020
    2
    Story is entertaining. I don't know whats more of a pile of garbage, the combat or the controls
  68. LeraMi5
    Apr 15, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Let me just say that I've loved original ffvii for ages and could only dream to play this game in modern grapfics. Ffvii means a lot to me and many others, so why I'm giving it a low rating?

    This would never happen if SE told us from the start that this is NOT a remake, but a reimagining of beloved story. No one should feel bad for feeling disappointed by the product we've got. Absolutely NO ONE thought this will turn out to be a retcon or whatever it is now when we all bought this game and started playing it. This is called false advertisement.

    Instead of enjoying it from start to finish we've been slapped with some unknown plot manipulations like watchmen of fate, time travel and parallel universe. Up until the ending the game was super enjoyable with some moments to improve here and there, but nothing too critical.

    Pros:
    - Characters are all on point and I feel like I've fallen in love with them all over again
    - The world feels alive and is so much more detailed than ever
    - The music is so absolutely amazing
    - Battle system is actually a lot of fun when you get used to it

    Cons:
    - Low textures in many places
    - The pacing of the story in some parts feels too slow
    - The whole final part (Sephiroth the "God", time travel and defying fate) just destroys everything so good about this game and ffvii story    … Expand
  69. AelBlu
    Apr 13, 2020
    2
    I expected "Remake" to be the title, not a plot point. I went in with an open mind, and gladly accepted the changes that were made to the original story up until chapter 18. This isn't a remake... It's FF7-2, and a reBOOT. You just don't find out until the final hour.
  70. Lavie
    Apr 14, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Un mal juego para nuevos y antiguos jugadores. Una revisión que no hace justicia al gran juego del que viene. El juego más lineal que recuerdo en años. Cierto que el original la parte de Midgar es lineal, pero dura 4 horas de las 50 totales. Este juegos es lineal en su máxima expresión. Pasillos de 3 metros de ancho y 50 de largo que conectan con más pasillos. Cero exploración, con ninguna parte nueva, no como prometieron. Mazmorras pasilleras y largas, con batallas excesivamente alargadas. Algunos jefes mueren por desgaste, echando 45 minutos en algunos de ellos. Alargando el juego lo máximo que pueden. En términos de historia es horrendo, es un cúmulo de presentación de personajes que no llevan a ninguna parte. Rompen el ritmo en situaciones clave. "El pilar va a caer, es el momento perfecto de meter tres mazmorras seguidas super largas, total prisa para avisar a nuestros amigos ninguna."
    Y bueno, quitemos hierro al asunto de generar una tensión o que los actos tienen consecuencias. El factor crudeza de tirar todo el sector, sepultado a todos los personajes que allí estaban desaparece. Sobreviven todos, vaya a ser que nos pongamos tristes con la muerte de npcs sin vida. De uno de los juegos más oscuros y tristes de la historia a uno más del montón family friendly. No entro en el final de la historia porque no merece ni la pena. Espero que no entremos en el juego de esta compañía y dejemos de comprar sus juegos.    … Expand
  71. Lv99_PLD
    Apr 14, 2020
    2
    This is a Sequel, relying on nostalgia and the title of a remake, to rake in cash.
    Story: 40% is meh, 40% is worse, 20% is better
    Combat: Concept is great. But functionally repetitive, and never does anything interesting. ATB is stuck on easy mode, and isnt tuned to be more fun (such as increased fill rate, and increased enemy damage to actually need heals) Normal mode lets you spam    This is a Sequel, relying on nostalgia and the title of a remake, to rake in cash.
    Story: 40% is meh, 40% is worse, 20% is better
    Combat: Concept is great. But functionally repetitive, and never does anything interesting. ATB is stuck on easy mode, and isnt tuned to be more fun (such as increased fill rate, and increased enemy damage to actually need heals) Normal mode lets you spam potions to get through all fights by mashing square.
    Bosses only have the mechanic of: Has an elemental weakness you can ignore or Ignores most physical attacks you do. Nothing else. Anything else they do is secondary and can be missed/ignored.
    Music: 40% sound terrible, 40% are just meh, and 19% are good, and 1% is actually an improvement.
    Graphics: 2 areas look AMAZING, 2 areas look good enough, and the rest look pixelated, and terrible designs.
    Art Direction: Improper use of music in improper situations. Improper visual representation for mood or tone.

