Final Fantasy VII Remake

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  1. Renegade1503
    Apr 13, 2020
    5
    Based on 25h of gameplay.
    An okay game, but way too hyped imo. Beautiful graphics, but that's it. Nothing else is special about this game. And I have played FF games since FF III (EU).
  2. Tsukyme
    Apr 13, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Perfect just like the original sad its not the full history, either new players or returning ones will love the combat, story mode and mini games, its also a really long game… Expand
  3. Paulo969
    Apr 13, 2020
    10
    Opinião de alguém que comprou o jogo original no dia de lançamento : Remake absolutamente incrível. Respeita o material original, acrescentando mais história. Tecnicamente é um sonho. É o melhor jogo que joguei desde sempre.
  4. Kdreams89
    Apr 13, 2020
    10
    I want to find everyone who worked on this project and hug them and pay them more money. Thank you so much. Truly.
  5. kremator
    Apr 13, 2020
    1
    Boring, it seems that all old titles that were remastered / remade are done by lazy people.
  6. H3ct0r_jr123
    Apr 13, 2020
    0
    Bro low-key this game ass it's over rated it's a trash Wana be link from legends of zelda
  7. mnt9
    Apr 13, 2020
    5
    Nice graphics. Action oriented gameplay is great. But this is horribly unfinished. Narrative has been expanded with a bunch of trash to make a 20 hour play through into a 60 hour one. Lots of issues with random low res textures and low res models. The game is unreasonably hard on normal difficulty. Designed to force you to make your way through the game at a slow pace. Lots of boring sideNice graphics. Action oriented gameplay is great. But this is horribly unfinished. Narrative has been expanded with a bunch of trash to make a 20 hour play through into a 60 hour one. Lots of issues with random low res textures and low res models. The game is unreasonably hard on normal difficulty. Designed to force you to make your way through the game at a slow pace. Lots of boring side quests that slow the game down further. Good luck trying to skip them on normal difficulty though. Midgar should have been streamlined into a 15-20h tops.… Expand
  8. TheMallen
    Apr 13, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I finished this game within the first 4 days of owning it. Combat is a blast. Graphics are mesmerizing. I cared way more about side characters than the original. Yes, the ending is different, but I loved my time with this game anyway.… Expand
  9. FinalFantasy77
    Apr 13, 2020
    10
    I luv The Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Some things are different, But i luv the new changes. I grew up wit the original i really enjoyed it. And i'm looking forward to rest of the episodes. To all da haters that is trying to "Bomb" the remake Stop it !!! If u don't like Final Fantasy u aren't a real fan u are jujst a lame ass that don't have a childhood. FYI The Roche boss fight and theI luv The Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Some things are different, But i luv the new changes. I grew up wit the original i really enjoyed it. And i'm looking forward to rest of the episodes. To all da haters that is trying to "Bomb" the remake Stop it !!! If u don't like Final Fantasy u aren't a real fan u are jujst a lame ass that don't have a childhood. FYI The Roche boss fight and the airbuster fight are the best boss fights in the Remake so far IMO.… Expand
  10. ne2ino
    Apr 13, 2020
    10
    A real amazing game. SQEN has really nailed this one.
    The game is astonishingly crafted. Scenic are so detailed and beautiful.
    Combat system is now Action RPG, which is a lot of fun once you get used to it. For RPG gamers, not much to relearn how to play the game, but if you are new to RPG, then it will take sometime to get used to. Anyway, thing every player can enjoy this game    A real amazing game. SQEN has really nailed this one.
    The game is astonishingly crafted. Scenic are so detailed and beautiful.
    Combat system is now Action RPG, which is a lot of fun once you get used to it.
    For RPG gamers, not much to relearn how to play the game, but if you are new to RPG, then it will take sometime to get used to. Anyway, thing every player can enjoy this game enormously.
    Big thanks to the team for made such a wonderful classic remake.    … Expand
  11. ShyPantelones
    Apr 13, 2020
    10
    The original Final Fantasy 7 was amazing, and told a story like no other at the time. The characters were fleshed out, the stakes were high, and the game is just a classic. As much as I love Final Fantasy 7, as much as I loved the idea of going back to Midgar with a huge sword, I had a small hope that Square might flesh out the game, give the characters some more depth. I wasn't sure ifThe original Final Fantasy 7 was amazing, and told a story like no other at the time. The characters were fleshed out, the stakes were high, and the game is just a classic. As much as I love Final Fantasy 7, as much as I loved the idea of going back to Midgar with a huge sword, I had a small hope that Square might flesh out the game, give the characters some more depth. I wasn't sure if Square had their eyes set on a shot for shot battle for battle remake of FF7 or if they wanted to do more or what, I knew what I didn't want, which was a remake that offered less than the original (Resident Evil 3 Remake anyone?). It scared me when I heard that this game would come in 3 parts, and part 1 would end when you left Midgar. That seemed insane, that's only a few hours of story right? Am I going to be paying for a few hours of gameplay? Well, Square pulled the rug, they did everything I wanted and more, the characters are more fleshed out, the locations are bigger, the battles are more epic, the graphics are downright stunning, and the story? Well the story is like the one you know and love, but it isn't at the same time. We have Avalanche, Shinra, Mako, Lifestream, all the pieces are there, some of the beats are the same, there is still that cross dressing part, but Square made it clear that you're not just playing FF7 again, this is new. This isn't FF7 Part 1, this is the FF7 Remake, now the rest is a brand new story, a brand new telling. No one knows what will happen next, but I'm going to be eagerly awaiting the next installment. It took me 20 hours to beat the game and I wasn't going for a completionist run or anything like that, this game has MEAT. You're going to get your moneys worth and then some on top as well. 10/10 for me, if you're on the edge about it, if you're hearing that the game wasn't worth it or something stupid like that, they're wrong, every negative review of this game is dead wrong.… Expand
  12. AntenSe7en
    Apr 13, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So I just finished playing through the story, and I’ve gotta say, I’m unfortunately disappointed in the direction they took this game in. Allow me to preface that by saying that there’s a lot of good in this game, though. It’s graphically stunning, the combat is fun and engaging, the character development in the first 5 or 6 hours was more than we got in some of SE’s past games (I’m looking at you, FFXV), and Midgar was faithfully re-created and fleshed out. It really felt like what I personally imagined a hyper-realistic Midgar should look like.

