Final Fantasy VII Remake

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  1. Rats_Off_To_Ya
    Mar 18, 2022
    2
    Visually, just unbelievably amazing coming from a fan of the game. Exiting the apartment to the view of the upper plate and the slums of Sector 7 just simply perfect, and sets the tone for the rest of the perfect visual delivery.

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

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

    I'll continue to applaud the visuals and the work the PC mod community has done but not looking forward to the story in parts to come.    … Expand
  2. TheGuitarGamer
    Apr 12, 2022
    2
    I played it. I must admit, it's a really beautiful remake. But selling the game with different arcs and selling for 70$ each is a absurd. I think I'll stick with the PS1/PC classic version.
  3. Sir_Him
    Jun 10, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bloated mess of a game. Outside the music and fantastic visuals, the only thing good about this game is the combat system, but that's only at the start. After a while, you realize that it's all spectacle and no substance, which is Nomura's specialty.

    All they had to do was follow the original game and expand a bit here and there, but instead they decided to cram the game with useless filler so they can justify slicing it up and selling it in parts for $60 - $100 a pop. And don't even get me started on the corrupt decision to lock the DLC to the PS5 only. Sucks to suck for the people who got this game on the PS4.

    The story is such a mess I don't even know where to begin. First off, the reveal that Sephiroth was the one Cloud was seeing in those brief black outs, is not only wrong, but completely ruins Sephiroth's reveal later on. In the original, Sephiroth's reveal was masterfully done. Walking through the hallways of the Shrina building, seeing the trail of blood as you came across mutilated corpses of enemies you were just struggling to fight and then finding the body of the Shinra president. It made you terrified of Sephiroth. This time, they show him right off the bat and ruin any sort of build up to the fact that he's alive. Yes, the original came out 30 years ago and everyone knows that Sephiroth is alive, but that doesn't excuse poor story telling. If A New Hope was remade and they added a bunch of scenes where Vader was taunting Luke through the Force and told him right away he's Luke's father, it would be seen as a massive misstep and downright insulting. Everyone knows that Vader is Luke's father, but that doesn't make the reveal in Empire any less impactful all these years later. Changing the Sephiroth reveal shows that they have no idea how to tell a story, but I should have expected that with Nomura at the helm of this project.

    The entire idea that Cloud and Sephiroth are fate-crossed enemies is a bunch of bull crap, as well. Go play the original. Sephiroth barely even notices Clouds existence other than seeing him as a useful pawn. Them being fated enemies never even comes into play. At most, Cloud hates Sephiroth and wants to kill him.

    And to top it all off, the in-game representation of fans of the original game, the ones that have been pleading for a remake for 20+ years are the final villain of part 1. The arbiters of fate or whatever they were called are trying to have this new game follow the story beats of the original and they have you kill them off. They have you kill off the in-game representation of the people who wanted the game to be true to the original. How is that not seen as a massive insult? It's a spit in the face to people who asked for a remake for years and then got this hot mess.

    TLDR: This game sucked and Nomura is an idiot.    … Expand
  4. Salty_McSalt
    Jun 24, 2022
    2
    We wanted a remake for years. So many years that two decades passed us all by and then we finally got it. I would have loved to say that the wait was worth it. That it was worth it to wait a little longer for the game to be ported over from the PS4 to PC... I do. I truly wish I could say that...

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

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

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

    WHAT THE HELL?!?!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    The remake is a padded out disappointment.

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

    I'm reinstalling the original version, via Steam, as I type this. I prefer it.    … Expand
  5. Sequn
    Aug 2, 2022
    2
    The worst action jrpg I've played on my PS4, and the literally worst remake ever made.
    All these people that try to start ff7 they don't understand what the actual original PS1 game is, because this sh#t fake remake try to make a sort of Reboot of the original story, making retarded plot changes (crazy time ghost sh#t, and alternative timeline garbage) that destroy completely the whole    The worst action jrpg I've played on my PS4, and the literally worst remake ever made.
    All these people that try to start ff7 they don't understand what the actual original PS1 game is, because this sh#t fake remake try to make a sort of Reboot of the original story, making retarded plot changes (crazy time ghost sh#t, and alternative timeline garbage) that destroy completely the whole sense of the original. Who praise this crap, and who praise the idiotic Nomura's choice, are basically blind.    … Expand
  6. ASalty801
    Aug 16, 2022
    2
    Looks pretty, but that's about it. The gameplay simply isnt fun and its packed with garbage filler to stretch the game into multiple releases because money. A proper ff7 remake should have been an easy home run, but by either greed or incompetence we got this.
  7. Xerrin
    Jun 26, 2023
    2
    A boring and bad Remake, because it isn't a real Remake
    They should have called it Final Fantasy VII Rewrite, since it fit better the point of this reboot
  8. TruthSeaker
    Aug 15, 2023
    2
    Extremely underwhelming.
    Small part of the full game that was bloated with worthless content and sold for 70$
  9. JonnyNormus
    Apr 13, 2020
    1
    Honestly I feel cheated. I pre-ordered thinking this was a remake of the full game and was extremely excited for it. Finding out it's only a remake of the first ~8 hours is utterly disappointing and infuriating. This should be called FFVII Remake - Part 1 (or something) to let consumers know what it is. It's incredibly misleading and simply false advertising to call this Final Fantasy 7Honestly I feel cheated. I pre-ordered thinking this was a remake of the full game and was extremely excited for it. Finding out it's only a remake of the first ~8 hours is utterly disappointing and infuriating. This should be called FFVII Remake - Part 1 (or something) to let consumers know what it is. It's incredibly misleading and simply false advertising to call this Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

    Additionally, the amount of content (25-30 hours) is wayyy to short for a AAA, $60 RPG.

    Everything about this feels greedy and disrespectful to loyal gamers.    … Expand
  10. duffz
    Apr 24, 2020
    1
    ‪70 euros for maybe a fifth of the original game (and no... about 30 hours playtime is not a full final fantasy game). And then it is not even clearly communicated when the next part will appear. Sorry, but this is a rip off and not what this classic deserves.
  11. shaoran2
    Apr 11, 2020
    1
    This is not a remake, it is a re-imagination from final fantasy 7 Changes in the story Sephiroth is presented at the beginning of the game, which makes one of the most emblematic enemies of all time meaningless.
    gameplay is a kingdom hearts mixed with crisis core not bad but far from a final fantasy.

    morph no exist .
  12. Whiteout
    Apr 24, 2020
    1
    As a fan of the original, it was the best game ever until chapter 18 happened.
    The intro, the feeling of bursting into the reactors living again this incredible story, the fight with the Airbuster, knowing you Avalanche mates better (Jessie!), meeting Aerith and walking on the rooftops with her, Wall Market, the Shinra Building, how some regular enemies from the original became bosses.
    I    As a fan of the original, it was the best game ever until chapter 18 happened.
    The intro, the feeling of bursting into the reactors living again this incredible story, the fight with the Airbuster, knowing you Avalanche mates better (Jessie!), meeting Aerith and walking on the rooftops with her, Wall Market, the Shinra Building, how some regular enemies from the original became bosses.
    I even liked some of the new content (a lot of fanservice and some filler but ok).
    But THAT final twist completely destroyed the love, FF7R could have follwed the original script and ended up being the best game ever, but no.
    Also, I'll never accept the fact that the game is censored; Tifa changes (while her Dissidia NT counterpart is perfect), Don Corneo picking only Cloud...

    No I'm not gonna buy part 2, and other SE games that involve Nomura and the Ethics Department.    … Expand
  13. SeloJRPG
    May 16, 2020
    1
    Square Enix has lost what once made them great for a long time now.
    All they had to do to reclaim the throne was to do what Persona 5 did.
    Instead, they are now only doing boring hack and slash games.

    Ontop of that they are milking the original game to the extreme with ALOT of filler content that are just boring.
    So many things that made the original game epic, are now gone.
  14. jim-bob
    Apr 17, 2020
    1
    FINAL FANTASY VII "REMAKE" Is an insulting marketing scam directed by a childish egomaniac with no respect for the original game or the fans.
    THIS GAME IS NOT A REMAKE. it's advertising fraud. The core plot & themes have been ripped out and replaced with an idiotic, convoluted trainwreck involving the stupidest ideas ever conceived.
    Time travel, alternate timelines, alternate dimensions,    FINAL FANTASY VII "REMAKE" Is an insulting marketing scam directed by a childish egomaniac with no respect for the original game or the fans.
    THIS GAME IS NOT A REMAKE. it's advertising fraud. The core plot & themes have been ripped out and replaced with an idiotic, convoluted trainwreck involving the stupidest ideas ever conceived.
    Time travel, alternate timelines, alternate dimensions, visions of the future, time travelling ghosts from a future timeline that make the audience lose brain cells every time they appear.
    Profoundly idiotic nonsense that has no place in the story or universe & belongs in the tangled mess that is Kingdom Hearts. The characters aren't even the same. They're alternate characters from an alternate universe/timeline. i'm not joking.

    --THIS IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT & HORRIBLE ORIGINAL STORY--
    A direct quote from a Square Enix Gamespot interview
    "in terms of how faithful the remake is to the original Final Fantasy VII, from the perspective of the storyline it is very faithful indeed"
    Square Enix LIED. they have lied to their fans for 5 years straight.
    The game starts off looking similar to FF7 at the intro of the bombing mission for the purpose of deceiving you, then the plot quickly drives off a cliff into poorly written absurdity that bears little to no resemblance to FF7. Cloud is having visions of the future, Aerith and Sephiroth are now from the future, as if this wasn't enough to completely ruin their character development & every great scene they're supposed to have Sephiroth now shows up every 5 minutes ruining the build up he had and his reveal in FF7, there are also time travelling ghosts that show up way too often. they are at the core of the bastardised plot making up the most moronic & badly written scenes in this game. Things get even stupider towards the Shinra building & the ending is just a surreal mess that plays out like a bad fanfiction with terrible implications for the future of the series.

    --TERRIBLE GAMEPLAY PADDING--
    When news released this game would be Midgar only (only the first 10% of the original game) the devs claimed it had to be this way because they had so much content and ideas to expand midgar. However There aren't really any new areas, many of the ones that are there are badly made with garbage low resolution textures and a distinct lack of detail and polish, the game feels more linear than ever and ultimately it's obvious they lied again. this game should only be a few hours long however they've padded it out to 30 hours by using the absolute worst aspects of modern 'cinematic' games & RPGs.
    the combat is mostly fun. not solid... but fun however most of the game is not spent doing combat.
    most of your time is wasted on forced side quests that are long, tedious & uninteresting, Forced walking/slow moving state sections, performing meaningless & monotonous interactions that play long animations (e.g pressing triangle to move an obstacle out of your way, pressing a button and waiting for a machine do it's thing, sliding along a narrow wall)
    There's so much of this. it's spread across the game so as not to anger players too much but all together it's only purpose is to pad out the game by wasting hours of the players time.

    --THIS GAME IS NOT FOR PEOPLE NEW TO FF7--
    it's completely inaccessible to a new audience. if you wanted to experience FF7 for the first time with modern gameplay and graphics, if you wanted to play an actual remake like you were promised.. you can't. This game is not that. it's a completely different plot by nomura that expects that you've played the original Final Fantasy 7, Crisis Core for the PSP & watched the FF7 Advent children movie to understand it. (there's references to Dirge of Cerberus too)
    Nomura is a pretentious hack who makes his games unapproachable by demanding way more from the audience then his crappy writing is ever deserving of.

    Never let Nomura direct or write anything ever again. Square Enix have scammed their fans and this is the last time they'll ever see my money.    … Expand
  15. sweed1234
    Apr 21, 2020
    1
    Brilliant game did everything right except the ending was horrible, confusing and may ruin the game. Hope they explain it properly and do away with most of the whisper nonsense. Too much padding and filler. Too much nonsense, not the remake I had in mind. Do not appreciate this rubbish, will play part 2 by buying pre owned.
  16. Jevinigh
    Apr 12, 2020
    1
    IT'S HALF A GAME!! IT'S LESS!!