    They should have made FF16, or a non disingenuous sequel if they wanted to make something different. Otherwise remakes should remain as improved remasters. This abomination hybrid sequel reimagining is absolutely awful.    … Expand
  72. NullMechanism
    Apr 14, 2020
    2
    This "game" can basically be summed up as padding and filler.

    They took 5-minute "dungeons" from the original Midgar and turned them each into hour-long FF13 hallways. Even worse, they inserted all new "dungeons" (hour-long FF13 hallways) in between story beats where the original FF7 would have just moved on to the next story beat. It doesn't add anything to the story or game world. It    This "game" can basically be summed up as padding and filler.

    They took 5-minute "dungeons" from the original Midgar and turned them each into hour-long FF13 hallways. Even worse, they inserted all new "dungeons" (hour-long FF13 hallways) in between story beats where the original FF7 would have just moved on to the next story beat. It doesn't add anything to the story or game world. It doesn't flesh out the original Midgar. It's not even fun. You just go down some glorified decorated hallways and fight three guys at a time for 30+ hours. This is not fun. This is not a game. This is mindless, joyless, and a chore. I actually had to force myself to finish this awful slog.

    The sidequests do little to break up the monotony--in fact, they amplify it. They are the most soulless, uninteresting MMO quests you can imagine. At some point I just stopped bothering with them because they add noting of value to this game. They are not fun or interesting.

    This isn't Final Fantasy 7. This is Final Fantasy 13 loosely based on Final Fantasy 7. This game does not respect your time. Square Enix claimed that this remake was going to be episodic because the game world was going to be "greatly expanded" and "vast." Midgar is not expanded. It is padded. What happened here is that they decided from day one that they wanted to sell multiple games as "episodes," and then struggled to come up with filler content to stretch Midgar out to 30+ hours. And they couldn't even come up with anything fun. As I said, this is easily the worst video game I ever played in my life.

    This is the most soulless, joyless corporate cash-grab ever created, it is a personal attack against video games as a medium, and it is a crime against humanity.    … Expand
  73. Shiroguma48
    Apr 15, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It gets a low score for the same reason most people gave it a low score - false advertising. I loved most of it. I thought the redesign of Midgar was excellent if a little over-linear (but the original was linear too). I thought the characters were excellently designed and voiced. I loved the new combat system although there is room for improvement obviously. I knew this was Midgar only and I was on board with that, though I would have preferred the side content to be less ‘fillery’ and more relevant. I was expecting some minor story changes and additions, and no, I wasn’t surprised to see Sephiroth (though I still maintain he didn’t need to be there). I played all the way through 16 of 18 chapters and would have gladly scored the game 8 out of 10 at that point. But then Square inexplicably chose to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and ruin the entire plot with some textbook Nomura fate/destiny/timelinely crap. I just can’t get my head around how they thought they would get away it. They literally lied to their entire fanbase about their intentions for this project. All the while churning out interviews about how important it was to stay true to the original to keep the fans happy etc... Incredibly disappointing. Maybe they will pull something amazing out of the bag. But until then, 2 is all this deceitful production deserves.… Expand
  74. cruellae
    Apr 15, 2020
    2
    This is very much like Game of Thrones, in that a gorgeous setting and brilliant, nuanced story was ruined by the last installment. If you stop playing before you reach the final two bosses of the game, you will be glad you did, particularly if you are a fan of the original Final Fantasy VII.

    What caused the drastic shift? It happens at the exact point where the writers turn away from    This is very much like Game of Thrones, in that a gorgeous setting and brilliant, nuanced story was ruined by the last installment. If you stop playing before you reach the final two bosses of the game, you will be glad you did, particularly if you are a fan of the original Final Fantasy VII.

    What caused the drastic shift? It happens at the exact point where the writers turn away from the existing FFVII story and decide to make up their own stuff. (Unfortunately, they are not as good as the original story writers. And while some high profile devs from the original game are still onboard and in charge, they aren't the ones who wrote the story.)

