Final Fantasy VII Remake

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  1. TorVizla
    Apr 25, 2020
    10
    Simply the best Final Fantasy game in history! Can’t wait for the next chapter in this historic game
  2. Lionheart_2411
    Apr 26, 2020
    8
    Awesome game but not a perfect one. I'll keep it simple you need to buy it worth every penny yes its linear but open world games are overrated most feel empty and you end up fast traveling after a while. though it would have been better with a little more free roam space this is a very straight forward story driven game with decent side quests that keeps you wishing there was more each theAwesome game but not a perfect one. I'll keep it simple you need to buy it worth every penny yes its linear but open world games are overrated most feel empty and you end up fast traveling after a while. though it would have been better with a little more free roam space this is a very straight forward story driven game with decent side quests that keeps you wishing there was more each the chapters are amazing very easy story to follow a great story at that. Overall this game is a must play this is the future of final fantasy the battle system is on point camera needs a little work I'm very excited to see the what comes in the next part I hope it only improves the experience seeing as this was the most linear part of the original game , the original ff7 only got better lets see if the remake does the same… Expand
  3. neoproxima425
    Apr 26, 2020
    10
    Final Fantasy game at its best, this is pure entertainment. Plot, characters, music are just perfect and battle system might be... not it actually is the best battle system I've ever experienced. Moreover, this comes from someone who didn't play original VII, but even though I've cried, laughed through this game. Now Final Fantasy VII Remake is in my top games of all time.
  4. DanaLamps
    Apr 27, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Minor spoilers. Best gaming experience in a long time. Many of the elements from the original game were drawn out for one reason or another. What I loved was getting to know members of Avalanche better and seeing more of the behind the scenes at Shinra. You could tell that SquareEnix had been laying the groundwork for Remake for more than 15 years, and I feel it's payed off.
    This is definitely a part one. My first time through took me about 40 hours to complete on the easier setting. Going to try the other difficulties and keep working on new strategies and work on completion to get all of the materia and gear I missed the first time around.
    If you liked the original, you should definitely try this game. I bought a digital copy because I could find a physical copy that wasn't being sold way above market value (Which is sad because this game is so good.) Because of this I'm going to be buying more digital copies for my library.    … Expand
  5. Dabaru
    May 2, 2020
    10
    Obra maestra que hace tocar techo a la potencia de la consola. Increíbles recuerdos y sensaciones mejoradas
  6. 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
  7. Manziflex
    Mar 15, 2021
    9
    PlayStation is Final Fantasy VII. The video game that can only be compared to Super Mario. I can't give it less than 10. The revamped gameplay is great.

    Final Fantasy VII is like ****
    The Onlus problema, Is not the complete remake
  8. Crimson9
    Nov 23, 2022
    4
    Since the release of Final Fantasy XII, Square Enix has been in terminal decline in terms of quality. However, it has managed to sustain the Final Fantasy brand through trading all that the series used to be about for state of the art graphics and flashy, style-over-substance gameplay.

    FF7 should have been a return to form. The combat is certainly flashy, but it is not lacking in    Since the release of Final Fantasy XII, Square Enix has been in terminal decline in terms of quality. However, it has managed to sustain the Final Fantasy brand through trading all that the series used to be about for state of the art graphics and flashy, style-over-substance gameplay.

    FF7 should have been a return to form. The combat is certainly flashy, but it is not lacking in substance. Thanks to the fact this is a remake, the characters and humor from the old game are present here, too. And the soundtrack is still largely made up of the same tracks, and the new additions are brilliant as well.

    However, despite all that, the rot and utter degeneration of this once-great video game developer is blatantly evident.

    For one, their decision to split the game into 3 parts for monetary reasons means the pacing here is utterly atrocious. It shows in the combat, which ends up being marathon tussles with bosses who have an obnoxious amount of HP. But pacing is most detrimental to the story...

    ...And God, how badly has the story been butchered? This has to go down as one of the worst stories ever told in the gaming medium. And considering that FF7 had one of the best opening acts of any video game, this has to be in the running for the worst remake ever, purely as a result of this fact.