    Devoid of any of the wonder of the original; stripped of any depth and left a shallow reflection of it's former self!! The game is all show and tedium! It's 20~Hours long without the cut scenes!
  17. Animegroove
    Apr 10, 2020
    1
    Este juego es una falta de respeto al original No tiene el contenido completo y viene en formato episódico Gracias Square Enix por joder el juego
  18. NashEquil
    Apr 20, 2020
    1
    Final Fantasy VII REMAKE is a sad, delusional, fragmented, shell of the original. They took one of the greatest stories in console history, chopped it up, and added 30 hours of boring, slogging, pointless gameplay. For new players, the story will make absolutely no sense. For veterans, you will instantly realize they destroyed everything there was to love. Nobody wanted this.
    R.I.P. FFVII 2020
  19. Lucky_Strikez
    May 15, 2022
    1
    I keep trying to like this, I just upgraded to the PS5 version and the whole game is literally just padding and filler. I love the original game so much and they destroyed it here. Tifa was my favorite character but I hate her in this version. They made her look so stupid and her voice doesn't match at all. Wedge is also retarded. There's a lot of awesome things that they did right butI keep trying to like this, I just upgraded to the PS5 version and the whole game is literally just padding and filler. I love the original game so much and they destroyed it here. Tifa was my favorite character but I hate her in this version. They made her look so stupid and her voice doesn't match at all. Wedge is also retarded. There's a lot of awesome things that they did right but overall I just can't deny that I hate it overall. We had a chance to see something awesome here, they could've recreated FF7 1:1 and instead of pre-rendered gfx we could have seen it all in realtime. That would have been glorious. But that's never going to happen now, they done **** up.… Expand
  20. laurent22
    Sep 24, 2020
    1
    Was expecting a complete game and quite a disappointment to see we'll have to wait many years for the complete story. What's left is a very linear game, pretty much just a film with a few interactive sequences in between. Sadly the best part in the original FF7 is after Midgar but that's for another time.
  21. jgcuna
    Apr 15, 2020
    1
    Se juega bastante con la nostalgia de los fans, juego visualmente bueno y con una historia agrandada en personajes con poca relevancia en la versión original de playstation 1, sin embargo se corto demasiado zonas secundarias ya conocidas, el juego esta incompleto en historia no es ni el primer disco de los 3 que conformaban el videojuego original, precio inaccesible para una historia incompleta
  22. Niftylen
    Apr 11, 2020
    1
    Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, that's how I'd describe my final opinion of this Nomura headed 'REMAKE' of FF7.

    I was ready to give this game a 10/10 and immediately start up a second, hard-mode playthrough of the game as a victory lap of what was 90% one of the most incredible gaming experiences I've ever had. 23 years ago I wasn't even old enough to appreciate the OG    Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, that's how I'd describe my final opinion of this Nomura headed 'REMAKE' of FF7.

    I was ready to give this game a 10/10 and immediately start up a second, hard-mode playthrough of the game as a victory lap of what was 90% one of the most incredible gaming experiences I've ever had.

    23 years ago I wasn't even old enough to appreciate the OG FFVII, though a few years after it's release I did play through it and for myself, and many, many other now 20+ year old gamers, it was etched in my memory as the definitive RPG game and a wonderful, unique story told through arguably the most iconic cast of characters of all time in gaming.

    It's 2020, and the so called 'REMAKE' that seemed like a mythical dream we all had that would never be realised, ala Half-Life 3, is finally here.

    56 hours in and the game reaches an incredible crescendo of nostalgic boss after boss, massive set pieces that were only polygons interpreted into imagined epic scenes back in 1997, are finally fully realised with glorious graphics and sound.

    However, throughout the journey I kept getting a sick feeling in my stomach. These hooded sand-ghosts flying around scenes and influencing the action, I kept trying to interpret this new addition to the narrative, I tried to settle on it just being a device to show the planet trying to direct the heroes on their path, or even Jenova cells deceiving them.

    Something just didn't quite sit right though, they looked, and behaved quite like 'Nobodies' in the KH series, a thought which broke the immersion and brought me back to a reality where Tetsuya Nomura was at the helm.

    I remember how awful the KH series had become, how much of a let down FFXV was, how convoluted and contrived the plots were, and how cringeworthy the FFVII expanded universe had been (perhaps bar some parts of Crisis Core, though a lot of it was very, very 'anime').

    And so, with that sick feeling in my stomach I reached the last few chapter of the game, knowing in the back of my mind that things were about to go off the rails, at least to some extent.

    Suffice to say, things were worse than I could have imagined. I don't need to describe the events of the end of this game, but it was truly, truly disappointing, and actually quite saddening, to see what could have been such a celebration and honouring of an all-time classic be corrupted.

    After the end credits I found myself quite upset if I'm being honest. It's the same sort of feeling that the final season of GOT gave me, or that feeling when a band you love 'sells out' and starts playing cheap, formulaic pop songs.

    There's quite a few thoughts and questions I've been ruminating over, now that I'm starting to digest what's been done in this game.

    Why did they call it 'REMAKE' and not advertise it as a completely new story, or even a sequel (I think the events of the game point towards it being more of the latter)? I think I would have not pre-ordered, and would have set my expectations very differently, had this been the case. I suspect money could be the only reason I feel duped as a fan of the original.

    Who decided that the story should be drastically changed, and indeed be changed by none other than one of the stinkiest, hack-iest tropes of story telling in time-travel and alternative universes? I suspect Nomura had a big hand in this, given his track record on creating absolute messes of narratives in recent game he's been heavily involved in.

    The thought that angers me most is that the original FFVII is a piece of art, it's no longer something should be though of as solely owned by its creators. It's in the hearts of many, many fans, who give the game and story its honoured place as a classic through their fandom and love for it.

    The more and more I think about it, I feel like Nomura and co. have little to no respect for the fans that have given their work this love, and perhaps even harbour some contempt for them wanting to see their childhood imagination and memories of the story realised as they deserve to be.

    There is a certain arrogance to twisting this world and story to their own whim, as if to say that "this is our world, our characters, what you fans think means nothing to us, we can do what we want with them and you can get f**ked if you disagree".

    Perhaps I will come to terms with the fact that there will probably now never be a full and proper remake of this game, keeping the original, impeccable narrative intact, whilst fleshing out the world and characters in a tasteful fashion. The first 90% of this game achieved this goal, just to throw it out in the final hour or so.

    Perhaps I'll let it go one day, and try to enjoy the sequel, though I won't hold my breath given how truly awful the new writing at the end of this game was

    You were so, so close to perfection, but I suspect egos, pay-checks, and influence are too much a factor at Square-Enix.    … Expand
  23. Alukard
    Apr 11, 2020
    1
    В 2020 году, когда ААА игры выходят с переводом на несколько десятков языков, выпускать игру за фул прайс на 4 языках - фантастическое свинство и жадность
  24. Jahgro
    Apr 24, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don't even know what to say. What a terrible game and ending. Just awful storytelling, and pacing. I am honestly in complete shock at how bad it was.… Expand
  25. kremator
    Apr 13, 2020
    1
    Boring, it seems that all old titles that were remastered / remade are done by lazy people.
  26. Danilocomin
    May 21, 2020
    1
    pathetic selling a new game with only a small part.
    Square deceived us. We fans were expecting a complete game. They spent hours in Midgard thinking only of money.
    How many years will we have to wait to fight the Weapon? How many more parts will the game have?
    I am extremely disappointed!
  27. deriksagetwitch
    Apr 13, 2020
    1
    This is Kingdom Hearts masked as a Final Fantasy game. There's so much padding and purposely slowed portions of the game, it really makes it feel like they watered down a 10 hour portion of the original game into 30 to 40 hours. Make no mistake, the combat feels nice and the graphics are just top notice, unless you're in a section that doesn't load well. Some of the design choices forThis is Kingdom Hearts masked as a Final Fantasy game. There's so much padding and purposely slowed portions of the game, it really makes it feel like they watered down a 10 hour portion of the original game into 30 to 40 hours. Make no mistake, the combat feels nice and the graphics are just top notice, unless you're in a section that doesn't load well. Some of the design choices for enemies are severely questionable and a lot of the content is superfluous.

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

    I don't want to spoil it, but the ending made zero sense to me... that's AFTER playing it and then watching it live-streamed... and here I am, still confused.    … Expand
  28. sobble
    Apr 10, 2020
    1
    A tedious linear corridor simulator that ruins the original FF7. It has worse quests and combat to ff15 and has ff13 level design which is bad. it ruins the story in the end and is false advertising itself as a remake. graphics are very bad like they look worse than ff12 in all the locations.
    only some of the story scenes look good because that's where all the budget went so i give it a    A tedious linear corridor simulator that ruins the original FF7. It has worse quests and combat to ff15 and has ff13 level design which is bad. it ruins the story in the end and is false advertising itself as a remake. graphics are very bad like they look worse than ff12 in all the locations.
    only some of the story scenes look good because that's where all the budget went so i give it a 1/10 for that at least.    … Expand
  29. Dave199
    Jun 30, 2020
    1
    This remake fails as a remake the story is completely changed from the original this Dosent make any sense its so sad but the fanbois don't wanna listen re 2 remake did it better so sad
  30. VictorBoomtown
    Apr 11, 2020
    1
    This 'remake' is an insult to those of us who have been waiting 20+ years to finally get to play an updated version of the game. (Which is what everyone wanted.) Suddenly, this game changes the entire plot and **** the bed for any future installments and everyone's praising it for being meta and deep.

    I'm so sick of the whole "this is good because it subverts your expectations!". It    This 'remake' is an insult to those of us who have been waiting 20+ years to finally get to play an updated version of the game. (Which is what everyone wanted.) Suddenly, this game changes the entire plot and **** the bed for any future installments and everyone's praising it for being meta and deep.

    I'm so sick of the whole "this is good because it subverts your expectations!". It wasn't good when Star Wars did it, and it's not good now.    … Expand
  31. Pmememan
    Apr 10, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is not a remake. It is not a remaster.

    THIS GAME IS A SEQUEL/SPIN OFF DISGUISED AS A REMAKE, and it's not even a good spin-off.

    What was once a story about loss and environmental awareness is now a story about time travelling ghosts trying to stop a time travelling Sephiroth from changing the timelines.

    Yes, the new story is about Sephiroth (the one from Advent Children) travelling back in time to change the timeline so that he wins. He is followed back in time by ghosts that try to make sure everything happens as it should.

    So while the first few hours are a faithful 1:1 remake, it very quickly changes to this new, Kingdom Hearts tier storyline that has nothing to do with the original

    Sephiroths character has been assassinated by this new story. In the original, he was a mysterious, threatening entity. You rarely saw the guy, you mostly just saw what he did. The impaled midgar zolom, the massacre at Shinra HQ, the nibelheim flashback. He was so intriguing as a villain because he was mysterious. In the new game every hour or so, Sephiroth shows up and does some monologue that has nothing to do with the original story, because as I said, this isn't a remake

    The game then ends with an Advent Children tier cutscene in which Cloud and co are flying around, slicing flying buildings in half, having a one on one duel with Sephiroth in space, fighting a giant flying time travelling monster.

    Um, how are we supposed to go on to the rest of the game after that? The stakes have been set so high at the first part of this multi game series that the pacing is pretty much screwed up forever.

    Also the whole concept of the time ghosts is stupid. Every time something cool is about to happen, they show up and completely ruin the atmosphere. They were effectively just an excuse for Nomura to rewrite the entire story past this first part.

    The gameplay and cinematics are nice, but that's about it.