    So why am I disappointed? Simply put: the ending was enough to offset all of the good that this game brought to the table. I understand that this wasn’t supposed to be a beat-for-beat remake of the original Final Fantasy 7, but the narrative direction that this game was taken to at the very end was chock full of Kingdom Hearts levels of **** It made next to no sense, especially considering that the game felt very true to the original for a good 90% of the game. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of the KH series, but we have plenty of those games. If I wanted to play a KH game, I would have popped KH3 into my PS4. The problem is that this game wasn’t supposed to be a convoluted mess of a story. In fact, the source material was right there for the creators of this game to follow. It didn’t have to be a 1:1 remake for it to feel faithful to the original, but adding in plot elements like the “Arbiters of Fate”, and to have the game end with a swarm of them surrounding the Shinra building, followed by a romp into a portal created by Aerith that leads you to a fight with a giant, Midgar destroying ripoff of a heartless, to an Advent Children-esque fight with Sephiroth, and then topped off with a one-on-one duel between Cloud and Sephiroth where he spouts nonsensical, lofty, cryptic dialogue pertaining to “the edge of creation” while the game retcons the events of the past games set in the Final Fantasy 7 sub-universe just left me scratching my head, and I couldn’t help but feel like I was suckered in and lied to. I’m starting to feel like Square-Enix can’t do anything right anymore. They honestly had one job with this game, which was to give us Final Fantasy 7, with some added content that allowed us to see and explore Midgar, while spacing out the main story points. The sad thing is that that’s essentially what they did, right before the writers dropped some acid and set to work on writing the ending...

    I’ll be honest: if you’re looking to play a fun, engaging, beautifully designed JRPG and have little to no knowledge of the original Final Fantasy 7, then I highly recommend that you play this game. However, If you’re a fan of the original then avoid this game like the plague, as it’ll only serve to undo what was next to perfectly done back in 1997.    … Expand
  13. Robert91
    Apr 10, 2020
    10
    Para mi es el mejor juego de final fantasy que he jugado, mejores gráficos, batalla y la historia muy bien recreada y con novedades respecto al juego original.
  14. 98classicgmr
    Apr 12, 2020
    10
    After five years of development, I can happily say that we got a great remake, it may not be perfect but it’s one of the greatest experiences I had in a long time (IT’S MY PERSONAL OPINION HERE).