    Tetsuya Nomura does not understand ANYTHING about what makes a plot good. The changes in the plot would have been bad enough on their own (since the plot now literally makes no sense), but he had to add in the time traveling ghosts that appear whenever a major story point is changed, to further slow the pacing. To make matters worse, the whole thing seems to be some metanarrative about the fans and other square enix employees who dared to want Nomura to make this remake be a... remake, and not a new story.

    Talk about narcissism.

    But apparently Square Enix's fanboys are swallowing this trash right up. So I guess good graphics and stylish gameplay is all you really need. Who needs a story to make common sense?

    4/10    … Expand
  9. Zealow
    Apr 10, 2020
    10
    Best thing ever made. No doubt! Its impressive how its faithfull to the original while fleshing out backstory and characters. If they can keep this quality through the rest of the parts were in for an amazing ride.
  10. Kodrix
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    Este juego no es lo que nos han vendido, durante años hemos pensado que ibamos a jugar a un remake del ffvii, pero no. SE ha abusado de publicidad engañosa esto se acerca mas a un spin off. Durante el primer 99% del juego estas viendo lo que siempre hemos querido todos los fans: unos graficos alucinantes, un sistema de batalla majestuoso, expanden la historia de forma muy coherente y unEste juego no es lo que nos han vendido, durante años hemos pensado que ibamos a jugar a un remake del ffvii, pero no. SE ha abusado de publicidad engañosa esto se acerca mas a un spin off. Durante el primer 99% del juego estas viendo lo que siempre hemos querido todos los fans: unos graficos alucinantes, un sistema de batalla majestuoso, expanden la historia de forma muy coherente y un desarrollo dd personajes que te hace amarlos mas de lo que ya lo haciamos... Sin embargo, en la parte final del juego empiezan a suceder cosas muy muy extrañas mas propias del kindom hearta que de una final fantasy, y nada que ver con final fantasy 7 original. El principio de la decepcion empieza poco antes de salir del edificio shinra cuando en una escena con barret y los ecos del destino empiezas a entender que algo ya no funciona como en el original. Aun asi, lo dejas pasar porque es un detalle que podria pasar sin importsncia una vez completado el juego y habiendose mantenido fiel comobel 99% de esta primera parte. El mayor problema viene sobre todo en el ultimo capitulo, y es aqui cuando todos loa sueños de los fana se desvanecen por completo, dialogos extraidoa de kh, 0 sentido, noa enfrentamos incluso al lado oscuro de kh y a las sombras de cloud, barret y tifa... Segun avanzamos en la parte final del juego noa vamos topando con combates espectaculares pero con poco sentido narrativo... Hasta llegar a hacernos spoilers de algo que probablemente no volvamos a ver (por lo que no se llamarian spoilers propiamente dicho, pero bueno). El colmo es cuando ves las ultimas escenas del juego, que ademas de confundir mucho mas a low jugadores, terminan con la linea temporal del original dando a entender de forma directa que las siguientes partes va a ser algo completamente nuevo. Y cuando digo directa quiero decir DIRECTA, es decir, el propio juego termina con la frase: THE UNKNOWN JOURNEY WILL CONTINUE (Basicamente: el viaje desconocido continuara) por lo que aqui muere el remake! Y entramos en terrenos desconocidos, donde square puede hacer lo que le plazca.
    Nos lo han vendido como remake, le han dado mucho cariño al juego para contentsr a los fans, pero para que? Me pregunto; si luego vais a hacer lo que os de la gana en el final y en las proximas partes. Me siento completamente decepcionado y engañado y con mucha impotencia de no poder cambiar el destino (nunca mejor dicho) de este juego.

    Si me vendes naranjas, no me des platanos, aunque el platano tenga un sabor de primera.

    Y es precisamente eso lo que ha hecho SE. Nos han vendido esto como remake cuando en realidad es un spin off. Y de ahi la GRAN decepcion.
    Haberle puesto de titulo FFVII Another Story / 0.5 y hubiera sido mucho mejor, pero con remake se siente como un cebo para quebla gente lo compre, quiera mas y aseguraros compras de las siguientes partes

    Por otra parte, quiero dejar claro que estamos ante un juegazo y el mejor final fantasy desde el X pero todavia es un juego incompleto y como ya he dicho ew muy probable que vaya a menos en las siguientes partes, cosa que ojala pse para que SE rectifique y noa de lo que ha estado predicando durante 5 años.

