Final Fantasy VII Remake

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. coffee13bean
    Apr 11, 2020
    3
    I cannot express to you how disappointed I am with this game. It was announced in 2015 and then we had to wait until 2020 and THIS is what we get? A broken, unfinished game with a mangled story line. It is NOTHING like the original. It is not honest to the source, it is nothing like FF7 except the character skins and locations. This is a terrible testament to FF7's legacy. I can't believeI cannot express to you how disappointed I am with this game. It was announced in 2015 and then we had to wait until 2020 and THIS is what we get? A broken, unfinished game with a mangled story line. It is NOTHING like the original. It is not honest to the source, it is nothing like FF7 except the character skins and locations. This is a terrible testament to FF7's legacy. I can't believe they would even label it as FF7. There is none of that magic that the original had.

    This first part stand -alone game because it doesn't deserve to be a part of the FF7 franchise. It isn't a full game, it's 40 hours of running around doing side-quests and then you get to the last hour and it just take a big crap in your mouth.
    The voice acting is terrible, all the newbies are not believable. Can't stand Aerith, she's incredibly inconsistent through the game, Tifa is too deep, and Cloud is bored out of his mind. I don't even want to talk about Sephiroth and Zack.

    Overall, this is a huge waste of my time. Visuals are stunning, but it's like a hot girl with no personality.    … Expand
  4. Funkycolmadena
    Apr 12, 2020
    0
    This is very clearly a cash grab. Even after being stretched out by running through endless hallways in the end its only half the length of a regular game and maybe a quarter length of a proper rpg.

    If you can rent this, do it and have it beat in under a weekend.
  5. DangitArc
    Apr 13, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A lot of people said it better than I could.

    The game starts beautifully. They changed some small elements, fleshed out others and it was all well done. Everything felt like FF7, but more of it to enjoy. The music was excellent, the combat was fun and most of the changes were ones that I could understand the need for or just get over and accept.

    Then I entered the Shin-Ra building.

    **Spoilers below this point**

    Things went off the rails hard and several changes are the kinds that have huge implications on later parts of the story. Some points are even directed jabs at the people who loved the original game.
    Showing bits and pieces from the OG storyline as "What happens if we fail here," Throwing in some Kingdom hearts big bad that hilariously clashes with the entire aesthetic of the game up to that point. Then having a great big Sephiroth showdown? I get that they feel like then need a climax to the first chapter, but that could have very easily been done by playing up the three big boss battles that you get on your way out of the building and adding more to the motor cycle chase after.

    Instead they decided to frame the whole thing as "The original was bad and we're going to show you something good." Would we have been asking for this remake for fifteen years if we wanted a completely new direction? We asked for the remake because we loved the game. We wanted that game. Not a reboot, not some kind of alternate reality. Just the game we grew up loving, updated and expanded upon (You know, like everything up to the last two or so hours of the game).    … Expand
  6. Capablanca
    Apr 15, 2020
    0
    Unbelievable how boring and bad the game is.
    1) "Exploration" by Square is running on corridor-like locations with no good loot as a reward. Galactic brain.
    2) Battle system is **** like of ff13 15 for degenerates. You dont have ATB points? Congrats - you cant even use items. Monster is flying? - you get reduced hit combos on him in air, you can only rely on long-range chars or magic.    Unbelievable how boring and bad the game is.
    1) "Exploration" by Square is running on corridor-like locations with no good loot as a reward. Galactic brain.
    2) Battle system is **** like of ff13 15 for degenerates. You dont have ATB points? Congrats - you cant even use items. Monster is flying? - you get reduced hit combos on him in air, you can only rely on long-range chars or magic. Dodges work bad against certain moves, you can get interrupted on startup or mid-way ability/magic animation, your limit break can miss because of mid-fight cut-scene or because monster suddenly ran away some distance from you. Moreover, i am playing RPG as you stated! Not **** action DMC or smth.
    3) Endless **** additions to original 1997 game plot. Things that have no interest to be told about (+ very strange new replics char feelings and motivations), but added by square + additional corridor locations to slice enemies. The most stupid sidequests - go there, kill all, bring that.