    Nomura tricked everyone into buying his FF7 fanfic and I can't believe people are falling for it    … Expand
  32. JustMrFox
    Apr 10, 2020
    1
    Nothing new here . Old story that everyone knows and play like any other current ff game
  33. 43271422
    May 6, 2020
    1
    This game could easily be a 10/10. There were lot of passion and great work put in it but unfortunately it turned out to be a scam. Yes, I cannot belive it either, but they made every fan play through it, and then at the very end of the game, stabbed you in the back. It was like when someone lets you play with your beloved pet from your childhood for 40 hours in order to brutally slaughterThis game could easily be a 10/10. There were lot of passion and great work put in it but unfortunately it turned out to be a scam. Yes, I cannot belive it either, but they made every fan play through it, and then at the very end of the game, stabbed you in the back. It was like when someone lets you play with your beloved pet from your childhood for 40 hours in order to brutally slaughter it in front of you for loving it as it was. Game was marketed as faithful recreation of original game. But this game is litteral, obvious, intended, insult to the fans that elevated original ff7 to piece of art. Users giving it score of 10, probably haven't finished the game yet or cant even comprehend the mess that was thrown at them at the end. It will be forover remembered as FF7 Refund for me.… Expand
  34. wintermute420
    Apr 10, 2020
    1
    Terrible action game in the guise of ff7. They dropped the ball. Very sad that they have done this. This is not a worthy successor to ff7
  35. fgjhytfjtyjyjyj
    Apr 10, 2020
    1
    Its more of a reimagination than a remake, the new battle system suck. this review has to be 75 characters long, but really there isnt much to say i guess the graphics are okay, the dialogue are nice at first but gets long. The ending doesnt make any sense but as said before its a reimagination more than a remake
  36. Valgarv
    Apr 11, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Nomura lo ha hecho una vez mas, destrozar otro FF.
    Es una maravilla poder disfrutar de nuestro juego de la infancia con estos gráficos mejorados, el problema, es que no es el mismo FF7 que los fans conocemos y me explico :
    - Hay partes de la historia que no son canon, son inventadas y no para bien, como los fantasmitas, fumada de Nomura, destrozando el juego completamente ( sobretodo cuando llegas al edificio Shinra, ahi el juego se va literalmente a la mierda )
    - La mitad del juego está relleno de contenido basura, misiones de recadero, sistema de cacería ( igual que el FF15 ), por lo tanto de las 40 horas que puede durar, 20 son de puro relleno. ¿ Enserio no podrian haber utilizado todos estos recursos en hacer al menos misiones secundarias interesantes?.
    - Esto es 1/6 del juego original, para que extender tanto Midgar si lo único que han añadido son misiones basura y pasillos mas largos?
    - Que Red XIII no sea jugable, lamentable.
    - La sensación de vacio al acabar el juego, con un giro argumental muy distinto al original y saber que solo es Midgar.
    - El combate esta bien y mal, bastante facil, con spamear el cuadrado te lo puedes pasar.

    Conclusión, esperaba realmente disfrutar de una historia mas completa ( aunque solo sea Midgar ), pero mi decepción ha sido muy grande al ver que esta relleno de misiones de recadero y caceria, lamentable, queriamos un Final Fantasy 7, no un Final Fantasy 15. ¿Ahora que? cuanto tiempo para la siguiente parte? o esto se va a quedar aqui?    … Expand
  37. wJamesmci
    Jun 26, 2020
    1
    Oxford English dictionary definition if "complete" : Something that has ALL the necessary parts. This game is effectively incomplete, you can't play as all the characters and play the full story. How much are you willing to pay for an unknown number of parts? Oh and things with other parts didn't have the director coming out and saying this is a complete experience. Nomura did and that isOxford English dictionary definition if "complete" : Something that has ALL the necessary parts. This game is effectively incomplete, you can't play as all the characters and play the full story. How much are you willing to pay for an unknown number of parts? Oh and things with other parts didn't have the director coming out and saying this is a complete experience. Nomura did and that is borderline false advertisemen. But of course no one else will think about this truth because of what this is, the most over hyped game ever made… Expand
  38. meloli
    Apr 10, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My gut was telling me that SE will do something horribly wrong with this remake. But everyone around told me to stop been so negative about it. Well guess what? They did. They actually fooled all of us by calling this game a faithful remake with new elements and extended story by simply throwing it all away in the last hours of the game! Time travel? Defying fate? AC/C is now a bad ending to the story? Well done SE. I've lost my last hope for you, as a company. As a game it's a great game, absolutely! But, as a story, as a remake... It's just insulting.… Expand
  39. Yuuko
    Apr 12, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing gameplay, absolutely great characters and music, but this game fails to be an actual REMAKE. Instead you get weird ghosts, time travel and whole lot of stuff that weren't in the orginal. Now it's just another confusing KH, but marketed, as FFVII RE.

    This game was clearly promoted as a faithful remake only to ruin it all in the end. You really think this is okay?

    Definitely NOT a 10/10 game if you actually care for the story of FFVII OG.    … Expand
  40. Mike85
    Apr 11, 2020
    1
    Alright Square. You get a 1 because the game is quite beautiful and the combat is very enjoyable. But thats it.

    Otherwise, you should be ashamed for letting Nomura go crazy and completely butcher the game's story. You promised us a faithful retelling of the story, and we got a sequel full of Kingdom Hearts-esque ridiculousness. You are liars. Incredibly disappointing.
  41. AerithSkies
    Apr 12, 2020
    1
    This is not a Remake. It's a travesty.
    Most reviews are from people who did not finish the game. The ending, and the upcoming games, are an insult to fans. Do yourself a favour and ignore this game exists. It looks nice, it does many things right, but it **** everything up and spits in the face of the lore.
  42. Ekard999
    Apr 13, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They ruined this game by turning it into a time travel story with time wraiths everywhere. The game is infested with them at every story point. They are like roaches. Se lied out their ass about a faithful reproduction. The combat is horrible and the textures are bad and the reuse of Npc models is cringe along with robotic unemotional voice acting. The ghosts ruin it though. This is not a remake it is a sequel with time travel. Se lied and used nostalgia to sell this scam.… Expand
  43. marylain
    Apr 13, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I must admit, I registered Metacritic just to review this game. Also, English is not my native language so please, bear with me if something is not written correctly.

    Oh man... I don't even know where to begin.
    Let's start by saying that I have played the original when I was 15 years old or so, completed every sub-mission and beaten all optional bosses. I loved that game, but not to the point to be considered a purist fangamer; in fact, I was totally opened to some changes and/or insights.
    That being said, what I had got is a beautiful empty box.

    Let's begin with the battle system. As someone else here has already written, this system is plagued with an incredibily bad AI. The other two party members, except auto-atttacking enemies, do absolutely NOTHING during the fight so you have to manually switch on them each time just to fill ATB gauge. This would be rather fine in a turn-based game, but this is not the case since this game "should" be an action RPG. The result is an extremely boring mode in which the system itself actively plays against you instead of relying on game mechanics. Not only that: the CS is also based on staggering enemies... too bad the staggering gauge resets every time a boss changes phase - and this happens multiple times during a fight!

    Pacing is also atrociously bad. The game even mocks you when Aerith forces Cloud to pick a route saying that this was a shortcut when, in reality, it was the exact opposite! The game is about 50 hours long and it covers about 5 hours of the original game, but instead of filling those extra 45 hours with more in-depth analysis of the characters and the lore in general, they force the player to undergo some soporific sub quests which seem to take forever to accomplish as they are basically fetch quests that don't add absolutely anything new to the plot.
    Dungeons, while might be visually astonishing, are just a bunch of hallways very reminiscent of the ones I had already experienced in FF13. They are also long and totally uninspired.

    In other words, the game does literally in its power to stretch the playtime as much as possible with gimmicks and useless content.

    Soundtrack had all the premises to be great and memorable: unfortunately most of the best tracks can be heard just a bunch of times during the whole gameplay, while the others are inappropriately placed (like the original World Map theme played in the first slum...). This without ever mentioning all the new pieces which are absolutely nothing compared to the greatness of Uematsu's.

    This "rape-the-original" attitude has its peak in the storyline.
    I don't want to sound a purist here, but when you are working on someone else's plot (especially in a remake project as this is supposed to be) you should take into consideration what was the aim of the author and what s/he wanted to convey. Of course, Nomura didn't do any of this. Instead, he deliberately lied to the public, by stating it was a remake, while, in reality, this is not even a reboot.
    Not only Nomura is bad writer, in the sense he cannot write anything good on his own, but he is not even able to copy other people's ideas. For example, the entire plot twist of this game is based on Anno's concept of treating a reboot as an alternate universe chronologically placed after the events of the original work (see Neon Genesis Evangelion). And remember that, unlike Nomura, Anno was basically "rebooting" and handling his own source material which is something that, unlike Nomura, had the right to do, being Neon Genesis Evangelion his own project.
    Nomura, on the other hand, had this arrogant attitude of picking a story that doesn't belong to him, taking advantage of its fandom and its foundations just to completely overturning its original meaning, probably believing that he was a much better writer; skilled and superior enough not to waste his time to read and understand the original script.

    I'm so sad to write this review.
    I'm so sad to have played a game so poorly executed.
    I'm also so sad that players nowdays are happy with nothing.
    Let me say this: you deserve better than a mediocre Final Fantasy 7 fanfic, although beautifully packed.
    You deserve better: and certainly not this game.    … Expand
  44. epodes
    Apr 14, 2020
    1
    The fanboyism is real. Square Enix is milking this to oblivion. Who would pay $60 dollars for one third of a game?
  45. AVAVT
    Apr 15, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game was okay - normal albeit a bit boring up until the last portion where you climb the Shinra tower, at which point it go straight downward until it reach borderline disgusting.

    I have a feeling the last several chapters was done rushed to meet deadlines because the quality of everything suddenly dropped significantly.

    1. Story got really messed up, dialogues are cliché as heck, probably the writer ran out of time and just insert whichever line first come to their head.

    Game is totally not for newcomer, because unless you already played the original FF7, you will have absolutely no idea who the white haired guy the party is ganging up against is, and what he has done to deserve such treatment.

    2. A game freeze bug that most people get by just play normally. I lost 5 hours of gameplay because I was stuck permanently immediately after a grinding spot. The whole game is only 3X hours, and poof, 5 hours gone just like that.

    3. The gameplay is just badly designed.

    Because Enix likes action games, they try to "improve" the original ATB system into a "more active turn based combat". What they got was a worse version of classic Hack'n'slash.

    - Most of the Materia in game are garbage, just space-filler to make it looks like there's a lot of new and old Materia. You won't even have the interest to mix-match Materia in your equipment like the original, because there's no real "combo" to use.

    - As a new addition, they give you a "talent build" equivalent system, which is named "weapon upgrade".

    Sounds fun, but in reality what it mean is you will spend most of the time choosing between "+10 atk talent that cost 16 sp" versus "+3 attack talent that cost 5 sp" in 6 different swords x 4 characters. And you will likely choose the latest weapon anyway, except for Barret if you want to keep playing ranged (which is OP as heck)

    Probably the playtesters voiced that problem as well, so they add an "auto upgrade" feature, which you will turn on for all of your weapons if you are smart.

    This weapon upgrade is prime example of a complex system with 0 depth.

    The design only get worse into the late game. I have this thought the entire game that with 4 PCs and a party of only 3 people, how will they resolve the Materia/Equipment management issue at endgame? Turns out they don't. They ran out of time. They just add a square button DURING cutscene that you have to hold if you want to change equipment. If you forgot, good luck fighting with naked Barret.

    The late game fights feel like they never went through 2nd design iteration. in the last several fight you basically have 5 seconds to smash buttons, and then interrupted by another cutscene animation, and repeat for half an hour.

    The game could have been decent. Fighting was boring, but at least the story was good. But the last portion show so much disrespect for the player.

    SE obviously just want to get this cash-grab done with asap to fund other projects. When they said they delayed release to "get a better game", they probably didn't even have a running game by then. The delay was so they can compile the first version that could actually run.    … Expand
  46. Barneycat
    Apr 15, 2020
    1
    Most of the game was an enjoyable retelling of the PlayStation one classic - save for the heavy handedness of the Shinra, ahem, I mean Square-enix's newly formed 'ethics department'. Their work is evident in removing any and (possibly) all deaths from the game as well as reframing and changing some of the actions and motivations of the self described eco-terrorists avalanche. Nope, noMost of the game was an enjoyable retelling of the PlayStation one classic - save for the heavy handedness of the Shinra, ahem, I mean Square-enix's newly formed 'ethics department'. Their work is evident in removing any and (possibly) all deaths from the game as well as reframing and changing some of the actions and motivations of the self described eco-terrorists avalanche. Nope, no deaths here, we are all just super nice terrorists. Jenovas blood from the lavatory scene is changed from red to a nice sparkly purple as if they are terrified to show red like a like a prime time TV sanitory pad commercial and Aerith was no longer kept captive and experimented as a child - she was just staying there and "it was not too bad and she was treated well"... how nice. It kind of makes her mother's actions, as she dies trying to get Aerith to safety, a little less meaningful, cos, you know, it wasn't so bad living there apparently...
    Square enix seem to have Disney-fied themselves. The ending presents a **** show starring a Kingdom hearts like convoluted plot exploding all over the last hour of the game as our protagonists fight the physical embodiment of fate. Yes, fate incarnate - in some kind of parallel universe, dimensional plane, where time and space is frozen. Snore. After defeating the giant heartless, I mean the physical embodiment of Fate, golden rain sparkles across time bringing anyone who died back to life and ruining decade old storielines that people love and and were hyped about seeing in a remake.

