This will have spoilers down below.

I spent a lot of time on this game and I have a lot to talk about as an FF7 fan.

Finished Remake and started this on the same day, I was so pumped and excited. I started right around the same time as my friends were finishing, so I felt like I wanted to rush it. But the side content kept me busy, and there was A LOT.

I'm gonna start with the negatives first, because I loved almost everything else.
- Sometimes you get completely flash-banged from the lighting between dark areas to broad daylight and it's pretty bad.
- A lot of the side quest stuff, I liked, but every now and then, you have to herd chickens or you have to learn how to be a complete party animal and it can either be really boring or just completely frustrating.
- There is WAY too much Sephiroth. Do you know why he works so perfectly in the original? It's because you barely ever see him but his presence is so strong that it feels like he is always looming. In the Remake games, they always let you know Sephiroth is here and he shows up physically when there's no need to show him at all times.
- I don't hate the ending persay, but I noticeably like it a lot less than the rest of the game. I'll talk about it later.
- No playable Cid or Vincent is pretty sad :(
- I'm sorry, but I don't like how Cait Sith plays. And also, his solo segment was the worst part of the game for me

What do I love about this game? Oh just...
- The characterization of the main cast is basically perfect. I loved basically everybody. Yuffie is the cute comedic relief, Cait Sith is Scottish and I think that is really cute and he's really charming, they changed Cid in a way I do not mind and perhaps even welcome should more stuff come from him in Rebirth, I love Tifa and Aerith more than ever before. Barret gets amazing characterization. Red XIII/Nanaki is a character I still love, although I wish his sudden change was foreshadowed better before you got to Cosmo Canyon. Cloud is still an amazing protagonist and he gets broken down pretty heavily to the point that I'm pretty concerned about him in the future.
- Throughout the story, there are twists in the story that are so insane that I was still on the edge of my seat. I was so thrown back by Tifa getting eaten by a Weapon that I thought stuff like Cait Sith betraying the party would not happen or Aerith's death. I loved always doubting myself on what was going to happen, it's always exciting.
- The music is exactly as good as it was in the previous game. It's so insane how many tracks there are in this game and there's so many good ones. You even get a different Chocobo theme depending on the region you are in! It's so sick.
- Remake was a pretty boxed in game, so seeing Rebirth broaden to an open-world game with a lot to do was exciting for me. I loved seeing how the regions were changed, upscaled, made better in some ways.
- The combat continues to be addicting. Remake's was already incredible, but it did have some noticeable issues like the air combat being bad and so on. This game fixes that immensely. I always had Tifa/Aerith as my main party, but I also loved playing Barret/Red/Yuffie as well.
- Holy shit there are so many minigames. There's a few that miss like the Costa Del Sol shooting minigame, but for the most part I liked so many! My notable favorites were Rocket League w/ Red XIII, Fort Condor, and the Boxes minigame in the Dustbowl of Gold Saucer.
- I'm not good at card games, never actually tried, but learning to be good at Queen's Blood was so satisfying and I ended up really liking it in the end.

As for the ending... Zack wants to unite with Cloud once again? Aerith does in fact die, but she also speaks to Cloud when no one can see? Sephiroth wants to cast Meteor on basically every timeline, so he just repeats the same plan but on a grander scale? The gang still has the Black Materia in the end? Cloud at the end of this is so fucked up and traumatized by the deaths around him, that he ends up looking crazy and his friends are notably concerned for him? It's pretty confusing in the way it is shown and I don't REALLY know how to feel about it until the third game will eventually come out. Like I said, I did notably like it less than the rest of the game. A lot of it is fan service, I honestly wish we had less Sephiroth to make him more special, there's parts that are hard to understand unless you go in in-depth discussions about it with other people or Reddit, but overall? I'm still left wanting more and excited for what is to come in the future.

I loved this game. By the time the third game comes around, I will play this game on Hard Mode and can be a real try hard.