    Moreover - u suggest that im gonna be enjoing 'hard'-mode post game? Doing all the **** i`ve already beaten but more hard. Jeeez.
    Square should have just remade whole original game in one release, but instead they gonna sell us 4-5 parts of it reinvented as complete garbage? Thanks God i didnt ever buy ff13 or 15 cause i knew that was ****, but here with the demo-version Squre bamboozled me, bravo! But i aint paying you a dollar more ever. Get bunkrupt already or learn to make good games.

    Verdict: game for 12 years old players that are new to FF series or fans of ff13, 15. If you enjoyed original FF7 and or turn-based combat - dont spoil your expirience and good memories with garbage remake. You will not get nostalgy fleshbacks.    … Expand
  7. CoreenNoe
    Apr 15, 2020
    0
    to everybody rating this game 10, please stop insulting yourselves, you know that the real score it deserves is 4 or 5. You know S.E insulted all of you by advertising this game as "remake". Accept the reality and rate this game accordingly. (rating it 0 to annul the fake 10s)
  8. rdipizza
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    This is a shame! Everything was great, the graphics, the sounds and music compositions, even the added content... but they ruined it all with this **** ending which is an absolute massive giant titan planet-size middle finger to the original game story and the entire fanbase the original game had built during 23 years old.
    All because of Nojima/Nomura/Noskills ideas forced into the game    This is a shame! Everything was great, the graphics, the sounds and music compositions, even the added content... but they ruined it all with this **** ending which is an absolute massive giant titan planet-size middle finger to the original game story and the entire fanbase the original game had built during 23 years old.
    All because of Nojima/Nomura/Noskills ideas forced into the game in the most absurd, ridiculous and cringe way possible.
    A disaster...    … Expand
  9. easterfields
    Apr 13, 2020
    3
    I'm 15 hours into FF7R and I actually hate this game. This is sad. The original Final Fantasy 7 was a HUGE part of my childhood. It was magical, immersive, engaging and fun. All the things this abomination is NOT. FF7R is frustrating, nonsensical, repetitive and anger inducing. There's some good aspects such as the voice acting and storytelling, but a bulk of the rest such as the subparI'm 15 hours into FF7R and I actually hate this game. This is sad. The original Final Fantasy 7 was a HUGE part of my childhood. It was magical, immersive, engaging and fun. All the things this abomination is NOT. FF7R is frustrating, nonsensical, repetitive and anger inducing. There's some good aspects such as the voice acting and storytelling, but a bulk of the rest such as the subpar graphics (the textures are Xbox era quality no joke), ridiculous level design, tasks that make hemorrhoid removal seem appealing, and a soundtrack that was so overbearing, loud, obnoxious and repetitive that I actually muted the the game, tank this modern retelling of a classic. It also makes it painfully obvious, that this story just does not hold up well in today's day and age. Even as a remake released in 2020, it feels dated. And for my final beef with FF7R, since when does a beloved classic RPG deserve to get re-envisioned as a button masher???… Expand
  10. Veiled
    Apr 10, 2020
    6
    Deberia llamarse FF VII Downgrade. Es lo mas bestial que he visto en engaño al jugador en toda mi vida, 900p en ps4, 1200p en la Pro, apenas mantiene los 30 fps, framepacing irregular... Un desastre técnico. Sobre el juego en si... Ni es FF, es un Kingdom Hearts con skins de FF, diseños horteras de Jpop y toneladas de relleno. Le doy un 2, mas no merece.
  11. ixion46
    Apr 10, 2020
    2
    If Kingdom Hearts 3 was the straw to break the camel's back for Square, then this game is the one to put the camel out of it's misery with a bullet of mediocrity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    I highly doubt Square thought this through when they announced the game -five- years ago, and I doubt even more so that they have a detailed plan going forward, but I will remain highly skeptical of the company that I was once enraptured by.    … Expand
  12. Everest4
    May 1, 2020
    0
    How can someone be a fan of the original FF7 and put a 10/10 for FF7R ?
    FF7 was ugly even in 1997, the combat system was rudimentary. But the soundtrack, the story, and the charisma of the characters was monumental. FF7R is the exact opposite of that, really beautiful but soulless,
    I can't believe there are so players who enjoy this game. I think a lot of people here are just fake    How can someone be a fan of the original FF7 and put a 10/10 for FF7R ?
    FF7 was ugly even in 1997, the combat system was rudimentary. But the soundtrack, the story, and the charisma of the characters was monumental. FF7R is the exact opposite of that, really beautiful but soulless,