    It was so close to being exactly what people wanted but, like eating a tasty sandwhich with a **** surprise on the last bite, you can't help but feel that somehow the overall meal is ruined.    … Expand
  47. kaindourden
    Apr 15, 2020
    1
    SquareEnix lied to us, they to all FF7's fan. They betrayed their words to stay "faithful to the original game story". They baited us with shiny images and graphics and musics, which, indeed, were excellent.
    But they were hiding the truth to us all... They baited us and we all fell for their lies...
    I'm saying that because everything was good, VERY good, until the last 2 chapters that    SquareEnix lied to us, they to all FF7's fan. They betrayed their words to stay "faithful to the original game story". They baited us with shiny images and graphics and musics, which, indeed, were excellent.
    But they were hiding the truth to us all... They baited us and we all fell for their lies...
    I'm saying that because everything was good, VERY good, until the last 2 chapters that DESTROY, annihilate, the original game's story. It takes it, piss, **** and spit on it and throw it to garbage before our confused eyes that don't want to belove what they're seeing.
    They slaughter the original game story with bull**** "fate" and "let's change the future" bull****.

    They did everything nearly perfect! From awesome chapter 1, to chapter 2, to chapter 3,4, 5... EVERYTHING was awesome! Then... then... some idi0ts decide to reboot everything from a certain point near the end of the game and transform the original FF7's story everyone beloved and cherish into a monstruosity mix of Kingdom heart HEART & "fAte and DeSTInY" shenanigans!

    Also, people supposed to die are living! Hurray! Lets **** on every major story's element! Barrett's deep story is basically throw to garbage...

    F- you SquareEnix, you ruined it all... Just 2 chapters... Just 2 GODD@MN chapter rushed with stupid non-sense kingdom heart-like bullsh!t that has nothing to do with the original game. Just 2 godd@mn chapters written by an absolute and total @utist(s) who don't give 2 sh!t about respecting the original game's story and its fans... Just 2 chapters to turn what could have been the best game of the last decade into a complete SH!T...    … Expand
  48. Insomnijack
    Apr 18, 2020
    1
    The ending here was horribly written. A complete mess like kingdom hearts endings that nobody really likes. The good thing to have done was make a proper remake of the game that is extremely loved, the only reason new people would never play the OG ff7 is because its outdated and bad graphics, but they had a golden ticket. An already great story and game and they have the chance toThe ending here was horribly written. A complete mess like kingdom hearts endings that nobody really likes. The good thing to have done was make a proper remake of the game that is extremely loved, the only reason new people would never play the OG ff7 is because its outdated and bad graphics, but they had a golden ticket. An already great story and game and they have the chance to recreate it exactly the way it was but with better graphics and voice and such and make some solid money.

    But no they just had to take a bunch of mushrooms in the final hour of the game and do some extremely poor decisions and totally ruin the entire 3 part series because they are selfish and greedy. They advertised this to be a faithful remake of the original game but in the end they made spoilers about the entire OG ending and said F**K you fanboy we do what we want.

    On a side note Clouds hair has extreme dithering stuttering issues like most Square Enix games but not the other characters? so why make clouds hair such a mess? and some background has worse textures than the original, im not even joking they seriously in a 2020 game created worse textures than a 1997 game, you can see this on some flower and background but its most noticeable when you're climbing high up and look down towars the sectors, its horrible. And not to talk about the mess inside shinra HQ, i was about to get a seizure from all the random dots and stuttering everywhere.

    Im ususally the guy who loves most games and see the good in them and ive talked so positive about kingdom hearts 1-2 and FF14 and the old FF7,9,10 to my girlfriend but after KH3 and this i cant keep optimistic. theyve been having texture issues in most games and the endings are so bad someone should be fired.    … Expand
  49. Higgins1989
    Apr 17, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Final Fantasy 7 is a game that carries a lot of meaning and importance to many people, myself included. Having played it in 97 when it orginally came out, I fell in love with the characters, world, and the epic story that the game told. Square had a recipe for success with this game as the original story was great as it was but they decided to alter the flavor drastically and made something sour and bitter.

    I can say the character world design is overall exceptional and its amazing to see characters and places you met and visited in your childhood in such vivid detail. Midgar feels like the Midgar you pictured in your mind while playing the original game. Combat is actually fast and fun and requires thoughtful approach. The remake does a good job when it expands upon and adds much needed depth and backstory to better understand and relate to the characters that many people already love and adore. A great example of this is the games treatment of Aeriths adoptive mother, description of Aeriths early life, and the focus on Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge as friends who you grow to know and cherish, friends you fear to lose.

    The remake largely is a faithful adaption of the original Midgar section of the game up until the finale when the game introduces metaphysical entities, time travel, alternate realities, all of which never existed in the original game. These additions do absolutely nothing to enhance the story. The original game never needed such to tell a great story as greatness was already there, this ending comes across like poor fanfiction. Square has stated over the past couple yrs how faithful to the original the remake would be, its very disingenuous and misleading to call this game a remake and not reimagined with the poor story changes near the climax.    … Expand
  50. aordozo
    Apr 17, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Until I got to the ending, I was prepared to give this game high praise. After getting a chance to see the ending, it’s clear that square is treating this remake as a game meant to defy the old game and I hate it. It feels like they are giving the finger to the old game’s legacy for the sake of trying something new. That something new is confusing too and leaves serious plot holes. I am sad now that we won’t get a true remake. I wished they just focused on making a new final fantasy instead. I’ll bet money now that we won’t see that key event with aerith down the road.… Expand
  51. 3lcopa
    Apr 17, 2020
    1
    Difficulty on hard need adjusment, now its unplaybel and not enjoybel. Trash.
  52. Zadkiel
    Apr 19, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I feel as though DarkChaplain has already made a much better review than mine but I did want to expand on a few points.

    The game was amazing up until the last chapter and a half. It felt like the game was going to be a remake that was fairly faithful to the original. at the last moment it takes a very drastic turn into a realm that the series has yet to taken to at this point. The game felt like it was being paraded as a faithful modern adaptation of the game with the addition of the traditional mode, using old soundtracks etc. However the final hour of the game was a total disappointment and is on par with with total train wreck of a story that is FFXIII/FFXV. The awful final act made me want to create an account and to post this review. It's such a shame when they had such an amazing thing working just to throw it away in the last hour. I also just wish it wasn't being paraded as a faithful remake, when it was not.    … Expand
  53. gguile
    Apr 19, 2020
    1
    It's a shameless cash grab that does not stay true to the original. Instead they just split the game up into 4-5 parts and added a bunch of fluff everywhere. Also, a lot of the facial animations are distractingly terrible.
  54. Strife_life
    Apr 20, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game I grow up with the original ff7 it was perfect till the end were they shat on the og story line by saying it was the bad ending like ur a remake get a grip of ur self ur never do what the original did for JRPGS back then and to fight ur future selfs is a big up urs to us og fans and the timeie whimy multivers is bull **** as a ff14 player I’m used to god tier story telling so for this iconic game I expected no less **** s we sure Enix ff14 for life… Expand
  55. Jibril935
    Apr 20, 2020
    1
    Amazing visuals, great music, overall a good game. However it’ was falsely advertised as a faithful retelling of the story, and it doesn’t, it completely changes the story. this isn’t FF7, more like Alternate Final Fantasy 7, what would have happened if none of the important things actually happened.
  56. Hyperbole86
    Apr 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Despite the number above I really liked the game. Its actually a strong B+ however given how many glowing reviews there are I don't want Square enix to get the wrong impression and think they re-captured lightening in a bottle. Amazing game. Loved every second of it until the end. I know they want to give us a new experience but they really don't need to. The updated audio and graphics, side stories and the intricate environment IS the new thing. It's ok. The story can be the same exact story. Just look at the facebook or reddit game threads, it is what the fans actually want. The story is literally already perfect, it can't be more perfect, changing it can only make it worse and lead to fan rage/less sales. So please do us all a favor and just remake the original game going forward. Please don't reboot the game, no one wants that. I'm glad you kill the big whisper at the end because I never want to hear about fate, crossroads, or see another dementor again. Also other constructive feedback, let a character stay dead, it cheapens the stakes if everyone comes back. Finally stop with Zack. Cloud is the protagonist not Zack. Zack is like superman great but conceptionally boring. What makes Cloud a million times better is that there is nothing innately special about him. Hes just a kid with some mild altruistic traits who crushes on the girl next door and through a series of traumatic events and some Jenova cells/Mako later becomes the hero we all know and love. The fans love Cloud BECAUSE he is a flawed character, let the protagonist be flawed. It's ok. His flaws give him the strength to be the hero. So let Zack die, like the one dimensional plot device he is. You got it right the first time. You don't need to change it. Please for the sake follow up parts, remake not reboot.… Expand
  57. Fantacap
    Apr 21, 2020
    1
    You didn't play FF15 because it sucked. FF7R is the same game, but with some nostalgia thrown in.

    The most simple dialogue is painfully drawn out. (I just wanted to buy some Phoenix Down why are you still talking to me? can I go now?) You spend a strange amount of time sliding through tight spaces or holding down Triangle for 3 seconds to open gates for seemingly no reason (don't get    You didn't play FF15 because it sucked. FF7R is the same game, but with some nostalgia thrown in.

    The most simple dialogue is painfully drawn out. (I just wanted to buy some Phoenix Down why are you still talking to me? can I go now?)
    You spend a strange amount of time sliding through tight spaces or holding down Triangle for 3 seconds to open gates for seemingly no reason (don't get me started on the big-hand crane thing)

    The combat is brainless and tedious. The block function is barely working. The camera doesn't fix on your target so you are attacking enemies off screen.
    The menu's are clunky.
    It will cost you$180 - $240 to complete the story.

    Still, it looks nice.

    Honestly though, I stayed away from previews and articles about this game purposely. No where does it say that this is not the full game and you will only get as far as Shinra HQ. Its marked as FF7 Remake , not FF7 Remake Part 1. I will wait till all the cut scenes are on youtube and just watch it. Cant take anymore of the gameplay.    … Expand
  58. pstationgamer
    Apr 21, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I pre-ordered this game with anticipation for months before its release. This game was beautifully made with its stunning graphics and incredibly fun combat system; you can tell they put a lot of time and money into this game. I played the original and this game was incredibly nostalgic. However, the persistent awkward anime moments/scenes would constantly derail my interest in characters and plot at times. I wasn't completely surprised by this (since it is a Square Enix game) and I was able to get over it for the most part, however, to my COMPLETE DISMAY, the original story was changed due to ghosts and time travel? Lol. What made FF7 original so amazing was it's captivating story, which now, unfortunately with time travel and time travel ghosts (wtf??), is trash. Sephiroth was not introduced well in this game. Zack was also introduced too soon. Building characters and their backstories up is what made the game so special in the first place. I wouldn't be opposed to changing the story, but if you're gonna do it, BE CREATIVE. I'll never be pre-ordering from, or may not play the future games of this series or company again.......until maybe when it goes on sale for $19.99.

    PS. the original soundtrack was 10000x doper than this version. Game needs a new director.    … Expand
  59. feland
    Apr 22, 2020
    1
    Pésimo. No se justifica que sea por episodios si viene con relleno tan pobre como las misiones secundarias. Groseros problemas gráficos. Pésimo control de cámara en combate (esencial para batallas en tiempo real). Cambios argumentales ridículos y absurdos. Escenas que dan vergüenza ajena (intro de Roshe por ej). Un engaño el titulo de REMAKE siendo que es un REBOOT. Juego que pasó de tenerPésimo. No se justifica que sea por episodios si viene con relleno tan pobre como las misiones secundarias. Groseros problemas gráficos. Pésimo control de cámara en combate (esencial para batallas en tiempo real). Cambios argumentales ridículos y absurdos. Escenas que dan vergüenza ajena (intro de Roshe por ej). Un engaño el titulo de REMAKE siendo que es un REBOOT. Juego que pasó de tener un tono maduro en su argumento, ahora es infantil y mediocre.

