R_Jackal posted...
Is it? The story beats are largely the same time wise I believe, the padded out side content is what boosts the time.
It is.
Certain people need to get it through their minds that final fantasy 7 remake is not the same game as the original. What certain people call "padding" is a legitimate part of the experience in this new telling of the classic story. Chapter 15's climb to shinra tower and everything that comes with this with character development between cloud, tifa and barret (this is no bull-shit my favorite chapter of the game. Everything with the reflection of the chaos that just went down and dealing with that valkyrie just clicked with me), cloud and aerith's little awkward trip through the abandoned highway in chapter 9 I think it was, and the trip through hojo's fun house in chapter 17 all does their job with expanding the world building, the lore, the characters etc.
The only area of FF7 remake I can agree with it being unneeded is the second sewer trip in chapter 14. We could have did without that I agree......should have made that a alternate don corneo compound you have to raid for leslie or something compared to sewers round 2.