    If you have not played the original, I would highly recommend doing that first, or you will miss out on a lot.    … Expand
  75. DonCorneo
    Apr 16, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a sequel... not a remake. False advertising, bull **** ending. They didn't respect the story.
    I'm sad that there might never be a true remake of this Incredible game of 1997. There is no need to change it to a new story. Just slightly improve on some point and bam.

    Yes the graphics are amazing, yes some parts are very very good but it doesn't change the fact that its not the remake as promise.

    Also the gameplay is terrible, a mix of KH, FFXV and FFVII. Just keep the FFVII gameplay or make it FFXV but dont mix all of this...    … Expand
  76. Shazzaabi
    Apr 17, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After finishing the game I almost wish I hadn't bought it. Some of the best scenes have been replaced by ridiculous alternatives and the atmosphere from the original game is lost. All we wanted was ff vii with todays graphics. Not a **** replacement… Expand
  77. dlvroo08
    Apr 17, 2020
    2
    [quoting] New York Daily News critic reviews : "The greatest disservice of Final Fantasy VII Remake is the last word of its title. Understand this: Final Fantasy VII Remake is no ordinary remake. To call it a remake suggests it’s faithful and loyal [...] But this Remake is complete reinvention"

    Yep, exactly this... SquareEnix played on purpose on ambiguity to foul ALL THE FANS that,    [quoting] New York Daily News critic reviews : "The greatest disservice of Final Fantasy VII Remake is the last word of its title. Understand this: Final Fantasy VII Remake is no ordinary remake. To call it a remake suggests it’s faithful and loyal [...] But this Remake is complete reinvention"

    Yep, exactly this... SquareEnix played on purpose on ambiguity to foul ALL THE FANS that, more than anything, didn't want that : a complete reinvention. They lied by omission to lure all the fans that didn't want a complete mess up of the story hidden behind the "remake" name, abused their trust just to get all that shiny pre-order money, then asked them to play a game that ask you to actively fight the normal course of the original game. Basically, the game is about buttf-ing the original game in some weird parallel universe delirium that isn't even put into the scenario in a decent and proper manner...
    And now, they are wondering why all the negative reviews ?... Oh yes, such mystery... Go figure why so many people are pissed, uh ?    … Expand
  78. Qmckinney
    Apr 17, 2020
    2
    Good game but to short and to long a wait to be worth $60. Going to have to wait till the finish the series if they are all going to be this short
  79. CptLove
    Apr 17, 2020
    2
    Looked great, tons of detail (especially with the Slums feel), and the weapon upgrade system was a nice touch. Everything else was pretty poorly thought out, more questions than answers by a landslide and poorly introduced 'bad guys'. Glad I played it just to know for myself but hopefully they fix the tropes in the next
  80. 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
  81. 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
  82. 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.
  83. 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
  84. PAULO_84
    May 4, 2020
    2
    THIS IS NOT A REMAKE.

    Bad Bad chococobo, no greens for you! All that they needed to do was to follow the original story. We did not want any changes, we did not want anything different. You waited 20 years to rewrite the story? So, you should have CHANGED THE NAME OF THE GAME! IT IS NOT FF7 REMAKE, IT´S FF7 SHADOWS or whatever you choose! It is not the same game anymore. It    THIS IS NOT A REMAKE.

    Bad Bad chococobo, no greens for you!

    All that they needed to do was to follow the original story.
    We did not want any changes, we did not want anything different.
    You waited 20 years to rewrite the story?
    So, you should have CHANGED THE NAME OF THE GAME! IT IS NOT FF7 REMAKE, IT´S FF7 SHADOWS or whatever you choose!

    It is not the same game anymore.

    It started well, good graphics, interesting gameplay BUT ended up in a very disapointing way.

    Bad Bad chococobo, no greens for you!    … Expand
  85. Rossbobart
    May 9, 2020
    2
    This review still recommends a single playthrough of this game. It has many good qualities and fans of final fantasy should still play it.

    However a message to all of you 9+ reviewers out there; seriously? If my complaint below wasn’t a thing I’d say this game is worthy of a solid 8/10. But realistically this game doesn’t hold a candle in comparison to God of War. Both essentially    This review still recommends a single playthrough of this game. It has many good qualities and fans of final fantasy should still play it.