    Mi unico sueño es creer en que sacaran un parche para solucionar ese desastroso final y vea la decepcion de los fans. Porque si, el juego tiene miy buenas notas y criticas, pero todos se wuejan del final. Es el punto comun en todo. Y si lo unico que no ha gustado de este juego ha sido el cambio de narrativo, esperaos a ver cuando las 40h de la parte 2 no tenga nada que ver con el original... No se en que estaba pensando square o en que momento deciden en que ese final es una buena idea.
    De hecho, mi nota y mi comentario es una queja para mostrar mi descontento mas wue por sea un mal juego, que NO lo es en ningun caso. Pero invito a todos que hagan lo mismo porwue los fans unidos tenemos mucha fuerza. Cambiaron el modelado de sonic, y otros finales de videojuegos han sido tsmbien cambiado. Solo espero qie ffvii remake sea el REMAKE que noa dijeron y no un spinoff con saltos temporales, cambioa de destino y mierdas que no pintan nada en ffvii    … Expand
  11. Magno--Barros
    Apr 10, 2020
    10
    a dream realized the only caveat and the game being divided into parts the wait was worth it for the next episodes to reach the qubato before.
  12. Juho333
    May 14, 2020
    0
    Thai IS not a remake ,They had one job...They took ffvii and wiped ASS with The story,
  13. ufs34
    Apr 16, 2020
    0
    Que decepção. Jogo toscu, curto, estória muito fraquinha e pior de tudo, o jogo só cobre a parte do Midgar. Não gasta o seu dinheiro com este jogo.
  14. guilhermes
    Apr 10, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Hoje em dia poucos jogos conseguem causar a sensação que cada minuto de FFVII remake causou em mim, tudo se encaixa tão bem como se fosse uma sinfonia em que que você se deleita em cada nota, os gráficos como a narrativa avança os gráficos tudo se junta em uma das melhores experiências que eu já tive como jogos… Expand
  15. BT_Chamby
    Apr 10, 2020
    10
    Not perfect, but it exceeded my expectations on a remake of my favorite game of all time!
  16. Flamesof24
    Apr 30, 2020
    10
    Best PS4 game I ever played, the twists to the original make it even better and the best game of the FFVII series.
  17. DennisBalmung
    Apr 10, 2020
    10
    What a great first act i love it !!! Great story
    Good graphic
    Great pacing
    I cant wait to play the second act
  18. Vissermatt
    Apr 24, 2020
    6
    There was a press release like 10+ years ago when square-enix admitted they didn't want to remake FF7 cause they knew nostalgia goggles would HURT the new release. After several years and many new titles added to their repertoire, we can see the company has more and more focused on graphics over good story. Don't forget the original FF14 release was a sin against mmoprgs. They were notThere was a press release like 10+ years ago when square-enix admitted they didn't want to remake FF7 cause they knew nostalgia goggles would HURT the new release. After several years and many new titles added to their repertoire, we can see the company has more and more focused on graphics over good story. Don't forget the original FF14 release was a sin against mmoprgs. They were not confident they could live up to their past accolades. And here we are; proven they were right.