    Me obligué a terminarlo. Así de malo.    … Expand
  60. icemeetsfire
    Apr 25, 2020
    1
    I will give this a 1/10 for being 1% of the full game which is Loosely the game how it was. I also give this game the new title being of Part 1 , so it wont be as misleading. And I will also give this a 10/10 for being a Final fantasy game that is awesome if you never played the original. Now the true criticism is about to happen. The original game was like reading a book being read. TheI will give this a 1/10 for being 1% of the full game which is Loosely the game how it was. I also give this game the new title being of Part 1 , so it wont be as misleading. And I will also give this a 10/10 for being a Final fantasy game that is awesome if you never played the original. Now the true criticism is about to happen. The original game was like reading a book being read. The Remake is like a movie based of the MIdgar portion but very poorly written. This is Square Enix saying F%&^* you to the true fans. If you are a true fan, Please lets do a petition and Have Square Enix redo this game. Because this is definitely a big disappointment to everyone that is a true fan and not a fan boy. Thank you for your time.… Expand
  61. TaRaNtAs
    Apr 26, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Отвратительные диалоги с надрывными разговорами по полчаса прямо под угрозой неминуемой гибели, графоманское пережёвывание простейшей мысли каждым из персонажей (особенно в главе с обрушением плиты), Клауд с вытянутым хлебалом может стоять прямо под прицелом гатлинга и ждать, пока откроют огонь, действовать крайне несоразмерно обстоятельствам, уметь прыгать с сальтухой в один момент сюжета и не уметь в другой… Повествование затянуто до невозможного: герои шарятся по заводу; проходит два часа — герои всё ещё шарятся по заводу. Геймплей — отдельная песня. Видимо, Номуре очень захотелось вернуть всем его 1997-й, поэтому даже на залезание себе в карман тратятся очки действия: копим очки, огребаем, лечимся, копим очки, огребаем, лечимся, повторять до бесконечности, пока кому-нибудь из болванов не понадобится Phoenix Down, а на лечение очков уже не останется. А потом в конце появляется этот босс… а за ним ещё один… а за ним ещё один, а за ним ещё один, а за ним ещё один, а за ним ещё один, а за ним ещё один. И где-то посередине покатушки на мотоцикле. Во время которых тоже будет босс. И каждый босс затыкивается по полчаса без промежуточных сохранений. Я не эксперт в серии, но в FFXIII мне гораздо больше понравилась боевая система (где не нужно было перекидывать руны между персонажами, а потом боевую пати ВНЕЗАПНО тасовали, и можно было бесплатно залезать в карман), а в FFXV было гораздо интереснее бродить по миру (в отличие от вечной помойки в FF7R).… Expand
  62. SirFortinbras
    May 1, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ghosts? No thanks.

    An unnecessary addition to the storyline that actively goes out of its way to infest the rest of the narrative, and because of the total lack of payoff (and childish sequence of final battles), it just spoils the rest of the game retroactively as well.    … Expand
  63. monstrers
    May 1, 2020
    1
    50% of dialogues that make you uncomfortable (Japanese behaviour on caucasian models) with spoils ... 40% of corridors, 10% of gameplay. So 90% of sh*t.
  64. Gojello
    May 7, 2020
    1
    The ending appears to be an airing of a 23 year-old creative grudge between the old and new guard at Square Enix--and the players (OG fans or not) are the losers.

    I used to think Disney was the biggest offender of profiting from nostalgic remakes targeting Millennials, but when they remake their beloved classics they remake them-- they don't attempt to erase the original. One star    The ending appears to be an airing of a 23 year-old creative grudge between the old and new guard at Square Enix--and the players (OG fans or not) are the losers.

    I used to think Disney was the biggest offender of profiting from nostalgic remakes targeting Millennials, but when they remake their beloved classics they remake them-- they don't attempt to erase the original.

    One star because the first 17 chapters gave me hope.    … Expand
  65. Kirk136
    May 12, 2020
    1
    Maybe worst square enix work ever. Glitches and bugs make the game unplayable in many situations.... i dont want to talk about the italian localization because its a mess, with subs traslated from jap and eng audio with a completely different meaning. AND I SHOULD PAY 3 TIMES FOR THIS SH€€T? yeah, sure! you can count on it square!
    Is not a 1 rate game, my rating is a big disappointment    Maybe worst square enix work ever. Glitches and bugs make the game unplayable in many situations.... i dont want to talk about the italian localization because its a mess, with subs traslated from jap and eng audio with a completely different meaning. AND I SHOULD PAY 3 TIMES FOR THIS SH€€T? yeah, sure! you can count on it square!
    Is not a 1 rate game, my rating is a big disappointment protest    … Expand
  66. wtflolwut
    Jun 1, 2020
    1
    I made an account here just to write this review.

    TL:DR If it hadnt FF7 writtten on it, I cant imagine ppl giving it so high reviews. Nostalgia fueled cashgrab with nice graphic, below average combat, poor design choices, corridor maps, stupid fetch/kill quests and incoherent story. I am really sad how this game turned out. But Square shows they have issues with making a good rpg    I made an account here just to write this review.

    TL:DR
    If it hadnt FF7 writtten on it, I cant imagine ppl giving it so high reviews. Nostalgia fueled cashgrab with nice graphic, below average combat, poor design choices, corridor maps, stupid fetch/kill quests and incoherent story.

    I am really sad how this game turned out. But Square shows they have issues with making a good rpg lately, with only FF XIV as an exception.

    Lets start with positives though.

    The game is gorgeus. It really puts PS4 pro at its limits, some locations are amazing and it doesnt run THAT bad (some places you do notice frame drops, but thats to be expected on a console).

    The rest:

    Combat. It has lot of promise, but Square fails to execute well. Your biggest enemy in the game is... the camera. Either you will randomly switch between targets when trying to move the camera, or the enemy will fly high so you cant see him even tho you are locked onto him...

    You can use magic.... like couple times in a fight. Because you have sooo low mp, that in Boss fights you will spend like half the time renewing your mana. Just so you can then get interrupted by an attack you didnt see coming. Mana cost of more advanced spells is just waaaay to high for magic to be viable in boss fights, even tho in lot of them its the only way to stagger the boss (which is needed to inflict decent dmg). So you will run around, evading attacks or blocking them, praying for the atb gauge to fill so you can use ether to replenish mp, so you can wait another eternity for another atb gauge to fill to use a spell. Amazing gameplay for 2020, again.

    Enemy usually just targets whatever character you are controlling. No logic behind that, seems like a simple IF statement.

    AI is plain retarded. Party members you dont control have no sense of where they are, where you are, they will often come right to you, so you can all get some nice aoe damage, they dont use any skills on their own (unless you slot them with materia to do so). There is no setting anywhere that would let me at least tell the game "I wanna play offensively!" or otherwise.

    Game has no intention of telling you if you are in range or not. So maybe you think your attack is gonna hit the enemy, but you will just plainly miss him, bcs enemy is flying 1m above the ground and the game believes you cant reach him. Some attack skill's animations are so long that the enemy will easily reposition themselves, or they will cast some protection spell before you land the attack.

    The game tries you to use the block system or dodges, but game engine is not made for this and thus you cant cancel your animations/attacks, so if you think your reflexes can help you... they cant. If the game sees you doing something and in the meantime enemy attacks, it doesnt matter how quickly you dodge/block, the game will just wait for you animation to finish and let the attack hit you. Square wants late FF games to be more action packed, when their engine is clearly not made for this.

    Which leads to another point - the minigames. They are so annoying. Those mobile 'olympic games' are 1000 times more fun then FF7R minigames and puzzles. Oh how much fun it is to move containers with super lazy robot hands with wonky controls. Everything takes forever, controls in feel super unresponsive, and all in all its more of an annoyance than fun. Oh and if you think you can solve some puzzles your way - you cant. There is always just one right way to do it.

    Game design overall - you play as an ex-SOLDIER, with superhuman abilities, you fight guys while riding a motorcycle with sword... but you cant climb 150cm obstacle. Bcs the game doesnt want you to, unless you do it exactly specific way (getting the first materia in tunnels on your way to sector 5).

    Quests - stupid, uninteresting. Simple go there, fetch this, kill that. Thats it. Yes, in 2020, this is what Square thinks is fun. The people giving you these quests are without personality, without anything that would make you wanna help them, other than that its a quest. After playing some other games where some side quests are on-par or better with main scenario, are original, have story (yes, looking at you, Witcher 3), Square gives you garbage.

    Story - Im far behind half of the game, and if I didnt know original FF7 story, I would be lost. Villains appear randomly, with no explanation for their motives. They just pop in, at completely random times. You play as a eco terorist responsible for deaths of innocent people, and you are fine with it (sure, not entirely your fault), Jessie says she is sad about it in about two sentences, and thats it. You see the unrest in the streets, ppl talking about losing their loved ones... so what do you do? You blow one more, ofc! Again, game not bothering with things like guilt, the fact you play as a terrorist, killing innocents... no one cares.

    It had so much potential. Square botched it    … Expand
  67. TzuYoda
    Jun 27, 2020
    1
    ਲੋੜੀਂਦੀ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕੀਤੀ ਜਾ ਸਕਦੀ ਹੈ. ਮੌਰਿਸ ਹੋਮਵਰਕ, ਸਾਫਟ ਚੌਕਲੇਟ ਜੋ ਮਹੱਤਵਪੂਰਣ ਹੈ, ਸਾਸ ਦੀ ਕੀਮਤ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ. ਨਾਮ ਮੇਕਅਪ ਪਰਤ ਲੀਕ ਹੋਣਾ. ਇੱਕ ਬਹੁਤ ਵੱਡਾ ਅਭਿਆਸ ਵੇਸਟੀਬੂਲਮ ਸਲੀਕਸੀਡਿਨ. ਪਰ ਟੈਲੀਵੀਜ਼ਨ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਦੀ ਜ਼ਿੰਦਗੀ. ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨਾ ਗ੍ਰਾਹਕ ਸੈਰ ਸਪਾਟਾ, ਫੁਟਬਾਲ ਅਤੇ ਸੰਤਰੀ ਮਿਰਚ ਵਿੱਤ. ਕਲੀਨਿਕਲ ਡਿਵੈਲਪਰ ਵਿੱਤੀ ਝੀਲਾਂ ਜੋ ਹਮੇਸ਼ਾਂ ਚਲਦੀਆਂ ਰਹਿੰਦੀਆਂ ਹਨ. ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਕੀ ਕਰਨਾ ਚਾਹੀਦਾ ਹੈ ਦੇ ਤੌਰ ਤੇ ਕੰਮ ਕਰ ਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ. ਜੈਸਮੀਨਲੋੜੀਂਦੀ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕੀਤੀ ਜਾ ਸਕਦੀ ਹੈ. ਮੌਰਿਸ ਹੋਮਵਰਕ, ਸਾਫਟ ਚੌਕਲੇਟ ਜੋ ਮਹੱਤਵਪੂਰਣ ਹੈ, ਸਾਸ ਦੀ ਕੀਮਤ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ. ਨਾਮ ਮੇਕਅਪ ਪਰਤ ਲੀਕ ਹੋਣਾ. ਇੱਕ ਬਹੁਤ ਵੱਡਾ ਅਭਿਆਸ ਵੇਸਟੀਬੂਲਮ ਸਲੀਕਸੀਡਿਨ. ਪਰ ਟੈਲੀਵੀਜ਼ਨ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਦੀ ਜ਼ਿੰਦਗੀ. ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨਾ ਗ੍ਰਾਹਕ ਸੈਰ ਸਪਾਟਾ, ਫੁਟਬਾਲ ਅਤੇ ਸੰਤਰੀ ਮਿਰਚ ਵਿੱਤ. ਕਲੀਨਿਕਲ ਡਿਵੈਲਪਰ ਵਿੱਤੀ ਝੀਲਾਂ ਜੋ ਹਮੇਸ਼ਾਂ ਚਲਦੀਆਂ ਰਹਿੰਦੀਆਂ ਹਨ. ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਕੀ ਕਰਨਾ ਚਾਹੀਦਾ ਹੈ ਦੇ ਤੌਰ ਤੇ ਕੰਮ ਕਰ ਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ. ਜੈਸਮੀਨ ਕਟੌਤੀਯੋਗ ਦੇਖਭਾਲ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਖਤਮ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ. ਫਿਲਮ ਕੁਝ ਮਿਰਚਾਂ ਚੱਲ ਰਹੀਆਂ ਹਨ. ਹਾਲਾਂਕਿ, ਸ਼ੇਰ ਸਾਸ, ਪਰ ਮੇਕਅਪ ਆਪਣੇ ਆਪ. ਪ੍ਰੋਨ ਅਲਟ੍ਰੀਸੀਅਸ ਟੋਰੋਰ ਮਾਈ, ਵਿਟੈ ਡੈਪੀਬਸ ਲੈਕਸ ਸਿਲੈਕਟਿਡਿਨ ਵਿਟਾਈ. ਲੌਰੀਟ ਇੱਕ ਮੁਫਤ ਮਾਲਸ਼. ਪਰ ਇਹ ਵੀ ਫੋਟੋਗ੍ਰਾਫੀ ਦਾ ਲੇਖਕ ਹੈ ਜੋ ਹਮੇਸ਼ਾ ਟੈਲੀਵਿਜ਼ਨ ਦੇ ਸਾਹਮਣੇ ਸੈਪੀਅਨ ਬਣਨਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ. ਕੁਇਸਕ ਵੈਲ ਨੂਲਾ, ਅਤੇ ਨਾ ਹੀ ਅਜੇ ਤੱਕ ਕਿ ਉਹ ਪੀਣ ਲਈ ਬਣਾਇਆ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ, ਹੁਣ ਬਹੁਤ ਲੰਬੇ ਸਮੇਂ ਤੋਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਸੀ, ਫਰੇਟਰ ਜਸਟੋ ਸੇਮ ਟੋਰੋਰ ਯੂ ਯੂ ਵੇਲਿਟ.