    However a message to all of you 9+ reviewers out there; seriously?
    If my complaint below wasn’t a thing I’d say this game is worthy of a solid 8/10.

    But realistically this game doesn’t hold a candle in comparison to God of War. Both essentially remakes, both with action combat, small explorable environments, side quests and many other similar gameplay aspects; Except GoW is worthy of a 10.

    But here’s why I’m so upset I give this a 2/10 instead of a 8/10:

    Replayability is a joke, hardmode is just stupid. It's completely easy until you reach some core boss storyline boss fights and then it's way too hard. The cheap cop-out of hardmode is to just "remove item usage", therefore MP management is the entire concern of hard mode.

    Game breaking bugs exist, in the sense that you are forced to reload your game, such as crawling in ducts in chapter 16, if you view below while crawling to see some nods talking, you will be unable to “press circle to exit” and are forced to reload your game. So if you don’t save often, or use auto save mostly, you wasted at least an hour of your life, and more if you did some challenges. There’s a few similar bugs throughout the game and I’ve experienced it once previous, while some other people have up to 4 different times in a single play through. Absolutely unacceptable garbage, it’s not like you’ll have to do some ridiculous glitch moves to make it happen, nope just play the game casually and you'll likely encounter this, so SAVE YOUR GAME OFTEN.

    In closing;
    Much like many legitimate people on youtube and twitch who reviewed this game, an honest review is to say that this game does a lot well, and a lot bad. It's both opposite sides of the spectrum at the same time with very little middle ground, and unfortunately the bad outweigh the good in my opinion.

    If you can get over the story changes (it's still mostly the same story), great. However for me, the game leaves me wanted to play more, to play a real NG+, but instead we're left a poor excuse of a hardmode.

    Oh, and Red XIII is awesome but you can't play as him, and the ending cutscene/fight was pretty ridiculous. Might as well have imported scenes from the Advent Children movie.

    This is my first true LOVE HATE game.    … Expand
  86. Kinkas5
    May 9, 2020
    2
    If they didn't outright lie about being a remake, i would give a bigger score. Completely disappointed.
  87. robisara
    May 17, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Chapters 1-17 are amazing. Chapter 18 really feels like a slap in the face. I'm not a die-hard "purist" oldschool fan and I didn't play the original as a kid, so I have no nostalgia for it and no "mental remake" to be drawing from.

    Most of the changes are stuff I would never have noticed, and I regularly liked characters and plot points that (reportedly) weren't in the original. But the big changes, the bait-and-switch changes, (e.g. retconning out major character deaths, inserting time-traveling-ghosts, turning an otherwise realistic and likable Aerith into an all-knowing prophet in the last 2 hours of the game) are impossible not to notice because of how jarring and out of place they are.

    I couldn't believe how mean-spirited it was for them to basically cast the original creators and the people who loved the original game as the new villains via the "arbiters of fate" nonsense plot. I was really excited to play the remake and get to experience the character-driven story about the inevitability of loss and the permanence of its effect I had heard about, with the benefit of PS4 level graphics and incredible combat that the original just can't deliver in 2020. The remake is not so much about loss and permanence anymore... it cheapens death by retconning formative losses out of the timeline while explicitly rejecting permanence, turning grounded and relatable characters with grounded and comprehensible stakes into a convoluted alternate-timeline nonsense tornado filled with cartoonish superheroics about fighting destiny (AKA fighting the original impactful and well-written story and anyone who liked it apparently) or some nonsense.

    I have lost all interest in playing future installments and feel honestly kinda betrayed and just... empty. 9/10 for the first 17 chapters, and I wrestled with giving the overall game a 6/ or 7/10 because it really is great and worth playing, but it takes such a hard, insulting left turn in the last few hours that all my love for the preceding hours, my excitement for the next installments, and my interest in the game overall just... evaporated. I'm one of the people who actually LIKED FF15 and the new look and feel of FF games. I loved the characters (when they weren't inexplicably becoming all-knowing prophets and opening portals to the end of creation or something), including characters who weren't in the original game (Leslie for example).

