Its soooo good. The controls are actually not hard at all. At the press of a button you can swap to barret if you need ranged, and swap back anytime. Multitude of spells, special abilities, items, weapons, armor, materia!!!!! It's really not too challenging to learn the combat, and there's still classic mode for those who only want the original turn based. I am loving the game, it has even more of the original story, for example it has the original plan to have the ghosts chase aeris that got left out of the first game. Music is really good revision of the original score, i own both soundtracks! It's fantastic!!!! It's beautiful!!!