Final Fantasy VII Remake

When you experienced FF7 back in 1997/98, you can't help but feel a rush of excitement at the thought of diving back into this incredible game. It's such a joy to reconnect with all those cherished characters once more. Set in Midgard, the game offers a fantastic opportunity to explore the town and its inhabitants. The combat system is truly remarkable, and casting spells brings pure delight. One of the standout features of the game is its music; the brilliance behind it deserves eternal recognition. A significant portion of the game's success can be attributed to this aspect. The graphics in performance mode are astonishingly good, and the game's pacing is just right. Typically, I tend to skip dialogues that drag on, but in this game, I find myself wanting to absorb every word from Cloud, Tifa, and the rest of the crew. The DLC featuring Yuffie is definitely worth the investment, as it presents the story from a fresh perspective.

Un réel plaisir de retrouver FF7 après tant d'années. Par contre il y a beaucoup trop de détours qui ne servent à rien, le jeu est étiré au possible et par moment c'est une torture... Le jeu aurait pu être excellent en s'en tenant à l'histoire de base.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Great graphics for PS4 that still hold up well. I really cool spin on FF7 that breathes new life into a classic game. The battle system works well most of the time but for gamers who are well versed in being able to dodge, it can be clumsy at times when blocks rarely work and the dodge function is broken. The main reason for the low score is that the game is painfully slow, it’s a truly awful script - think something from a Hallmark or Lifetime movie - and the characters are like 9 year olds. The pace is clumsy. I good start then introduces you to 3 hours of literal heel dragging around a small hub with little fights with weak enemies and endless cut scenes. When things pick up, there’s little variation. The structure is simply a case of locking you in a small maze of corridors or streets to have fights, interrupted with the most basic tasks of opening a door or flicking a switch. The dialogue is not even awful because of translations - it’s just bad. Characters speak to each other like they’re pre-teens, motivations are either never explained or overly explained with stupid reasons and the exposition is nearly always dragged out for minutes on end and can’t be skipped. I persevered because I enjoyed the battles and loved the game in the 90s…:but I feel this is an necessary remake

I am baffled by all the extremely overly positive ratings this game got. Stretching the first disc of ffvii out over 40 hours was achieved by adding boring and empty sidequests. Another really silly and annoying method was slooooowing doooown every animation sooo much that every part of the game feels sluggish. You can just tell when your ability to run was turned off for a bit during a convo "just because"...this is just bad content The combat is NOT GOOD. I see people praising it but it is bad and annoying! Just smash buttons to see sparks fly (which they do a lot, you can barely keep track of what's happening on screen) and if you want to do something actually strategical the switching between characters is waaaay more cumbersome than in a traditional turn based system. To make things worse, while you're smashing buttons on one character the others are basically just standing there. They only use base attacks which are useless thanks to the massive emphasis on the staggering system which is supposed to provide some sort of anime-kick-ass-moment but it just makes the battles last endlessly long. Enemies also focus on the character you are controlling so the party members don't even help with spreading the attention of multiple enemies (there is basically no real AI in the party) making multi enemy fights a ****. The bossfights boil down to "this boss is immune to this, this one to that..." which means no real fighting but some puzzle that is really not fun in any shape or form. And with immune I mean "this guy doesn't take physical damage, only ice. Oh you don't have ice materia? Well too bad for you". Combine the fact that most of the content is added-on filler with the fact that every fight during that content is boring or annoying, and you're left with....what? Design, gfx, audio, voice overs are all of high quality. The thing they did with the story, I didn't need it but fine it's their IP to do something else with so I won't hold that against them (though as a 97 vet I'm pretty sure everyone would've been perfectly fine with the original story in a new coat. The new story so far doesn't impress). Sooo...what is this? A playable "movie" where the playable bits aren't that good, and the movie bits are ok but not as good as we expected... Can we please stop with the 9/10 ratings "ermegerdbestgameever" because it really is a dissapointment. One more tidbit: the original midgar wasn't an open world but at least it had some funny nooks and crannies that made it feel bigger than it was. Here you just get a popup saying you can't go here or there... so it's a friggin railshooter now...... I'd give it a six but all these 9/10 reviews are nonsense...