    But... that ending was so alienating to me as a newcomer, and mean-spirited and nonsensical, that it put me off so bad that I won't play the rest of the series. I feel wronged somehow, like I was promised a chance to see and understand this thing that so many people loved, and at the last minute got the rug pulled out. No interest in the rest of the series, will just get a console that can play the original or something. Unless the rest of the series straight up pretends chapter 18 didn't happen I guess.    … Expand
  88. tangers58
    Jun 23, 2020
    2
    Extremely weird retconning and paying full price for a quarter of a game. Not to mention turning one of the great turn based RPG into just another crap action game.
  89. DavieSl
    Aug 23, 2020
    2
    They promised midgar to explore. Lie.
    They said they could only fit it on one disk. Lie. They killed Deus Ex because of this same lie.
    Long animations of pulling levers, crawling through unnecessary spaces, forced walking and running back and forth through long corriders to try to make the game length seem longer than it should be. Bad graphics, apart from the characters and weapons,    They promised midgar to explore. Lie.
    They said they could only fit it on one disk. Lie. They killed Deus Ex because of this same lie.
    Long animations of pulling levers, crawling through unnecessary spaces, forced walking and running back and forth through long corriders to try to make the game length seem longer than it should be.
    Bad graphics, apart from the characters and weapons, flat 2D backgrounds and a PS2 environment.
    MMO fetch and kill sidequests
    Long boring corriders, nothing off the beaten track.
    Hallway simulator.
    Recycled areas such as the sewers.
    Boring environments.
    No replayability.
    Childish and immature anime dialogues and animations.
    Waiting for the ATB bar to fill up leads to frustrating combat.
    Pointless summons which sometimes need 2 full ATB bars.
    They butchered the original soundtrack.
    Messed up the storyline.
    Unbalanced MP>spellcost>ether ratio. Ethers refill 20 MP some spells cost 22.
    All of the varietys of materia packed in, most of it not needed.
    Easy game.

    All in all a terrible, boring and frustrating experience. A blatant cash grab and con job. Fans deserve a proper game not this half assed mess.    … Expand
  90. DevilSurvivor
    Nov 18, 2021
    2
    Thank god I got this on PS Plus, because I was actually considering giving money for this pile of turds.

    It's probably one of the most disappointing games I played, and I wasn't even that much of a fan of the original. Textures don't pop all the time, all over the place from NPC faces to interactable objects, it's easy to fix but it was never patched. Fights are insanely difficult with    Thank god I got this on PS Plus, because I was actually considering giving money for this pile of turds.

    It's probably one of the most disappointing games I played, and I wasn't even that much of a fan of the original. Textures don't pop all the time, all over the place from NPC faces to interactable objects, it's easy to fix but it was never patched.
    Fights are insanely difficult with an artificial difficulty added in that makes hard mode impossible to stomach (infinite sleep or stun, one hit KOs followed by poke attacks while sleeping, bosses have way too much health that it can take 30 minutes for a fight). Absolute trash.

    The music is an embarrassment to the series, how do people say this is good?? It sounds like generic Avengers type of trash that you see on every triple A game now, and yet the original was so unique?

    All of the dungeons are just hallways you run forward and encounter enemies maybe, and the entirety of the story (that which wasn't changed into whacky wohoo time traveling ghosts and parallel dimensions) feels like filler content for a game that already was 80 hours long back in the PS1. This is the ultimate, low effort cashgrab, and people out there actually consider this a masterpiece. Embarrassing.

    Tifa is super cute though.    … Expand
  91. 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
  92. Kirikou974
    Jul 16, 2020
    2
    On the plus side : it's beautiful and the music are great
    On the minus side :
    - fights and camera angles are a nightmare - the game lacks consistency - sloowwwww pace - it's basically a long alley - the shinra tower part is boring - side quests are meh I'm a huge fan of FF7 and I was really disappointed with the overall experience of this remake. I set the difficulty to easy so    On the plus side : it's beautiful and the music are great
    On the minus side :
    - fights and camera angles are a nightmare
    - the game lacks consistency
    - sloowwwww pace
    - it's basically a long alley
    - the shinra tower part is boring
    - side quests are meh