This will have spoilers down below.

I spent a lot of time on this game and I have a lot to talk about as an FF7 fan.

Finished Remake and started this on the same day, I was so pumped and excited. I started right around the same time as my friends were finishing, so I felt like I wanted to rush it. But the side content kept me busy, and there was A LOT.

I'm gonna start with the negatives first, because I loved almost everything else.
- Sometimes you get completely flash-banged from the lighting between dark areas to broad daylight and it's pretty bad.
- A lot of the side quest stuff, I liked, but every now and then, you have to herd chickens or you have to learn how to be a complete party animal and it can either be really boring or just completely frustrating.
- There is WAY too much Sephiroth. Do you know why he works so perfectly in the original? It's because you barely ever see him but his presence is so strong that it feels like he is always looming. In the Remake games, they always let you know Sephiroth is here and he shows up physically when there's no need to show him at all times.
- I don't hate the ending persay, but I noticeably like it a lot less than the rest of the game. I'll talk about it later.
- No playable Cid or Vincent is pretty sad :(
- I'm sorry, but I don't like how Cait Sith plays. And also, his solo segment was the worst part of the game for me

What do I love about this game? Oh just...
- The characterization of the main cast is basically perfect. I loved basically everybody. Yuffie is the cute comedic relief, Cait Sith is Scottish and I think that is really cute and he's really charming, they changed Cid in a way I do not mind and perhaps even welcome should more stuff come from him in Rebirth, I love Tifa and Aerith more than ever before. Barret gets amazing characterization. Red XIII/Nanaki is a character I still love, although I wish his sudden change was foreshadowed better before you got to Cosmo Canyon. Cloud is still an amazing protagonist and he gets broken down pretty heavily to the point that I'm pretty concerned about him in the future.
- Throughout the story, there are twists in the story that are so insane that I was still on the edge of my seat. I was so thrown back by Tifa getting eaten by a Weapon that I thought stuff like Cait Sith betraying the party would not happen or Aerith's death. I loved always doubting myself on what was going to happen, it's always exciting.
- The music is exactly as good as it was in the previous game. It's so insane how many tracks there are in this game and there's so many good ones. You even get a different Chocobo theme depending on the region you are in! It's so sick.
- Remake was a pretty boxed in game, so seeing Rebirth broaden to an open-world game with a lot to do was exciting for me. I loved seeing how the regions were changed, upscaled, made better in some ways.
- The combat continues to be addicting. Remake's was already incredible, but it did have some noticeable issues like the air combat being bad and so on. This game fixes that immensely. I always had Tifa/Aerith as my main party, but I also loved playing Barret/Red/Yuffie as well.
- Holy shit there are so many minigames. There's a few that miss like the Costa Del Sol shooting minigame, but for the most part I liked so many! My notable favorites were Rocket League w/ Red XIII, Fort Condor, and the Boxes minigame in the Dustbowl of Gold Saucer.
- I'm not good at card games, never actually tried, but learning to be good at Queen's Blood was so satisfying and I ended up really liking it in the end.

As for the ending... Zack wants to unite with Cloud once again? Aerith does in fact die, but she also speaks to Cloud when no one can see? Sephiroth wants to cast Meteor on basically every timeline, so he just repeats the same plan but on a grander scale? The gang still has the Black Materia in the end? Cloud at the end of this is so fucked up and traumatized by the deaths around him, that he ends up looking crazy and his friends are notably concerned for him? It's pretty confusing in the way it is shown and I don't REALLY know how to feel about it until the third game will eventually come out. Like I said, I did notably like it less than the rest of the game. A lot of it is fan service, I honestly wish we had less Sephiroth to make him more special, there's parts that are hard to understand unless you go in in-depth discussions about it with other people or Reddit, but overall? I'm still left wanting more and excited for what is to come in the future.

I loved this game. By the time the third game comes around, I will play this game on Hard Mode and can be a real try hard.