    I can't believe there are so players who enjoy this game. I think a lot of people here are just fake people paid to keep the score above a certain level. If you agree, dont hesitate to create your own review !    … Expand
  13. SpiritOfTheLaw
    Apr 10, 2020
    0
    Unnecessarily episodic, completely different combat system, questionable Nomura story changes. Comparing this to the original Midgar section in FF7, it might be alright, but comparing it to all of FF7, like you should, this is an embarrassment. Show them this is not okay and we have higher standards than this. Don't buy it.
  14. Mauge
    Apr 11, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Finished it yesterday.
    All i can say is play it to the end before giving rates.
    For me FFVII Remake was a mixed bag, overlong dungeons which became very frustrating towards the end, felt like artificial ways to just get longer running time for the game.
    Characters were great and made me smile continuously, nostalgy was present many times but not as often i would have hoped.
    By the 26h mark i was getting bored. felt like nothing was happening in the game.
    When i got to shinra building my nostalgy were thrown out the window after i met hojo, he was fine but the dungeon of hojo was just too long and boring and added nothing to the story.
    When i got to see what happened to president Shinra, the changes we're just unnecessary and lacked punch compared to the mystery of sephiroth and the "horror" part of the original.
    So then i got to the end and had to step into some kind of portal... I knew it would go off the rails.
    I never personally liked Advent children's Cloud who is more like a superhero than traumatized ex-soldier. So the end ruined all hopes of me liking the next installment of remake series of final fantasy VII. If i want to experience superhero-story i will watch marvel movies instead.
    In my opinion Final Fantasy VII Original wasn't like this at all.
    I despise Square Enix for turning this into bland and hollow superhero fantasy in spirit of dragonball z.    … Expand
  15. Ploppy0
    Apr 11, 2020
    4
    PROS :
    -The music is good, most remix respect the source material and feels even better.
    -Some epic moment are taken to another level with the new engine. -The mains characters are nailed, their design and psychology. CONS: -The pacing and the narration rhythm is shallow and boring. -Every single new character is awful and cringe, Nomura just can't help it.(omg Shadley..) -The    PROS :
    -The music is good, most remix respect the source material and feels even better.
    -Some epic moment are taken to another level with the new engine.
    -The mains characters are nailed, their design and psychology.

    CONS:
    -The pacing and the narration rhythm is shallow and boring.
    -Every single new character is awful and cringe, Nomura just can't help it.(omg Shadley..)
    -The cinematic dialogue never stop and are everywhere.
    -The combat are frustrating, they fail at providing strategy or proper action, the camera is anoying.
    -The graphics are unbalanced with some beautiful place and some other directly from an old PS3 build
    -The large majority of side quest are chinese MMO level with dull NPC who can't help to talk for long minutes about things you don't give a damn, to just kill 3 monsters in the end.
    -The UI/menu are very cheap.
    -The 'new' story change are dumb and mostly here to extend the game for no other purpose.
    -The level design is insulting and remind the worst "maps" of FF13
    -All the NPC looks like hipsters lost in a FF7 theme park.