    “Relieving a Fantasy” The first two hours of the game are quite energetic and bombastic, from the moment the camera swoops around and let’s you play as Cloud Strife Former Soldier you feel the    After five years of development, I can happily say that we got a great remake, it may not be perfect but it’s one of the greatest experiences I had in a long time (IT’S MY PERSONAL OPINION HERE).

    “Relieving a Fantasy” The first two hours of the game are quite energetic and bombastic, from the moment the camera swoops around and let’s you play as Cloud Strife Former Soldier you feel the emotion and energy from the bombing mission same feelings when I first played the original 97’ FF. “A living world” There’s not much to say about the open areas in this game without talking about how alive this sections are, even though I have a gripe with the size of the areas I feel like it’s a well detailed recreation of the Sectors we got to see in the original game. Each area (Slums from sector 7, Wall Market, etc.) has its own presentation like an introduction of a book, with an specific NPC to make connections for you to do sidequests. Like I said my only gripe is with the size and by the way the said this was a midgar focused game I thought we would see more of this living city, I know we got a lot of content but It feels like it’s a bit small and not a lot to explore. “Quick Jobs for your everyday Merc” As i said previously there are some Sidequests in the game that I personally consider fun because they’re not long stretched and the fact that you can completely ignore them without missing important or crucial items makes them very balanced for the game. I honestly wished there was more to it or different ones that you would actually need to go to the upper plates and such.

    For same these side quest might not be the funniest of any game, since most of the times are a run through an area with monsters to get an item for an npc but overall i think they could be a lot more improved in an obvious part 2 of the game. “Mini games remakes”

    The question of some people, that actually care about these little details, the mini games are actually pretty fun, I actually played them with a couple of different people and everyone enjoyed each one. The squats and even a Whack a Mole are amazing, time flies when you’re playing a game within a game! “Let the battles begin!” The combat system feels really polished, there are some camera stuff that cannot be perfected by today’s standards but it’s really fun to play. There’s actually settings for how the camera works and you should definitely modify these setting at your desire.

    The materia and progression system of cores for each weapon had me really invested that I actually played it for a second time just as I finished the game, and the fact that you can pick you weapon and carry over the special ability once you fulfill the proficiency bar of each one you feel you’ve got a lot of options at your disposal for each character and makes you understand why an specific character introduced almost at the end of the game isn’t playable, the bar is set and I cannot wait to see what will they do for the next part of the game with the characters.

    “Embracing the fantasy”

    This is a review with minimal spoilers so the best way I can talk about the story is by saying, it shows that they actually cared that this wasn’t just a cash grab game, the updated story of the original game (Midgard portion) it’s amazing, how the characters interact with each other, your every now and then pre rendered scene, and the comedic moments aren’t cringe my at all. And a quick note here: The way they remade every single song from the original it’s phenomenal, once again it shows that they actually cared for the fans. An original song that originally lasted a minute and a half, now lasts 10 minutes! It has variations depending the situation, Nobuo Uematsu and Masashi Hamauzu did an outstanding job making new songs and actually giving you the feel that the old OST is now complete that this is the way it’s meant to sound.

    And of course it may be a divisive theme going on specially with the ending, but I feel confident that this the way the game will be relevant (just like the 97’ game), it might be setting up something for the future or the devs are having fun by throwing us for a loop so the game feels like it has an ending. They took the Episodic meaning to another level, I can only compare it to Avengers Infinity war, you know there’s a 2nd part coming but you feel satisfied at the end of the ride. For me and for a lot of us was something special back in 1997, some purists might not like the game at all and they have their right, even if there is an atb system with a Classic mode (Super easy) but after all you can’t make everyone happy. This was a ride I hope we get to enjoy even more with the next game, and I can’t even begin to imagine the things they can do with next gen hardware. You totally feel the 60 dollars are well invested it’s a complete game after all.

