Maria Manea

No spoilers : I got really hyped up by the reviews on this show but after watching it I am very disappointed and confused about the high ratings. The story starts off very logical, but then changes directions many times and by the end, makes no sense at all. The story of the side characters is only filler as everything revolves around the main character. The side characters are just a victim of what's happening, which doesn't concern them in the slightest and they don't even support and help the main character. The plot holes are insane and I have difficulty understanding how the writer reviewed the script and thought it made any sense. Spoilers: The story starts off as passengers on the Kerberus travel from Europe to North America. Many characters have committed crimes and try to escape their past. The main character Maura is trying to find her brother who is waiting for her in NYC. Suddenly, the boat crew received coordinates from a boat that was lost at sea for the past 4 months. They investigate and find a boy aboard. The captain wishes to bring the lost boat back to Europe, but the passengers riot to continue towards America. As we wonder what happened on the lost boat, the Kerberus seems to follow a fate of chaos that will bring it to the same place. We eventually learn that the boy is the son of Maura, and that everything is a simulation made in order for her to spend time with her son who is actually deceased in the reality, which made me wonder why the other characters were even a thing? And why are they on a ship destined for self destruction? Her father is also stuck in the simulation and tries to escape but is framed as the villain the whole time. The story ends with the main character waking up aboard a ship in space towards a destination unknown and her brother is hinted at being the mastermind behind everything. I was just in for the mystery boat thing but the story turned upside down in a very messy way. Do not recommend.

I played the original and many other FF games. It reached a bit lower than I expected. For this first part, they decided to extend the 5h-6h of the original game to a full game. Consequently, to make an 40h story long, there was quite a bit of filler. For example if you had to go from point A to point B, there was so many irrelevant things you had to go through just to extend the gameplay time. That was annoying. Otherwise, the gameplay was interesting, the story too. Personnally, I found some side characters kinda boring and the side missions weren't that original (ah go kill a monster here and there). I don't know if it was the voice over, but Aerith went from a legit character in ff7 to the most annoying pot of glue character. When there's an emerency, she takes her sweet time to do whatever she needs to do (spoiler: the scene when she saves Marlene is far too long for the context). I was kinda deceived. Tifa and Barret were extremely well developped, as well as the AVALANCHE group. I liked the ending plot twist and it's a decent game, just a bit low for FF standards.