Exceeded my expectations, still doesn't hit the highs of the og or even remake though and I feel like the open world stuff really doesn't do it any favors. But man this is the best combat final fantasy is ever gonna get and it did right by the characters, I enjoyed basically all the new story stuff (any story issues really come from how it adapted scenes from the original). Wasn't expecting cannon Yuffie to be as fun as it was its nice to see her actually be part of the story and have interactions with the other party members. I also ended up really enjoying the ending which I was little worried about going in to the final act of this game.