    Thank you Square Enix, for making me feel like a kid again.    … Expand
  15. vawaz
    Apr 12, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I haven’t felt this joy, awe, and excitement in a game since 2006 when I played Kingdom Hearts 2. When I reached chapter 3 of this game, I knew I didn’t want it to end because of how perfected it is and wished it would last forever. A nice surprise to an awful time. Stuck at home with nothing to do except play an amazing video game brought me back to my childhood. Thank you to whoever made this game, I’m wishing you won’t take long for your next visit, and hopefully it will be on much happier times than this. Thank you again for this amazing game. Though I wished I could’ve had my pizza date though.… Expand
  16. Syntheticbreed
    Apr 12, 2020
    6
    Uninspired and mundane side quests drag out a game that never needed to be this long in the city of Midgar. Lacking voice over work along side stereotypically dumbed down characters hurt the story's progression. The battle system is a major let down as well. To sum it up, it isn't a bad game, but it absolutely was not worth the wait. If you buy this, expect Kingdom Hearts meets FinalUninspired and mundane side quests drag out a game that never needed to be this long in the city of Midgar. Lacking voice over work along side stereotypically dumbed down characters hurt the story's progression. The battle system is a major let down as well. To sum it up, it isn't a bad game, but it absolutely was not worth the wait. If you buy this, expect Kingdom Hearts meets Final Fantasy Xv, and not in a good way. It's a hollow lacking package wrapped in lovely graphics and beautifully orchestrated music.… Expand
  17. NickyBiggz
    Apr 12, 2020
    10
    Better than i ever could have expected and i was very skeptical a month out from release. The original made me cry nerd tears for the first time in a game and i dreamt of the day where we would get to see that cast of characters and world again, but this has exceeded anything i could have imagined. It is broken up into 3 parts and this is just the first part but it needs to be. They reallyBetter than i ever could have expected and i was very skeptical a month out from release. The original made me cry nerd tears for the first time in a game and i dreamt of the day where we would get to see that cast of characters and world again, but this has exceeded anything i could have imagined. It is broken up into 3 parts and this is just the first part but it needs to be. They really develop characters and the world in a way that makes the original seem shallow, dumbed down, and rushed. This really is something to experience, whether a fan or new to the game.… Expand
  18. piter2604
    Apr 12, 2020
    10
    Great story, memorable characters, great battle system that makes you think game is easy until you fight with really tough opponents. Great graphics for 7 year old console and MUSIC!!! It's worth playing just to listen to that soundtrack. Overall this game is a masterpiece!
  19. rsaioxkreual
    Apr 12, 2020
    5
    The voice acting is AWFUL. I swear to god, that and the horrifying teeth knocked this down 2 points as is. There's a lot of padding, and while padding isn't always bad, in this case they only had a section that is about 3-5 hours long and they made it 30 hours. That's a lot of damn padding.

    FFVII was my favorite game ever, and the remake is just 'meh.' It's pretty. It's flashy, but    The voice acting is AWFUL. I swear to god, that and the horrifying teeth knocked this down 2 points as is. There's a lot of padding, and while padding isn't always bad, in this case they only had a section that is about 3-5 hours long and they made it 30 hours. That's a lot of damn padding.

    FFVII was my favorite game ever, and the remake is just 'meh.'

    It's pretty. It's flashy, but whatever. Could do with it, could do without it.

