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#58. Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS4, 2020)
As I mentioned in my FF7 review, I played this before FF7, so I really had no idea what to expect because I really did not know a single thing about FF7 except that one thing.

I also had largely fallen out of caring about traditional jRPGs (which again should speak a lot about how I even had FF7 on my list considering I played it first this year, which largely came about by caring about the story after playing this).

Without giving away too much of the differences in this game between it and the original, it is mostly the same for the course of the game, with a couple extra huh thats weird things thrown in there, and a lot about the ending, since it's Midgar only. Knowing now what happens in FF7, with FF7 Remake as the background, I have to say it's pretty interesting what they did with the story and I'm pretty excited for the next one. I was also inspired enough to watch Advent Children and look into Crisis Core's story since it seems we're gonna be doing the KH Nomura thing here.

The characters are all extremely likeable and well-portrayed. I know people had expectations of these characters voiced and in 3D (Advent Children aside I guess) and how they'd play out in this kind of scenario and loved it, and I didn't even have that and I thought they were all great. The battle system was very fun too, mixing in solid action RPG combat with the best parts of a jRPG (the strategy of what special move or magic to use when you can slow time with your ATB), plus being able to equip your character the way you want, with the materia as the abilties. It's all a very well done battle system that's fun to fight. It takes an extra level of dimensionality and fun when you play on expert, everything is notably harder, and you can no longer use items. That was a very fun experience, if not frustrating in some parts. The Hell House was probably the hardest fight on expert, which I might add was hilarious how they converted some random spawns from FF7 into boss battles... I guess they were short on content but that's okay.

The main complaint is that this game is very padded out, and a lot of sections do drag a lot, since they made Midgar into a 50 hour game, but it does a good job with story and characterization in those areas, so it's not so bad.

I like Yuffie a lot, so hoping for good things for her in Remake 2!



Next up: A dungeon crawler, but not in the traditional sense.

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