    ਜਦੋਂ ਤੱਕ ਉਪਯੋਗਤਾ ਡਾਇਰੈਕਟਰੀਆਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਪਰ ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਅਤੇ ਨਾ ਹੀ ਜੀਵਨ ਦੀ ਜ਼ਰੂਰਤ ਹੈ, ਅਤੇ ਹੁਣ ਡੈਪੀਬਸ ਵਲੁਟਪਾਟ. ਸਸਪੈਂਡਸਿਸ ਲੋਬੋਰਟਿਸ, ਲਾਸਿਨੀਆ ਦੇ ਨਤੀਜੇ ਵਜੋਂ ਸਨਮਾਨਿਤ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ, ਇਹ ਅਲਕੋਇਟ ਆਰਕੁ ਅਰਨਾ ਹੈ, ਜੋ ਕਿ ਚੁੰਮਦਾ ਹੈ, ਜਸਟੋ 'ਤੇ. ਮੇਰੇ ਚੈਟ ਡਿਵੈਲਪਰ ਕੌਣ ਹੈ. ਮੌਰਿਸ ਹਾਰਡਵੇਅਰ ਨੂੰ ਘਟਾਉਂਦਾ ਹੈ. ਜਦੋਂ ਕਿ ਸਾਹਮਣੇ ਵਾਲਾ ਸਕਰਟ ਫੁੱਟਬਾਲ ਵਿੱਚ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ, ਗਲ਼ੇ ਦੇ ਵਾਤਾਵਰਣ ਦਾ ਘੜਾ. ਝੀਲ ਤੇ ਰਹੋ ਜਦੋਂ ਤਕ ਪਰਤ ਨਹੀਂ ਬਦਲਦੀ. ਪਰ ਇੱਕ ਟੈਲੀਵੀਜ਼ਨ ਚੈਟ ਮੂੰਗਫਲੀ ਦੀ ਗਰੀਬੀ ਚੱਕਰ ਦੇ ਰੂਪ ਵਿੱਚ. ਨੂਲਮ ਕੈਨਗੂ ਰਿਸਸ ਮੈਗਨਾ ਪੋਜ਼ੀਅਰ ਈਯੂ, ਈਯੂ ਪੋਰਟਿਟਰ ਟਰਪਿਸ ਫੁਜਿਏਟ. ਪਰ ਸਥਾਨਕਕਰਨ, ਬਿ Bureauਰੋ ਤਾਪਮਾਨ ਪਰ, ਕਈ ਵਾਰ. ਸੇਡ ਐਟ ਨੇ ਬ੍ਰੇਕਾਂ 'ਤੇ ਗ੍ਰੈਜੂਏਟ ਕੀਤਾ. ਨਿਰਮਾਣ ਹੈਡਿੰਗ, ਪੋਸ਼ਣ ਅਤੇ ਗ੍ਰੈਜੂਏਟ ਫੁਟਬਾਲ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਇਸ ਦੇ ਯੋਗ ਵਲਪੁਟੇਟ ਨੂੰ ਕ੍ਰਮਬੱਧ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ. ਹਰੇਕ ਮੈਕਰੋ ਥੈਰੇਪੀ, ਪਰ ਮੂੰਗਫਲੀ ਈਯੂ, ਸਿਰਫ ਵਾਹਨ. ਤਣਾਅ ਅਤੇ ਕਲੀਨੀਕਲ ਘਾਟੀ, ਪਰ ਅਸ਼ੁੱਧ. ਬਾਸਕਟਬਾਲ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਡਰਦਾ ਹੈ.

    ਪਰ ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਵੱਡੀ ਦੇਖਭਾਲ ਮੌਰੀ ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ ਦੀ ਚਟਨੀ ਵਿਚ ਹੈ. ਵਿਅੰਜਨ ਜਦੋਂ ਤੱਕ ਇਹ ਨਰਮ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੁੰਦਾ. ਮਾ elementਸ ਐਲੀਮੈਂਟਮ, ਇਕਯੂ ਰਟਰਮ ਐਡਪਿਸਿੰਗ, ਅਸਟੇਟ ਗ੍ਰਾਵਿਡਾ ਮੌਰਜ਼, ਨਾਨ ਕਨਾਲਿਸਜ ਮੀਜ ਕਮਾਨ, ਜਾਂ ਕਮਾਨ. ਖਿਡਾਰੀ ਸੁੱਟਣ, ਐਂਟੀਆਕਸੀਡੈਂਟ ਅਤੇ ਇਕ ਸ਼ੇਰ, ਕੇਲੇ ਇਕ ਵਾਦੀ ਸੀ. ਉਦਾਸ ਮਲੇਸੁਆਦਾ ਸਪਤਾਹੰਤ. ਪਰ ਲੰਮੇ ਸਮੇਂ ਦਾ ਖੇਤਰ. ਫੈਸਲਸ ਆਈ ਡੀ ਕਈ ਵਾਰ, ਮੇਰਾ.    … Expand
  68. edtks
    Jun 30, 2020
    1
    The most overhyped/overrated game of the year. Makes me laugh when some people saying something like "it's my GOTY easily" kind of stuff. It's nowhere near that position. Since this is "part 1" of the remake project and only served as prologue in the original FFVII, the dev team said it served as a standalone game because they expanded Midgar like never before and the game are over 40-50The most overhyped/overrated game of the year. Makes me laugh when some people saying something like "it's my GOTY easily" kind of stuff. It's nowhere near that position. Since this is "part 1" of the remake project and only served as prologue in the original FFVII, the dev team said it served as a standalone game because they expanded Midgar like never before and the game are over 40-50 hours. In actual case, it's the filler and unnecessary long dungeon with copy and paste environment successfully extended the gameplay hours to make it seems like a standalone game, and Midgar doesn't seem as big as promised to worth becoming a standalone game of it's own. Let's try compare this game to previous GOTY winner like The Witcher 3, God of War and Sekiro. Oh my god it's entirely on a different tier. It doesn't even WORTH as a nominee of GOTY else it's an insult to nominee of previous GOTY.

    Those fanboi who defend the game saying "this is a Remake not Remastered" and "go play the original" kind of stuff, let me tell you this game is supposed to be a remake as advertised, not end up begin a sequel nor a reboot. I am not going to convince myself to like this game just because I can play as pretty boy Cloud or big boobs waifu Tifa which fanboi can be easily satisfied with whatever the dev feeds as long you can play as your beloved characters.

    Come to think of it, does Square Enix has no capabilities to develop a full game now? 5 years to make the prologue of the original game with tons of fillers and copy and paste dungeon? How many more years they want to take to finish the whole project? Or they just want to milk the fan based with their nice excuses of the game is so big? Even the director and producer said they have no idea how many parts they wanted to make, and they hope to release it ASAP but with smaller portion of the original game. Compare it with other games and other game developers, does it really make sense to remake an all time classic in episodic style? Considering the script already existed, the world building and visual of FFVII already established. What about other game development that need to start from scratch and how much time they used to ship their title?

    When we think of Final Fanatsy VII Remake we certainly not expecting content from prequel or sequel like Crisis Core and Advent Children. Sephiroth shouldn't be in this game so early, neither his One-winged Angel Form. Flashback and Cloud's hallucinations of Sephiroth is an OK idea but they put too much Sephiroth in this game which made him lost his mystery and menacing identity in future story. And the dev team reason for that is because Sephiroth is a popular character already and they dont seem to have the point to slowly build up his character anymore. Sounds like a very bad reason to me, the dev team just assume everyone knows about Sephiroth and therefore cut the good character development which make the villain so popular and so threatening, one of the reason that FFVII successfully became a classic.

    Pre-FFVII or Post-FFVII content aren't supposed to be in this game, at least not this early in the part 1 of the remake project. It just confused me while playing it and I asked myself am I playing FFVII Remake or FFVII REMIX. The dev team just assume everyone playing this game knows what happened throughout compilation of FFVII. These pre/post-FFVII content that include in this part 1 of the remake project just broke the immersive storytelling experience that the original PS1 classic delivered, making the remake lose focus on its narratives. For ch.17 and ch.18, it's merely fans service because the dev team wants to include the compilation inside this remake so desperately which resulted this game almost lost its position of a remake title.

    And the Nomur'ed ghost, which literally killed the core of FFVII. If the dev team want to change the future story so desperately then just make announcement and change it. Adding plot device with alternate universe related stuff and fate/destiny theme into the story just make the game even more confusing and distract from the main course. Seems like Nomura has watched Avengers Endgame and wanted to mindf*** people with altetnate universe so badly that I doubt even he know what he is trying to do.

    Is it a good game? Barely
    Is it a good remake? F*** off

    Since this game is marketed and sold as a REMAKE title, then my score is based on how well they remake the original game and most importantly the direction they took. The only reason I didn't rate it 0 is because I want to give credit to everything that is faithful to the original. However, the direction of this remake is a huge dissapointment, they remake this game to do a sequel different than the original and obviously, milk their fan based with multiple release in future. And congratzzz on becoming the first game that make me feel disappointed in my gaming history.    … Expand
  69. gdassieu
    Jul 12, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What a shame!

    I would have scored this game a solid 9/10 if it wasn't for some key changes to the story which transformed an otherwise excellent game into an major screw up.

    FF7 OG was a masterpiece. One of its strongest points was its dramatic, coherent and cohesive story. All SE had to do with FF7R was to build on FF7 OG and improve it. And for the most part they did just that: the modern graphics, character designs, dialogues, voice acting (at least in Japanese language), music and battle system are all excellent. Even most changes to the story are great *but* ultimately the addition of the arbiters of fate (the "whispers") and alternate timelines are total nonsense that has no place in FF7's story. Ditto for the final boss fight with Sephiroth, who should not have showed up so early in the story, let alone be defeated considering how powerful he is supposed to be.

    I can't find the words to describe the feeling of extreme disappointment I was left with after finishing the game, hence the bad overall score.

    Details:

    Graphics: 9/10
    Battle system: 9/10
    Gameplay: 7/10
    Sound: 9/10
    Characters and voice acting: 9/10
    Story: 0/10

    I will detail about score for the story by focusing on changes vs OG story.

    Positive changes:
    - The conversations and relationship building between Cloud and Tifa, Aerith and Barret show a much deeper connection than in the OG.
    - The additional story with Jessie helps to be more attached to this character as well.
    - The argument between Barret and Shinra employees.
    - The addition of the Trio in Wall Market (specially Madam M and Andrea), the presenters of the Corneo Colosseum and Corneo's lackeys.
    - The scene where Elmyra tells you Aerith's story is even more emotional than in the OG.
    - Even the way and frequency of Sephiroth's appearances in Cloud's *imagination* are ok to me (some people complained that it "kills" the mystery, but I do not agree). In fact, these appearances can be explained by Cloud's treatment with Jenova's cells -- as shown in the story of the OG.

