Final Fantasy 7: Remake Spoiler Discussion Topic

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I am so conflicted with this game. I mentioned this somewhere before this topic came up but I both love it and I'm kind of disappointed at the same time. I feel that post-game emptiness that a lot of people get when finishing a long, good game/book, but I'm not sure if it's because it sucks that it's over or that I didn't like how it ended.

For the first 98% of the game I was incredibly excited for my hard mode replay immediately after finishing, but after that ending I kind of think I'm done? I can't even really explain why though because I would still say that I loved my time with the game. I almost feel like the ending makes the game retroactively less good for me, which I hate to say. I'm thinking back now at how much more dumb those ghosts were in certain points with the knowledge of what they represent.

Part of it for me was expectations. I don't think I was expecting something on par to the original, but the game was strictly marketed as X and I feel like I was delivered Y, and therefore let down when I didn't get X. Y is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but if they led with, "Hey this is Y", I would have said, "Well, I'm not sure I want that", then after I played it would have realized, "Huh, this might actually turn out really cool". Don't tell me I'm getting X and not give me X, though.

I'm rambling but I have a million thoughts.
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