I don't even know where to begin to describe the mixed feelings I have about this game. On one hand, you have a game that's incredibly fun, albeit quirky. Upgrading the different gun parts and mismatching them to fit whatever needs you wanted were fun to me. The psuedo-light gun ass arenas never got dull. I was excited anytime I saw a giant group of enemies in the distance.
Even the dynamic of banking your points for leveling up or extra gil for upgrades was a fun trade-off. I had fun breaking this game. Maxing out the pistol and my favorite parts for it as quickly as I could to have this overpowered one shot revolver that can shoot thunder at any boss and kill it with ease is still satisfying even after starting my Ex-Hard Mode play through.
Then on the other hand, you have a terrible story. If it's not dropping its budget on beautiful CGI movies that don't really explain what the hell is happening, you have the dullest exposition dumps between characters. Even the characters are falling asleep reading it. Shelke as a character annoyed me every time she opened her mouth because her voice acting was chalkboard gratingly boring. The general plot isn't too convoluted or say hard to understand. It's just written poorly and paced even worse.
For my fun little shoot shoot game, I didn't expect to have 35-40 minute long cutscene breaks in between stages. Or even worse the airship level which is just running back and forth between characters to get cutscenes to even progress further. I almost want to call it pretentious. It can stand alone even if you never played FF7 (or like me, you played just the remake), but it wants to stab itself so deep into the minutia of FF7, and Its ending to be a complete epilogue.
The game got more fun in Ex-Hard mode when I could skip all the cutscenes and get to the actual fun part.
Even the dynamic of banking your points for leveling up or extra gil for upgrades was a fun trade-off. I had fun breaking this game. Maxing out the pistol and my favorite parts for it as quickly as I could to have this overpowered one shot revolver that can shoot thunder at any boss and kill it with ease is still satisfying even after starting my Ex-Hard Mode play through.
Then on the other hand, you have a terrible story. If it's not dropping its budget on beautiful CGI movies that don't really explain what the hell is happening, you have the dullest exposition dumps between characters. Even the characters are falling asleep reading it. Shelke as a character annoyed me every time she opened her mouth because her voice acting was chalkboard gratingly boring. The general plot isn't too convoluted or say hard to understand. It's just written poorly and paced even worse.
For my fun little shoot shoot game, I didn't expect to have 35-40 minute long cutscene breaks in between stages. Or even worse the airship level which is just running back and forth between characters to get cutscenes to even progress further. I almost want to call it pretentious. It can stand alone even if you never played FF7 (or like me, you played just the remake), but it wants to stab itself so deep into the minutia of FF7, and Its ending to be a complete epilogue.
The game got more fun in Ex-Hard mode when I could skip all the cutscenes and get to the actual fun part.