    As far as pure graphics go, the game is beautiful - which is what we expect from square-enix now.
    The new battle system is very interesting and should be applauded.
    Just about everything else is substandard. The voice sync is the worst I've seen seen voice sync has been attempted..... The music scores are good, but very rarely are implemented well. More than a few times our eco-terrorist group are talking or planning something and you have a some melodic romance movie type song going on.... and you can only wonder **** WHY.
    There are few times when your team are performing one of their missions and the script and story writing feel like its a couple of middle schoolers going to the convenience store where they will battle a few pokemon trainers.... but in reality they are raiding a military base and murdering guards by the dozens.......
    Also its outright insane in some of the cinematics and scenario battles how Cloud is either recognized as a scary **** or he's a random nobody, and for either route enemies will always just aim their guns at him and tell him to stop! They are theoretically standing in the corpses of DOZENS of their fellow coworkers...... like wtf.
    This entire game took up around 11% of the original plot of FF7 and padded it full of insane child like garbage. I do NOT recommend buying this game as a stand alone. Wait for the rest of the game. You are missing nothing.    … Expand
  19. Haruo27
    Jun 1, 2020
    0
    It is immensely disappointing what Square Enix had done with this installment. As a huge fan of the franchise, I've always liked their games, even the least appreciated games like Dirge of Cerberus. But this is simply unacceptable as it shows how greedy the company had become.
  20. 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.
  21. LurkingToaster6
    Apr 27, 2020
    10
    Combat is really fun and graphics are really good. Also, liked the flush out of Midgar - always felt that part was too short in the original. Music is great. The twist I thought was great and look forward to see how it goes moving forward.
  22. SethpCecil
    Apr 17, 2020
    6
    I was very excited about this game and there is a lot here to like, but poor combat mechanics (Limit and summon nerfs are a huge disappointment) bizarre changes to the story and an increase in the silliness of an already silly game drag it way down. as someone who has played the original more than any other game this is a really good Final Fantasy game, but a poor imitation of a FinalI was very excited about this game and there is a lot here to like, but poor combat mechanics (Limit and summon nerfs are a huge disappointment) bizarre changes to the story and an increase in the silliness of an already silly game drag it way down. as someone who has played the original more than any other game this is a really good Final Fantasy game, but a poor imitation of a Final Fantasy 7 game.… Expand
  23. lpiau
    Apr 27, 2020
    10
    Thanks Square! The game is amazing! Battles, music, effects, story, characters... I hope the sequel won't be long in coming.
  24. Terron29
    Apr 21, 2020
    6
    Pros:

    Fantastic graphics for the most part bar some areas with poor textures. Played very smoothly on my base ps4, impressive stuff Music is mostly great, original had fantastic music and this had remixes of those same tunes and some new ones to boot, 2 stood out to me as bad but the rest was mostly great stuff. Characters look and sound great, they did an amazing job bringing    Pros:

    Fantastic graphics for the most part bar some areas with poor textures.

    Played very smoothly on my base ps4, impressive stuff

    Music is mostly great, original had fantastic music and this had remixes of those same tunes and some new ones to boot, 2 stood out to me as bad but the rest was mostly great stuff.

    Characters look and sound great, they did an amazing job bringing the old ff7 characters into the modern age and the game expands further on their backgrounds especially jesse which was welcome.

    Some of the areas from the original were clearly shown so much love and care and it shows , Aeris house/church, Seventh Heaven, The shinra building, Some areas in this game really look jaw dropping and have such attention to detail.

    Mixed:

    Combat is a mixed bag, sometimes its great when it all comes together and it is more enjoyable the further you get into the game as more materia and abilities unlock for you but the camera can be a real pain sometimes and it can get very messy, An example is when a boss is lining up an attack and I run to get away sometimes a team mate will run into his line of fire, if i quickly switch over to avoid this then my original character runs back out into line of fire, hard to explain, its a decent battle system but needs some more tuning, looks fantastic when issuing commands though, love that slow mo effect.

    Story I wont get into here but it changes a whole lot especially toward the end, this is gonna be subjective but personally considering they changed so much anyway in terms of expanding the world, changing the combat etc I am kind of ok with them changing the story up, at least I wont know whats coming despite playing the original and loving it. (Mind you I am a turn based lover so my expectations for this game went down when the combat was revealed and thus I feel I care a little less than most what way the story goes) Ill always have my original ff7 so I am not too concerned, thus I feel meh about the story changes and it goes into the mixed feelings pile.

    Cut-scenes, Many of the cut-scenes in this game are great and look fantastic but there is too bloody many of them, it has gone for that cinematic approach that every big game these days has to do for some reason, so expect to play 10 mins, watch for 5, play for 10 more mins, watch for 3, play for 15 mins watch for 2 etc, a very 'stop and go' gameplay that I always hate, It is worth noting that there are a few chapters where this eases up thank god.

    Hated:

    Linear corridors, so much linearity in the game, Nearly felt claustrophobic at times, I am aware Midgar was linear in the original but the original was not broken up into parts and expanding Midgar into 30 plus hours! open it up a bit if your gonna expand it this much like. Also while on the topic of Midgar, it was not nearly as large as I was expecting given how expanded square enix claimed this game was as well as promising it was the length of a full fledged final fantasy. they obviously didnt mean any of the recent ones.

