It just feels like a fan fiction with unneeded padding. I don’t want to sound like a nostalgia hungry millennial and I’m not. I’m 20 and I played the original when I was 19 and I vastly prefer the original. The extremely sluggish side quests and lingering bits in the story completely suck all the enjoyment I have out of this combined with the press square to win combat carried by pretty visuals make this feel like I’m playing a dynasty warriors game except the fun part is gone. My least favorite aspect of all is the changes to the story and the seemingly fourth wall breaking behavior sephiroth and the cloaked ghosts literally beating you over the head with what they’re an allegory for. The Zack revival stuff is hilarious it’s like something out of a shounen anime. One of my few praises for the remake is the soundtrack though but it’s final fantasy so I’m not saying anything new with that