    The game is clearly rushed, what you saw in the trailer and the demo is THE BEST PART, everything else is average at best, This REmake is after ~10 hours a REBOOT filled with bad idea.
    DO NOT BUY, wait for the full release and eventually an enhanced version in few years.    … Expand
  16. Sparklingb33s08
    Apr 15, 2020
    0
    SquareEnix didn't respected their words...
    It's not a remake it's a reboot.
    Be aware if you haven't bought it and played it yet to the end : Nomura changed the last chapters of the original story to insert Kingdom Heart storylines.
    This game is not only the biggest lie of the decade but an insult to all FF7's fans and to their hopes.
  17. MrMead
    Apr 10, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Giving this a 0 to off set the score it doesn't deserve. Would be a 4/10 otherwise. Its genuinely terrible. They RAPED the story. I feel dirty and gross playing it. Nomura molested this story. Sepiroth is a time traveler being pursued by ghosts that are trying to keep the plot the same. You see sepiroth about 30 minutes into the game, and somehow Cloud already knows who he is and that hes dangerous (draws his sword when he sees visions of sepiroth). This is just one early game example of how much they changed about the plot. You see the time ghosts about 40 minutes in. It completely ruins it. It feels like a kingdom hearts game and definitely not in a good way. Nomura genuinely feels like he IMPROVED the game writing it this way. How arrogant do you have to be to actually think that? This is just a watered down sequel to FF7 with some good ol kingdom hearts cringe twists. AVOID.… Expand
  18. ShonHoyte
    Apr 11, 2020
    0
    It seems that this remake was about to be cancelled by Square Enix and the developers insisted that it should be released, so they rushed up everything and included the ghosts and the boss from Kingdom Hears and the ending from the original game just to make it longer and release the game in scheduled time.

    Oh Square Enix, do you really think your fans are that stupid to be insulted    It seems that this remake was about to be cancelled by Square Enix and the developers insisted that it should be released, so they rushed up everything and included the ghosts and the boss from Kingdom Hears and the ending from the original game just to make it longer and release the game in scheduled time.

    Oh Square Enix, do you really think your fans are that stupid to be insulted like that with this so called "Remake"?    … Expand
  19. tifani
    Apr 10, 2020
    3
    I'd love to give this game 10/10 if only it actually was a REMAKE, as marketed! I've paid money for a REMAKE and got a reboot or something and it makes me absolutely disappointed. Hope more people will start to think critically towards this game.
  20. Vallartaz
    Apr 10, 2020
    0
    This game is not a remake, I repeat, it's not a remake. It's literally Final Fantasy VII-II, the next part will be Final Fantasy VII-III. If you want to play the remake of the original game so don't buy this game.
  21. DenzHasan
    Apr 11, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. In normal circumstances i would have given this game about 8,5 - 9. This game is according to me a top tier game for most parts of the journey.

    Visuals; They are great when taking in the optimatization into consideration. Some part were worse but the overall presentation was stunning. 9 i would say.

    Combat: I myself lothe action-combat and want mostly to relax and/or be tactical when i play game. But despite this fact i still managed to enjoy the combat well enough. About a 7,5.

    Characters; Loved (or atleast enjoyed) every character. And when i say all, i mean all. Some were less enjoyable (Roch was tropy and the AC bike flinging was straight out of a Shounen manga it seems) but most were exactly what i imagined (Jesse, Cloud, Aertih etc). A good 8-5-9 score.

    Music; It was good overall, personally i would like an option to have the old ones but these were good enough for me to enjoy them. 7 as a score.

    Now the reason am giving this a 0/10....
    Story

    The story for all the part that were as SE told us, straight up expanding on what we know, pretty good. I even enjoyed the "most" of the downtime padding sidequest since it kinda fits that our heroes are not just doing big mission and sleeping.

    The story part that totally killed it for me was the ghosts of fate (which i think is a methafor for the old fans of FF OG...you will understand when you beat this game ;D ) and ofcourse the ending. I can totally understand moving someparts of the puzzle to change the story, but then you take away pieces or change them so that they nolonger fit the groundwork, it just kills the immersion and hope of a more indepth FF7.

