PXM

It's a fun enough game, reminiscent of Wii Sports back in the day, the single-player is fun across most of the sports. The downside is the online mode. I have great wired in connection and the lag is unreal as the game tries to sync servers from all over the world. This would be less of a problem if so many of the games weren't rhythm action games. The timing is so precise, the fractions knock you off the timing. I had one successful no lag play when all of the other players were automated, but even one player from a different time zone skews terribly into unplayable lag. + Great single player/local player arcade sports game - Online and ranked modes are currently unplayable

No joke, the people giving it 0's..... what?! And the fact that professional critics have given it a 60, you know, 15 worse than the motocross and Yu-Gi-Oh games is absurd. TL:DR - This game is a masterpiece. If you played the first one, this is how you imagined it in your head as a child, but real and in front of you. If you've never played it, this is a great start point for the series. Either way a must-buy for any gamer. Ok, so now with that said, they've taken a game from an era which would be difficult to translate into a modern gaming experience and done so beautifully. The combat is action-RPG, but if you don't like that you can switch it off. There are a ton of side quests which I was genuinely worried about up front, but 1) they are optional and 2) serve to get you more deeply invested with the people and teammates you have. You know, so you feel for them on a deeper level than a collection of sprites, in case anything bad were to happen to them. Even here, each quest ties into the next, what would seem to be a fetch quest advances 3 quests at once. At one point 5 quests hinged on each other. There is real care, thought and attention that has gone into each decision. The characters look gorgeous, subtle decisions in their models, scars, gear, all has been a painstaking labour of love. The combat is challenging but beautifully balanced. Never fought a trash mob during my first playthrough. Always hard, but rewarding. And the enemies look great. They managed to make the house look good. Nuff said. The music is incredible, blending and remixing original scores to hit you right in the feels if you played the first one. It is possibly my favourite thing about the game, the score and Nubuo Uematsu sent me back to being a child immediately, sometimes on the first bar, and rekindled the feelings that I had all over again. The depth to the customisation, both of weapons and materia give no weapon junk status. It's a decision that allows you to balance your loadout before each encounter if need be, or pick a favourite and stick with it. The game's battle intel system actually helps you get better as you go. Finally, the added bits to the story. I was a fan. I know others may not be. But in my eyes, it helped to give me a deeper level of relationship with the characters in whom I am supposed to care. It made some more human, more vulnerable, while others gained more depth than just their character model's curves. I can see some feeling that it's "not THEIR (insert character here)" but I tell you what, it worked for me, and I suspect far more people. Yes, it is a part one of more to come, but I'd rather have them commit to something now, which forces the continued development, than to wait 5-10 more years for something which is continuously pushed back. I'm grateful for what I have, because it's brilliant. I can't wait for the next instalment. This game is a triumph. 23 years of waiting had me constantly smiling and my overriding feeling was "I can't believe I'm actually playing this". This has easily taken to top spot on my greatest games of all time, just for the ambition of pulling off this project at the tail end of a console's life and giving a high note for the machine before moving on to the next one.

This game is so good and was the first game of the series that I played. The remaster took me straight back there and the game now looks like it did in my head back then. Is it a remake? No. Is the remaster enough to tie my Final Fantasy fix over until March next year? Definitely. Most importantly, if you've never played this game, and you're on the fence. No question - a must-buy for your collection. Honestly, to those saying "It's Censored!!!" I reckon you can find lady parts to look at elsewhere online. Such nonsense. They've removed maybe an inch or so of Rinoa's cleavage, grow up everyone.