    You have any idea how painful that is to say, that something that you've been looking forward to for 15+ years is just 'fine'? There are certain things that are great, but other things that are just plain disappointing.    … Expand
  20. Robbie_Bobby
    Apr 12, 2020
    10
    Great game and totally new experience of 7th without making the original 7th worse, which still the best game with limited technical capabilities at the time. Thank You SE, can't wait for the second.
  21. Eisforerock
    Apr 12, 2020
    9
    At first, confusing additions to the story, but an extremely fleshed out midgar and everything that comes with it make for a nostalgic trip in a modern world. Wall market does not disappoint.
  22. meizhiguo
    Apr 12, 2020
    10
    Remake ≠ Remastered and SE definitely gives an excellent remake on FFVII. It should be a "new" game but not only remastered.
  23. 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!
  24. 7thSquare
    Apr 12, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is the first game I’ve played in a long time that had me smiling from ear to ear for such a long time. I absolutely loved it. I’m interested to see where the ending takes us, even though it isn’t what we expected. If I want to experience the original story, I can just play the original. This world has a lot of potential, and I’m confident that Square can navigate the story they’ve set up.… Expand
  25. Redbak
    Apr 12, 2020
    10
    Es un juego genial. Aunque igual creo que partes no tan importantes las hicieron bastante largas pudiendo enfocarse en cubrir más historia. También entiendo que sería difícil incluir en esta primera parte un mundo abierto al salir de midgar por ello quizá lo hicieron asi y cortaron allí exactamente. Excelente Remake, espero la segunda parte con emoción y ojalá sea mundo abierto. En esteEs un juego genial. Aunque igual creo que partes no tan importantes las hicieron bastante largas pudiendo enfocarse en cubrir más historia. También entiendo que sería difícil incluir en esta primera parte un mundo abierto al salir de midgar por ello quizá lo hicieron asi y cortaron allí exactamente. Excelente Remake, espero la segunda parte con emoción y ojalá sea mundo abierto. En este estoy de acuerdo que no lo fuera porque incluso en el original parecían capitulos así que le vino bien.… Expand
  26. Badalight
    Apr 12, 2020
    0
    You might be thinking "0/10? That's quite harsh isn't it? How can it be possibly be a 0? I mean, the game is playable. It's even kinda fun to play, and the graphics are good!" and you'd be right. However, this is a score indicative of over a decade of pent up frustration with this company and specifically the director in question - Nomura.

    Bottom line, a company should not be rewarded    You might be thinking "0/10? That's quite harsh isn't it? How can it be possibly be a 0? I mean, the game is playable. It's even kinda fun to play, and the graphics are good!" and you'd be right. However, this is a score indicative of over a decade of pent up frustration with this company and specifically the director in question - Nomura.

    Bottom line, a company should not be rewarded for lying. This game is not a remake - it is a sequel. SE lied to its fanbase. Not only that, they royally **** up a perfectly good story by turning it into Kingdom Hearts. Nomura just can't help himself. He thinks he is a great writer and has to insert these convoluted meta-narratives into his game. However, his writing is horrible. He's a concept artist that lucked his way into a directorial position, and it shows in every piece of work he produces.

    I don't know who this game is for. Newcomers will be confused at the ending. Fans of the original will be upset at the ending. How can anyone be happy with this as the final product? They destroy the story of the original and still somehow don't cater to new fans. Sure, some of the expanded lore is interesting. Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge are all fully fleshed out characters now. But in expanding Midgar, there is also much bloat introduced. A switch puzzle that was originally 5 minutes is now an hour long. A streamlined story now has detours and lame sidequests that involve killing 10 rats.

    I could go on and on. Sephiroth's introduction is handled worse in this remake and is just hamfisted in for marketing purposes. The game lacks any subtlety as it overly foreshadows major plot points (sometimes outright showing them to the player, including the **** ENDING of the original game). While your party feels more alive than ever, the npcs around town are lifeless and feel out of place.

    **** this game. **** Nomura. **** Square Enix. This was your last chance, and you blew it. Never buying anything game from them again.

    Signed,

    Fan of nearly 30 years.    … Expand
  27. Arctosa
    Apr 10, 2020
    3
    Visually, the game is absolutely stunning, the artistic direction, the character design, everything that involves using your eyes is a thing of beauty, an absolute masterclass.
    Everything else is simply a gigantic mess.
    The soundtrack is overall a mixed bag, some musics have been reorchestrated, with inspiration, and talent, some others have been simply stripped of their souls, and are    Visually, the game is absolutely stunning, the artistic direction, the character design, everything that involves using your eyes is a thing of beauty, an absolute masterclass.
    Everything else is simply a gigantic mess.

    The soundtrack is overall a mixed bag, some musics have been reorchestrated, with inspiration, and talent, some others have been simply stripped of their souls, and are simply unrecognizable. The music of the motorbike scene nearly had me cutting the sound. The voice acting on the other hand is spot-on, but that was expected.
    The battle system is a giant mess, unresponsive, unprecise, unbalanced, the aerial fights are terrible and highlight the numerous camera problems, the materia system simply doesn't work in an action oriented game, or at least not in this case.