    Negative changes:
    - Why make the first Mako reactor bomb fail and the explosion be triggered (amplified) by Shinra? It increases Shinra's responsibility for the pain and destruction and lowers that of the team of eco-terrorists.
    - Roche is a totally useless and forgettable character. He's just filler content that brings nothing to the story (and his totally unrealistic motorbike acrobatics do not help).

    Changes that really blew it -- these are the reason for the bad score!:
    - Basically, anything related to the whispers and alternate timelines.- The whispers causing Jessie's injury (and her replacement by Cloud) is  unnecessary. Instead, Cloud should have been made part of the team from the start, like in the OG.
    - Why keep Wedge and Biggs alive? Their death was part of the emotional impact of the plate collapse in the original story.
    - In Shinra building's Cosmos Theater, why can the team see the future (Meteor hitting Midgar)? It makes no sense... is this a clairvoyant Movie Theater?
    - Sephiroth should not appear at all in the game other than in Cloud's *imagination*. In FF7 OG, we could only hear about Sephiroth or see the trail of what he had done, gradually building the mystery around this character. For instance, in Shinra building, we saw Jenova chamber emptied, followed a trail of blood leading upstairs, and found president Shinra murdered.
    Instead, in FF7R we get to see Sephiroth taking Jenova, then follow a trail of blue goo (??) to find Shinra president left hanging from a ledge (who put him there?? Sephiroth??) only to be killed later by Sephiroth (why did he not kill him directly??), who also kills Barret (and Barret then resurrects like Jesus-Christ!!).
    - The last scene where suddenly Aerith becomes some sort of prophet, the team enters a portal, then defeats fate himself (represented by a giant entity that you fight on a floating cloud of debris above Midgar's skies!!), followed by Sephiroth (who you also defeat!!).
    - The last cutscene showing that Zack survived? Again, this character's death by saving Cloud is a key part of the story. Why change it?

    I will not be buying the other parts until I see in the reviews that we are back on track in terms of story.    … Expand
  70. Adz88
    Mar 28, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A bloated mess. The ending cutscenes are excellently animated and looked cool but the game wastes so much time with unnecessary bloat. It needed 15 hours cut out of it so it would be more streamlined and less of a chore. Don’t even get me started on the ending. It makes no sense, if you hadn’t played the original you’ll have no idea who Zack is. Also Cait Sith shows up for 3 seconds with no context and is never shown again. If I didn’t know who he was I’d be like wtf was that weird cat? Very disappointed. Annoying supporting characters too. Johnny is annoying af and Wedge is a walking fat joke with no substance. I seriously don’t understand why everyone is circle-derking over this, it hasn’t done the original justice at all and I didn’t even like the original that much but I know it was better than this. They took the worst most boring part of the original game and made it even more unbearable.… Expand
  71. Seba97
    Jan 9, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Le cambian o le cortan las mejores partes de la historia. Le pusieron mucho hp a los enemigos para alargar el juego, pero igual los combates son muy fáciles. Es una estafa que lo vendan como un remake… Expand
  72. DominoRicano
    Feb 1, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. How any critic or gamer can see past the bloated, terrible gameplay, poorly voice acted characters, non sensical story line, and just overall MESS this game is from beginning to end is beyond me. It must be the nostalgia covering the enormous faults in this game. The saving grace may be the action and quite possible the set pieces that lead you to believe the game designers must be michael bay fans. Stay away, or watch a ah through. I wasted my money!… Expand
  73. Somebody94
    Sep 21, 2021
    1
    Sooooo boring.... filled with time wasting cringe dialogue most painful game I've ever played
  74. AlphaW0lf
    Aug 19, 2021
    1
    Honestly one of the worst AAA games I’ve ever played in my life. I am quite glad I did not spend money on this and got it through the PS5 premium pass. I have never played a game so slow, monotonous and linear in my life. The story is also just awful with characters saying the most cheesy lines with poor voice acting (or grunting). The combat is the only fun and or interesting part of theHonestly one of the worst AAA games I’ve ever played in my life. I am quite glad I did not spend money on this and got it through the PS5 premium pass. I have never played a game so slow, monotonous and linear in my life. The story is also just awful with characters saying the most cheesy lines with poor voice acting (or grunting). The combat is the only fun and or interesting part of the game and even then, some of the enemies just feel so uninspiring. I actually don’t understand how metacritic has this reviewed as 8.7 - it definitely is not anywhere near that. I’m upset I wasted 30 hours on this however, I hope you read this so you don’t have to.… Expand
  75. jotaroo
    Jan 10, 2023
    1
    terrible game. It's really bad when it's compared to the original one. Also, what's up with those stupid corridors? it's not 1997 dude it's 2020 and still that terrible map design. I'm not even talking about the stupidly unfair and effortlessly designed enemies. the destiny **** literally has no weaknesses and also kills you in one move, can block all of your attacks and when you're deadterrible game. It's really bad when it's compared to the original one. Also, what's up with those stupid corridors? it's not 1997 dude it's 2020 and still that terrible map design. I'm not even talking about the stupidly unfair and effortlessly designed enemies. the destiny **** literally has no weaknesses and also kills you in one move, can block all of your attacks and when you're dead you gotta do all of those boring stuff over and over again. Don't even bother playing this game. Also you know what, It's not even a whole game ONLY THE MIDGAR PART DUDE ONLY THE MIDGAR. And they want a full price for it, which is also pretty dumb. Anyways, all I'm saying is even though probably lots of money has spent during the development process this game is just bad. Like literally, it's just bad.… Expand
  76. zyakin
    Feb 13, 2022
    1
    in Russia, the game of the final fantasy series has a huge fan base. The generation of 1995-2005 grew up on them. It's a pity that SQUARE ENIX spits in the face of its loyal fans. Although my assessment will not do anything, but I will no longer be a game for fans of the final fantasy series.
  77. Rityx
    Jan 26, 2023
    1
    Terrible and INCOMPLETE action jrpg.
    Yep. Square Enix menage to ruin FF7 story with this fake Remake. And the most hilarious aspect of this?
    The people buiyed 2 times this incomplete fake Remake.
    And is still unfinished! LOL
    Little advice, avoid this
  78. Vamiko
    Feb 4, 2023
    1
    Create a boring and totally linear cinematic jrpg, without the original artstyle of the original game, and rewriting the original plot for create a sequel, it was one of the worst moves made by Square Enix.
    One of the most disappointing games ever
  79. Rasilou
    Mar 15, 2023
    1
    Una schifezza immonda che rovina il FF7 originale, e che crea uno dei peggiori precedenti videoludici di Square Enix.
    Vendere un gioco incompleto molteplici volte, se contiamo Intergrade, e uscirne con i soldi di coloro che hanno sostanzialmente fregato.
    Il gioco è un action insipido, ripetitivo, e senza spunti interessanti, che rovina il Materia System dell'originale, e distrugge la    Una schifezza immonda che rovina il FF7 originale, e che crea uno dei peggiori precedenti videoludici di Square Enix.
    Vendere un gioco incompleto molteplici volte, se contiamo Intergrade, e uscirne con i soldi di coloro che hanno sostanzialmente fregato.
    Il gioco è un action insipido, ripetitivo, e senza spunti interessanti, che rovina il Materia System dell'originale, e distrugge la narrativa infarcendola di idiozie e lungaggini noiose ed inutili.
    Non basta fare il graficozzo per un gioco cinematografico ed a corridoi come questo, giusto per far leva sul becero fanservice fatto male.
    Perché è questo ciò che ci hanno venduto.
    Un pessimo action jrpg basato sul pessimo fanservice    … Expand
  80. Bicof
    Apr 19, 2023
    1
    Final Fantasy VII Remake is bad action jrpg and the worst possible kind of "remake" ever made.
    An incomplete game with a combact system that is a braindead button smashing, the linear exploration is poor, the characters development are completely stereotyped, and the whole plot feels like a pudding and boring filler of the original game.
    Overall a game that doesn't have nothing of    Final Fantasy VII Remake is bad action jrpg and the worst possible kind of "remake" ever made.
    An incomplete game with a combact system that is a braindead button smashing, the linear exploration is poor, the characters development are completely stereotyped, and the whole plot feels like a pudding and boring filler of the original game.

    Overall a game that doesn't have nothing of really remarkable, if we exclude the OST, and that is created as a sadly and cheap marketing move for nostalgic people.
    Nothing more than that.    … Expand
  81. 113
    Apr 24, 2023
    1
    They made my girl "Tifas" breast smaller. this is an outrage! I will not be purchasing this game because of its lack of staying faithful with the original.

    BTW, Stan says Hi
  82. ImprudentDev
    Jul 18, 2023
    1
    Really great game, I had a lot of fun, but...
    I'm **** angry
    like really really **** angry So I spent 80 bucks on FF7 Remake yeah? I spent 40 hours on it yeah? turns out theres a part 2 It's PS5 exclusive meaning that if I want to see the entire story, I either play the OG game or Buy a PS5 WHAT THE **** DID I PAY 80 BUCKS AND SPEND 40 HOURS ON?! I got ****ed over hell I even    Really great game, I had a lot of fun, but...
    I'm **** angry
    like really really **** angry
    So I spent 80 bucks on FF7 Remake yeah?
    I spent 40 hours on it yeah?
    turns out theres a part 2
    It's PS5 exclusive
    meaning that if I want to see the entire story, I either play the OG game or Buy a PS5
    WHAT THE **** DID I PAY 80 BUCKS AND SPEND 40 HOURS ON?!
    I got ****ed over
    hell I even **** bought the prequel expecting to play that after finishing FF7
    And guess what
    there's literally no reason to **** play it now
    So I wasted another 80 bucks on that
    Thanks Square Enix
    oh good the oG FF7 is only 11 bucks
    still not less pissy
    they could have atleast marketted it as Part 1
    how hard could it have been to write 'Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 1'

    - Me in a discord chat

    Good game, really mad    … Expand
  83. kemutsemu
    Apr 10, 2020
    0
    In the process of getting a refund. A little after it became apparent that Nomura was pulling a Kingdom Hearts with it, I lost all interest.

    If you want to play Final Fantasy 7, go play Final Fantasy 7. If you want a broad-strokes replication of the first 5 hours of Final Fantasy 7, but with multiverse shenanigans that strongly imply that the most impactful moments of the original will be    In the process of getting a refund. A little after it became apparent that Nomura was pulling a Kingdom Hearts with it, I lost all interest.

    If you want to play Final Fantasy 7, go play Final Fantasy 7. If you want a broad-strokes replication of the first 5 hours of Final Fantasy 7, but with multiverse shenanigans that strongly imply that the most impactful moments of the original will be undone in future entries, play this.    … Expand
  84. Face
    Aug 2, 2020
    0
    Just no. Why in the world would they feel the need to do what they did with the story? It's absolute garbage now. Don't waste your time. Boycott Square-Enix.
  85. AnonymousPower
    Apr 13, 2020
    0
    This is FF7-2, not a remake.

    The remade story scenes are quite faithful. The new additions in between are shallow and vapid, which is par for the course with modern Square. They love to write based on what they think looks or sounds cool in this weird anime style, rather than what is actually good for a mature narrative. This is in contrast to the classic games, meaning often plot    This is FF7-2, not a remake.

    The remade story scenes are quite faithful. The new additions in between are shallow and vapid, which is par for the course with modern Square. They love to write based on what they think looks or sounds cool in this weird anime style, rather than what is actually good for a mature narrative. This is in contrast to the classic games, meaning often plot points come across awkwardly, or miss the mark as far as the tone of the original portrayal is concerned. The biggest problem with the remade scenes is that they are turned into a chase and dangled in front of you like a carrot on a stick.

    In the original game, one major plot point to another took less than an hour. In the remake, I measured 5 hours between those same plot points, with nothing relevant to the story happening at all. Just diversions of filler crap, and this is while avoiding optional content. The game deliberately delays you to expand your playtime, makes sure animations take as long as possible, and everything just generally takes longer than it should. Areas overstay their welcome.

    The remade music is often faithful. The battle and boss themes, for example, are stellar. But they are only heard once or twice throughout the entire game. Enjoy the Airbuster fight while it lasts, because you won't hear the boss theme in its faithfully remade form again.

    For a lot of scenes, Square didn't even bother to remake the classic music, and instead replaced it with completely new music. And where the classic music was always catchy, anthemic, melodic, and memorable, the new music is the equivalent of musical rambling. Strings that go nowhere and say nothing. Sound that exists purely to fill the space. I was amazed in several areas by how boring, even annoying the music was to listen to. It was very reminiscent of FF13 in style, and sometimes it completely defied the tone of the scene it was accompanying. This is tone deaf treatment of a game that is famous for having one of the greatest soundtracks of all time.