    As it stands they can now do whatever with the story (and i mean Sora from KH comming into this game) and somehow make it work, since they have establised a ridiculous story thread with this first game.

    This whole experiance spawned a question in my mind, which follow "Who is this game for?"

    New players that dont know OG FF7 will not get the refrences needed to understand the ending and "most" old fans will not get what was marketed, a expanded FF7. So who is it for? People who want change for changes sake and for the developers to stroke they writers ego.    … Expand
  22. Couriersixx
    Apr 11, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Good:
    Game looks fantastic at times. Combat is quite good for modern final fantasy.
    Iconic characters are interesting and fun to interact with.

    The Neutral:
    Side quests can be generic Game world is made up of linear hallways and passageways, though midgar in the original was like this as well.
    Some of the extra content to flesh out the story doesn’t add much but extra padding to game length.

    The Bad:
    The game is too short, we’ve known for a while the game would only cover midgar, but with the way the story is paced I can’t see the game being fit into 3 parts unless they severely compress the story.

    The story itself goes off the deep end in the last hour to the point that calling it a remake is borderline false advertisement as the story devolves and takes a complete 180. It turns into a story about multiple universes where major character deaths are averted and the game turns into a giant anime battle in the sky’s of midgar with sephiroth and what looks like the heartless from KH. This game went from a flawed but serviceable remake of a classic game, to advent children fanfiction for seemingly no reason other than to pull a gotcha. Honestly never had a game depress me before, but anyone hoping for a remake of 7, you will be disappointed. The hopes of a true remake are gone, we can only hope this alternate universe game they are creating is successful in its own right.

    If you have never played ff7 and only know cloud and sephiroth from shirts at hot topics and vague memory’s I’d advent children none of this stuff will bother you so it may very will be an 8.5    … Expand
  23. Lowflunky
    Apr 11, 2020
    4
    The initial playthrough was enjoyable but a subsequent one has removed the rose tinted nostalgia goggles and the rough edges stand out strong. Where there is beauty in the cutscenes and majesty in the new soundtrack, there is a far more worrying trend of anime style over acting, poorly textured environments and side characters, unnecessary side quests that provide no long term benefit and,The initial playthrough was enjoyable but a subsequent one has removed the rose tinted nostalgia goggles and the rough edges stand out strong. Where there is beauty in the cutscenes and majesty in the new soundtrack, there is a far more worrying trend of anime style over acting, poorly textured environments and side characters, unnecessary side quests that provide no long term benefit and, most importantly, story additions and amendments that break this away from a remake down a path of potential retcon. Fun can be had but this feels like multiple teams and directors fighting each other to tell their own version of the story whilst cashing in on the obvious fanbase love that will have driven many to pre-order. I suspect the second game will make or break not only the trust original fans will have lost since this first part, but also the final hopes for many that have been met with disappointing modern Square Enix games. I want them to do well, I want to fall in love with a modern JRPG, I want to feel lost in their world's. Only time will tell.… Expand
  24. mediarama
    Apr 11, 2020
    2
    So incredibly disappointing. It's pretty sad how people are defending this game. Imagine being okay with just 40 hours of content in a triple-A release?! This game is way too short and an incomplete experience. And the problem isn't that it deviates from the original story, its HOW it deviates. Such lazy storytelling. Without spoiling it here, the writers are basically making it up as theySo incredibly disappointing. It's pretty sad how people are defending this game. Imagine being okay with just 40 hours of content in a triple-A release?! This game is way too short and an incomplete experience. And the problem isn't that it deviates from the original story, its HOW it deviates. Such lazy storytelling. Without spoiling it here, the writers are basically making it up as they go and have no regard for arguably the greatest jrpg of all time. It's just a cash grab. Watch out for fanboys over-selling this one - they will do anything to justify their purchase to others, just so they can save face. Wait for the full version to come out, or wait for a sale at least.… Expand
  25. 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
  26. Fenderson78
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    Looks like they'll use Kingdom Hearts Story system. Nothing can die except the bad guy, happy happy face all day, and of course hell of confusing story plot. A meh game.
  27. Pale_Theme
    Apr 30, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Its clear that SE made this game for the fans of the original as I dont see any newcomers understanding the game or getting as much enjoyment from the fanservice and content as original fans. With this in mind, it baffles me that they put an ending that insults the legacy of the original and its fans.
    Imagine eating a cornetto, and then at the end of it, instead of the chocolate bit, its dog poo. People saying the ending doesnt ruin the game are unfortunately too into the hype and the beautifully rendered anime waifus to notice the many flaws this game has from a game play and story telling perspective.    … Expand
  28. Daikyosenshi
    Apr 21, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is just horrible. I mean I had to stop playing, because I just couldn't bare another mini attraction with that handcrane thing. This is just too much. The dull and repetetive corridor **** broke me. And I know there's much more of the same in the chapters to come. So I'll watch the rest on youtube.