    The progression is even worse, and clearly explain why this game make us go through roughly 10% of the original game, because it is filled with uninteresting sidequests, and even most of the main story (yes, the main story got changed A LOT) simply isn't interesting.

    As expected from the Final Fantasy series at this point, a visual experience, nothing more.    … Expand
  28. ScrapBrain
    Apr 12, 2020
    3
    A patchwork assembly of elements from the original game set into a revisionist story that fails to deliver on the moniker of a 'remake'. There are certain sections that are pitch perfect in its delivery, though the end of the game summarily discards the legacy of its source material and has a pacing problem throughout. Texture issues plague the game, including one large sequence where theA patchwork assembly of elements from the original game set into a revisionist story that fails to deliver on the moniker of a 'remake'. There are certain sections that are pitch perfect in its delivery, though the end of the game summarily discards the legacy of its source material and has a pacing problem throughout. Texture issues plague the game, including one large sequence where the background textures are so low-resolution it pulls you completely out of the experience.

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

    At the end screen I felt as though I had been punched in the stomach. If you've never played the original, sure, go nuts, I'm sure you'll have a great time...but if you love the original game, and want to see the rest of the excellent story of the original play out, you're going to be sorely disappointed.    … Expand
  29. Shadow1234
    Apr 12, 2020
    5
    Don't get me wrong this game is amazing in every sense. I highly recommend playing it however.... wait for a sale to purchase. Let me explain:

    The graphics are top notch and not something that even needs to be discussed. They nail the end life of this gaming generation and everything it is capable of with the next generation coming soon. Hearing the music and soundtracks take me back    Don't get me wrong this game is amazing in every sense. I highly recommend playing it however.... wait for a sale to purchase. Let me explain:

    The graphics are top notch and not something that even needs to be discussed. They nail the end life of this gaming generation and everything it is capable of with the next generation coming soon.
    Hearing the music and soundtracks take me back to the original for sure. The voice acting is superb and the audio while playing is great. From Barret's one liners to Jessie hitting on Cloud, even listening to the background voice as you walk through a section of town is great.

    The battles are awesome and and you can choose if you want it to be simplistic or more challenging. With many original monsters making a reappearance.

    I like everything about this game but here is why it only got a 5.

    I did not read up on anything about this game pre-release so I could be totally surprised by everything and enjoy it all. Everything was going great. Then the game ended and I was not even out of Midgar,

    ARE YOU JOKING ME!!! Looks like SE is going to make this into a three part series I would guess. While some may enjoy that I do not. Yes it makes the overall game larger but it also means we as players wont be done it until 2023, provided they release the next part every year and I doubt that is going to happen but it sure as hell better. If they do it every two years then we will be done this series by 2026. No way this game is just a two part series as Midgar was the first game. If I recall the game took place over a few towns and areas of the world map. Yes they really fleshed out Midgar with a town more to do and it was great but now I have to buy another game/DLC maybe two at $79.99 CAD each I am guessing. MONEY GRAB!! That is why this game gets a 5, Buy it; just wait on a sale.    … Expand
  30. Peterw223
    Apr 12, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I loved this game , it was a amazing start for the rest of the journey and left me begging for more and wanting to know what happen next even though i played the original. I think that what we see is that the end is just another way the things could have go , like zack not dying , but no things will go the way of the original , and the whole defeating the whispers was so you could stop shepirot and the visions cloud and the gang see are indeed the future but they just see glimpses so they dont fully understand , aerith was scared to go against the whispers because she knew she would have to sacrifice herself , and the bit in the end show us that she can see the past and the alternate time lines and she chose the one where she sacrifices her self over the one where she would stay in midgar underneath the steel sky , its obvious things are a little different sure but we didn't have the whispers in the first game , and they were created so that part 1 would give some closure so dont be afraid that they gonna change the end or aerith dead they won't but they leaving crisis core and the others spins offs aside , and things might not go as you expect but the keys moments will remain the same dont jump to conclusions… Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#8 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#5 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020
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#4 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2020

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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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