    The battle system is mostly okay. It's an evolution of FF15, which wasn't good to begin with, but there are several boss battles that are genuinely challenging and fun to play, and those are the times when it shines. Airbuster and Abzu are notable. Unfortunately, the rest of the time, it amounts to spamming square to cut through the trash so you can move on. Dodge roll feels awful and rarely seems to do what it's supposed to do. A monster will wind up for an attack, you'll roll to the side thinking you can evade it, and then it will snap towards you and strike you anyway, making the roll useless.

    Sometimes it feels like Sweeper is the only monster in the game. You're watching a long cutscene, things are getting a bit intense, you can tell there's going to be a battle. I wonder what it will be? It's another Sweeper! Yay! It's almost comical how many times this happens. Square apparently are really proud of this monster and want you to never stop fighting it. You will get sick of it.

    But the worst thing about the battle system is the camera. It truly is terrible, and you will find yourself inputting commands while looking at nothing as the battle rages on somewhere behind you. You'll get frustrated as you fight the game just to get the camera looking at what it should be looking at, and then when you finally do, the characters will roll around each other, causing the camera to do weird things. Strangely, the camera in FF15 was equally as terrible, and Square has evidently learned nothing from it.

    If you appreciate narrative in games, you will hate the closing scenes. Period. Convoluted and very reminiscent of Kingdom Hearts, Square has arrogantly retconned the original story in favor of a load of nonsense, because they are desperate to do better than the greatest game they've ever made, without an understanding for why the original was so beloved my many. I feel that Square were only concerned with pumping out another dose of Cloud and Sephy with flashy Advent Children style battles, thinking the story around them is irrelevant. They are right, unfortunately, that this is all some people want. But to me, the story is inseparable from the characters. And certainly, if this version of FF7 is what was released back in the 90s, it would never have become the cultural phenomenon that it did.

    As a standalone game, it's just not good. Where old players will be upset at the story changes, new players will not have a clue what's going on at any time, because despite the playtime of Midgar being padded out to ~30 hours, nothing is actually given time to be explained. Who is this guy with long white hair who keeps appearing, why should we care, and now why all of a sudden are we fighting him? In a nutshell, the game is all style with very little substance.

    I'm left feeling that this game only exists as a set up for the next, where Square now has a free pass to go REALLY off the rails.    … Expand
  86. Ashenkhar
    Apr 10, 2020
    0
    Should be FFVII: Repulsive... not remake.

    This is not a remake. It is a reinvention of a small portion of the first game. Just think, you too can spend hundreds of dollars on a plethora of add-ons that deliver a sub-par experience loosely based on the fantastic original FFVII! You too can experience terrible textures, and low frame rates! (although, maybe this will be fixed if    Should be FFVII: Repulsive... not remake.

    This is not a remake. It is a reinvention of a small portion of the first game. Just think, you too can spend hundreds of dollars on a plethora of add-ons that deliver a sub-par experience loosely based on the fantastic original FFVII!

    You too can experience terrible textures, and low frame rates! (although, maybe this will be fixed if they release this on modern PC hardware).

    Square... you could have done what people were looking for. A remake of the original FFVII. It's what it looked like you WANTED to do, based on the name alone.

    But no... greed got the better of you. You spent huge amounts of time on a sub-par experience, and delivered something "episodic" so that you could milk every dollar, and ounce of life out of a once great game.    … Expand
  87. Mr_Wednesday
    Aug 3, 2021
    0
    The omission of "Part 1" in the title is misleading. I was a fan of the original, and maybe my memory is faulty, but the story is very childish and the characters annoying. But the worst part is the gameplay, sooo sloooow.... you will slowly walk and crawl A LOT. Combat is fun, but most fights you can win just mashing attack.
    DISAPPOINTING.
  88. xikipeke
    Apr 10, 2020
    0
    The game has no textures. They're all low. That's impossible. They said the day one we'd have patches to fix. Nothing. All lies. It is a shame that a game of this importance emerges without textures.
  89. LINKTJT
    Feb 25, 2021
    0
    The Game was great until they expect you to buy a whole extra console just to play the DLC.
    This is greed on a whole new level and I will not support this garbage any further. Square and Sony you can F-Off!
  90. Gonoru
    May 11, 2020
    0
    Maybe one of the worst games I have ever played in 32 years! -Slow
    -boring
    -Worst way to told a story ever
    -worst and boring lvl up and fighting system ever
  91. Vitoner
    Apr 13, 2020
    0
    If Square Enix were honest about what this was, I would have been fine with its existence. I would not have bought it though. Overall, this game was a scam, simple and clean (wink wink). It's not a remake at all as it was marketed, but a sequel/soft reboot in disguise. "Faithful to the original" MY A$$. And no, I'm not talking about small changes, expanded backstories or the bullsh1t likeIf Square Enix were honest about what this was, I would have been fine with its existence. I would not have bought it though. Overall, this game was a scam, simple and clean (wink wink). It's not a remake at all as it was marketed, but a sequel/soft reboot in disguise. "Faithful to the original" MY A$$. And no, I'm not talking about small changes, expanded backstories or the bullsh1t like "tH3 gAMe iS OnLY MIdGaR sO It'S UnFiNISheD HURR DHURR". I'm talking about MAJOR alterations that inevitably change the plot for the absolute worst, lowest common denominator anime nonsense. I will NEVER EVER trust Square Enix again, this was the straw that broke the camel's back. And most of all, I'll steer clear of anything that has the names Nojima, Toriyama and Nomura on it.
    The vote assigned is because, again, we've been scammed, otherwise the game is dumb in the plot department, but otherwise pretty solid.

    PROS
    + The combat system is the best one since FFX, imho. I still prefer turn-based combat, but this one is actually very good, allowing to strategize and being pretty deep.
    + The graphics are mostly amazing.
    + I still prefer the original OST, but the new soundtrack is excellent too, especially factoring the fact it adapts to the action on screen.
    + I have (almost) no problems with the plot of the game up until the ending.

    CONS
    - Padding.
    - Some really bad textures and NPC models.
    - Sidequests are BAAAAAAAD, mostly consisting of go from A to B, then from B to C, then from C to A.
    - The whole ending. I feel like all the OG FF7 needed was a new coat of paint to make it more palatable to newer generations of players: its story could have been fleshed out more and it looks like it would have worked judging by how they handled the OG story bits in this remake up until the ending. This is just a bait and switch BETRAYAL. Last time an ending made me hate a whole game was Mass Effect 3. This is worse than that.

    That said, imma go play the OG FF7 again with retranslation and remako mods: the only way to experience the original masterpiece of a story in a fresh and new way.    … Expand
  92. yubery
    Apr 14, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Good game, boring side quests. The story of the Original has build up moments and incredible mind games with cloud. Its almost perfect. But FF7R choose on a modern blockbuster movie story approach which i fancy less. We have enough of "avengers" stories in cinemas.

    It's still a pretty good game on its own.    … Expand
  93. Antek
    Jun 5, 2022
    0
    The game is scripted to death, it should have been a TV series, so at least you could browse a smartphone 50% of time during another "exciting" sequence of walking-talking along a corridor where you can move only in one direction... booooooring
    P.s. Visual quality is ok
  94. Chewieflakes
    Apr 11, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What an absolute mess... Why would they dirty the legacy of FF7 with this abomination? Zack's death at the end of crisis core was a dramatic and impactful scene. Now in this "remake" he survives in the goofiest way possible, demeaning his memorable departure. Oh but it's okay, because time ghosts make sure he dies like he's suppose to by having him get hit by some train. You remember that when you played through FF7 right? That's good writing, yeah?… Expand
  95. Romangelo
    Apr 11, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. How could they even mess up something that already have a blueprint? All they had to do is remaking a successful game with modern graphics but look at what happened. They couldn't even remake a game properly. The battle system is PATHETIC. I don't mind it being an ARPG, in fact I prefer ARPG over turn-based but this game doesn't even a good ARPG battle system. It's very simple as if they were too worried about the casual gamers. The English voices are annoying. Characters' face expressions are terrible.
    The worst thing is they completely rewrote the story, adding Kingdom Hearts-style plots, screwing everything up.
    I think these developers are so selfish, altering FFVII to satisfy themselves, and taking away the opportunity of the fans to play the real FFVII remake in modern graphics. And it's very unlikely they're going to re-remake it again for the rest of our lifetimes.    … Expand
  96. lemanyk
    Apr 10, 2020
    0
    The game runs very poorly and feels unfinished. There are like 15 fps and 1 second of input delay, so pretty much unplayable. The camera is fixed half of the time (in 2020!). The story starts in the middle so you have no idea what is happening. Huge step back after how amazing ff15 was.
  97. FoldupJosh
    Mar 17, 2021
    0
    An insult to the original.
    If you love mindless boring hallway running then this game is for you!
    Sound engineers need sacking, terrible balance to the point you need subtitles on. Lip sync is the worst ive seen in a long time. Distant graphics and character graphice are great but the immediate area you run around in is rushed. Soooo much padding its beyond a joke! They just had to remake    An insult to the original.
    If you love mindless boring hallway running then this game is for you!
    Sound engineers need sacking, terrible balance to the point you need subtitles on.
    Lip sync is the worst ive seen in a long time. Distant graphics and character graphice are great but the immediate area you run around in is rushed.
    Soooo much padding its beyond a joke!
    They just had to remake the best game ever made but instead decided they were gonna milk as much from fans as they could and split the story over three. Large game developers should just be abandoned. Its nothing but money money money for them.
    People should take a good look at indie devs and support good gameplay and new ideas not this repetitive reskinning pumped dlc crap the major studios have all latched onto. Such a shame to mess up one of the best games to have existed    … Expand
  98. super_dude_m
    Apr 21, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. How dare you do this to ff7. Unforgivable. You destroyed a gem and stole my money.… Expand
  99. Ordin1120
    Apr 12, 2020
    0
    Stretching progress; a childish story. A childish level that only minor people can enjoy the original work. It was released as a PS4 exclusive film due to lobbying unique to Japanese companies.
  100. ZombieCo
    Mar 6, 2021
    0
    It is frustratingly bad. Drawn out needlessly. Plays more like a concept game that they were demoing. The ending is ridiculous. The graphics are really great. Sad that they were wasted like this. Most of the original music has been redone and sounds really bad. There is KPop music for a large portion of the area between Aeris home and the drag queen event. They remade the entire storyline.It is frustratingly bad. Drawn out needlessly. Plays more like a concept game that they were demoing. The ending is ridiculous. The graphics are really great. Sad that they were wasted like this. Most of the original music has been redone and sounds really bad. There is KPop music for a large portion of the area between Aeris home and the drag queen event. They remade the entire storyline. Its got too many fetch this and waste your time quests. As a standalone game I might give it a 6 out of 10. As a remake of the greatest game of all time it fails on many levels. They better pull their heads out of their butts if they want people to buy the second game. You can fake critic reviews like they have on every site for this game but you cant fake sales. I rereviewed and lowered to 0 in order to counter all the fake bought 10 star reviews. Game is AWFUL.… Expand
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#8 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 126 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 10 out of 126
  3. Negative: 0 out of 126
  1. GameMAG
    Sep 14, 2020
    90
    Final Fantasy VII Remake is the game we've been waiting for from Square Enix for so long. Atmospheric, interesting and exciting all your attention modern jRPG with an interesting story and spectacular battles. To achieve the ideal, the project only needs more even graphics and all the content from the original release. If you were waiting for a turn-based classic with new graphics you will most likely be disappointed, since the game has changed a lot. Everyone else is happy with the release of the first really powerful single-player release from the internal Square Enix studio for many years. Especially after the failure of Final Fantasy XV.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Aug 20, 2020
    80
    A good remake of the introductory part of the cult-favorite Final Fantasy VII. It improves on the original game in almost all aspects, yet lacks in scale and drops the ball at the very end.
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  3. Finger Guns
    Aug 10, 2020
    90
    What matters is still intact, and that’s the heart and soul of one of the greatest stories in video game history. It’s a return to form that has felt a long time in coming, and what’s even better is that there’s still at least two more games of this quality to come...They can’t mess this up, can they?
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