    While the main scenario cutscenes are great and frankly speaking all a fan could dream of and more, the gameplay is just horendous pile of garbage. But this is a GAME for **** sake. It is supposed to be played. Not watched. So what do we have beside the amazingness that is FF7R the movie?

    Repetetive gameplay, boring bloated mazes with ve-e-e-ry informative chit chat from your companions. Locked doors to open, keycards to find, switches to push, and levers to pull. All that is sprinkled with Cloud constantly shimmying in narrow spaces to allow for the game to load more of the same **** and the WARNING icon for when you try to have fun. Who's idea of entertainment is this? Even the characters themselves comment on that from time to time. They're like..."Cloud we know this is fecal, but we have to press on". How could you **** it up so badly. Man. This game is a drag. And the quests? Lol. Find some **** find some kids, bring this here, take that there. Mob hunts. Done. Yeah right, it's the FF7 glory as we remember it. And while're doing these meaningful quests you learn about the characters you love. You'll learn that Tifa is a waifu. Aerith is very nice. Jessie wants to **** but maybe not, because syke. God.

    The combat is all over the place. You've used the assess materia - you know the combination. You're good. You don't. Well tough luck. Reload. Sit through the loading screen. Try again. FUN! Hope you like hearing the same lines from your team over and over again. Activating combat mode combat resolved ptsd to the max.

    And the story....Oh lord have mercy. Nomura san, you just had to do it, didn't you. You just needed to inject some of your destiny ass keyhole aids into a perfectly fine story. But wait. If the story was left as it was this game would be BORING. Right? Sure. Yeah. Thanks squeenix. And thanks Nomura, for ****ting all over what could have been something really amazing. **** you too by the way.

    Don't believe those nostalgia induced 10 outta 10s. I've watched lots of reviews for this game. They ususally go as follows: Well um the quests are lame, but the game is amazing. Well the corridor stuff kinda sucks, but I'm so thrilled for what's to come. Well I was sitting there pressing X screaming OH MY GOD I DON'T **** CARE!!!! But i like what they did with the characters. Graphics looks really really bad, but the game is an eye-candy. What?!

    I don't really get where this is coming from, and i don't really care. Crazy people be crazy i suppose. Again. Cutscenes are great. Rest is cancer.

    On a more positive note...I like that I've lost any faith in SE capability to produce anything fun. I mean they did prepare me for this for quite some time now. It started with FFXIII. And after FFXV, i'd say this game is a tremendous success. So honestly i'm not dissapointed in the slightest. Too late for a refund though, so that's a shame. But oh well.

    P.S. Check out the four identical copies of and old man in an apron in the area by the orphanage. It is sublime.    … Expand
  29. 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
  30. daicon
    Apr 13, 2020
    0
    Final Fantasy VII is NOT Kingdom HEARTS
    Don't NOMURA, this is not kingom heart.

    We don't want alternative realities, we don't want time travel, we don't want WHAT IF.

    I ACCEPT plot extensions and improvements. DO NOT invent in this way. Please.
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  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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