A definite improvement on the original but a flawed game nonetheless. The updates to combat are extremely welcomed and make the game a blast to go through for the first time in over a decade for me. However any time that Genesis is on screen my eyes glaze over, I don't know how they could make such a boring antagonist. All the stuff with Zack and his relationship with Cloud is great, although unnecessary. The final act of the game not including any nonsense with tracking down Genesis is heartbreaking and still hits as hard as ever. It's a great game that I love to play through but they really need Genesis to talk way less.