Finally finished this game, took a long time tbh. the way I feel about this game is the same way I felt about Remake which was a conflicting feeling which is I love most of the game like 90% of it, and the 10% I don't like is the ending and some side content. I do prefer this game to Remake overall and think its beyond better than it.

I loved this game from start up till chapter 13, there was aspects of chapter 13 that I loved but this chapter is were I started to feel negative towards the game. but chapters 1 - 12 were honestly unreal and felt like a perfect remake of FF7 in my opinion.

throughout these chapters the game basically follows the original game but just expanded upon and some new additions. the story that plays out here is just so good even having played the og it still feels good going through this story again. I also loved that they embrace the silliness of the og too.

I felt like this game compared to remake is more character focused than story focused which I loved, really got to know these characters and love them. so many great moments for each of them.

The music is perfect as usual.

the graphics were stunning and the combat is so fun and deep can't get enough of it. the mini games were addicting especially queens blood.

the problems that I have with this game is first, the open world which is beautiful and being able to experience the towns is unreal but the content within the open world is boring repetitive and feels more like Ubisoft checklist. when I play a game I will do as much as I can in said game, I'm bit of a completionism especially if I love the game but this was the first time I was burnt out from doing the open world content in a game.

and finally the ending which I didn't like. It just felt rushed and happened so quick that I couldn't even process anything. I didn't care for the final boss battle with sephiroth as it was more or less the same as the one from Remake (imo the Remake one is better). then I felt like ending was just not emotional whatsoever in fact I didn't feel anything which was weird to me, I felt like the way they handled that big moment was just done badly I felt nothing, there was no feeling or emotion when It played out I was just confused and didn't care.

This is still an amazing game and I loved playing through this massive game, honestly I would recommend to anyone, I'm about to start my hard mode play through for platinum trophy.