This review contains spoilers
Going from Persona 3 ending to this kinda fucked me up a lot, it really got the point ''Am i masochist for doing that to myself?''
Crisis Core is one of the few instances that you know a character's death is coming one way or another, the odds not in the favor for the last 2 chapters is already obvious enough but man, the way the showed to you the final cutscene and Zack's face is just too painful to watch, a lot of people including myself the highest point of this game is the ending itself. But something about the post timeskip writing and decisions regarding to Angeal dynamic and the moments they had just hits to deep to the core and even more with Aerith's relationship with Zack, Zack's being busy with Soldier work all the time and carrying the reputation of being Soldier 1 and the same can be applied to Aerith's position of being the only Ancient and being watched by the Turks both having their share of trouble but still trying to relationship hurts the more you realize it.
The soundtrack is one of the most beautiful and cohesive work i've seen in a while, Takeharu Ishimoto being the lead composer did wonders while respecting Uematsu's work and giving a lot of life doing the battle/boss themes, all of them sounds inspired while constantly using motifs from the Title Theme, Price of Freedom and one more that i forgot but they all sound different and the contextual usage for all of them has a purpose that really hits to the player.
I think my issue regarding to this game is just sometimes this game can give actual good scenes that enforces Zack's dynamic with Angeal, Sepiroth and others while giving the more unecessary padding while speeding running at times to get the story going while not giving that much space for some of the plot points or decisions in the first half.
Nevertheless still a good game that really felt needed to tell in Zack's POV and connection of Cloud came in and became part of himself.
Crisis Core is one of the few instances that you know a character's death is coming one way or another, the odds not in the favor for the last 2 chapters is already obvious enough but man, the way the showed to you the final cutscene and Zack's face is just too painful to watch, a lot of people including myself the highest point of this game is the ending itself. But something about the post timeskip writing and decisions regarding to Angeal dynamic and the moments they had just hits to deep to the core and even more with Aerith's relationship with Zack, Zack's being busy with Soldier work all the time and carrying the reputation of being Soldier 1 and the same can be applied to Aerith's position of being the only Ancient and being watched by the Turks both having their share of trouble but still trying to relationship hurts the more you realize it.
The soundtrack is one of the most beautiful and cohesive work i've seen in a while, Takeharu Ishimoto being the lead composer did wonders while respecting Uematsu's work and giving a lot of life doing the battle/boss themes, all of them sounds inspired while constantly using motifs from the Title Theme, Price of Freedom and one more that i forgot but they all sound different and the contextual usage for all of them has a purpose that really hits to the player.
I think my issue regarding to this game is just sometimes this game can give actual good scenes that enforces Zack's dynamic with Angeal, Sepiroth and others while giving the more unecessary padding while speeding running at times to get the story going while not giving that much space for some of the plot points or decisions in the first half.
Nevertheless still a good game that really felt needed to tell in Zack's POV and connection of Cloud came in and became part of himself.