This review contains spoilers
Wow. The FF7 Remake is real and extremely good. Granted, it's only part of the story remade, but the chunk they took and made it EXTREMELY good.
This game made me love characters I didn't think I'd like, such as Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge, and expanded on characters I already loved. It reimagined Midgar in ways that were only previously left to the player's imagination, such as daylight in Midgar. It took my favorite soundtrack and made it infinitely better. The material system was preserved perfectly while also adding new materia as a whole. The voice acting was phenomenal.
My problems with this game are the stupidly absurd amount of filler there is in the game, Sephiroth, and the ending.
This game's sidequests do nothing to flesh out the world and are extremely generic; I only did them because I wanted specific dresses for Tifa, Aerith, and Cloud. There are also 18 chapters in this game, and there are entire chapters dedicated to just filler content that has no relevance to the actual plot, such as Chapter 4; where you steal the Shinra ID card from Jessie's dad and infiltrate the warehouse.
The point of Sephiroth in this game was to make you, the veteran player, ask yourself "Why is he here? He's not supposed to be here." Even when he is there, he doesn't really have that much of an impact on anything until the tail end of the game. His appearance, for the most part, was entirely unnecessary and could've been taken out with almost no change to the plot entirely.
Speaking of the ending, oh my GOD this shit was atrocious. Destroying the Whispers allows for the game to progress in ways that make the original game better, but it also leaves the factor of uncertainty. We don't know who the Whispers are, and we don't know what Kitase and Square Enix will do after this. It's just a really confusing mess. To top that off, Zack is now alive (probably), which makes the game even more confusing since he's a character of the past.
Overall, however, this was still one of the best games I played in 2020. Highly recommend to only veteran players, however. New players need to play the original first in order to gain the true understanding on what this game tries to accomplish.
This game made me love characters I didn't think I'd like, such as Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge, and expanded on characters I already loved. It reimagined Midgar in ways that were only previously left to the player's imagination, such as daylight in Midgar. It took my favorite soundtrack and made it infinitely better. The material system was preserved perfectly while also adding new materia as a whole. The voice acting was phenomenal.
My problems with this game are the stupidly absurd amount of filler there is in the game, Sephiroth, and the ending.
This game's sidequests do nothing to flesh out the world and are extremely generic; I only did them because I wanted specific dresses for Tifa, Aerith, and Cloud. There are also 18 chapters in this game, and there are entire chapters dedicated to just filler content that has no relevance to the actual plot, such as Chapter 4; where you steal the Shinra ID card from Jessie's dad and infiltrate the warehouse.
The point of Sephiroth in this game was to make you, the veteran player, ask yourself "Why is he here? He's not supposed to be here." Even when he is there, he doesn't really have that much of an impact on anything until the tail end of the game. His appearance, for the most part, was entirely unnecessary and could've been taken out with almost no change to the plot entirely.
Speaking of the ending, oh my GOD this shit was atrocious. Destroying the Whispers allows for the game to progress in ways that make the original game better, but it also leaves the factor of uncertainty. We don't know who the Whispers are, and we don't know what Kitase and Square Enix will do after this. It's just a really confusing mess. To top that off, Zack is now alive (probably), which makes the game even more confusing since he's a character of the past.
Overall, however, this was still one of the best games I played in 2020. Highly recommend to only veteran players, however. New players need to play the original first in order to gain the true understanding on what this game tries to accomplish.