Really really good, so much stuff that was great but a decent amount of kinda annoying stuff. As a lesbian girl I normally don’t connect to men characters nearly as much as women and was expecting cloud to just be a generic anime protagonist, but he ended up being my favorite character. The way he wrestles with his insecurities and identity really hit home for me. The scene of him and Tifa in the lifestream is definitely peak.

The main stuff I didn’t like was mostly the combat. I know I know it’s an RPG and the story is the “most important” part but I just thought it was kind of whatever. I’m not a big fan of the materia system, I guess it can be cool to customize each character but it just makes them feel the same for me. Ik they have limit breaks but that’s not enough to give them a huge distinction for me. There’s barely any enemies with hard resistances or things that will make you change it up either, so I kind of just used the same ones over and over again. That combined with the game being pretty easy made the combat feel pretty mindless at times, but not bad, and overall I really enjoyed the game.