So I also played the DLC for Remake, but this was a first time playthrough. I'd be lying if I said I was ever too fond of Yuffie as a character in the original FF7, but her theme's great and I like having her in my party since she doesn't need the long reach materia to hit some enemies that are too far away for melee attackers. So I guess I have formed some sort of attachment to her over the years despite her being written to be as annoying as humanly possible, and so it was nice to get acquainted with her remake incarnation where she not only once again is great at hitting enemies that are far away (aerial combat that actually feels good!), but is also just so much more well written than before, still being that overconfident matera thief that she was before, but complementing that aspect of her with a more vulnerable, human side, and much better interactions with the people around her. Probably helps that she's not an optional character this time around.
Playing through the DLC, it's mainly just more of what I liked in the base game, plus some refinements with regards to traversal thanks to Yuffie's shuriken, and her combat being a bit different since she's extremely fragile and sort of has to rely on AI partner Sonon to tank hits for her and unleash syncronized attacks on enemies for Massive Damage™, which makes for combat that's definitely harder at the beginning, but once I sort of got the ins and outs of her moveset and the syncronized attacks (and realized Sonon would resurrect her every time she dies if he wasn't knocked out before her), it probably got a bit easier, and felt just unbelievably smooth at its best. Some really fun boss fights that could be surprisingly challenging despite this as well. Especially the final boss, who makes the Remake continuity fly a bit too close to Dirge of Cerberus for my liking, but is a very fun fight to learn and get decent at.
Sonon is great, by the way. Not a particularly complicated character and he has a very cliche backstory, but great still. Strictly AI in battle so Yuffie's the only actually playable character in this DLC, but he has a very compelling personality throughout the short plot, acting as both guardian and underling to Yuffie, and just being an all-around nice guy who's sort of like Cloud if he wasn't a chronic loner and would let others see him show any emotions. Sure hope ha can show up in some capacity in future games!
What else to say...?
Roche has returned
Fort Condor is a great game
Weiss is dumb but fun
Playing through the DLC, it's mainly just more of what I liked in the base game, plus some refinements with regards to traversal thanks to Yuffie's shuriken, and her combat being a bit different since she's extremely fragile and sort of has to rely on AI partner Sonon to tank hits for her and unleash syncronized attacks on enemies for Massive Damage™, which makes for combat that's definitely harder at the beginning, but once I sort of got the ins and outs of her moveset and the syncronized attacks (and realized Sonon would resurrect her every time she dies if he wasn't knocked out before her), it probably got a bit easier, and felt just unbelievably smooth at its best. Some really fun boss fights that could be surprisingly challenging despite this as well. Especially the final boss, who makes the Remake continuity fly a bit too close to Dirge of Cerberus for my liking, but is a very fun fight to learn and get decent at.
Sonon is great, by the way. Not a particularly complicated character and he has a very cliche backstory, but great still. Strictly AI in battle so Yuffie's the only actually playable character in this DLC, but he has a very compelling personality throughout the short plot, acting as both guardian and underling to Yuffie, and just being an all-around nice guy who's sort of like Cloud if he wasn't a chronic loner and would let others see him show any emotions. Sure hope ha can show up in some capacity in future games!
What else to say...?
Roche has returned
Fort Condor is a great game
Weiss is dumb but fun