    I'm a huge fan of FF7 and I was really disappointed with the overall experience of this remake.
    I set the difficulty to easy so that the fights stop being such a pain where I don't feel I have control at all.
    I went straitght to the end because I was just not enjoying the experience.
    Don't spoil your memories of FF7, don't play this game.    … Expand
  93. RedfieldSensei
    Mar 10, 2021
    2
    Весь ремейк напоминает рескин 13-й финалки с ее скучными и унылыми коридорами. Сами локации очень маленькие и что-бы это хоть как-то "прикрыть" разрабы ничего другого не придумали. как наставить коробок или других препятствий дабы замедлить ГГ. Когда подходишь к коробкам персонаж останавливается на секунду, потом он начинает медленно втискиваться между ними, потом медленно, шаг за шагомВесь ремейк напоминает рескин 13-й финалки с ее скучными и унылыми коридорами. Сами локации очень маленькие и что-бы это хоть как-то "прикрыть" разрабы ничего другого не придумали. как наставить коробок или других препятствий дабы замедлить ГГ. Когда подходишь к коробкам персонаж останавливается на секунду, потом он начинает медленно втискиваться между ними, потом медленно, шаг за шагом продвигается и вот, когда уже выбрался, он снова останавливается на секунды 2-3... И таких моментов очень много и главное, что они ничего не несут за собой, просто растягивания времени.
    Сами персонажи тоже постоянно тормозят ГГ, то им надо поговорить, то на что-то посмотреть... И ладно бы просто говорили, но нет! ГГ либо в прямом смысле замедляют и он движется со скоростью 10м в час, либо начинается катсцена.. А чаще всего, и то и другое и вишенкой на торте преграда из коробок и так каждые 5 минут в игре. 2 минуты сражаешься, 15 минут терпишь. Многие кричали, что "игра" проходится за часов 50. Но это не повод для счастья. Из них часов 15 катсцен, 20ч болтовни и преград, еще 10 часов уйдет на сайдквесты, все остальное это геймплей.
    Сами реплики тоже ничего не предстваляют. Обычная затычка для растягивания времени, типа:
    - Клауд?
    - Да?
    - А, ничего.
    ------------------
    - Да сколько тут этих ступенек?
    - Спроси у лестницы!

    Вся игра сделана так, что-бы прикрыть минусы и заявить, типа, якобы о "ААА" статусе и запросить за это 60 евро.
    Играбельных персонажей всего 4. Играть дают только за 2-3х. Поэтому постоянно приходится менять "мету" и подстраивать под себя. В лучшем случае.. А в худшем, может начаться заварушка когда твой хил свалил куда-то и ты остался с 3 ДПСами и во время боя нельзя менять материи..
    Сайд квесты это самое унылое, что есть в этой "игре"... Это просто "принеси-поддай" в течении 5 часов. И в каждом новом "городе" таких заданий по 9 штук.
    Ну и конечно это анонс версии для пс5 с эксклюзивными фичами вроде фото-мода и конечно длс... Учитывая, что даже Сони признают то, что сейчас дефицит самих консолей и до конца 21г. ничего не изменится... они решают вот таким способом продвигать пс5... Которых либо нет, либо стоят под 1000 евро у перекупов... И самое кринжовое это то, что сама игра и не закончена! Это просто первая глава! И вместо того, что-бы делать 2-ю главу, разрабы решили этот "кусочек", поделить на "дольки" и продавать за реальные деньги, эксклюзивно на некст-гене. После всех новостей и прохождения ФФ7 ремейка, было ощущение, что я находился в каком-то Соус парке или Симпсонах на сколько все это нелепо.    … Expand
  94. aitan_3
    Sep 17, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. That ending destroyed the game. SPOILERS AHEAD
    Fighting a giant god representing"fate itself in order to break the chains of destiny while taking a trip at the "edge of creation" - whatever that means -, liberally sprinkling hints at alternative timelines and parallele universes just to make the mess messier, seems like something you might encounter in a fanfic written by a 12 years old fan awkwardly trying to concoct the basest, cheapest sense of epicness available, not a plot envisioned by a professional writer with even a basic understanding of story-telling. The party didn't "earn" that fight from a narrative point of view, there was no proper organic build-up to it, no heartfelt personal stakes conveyed to the player, and as a result the reaped rewards felt underwhelming (if not meaningless), while also projecting a jarring, potentially ridiculous effect on future events: good luck explaining how that very same party will struggle to defeat mushrooms, snakes and bats from now on!    … Expand
  95. rdx73
    Mar 14, 2021
    2
    What the hell? My first Final Fantasy game, and TBH I have no idea why people obsess over them. This has some serious flaws which are effectively blocking me from continuing. Core is that it doesn't explain some things. Like why, in combat, can I sometimes take a potion and at other times I can't? How do MP regenerate? Can I regenerate them in combat? This all becomes critical when theWhat the hell? My first Final Fantasy game, and TBH I have no idea why people obsess over them. This has some serious flaws which are effectively blocking me from continuing. Core is that it doesn't explain some things. Like why, in combat, can I sometimes take a potion and at other times I can't? How do MP regenerate? Can I regenerate them in combat? This all becomes critical when the battles go from being rather easy with a bit of a challenge when a larger mechanical enemy comes along to a sudden, massive jump not very far into the game. This is basically an impossible battle unless you have the combat system really thoroughly down. That might be fine if you have played other FF games, but that is ridiculous. It is not like the combat in other games I've played.

