"child abuse is awful and can have lasting psychological effects :( proceeds to graphically sexualise 12-15 year olds"

also one of the supporting characters literally admits to being a pedophile and the main character (who is 15 years old) thinks that his openness on the subject makes him attractive. Um.

feels trivial to mention this after listing those uhh, flaws, but the controls SUUUUUCK and the story is mediocre at best. the only saving grace of this game is that it fills in some of the gaps of sdr1&2, and it made me like toko more than i did before. Um. Anyways. probably don't play this

graphically stunning, pretty music, a lot of fun moments for sure, combat system was fine. the story went off in some odd directions for the sake of expanding the original which again is like... fine, i guess. the voice acting was mediocre and threw me off tbh. no judgement to the cast, they all seem brand new - just not sure why you'd hire amateur VAs for such a high profile game, (especially since they literally have prolific VAs doing additional voices) but whatever. my main gripe with this game is that every single minor boss battle was absurdly, tediously long. idk, overall it was fun, not bad. didn't feel like the original ffvii to me but maybe it wasn't supposed to. i'm not quite getting the hype but maybe i need to play it again.