I wanted to like this game, but it just felt like a slog after a while. It started brilliantly. There is a world of magic and an infinite war for it's source, a guy lives on the streets in the ghetto gets thrust into the war after it destroys his home. It's a bit basic, but it worked, and was a good introduction to the world.

The concept of the different forms of magic and the movement is great. You have blue magic (medium to long range shots), red magic (close range, shotgun like blast) and green magic (short to medium range SMG/minigun like shots). You can really pick what you like most, and swap on the fly at any time.
Not to mention that the movement is great, you have a double jump, a dash a hover. And your left hand also has abilities, like whip to pull enemies to you, a concussing beam to stun enemies, and a projectile to slow enemies. You have options, but the game gets repetitive really quickly.

During the first proper mission, you start on a massive battlefield. You run through barracks and bunkers and fight invaders. It felt grandiose for an opening level, and made the game look like it would be incredible.
Then you get picked up by some dragon, and now you're in generic forest #1. From now on, you'll just walk though grassy field to grassy field, and fight enemies on your way from story marker to story marker.

I gave it my time, made it to the first real boss fight. But after that, I was just done with the game. The combat was fun, but the stuff in between was mind numbingly boring. Cutscenes usually consist of dialogue with very little happening. And most characters weren't that interesting.

I can see the effort and passion, and I can see this studio going places in the future. But this just wasn't it for me. It started great, but it crawled to a halt just as fast.

Nothing can prepare you for the madness Square Enix put in their second entry in the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy.

The game continues the Action RPG from Remake. Fighting with Square and perming commands with X and doing character specific moves with triangle. The Active Time Battle meter fills up as you deal damage to enemies. Filling it up will allow you to perform magic and character moves. As you take damage you fill up the limit meter and when filled up you can perform an epic move which deals a lot of damage to the enemies. By performing magic character moves you will fill but a mini bar and filling that up you will have the ability to do synergy moves. These will attack the enemies or increase your ATB bar from two to three.

When levelling up and buying skill books you obtain skills points you can spend them to gain more health, magic points, new synergy abilities and a new limit break.

The game improves a lot of characters from VII. Barret Wallace is one of those people. He talks about raising his daughter and when starts crying his puts his shades on to cover his weak side.

I do have a problem with the ending and how it is executed but that is a minor problem because this is a brilliant game and one of the best of all time. If you played VII Remake play VII Rebirth. Knowing how much story is left, Square Enix has big shoes to fill in order to execute the remaining part VII.

The characters, world building, and combat are all great, amongst the best in the franchise. The open world and mini-games can be really fun at times, but can start to be tedious as you get into the later portions of the game. Like with FFVII Remake, the new additions to the plot really drag it down, especially during the ending. The game has a real issue at times with allowing big character moments the chance to breathe before rushing into the next plot point.

A flawed masterpiece, that could get better or worse in retrospect once the final part of the remake trilogy releases.

ok so holy shit. i really wanna log my opinions on this.
it's 2024, january. this is my first time ever playing cyberpunk. finally, my pc is upgraded enough to run this game. throughout these 3+ years, i didn't get spoiled at all, about anything. totally, completely going in blind.

let's just say, every major event in this game ruined my life. every death, every loss, the realism of it all, suffering the consequences of one's choices. it's so raw, real, and it often made me doubt myself. i would search up "is this the good option to do" a lot, and in quite a few cases, the general result was "there's no right answer." which i really like about this game. you just have to decide for yourself, what is right to YOU, instead of influencing your thoughts by the opinions of strangers.

i feel like talking about cyberpunk would be a never ending conversation. there's just so much stuff, i could probably talk to someone about it for days straight without stopping, and we still wouldn't run out of things to talk about. (i am so normal about this game)

overall, i did not keep up with the fixing of this game as it went from a laggy buggy mess to an actual life changing experience, but i am so glad that it happened. i can safely (and miserably) state it now that cyberpunk has became one of my special interests in just a little bit over than a month. if you haven't played it yet, please please do, as they are still releasing patches to this day, and it's an overall great experience in 2024.

PS DAMN U FOR NOT LETTING ME ROMANCE PANAM WITH FEM V!! (i got the mod for it but as they have the romance lines recorded for fem v, i don't get why they didn't just include it anyways.)

PS 2 LOVE LOVE LOVE PHOTOMODE!!!!!! despise the vanilla facial expressions but once again, what mods are for <3 still a very awesome feature.