    Ruins what looked like being a reasonable game.    … Expand
  96. 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
  97. FelixS90
    Mar 15, 2021
    2
    My first and last FF game, didn’t know what to expect. But I was let down by both the game mechanics, the story, the dialogue, the cliché characters and the mixed pace of the game, the action scenes are super fast but the cut sequences are super slow (and too many), the movement and transitions between squeezing through a tight alley takes forever, pulling a switch takes a solid three toMy first and last FF game, didn’t know what to expect. But I was let down by both the game mechanics, the story, the dialogue, the cliché characters and the mixed pace of the game, the action scenes are super fast but the cut sequences are super slow (and too many), the movement and transitions between squeezing through a tight alley takes forever, pulling a switch takes a solid three to four seconds and sometimes your movement speed is constricted for no apparent reason. Slow paced games can be great sometimes, but the mix here makes it almost unbearable.… Expand
  98. vuvuwu
    Apr 14, 2021
    2
    I didnt understand that game. Maybe for fans. Spent only 2 hours and than deleted
  99. JUspadoni
    Apr 30, 2021
    2
    Nova historia fraca,mudanca no sistema de combate, se for pra fazer remake, mantenha o original e nao nomeie sua ideia um remake
  100. yoeeeey
    Feb 5, 2022
    2
    Basically made the worst aspects of the original game's story, dialog, and plot and made then even worse. Totally and unabashedly cringe, childish, unnappealing, self-important without substance, and generally lacking a creative purpose other than making revenue gains.

    The graphics and setting are nice. That's my positive note The gameplay relies heavily on handholding and tutorial    Basically made the worst aspects of the original game's story, dialog, and plot and made then even worse. Totally and unabashedly cringe, childish, unnappealing, self-important without substance, and generally lacking a creative purpose other than making revenue gains.

    The graphics and setting are nice. That's my positive note

    The gameplay relies heavily on handholding and tutorial pop-ups that break immersion. Aside from that, combat is unintuitive and frustrating for a number of reasons: bad ai design, bad stun and stagger mechanics that are heavily biased against the player, and yet it's still too easy. It's just not great. Square has not been able to figure out 3D action-oriented gameplay in 20 years, and I really wish they would just abandon that venture and stick to thoughtful strategy.

    I think Square has gone too far into itself and lost touch with its fan base. In fact this game is an open mockery of fans, so much so that it's integrated into the story in a controversial twist that breaks the fourth wall and shatters any chance of immersion. It's a joke, they know it and they're laughing at you for buying it. These people don't appreciate video games as an art form anymore, and really that's just sad. I feel bad for Square. Selling your soul never really works out.

    In conclusion, Final Fantasy VII: Remake is a flamboyant testament of self-sabotage. I wish I could say I had the motivation to stick through to the next release being such a fan of the original, but frankly they lost me on this one. Once these losers get rich they get addicted and they stop caring about what they're doing. Don't enable them, don't give them your money.    … Expand
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#8 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#5 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 126 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 116 out of 126
  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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