Peak Gammon

As a fan of the original FF7 I gave "Remake" a chance and was disappointed by how tedious and boring it was, so much so I said I wouldn't play any more FF series. Anyway, I got suckered in again as "Rebirth" looked promisingly like the game I expected from "Remake" (a straight FF7 remake, but improved graphics etc). I was wrong, and they made it worse that "Remake". There is a lot of fan service attempts, some of which are well done, but it feels secondary to the main game, which is very linear and full (and I mean full) of pointless mini games (which they force you to play as part of the game, and will no doubt be released as a card game merch in due course). The final battle is ridiculously long and has 12 separate stages which require a strategic deployment of materia because there are different parties throughout the 12 stages. The final stage is tedious and ridiculously unbalanced, and you have to watch a 2 minute cut scene each time you replay it. A few retries quickly sucked the joy out of the game and made me resolve to never play a FF or SE title again. And the ending is not worth playing the game for. Avoid.