    Padding. The game has no shortage of it, the sidequests are mostly fetch or kill quests that do little to add to the game but I could have put up with them if not for the god awful slow walk speed in this game constantly, the game never makes up its mind, sometimes you can run, other times you can jog, other times you can only walk slowly, sometimes you can swing your sword to break boxes, other times the game wont let you swing the sword, it all happens nearly at random. This is one of the most annoying things about the game, its so restrictive, like as if i am playing an interactive walking simulator sometimes, This is needless slowing of the pace and dragging out the game. There are 2 exceptions where I felt the forced walking was justified but I wont spoil. I wont even get started on all the damn ladders and shimmying across between ledges and squeezing through tight spaces really slowly, that combined with the above really slows the pace and seriously hurts the replayability of the game. I threw my eyes up to heaven every time My character suddenly slows to a crawl because someone is speaking,

    Level design, Level design is very uninspired for the most part, leaving aside the linearity mentioned above, some of the areas that do open up a bit are large square rooms with trash mobs in them followed by a tiny corridor and another large square room. over and over, very very basic level design stuff here. Uninspired but you know what? Ill take it over being forced down another damn corridor and sometimes I got to at least choose the order in which I entered these rooms so thats a start :)

    Blue arrows pulsing on the ground guiding you so you dont get lost......this is bad in ANY game but how in the name of god would you get lost in this, its like getting lost in a 2d mario game, at least give the option to turn off immersion breaking bright blue arrows on the floor. Just the option please.    … Expand
  25. OtakonBRA
    Apr 20, 2020
    6
    Ainda estou jogando, mas já estou bem decepcionado. Vamos ver até o final. Tecnicamente o jogo perde muitos pontos, texturas péssimas e npcs com aspecto de PS2 assustam. Todo esse tempo pra entregar um jogo defeituoso desse?
  26. Venn
    Apr 22, 2020
    7
    The game is good, not spectacular, but two weeks after release there's been no patch and the texture issues have forced me to stop until they fix the game as they should have.
  27. Vitoraheringer
    Apr 27, 2020
    10
    Eu ia colocar um 9 por conta dos problemas de texturas que muitos já sabem, mas os capítulos finais são tão perfeitos que não consegui tirar um ponto, seria muito injusto.
  28. Bringonthejoy
    May 4, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After a lot of thought, I feel like this is a fair score to give this game. I don't have very high standards for games so stuff like the pacing being ruined by the slow side quests, lack of urgency, cheesiness and scripted walking sequences usually don't bother me too much. I didnt even mind that I had to fork out hundreds of dollars and potentially have to buy a $1000 PS5 to get the full story. I would usually give a game like this an 8 or probably even a 9 even with all of these flaws if it was enjoyable overall. The reason I am giving it a 4 is solely because of that abomination of an ending. That ending just sucks the enjoyment out of you and makes you not care as much for future titles.

    I should say that while I've been a longtime fan of the final fantasy series, I was late in playing FF7 so I dont have the nostalgia goggles that many people have. I am not a purist so its not the direction that bothered me, it was the execution. I don't understand how they could have created such a magical experience for the first 35 hours and then screwed up completely in the last 3 hours, leaving a stain on all of their hard work.

    (minus 1 point) Firstly, the characters start acting oddly, Aerith changing from her cheerful, confident self to a depressed, unsure clone of Tifa. And Red XIII seems to be relegated to a mouthpiece of square, trying to explain the nonsense they are pulling in the last 2 chapters.. They also seemed to have made him older and wiser than his original counterpart who was described as having a juvenile state of mind.

    (minus 1 point) Secondly, the multiple timelines they put in were pointless additions. After you beat the whisper harbinger, you are treated to a scene of Zack in from Crisis core. Except instead of him dying to save cloud, you see him watching as the whispers fade from existence and he carries cloud towards midgar. He then walks past the point where cloud and aerith are leaving the city, showing that they made it to Midgar. What was the point of this change? Is it another reality/dimension? If so, why does it matter? Also, didnt Zack die in the past? How would killing whispers in the present change the past? If they existed across all of time and space why didnt they just remove sephiroth from existence? And above all, why does it matter if he is alive in an alternate dimension if its not the one the story takes place in?

