This game is all that I ever wanted to see when I was a child. Seeing all these amazing environments with our current tech was truly emotional for me (with Cosmo Canyon region being my favorite again). Besides nostalgia, the environments are so full of life and storytelling, that you can spend hours just exploring the cities and wilderness and finding new things that the devs put in there. The cities are very different from what we see today, showing the level of creativity of past games and how far we can achieve by using the power of today's consoles.

They managed to improve the battle system and enemy variation, it's awesome to see that each region has its own enemies and has a different style to play on battle strategy, traversability and side quests. AND YES, side quests in this game are MUCH better than its predecessor, its not perfect, but its in the right direction.

Feel free though to skip all the side content from the game and focus only on the story, you won't need to grind too much in this game to complete the story. By the end the bosses gets a little difficult but I'm sure you can handle it. Yes we have towers and filler open world contend, but I'm ok with as long as the game don't force you to do it (which I didn't feel as it forced). Some of the side content are really funny and other ones are just annoying (I'm talking about you, Fort Condor mini game), but overall, it's a really nice experience.

The graphics are a bit inconsistent, where there are areas with awesome lighting and composition, but there are others that the shaders don't behave well with the current lighting settings, creating weird shadows and artifacts (especially with hairs). This happen more often on caves and closed spaces that relies too much on global illumination, places that has a good amount of artificial lights (like the mako reactors) are very beautiful to look at.

Now the only thing that I didn't like too much was the end, that it was a bit confusing and I needed to watch a couple of times before fully understanding it (or I think I did), and there's one thing that I think it seemed a bit less important than in the OG (in my opinion). So much things happenend by the end of the game that the major happening of this part was a bit messy. Anyway, definitely try this game out if you are a fan of Final Fantasy and RPGs in general.