    (minus 1 point) Thirdly, the addition of changing fate itself at the end was just wrong. The rest of the game, although the whispers show up, the main theme was not changing fate. A large part of the enjoyment I got from the first 35 hours of the game was seeing the characters deal with the moral dilemma of their war with Shinra and them seeing the consequences of their actions. It had absolutely nothing to do with fate. Trying to shoehorn this in at the 11th hour was just jarring. Throughout the game the bosses have been machines or people. Then at the end of the game, all of a sudden you fight this gigantic manifestation of fate that looks like the first boss in Kingdom Hearts 1. Its such a huge disconnect from the rest of the game.

    (minus 2 points) And then there is the worst part of all for me: I dont know who was responsible for this. It may not have been Nomura like everyone is crying about but, whoever decided it was a good idea to add in arbiters of fate only to kill them at the end of the game, signaling the death of the fanbase's expectations, should be sacked. Whoever it was, was trying to be a smartass towards the fans. It was the least subtle way of saying "f*** the fans for asking us to make it faithful. We are gonna force you to kill your own expectations in the form of these arbiters of fate so we can do whatever we want now". If they wanted to change the story, they should have just changed it. Sure, it wouldn't have been what they advertised but its better than changing it and then using the whispers as a device to explain and justify their actions. This act alone was so petty and insulting I can understand why a lot of people are fuming and giving this game 0/10.

    Frankly, I dont understand all of the people saying they were fans of the original and like this better. FF7 is a story driven game so you cant call the ending of the story a minor issue and give it a 10/10.

    This almost feels like GOT Season 8 last year. So much effort was wasted making a brilliant game that got ruined by bad writing and terrible execution at the end.

    Edit: Since a bunch of you felt like giving the game a 10/10 while specifically calling people who gave a low score purist fanboys, and not giving any actual reviews I've decided to change my score from 4 to 0. A game with the sheer legacy of FF7 deserves respect towards the original and it's fanbase. This was the game that rocketed square to success. Without it there would be no final fantasy today. Without the original fans, the remake would never have been made.    … Expand
  29. Diolox
    Apr 10, 2020
    10
    I got an early copy. I only have to say that og ffvii is my favourite game, it brings me back lot of memoriea. But this game... its a masterpiece. Tha attention to the detail, graphics, story... its wonderful. Thank you square! Thats what I imagined it should be when I player back in 1997.
    People rating 0, I don't know what they want, but doesn't have criteria. No way it's below a 8    I got an early copy. I only have to say that og ffvii is my favourite game, it brings me back lot of memoriea. But this game... its a masterpiece. Tha attention to the detail, graphics, story... its wonderful. Thank you square! Thats what I imagined it should be when I player back in 1997.
    People rating 0, I don't know what they want, but doesn't have criteria. No way it's below a 8 for any opinion. The must be people that beated all of the ff, read all the lore, and obsessed whit that, they wanted a carbon copy of the original.    … Expand
  30. Willynoir
    Apr 10, 2020
    10
    Great game graphics and soundtrack.. battle system is fun with lots of possibilities!
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#8 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#5 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020
4
#4 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2020

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 126 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 116 out of 126
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 126
  3. Negative: 0 out of 126
  1. GameMAG
    Sep 14, 2020
    90
    Final Fantasy VII Remake is the game we've been waiting for from Square Enix for so long. Atmospheric, interesting and exciting all your attention modern jRPG with an interesting story and spectacular battles. To achieve the ideal, the project only needs more even graphics and all the content from the original release. If you were waiting for a turn-based classic with new graphics you will most likely be disappointed, since the game has changed a lot. Everyone else is happy with the release of the first really powerful single-player release from the internal Square Enix studio for many years. Especially after the failure of Final Fantasy XV.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Aug 20, 2020
    80
    A good remake of the introductory part of the cult-favorite Final Fantasy VII. It improves on the original game in almost all aspects, yet lacks in scale and drops the ball at the very end.
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  3. Finger Guns
    Aug 10, 2020
    90
    What matters is still intact, and that’s the heart and soul of one of the greatest stories in video game history. It’s a return to form that has felt a long time in coming, and what’s even better is that there’s still at least two more games of this quality to come...They can’t mess this up, can they?
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