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Call me Biased, call me stingy. But FF7R isn't FF7. It's two things, a "modern game" which refers to its feeling of just being what people want that has already been done by other games as well as being a nostalgia property therefore rather than being a game of passion and ideas, it's a safe bet to make lots of money. Secondly and this ties into the wanting money bit, the cross promotion with Butterfinger requiring you to buy a completely separate product in order to access content in a game you already most likely spent $60 or more on is insulting to a consumer. Yes it's very unimportant content that you won't miss and it's mostly just throwaway stuff, but it's the fact of the matter, content locked behind external products that could later down the line lead to games thinking it's ok to lock massive things behind external products like entire extra chucks of story. No I do not want to see how my game ends by buying the limited time FF18 Mcnuggets. I'm going a little off topic. I'm definitely very stingy about certain things and this remake isn't for me anyway. I would have done anything for a classic turned based FF7R with the same gameplay, layout and environments with the only things changed are giving it a modern redesign of the graphics without changing anything in the environment nor its aesthetics and I guess voice acting, even though I'm not a fan of the current voice acting. I love turned based combat in games, I hate the new FF combat system. It's better in FF7R than it was in FF15, but I still find it very boring. I also find that due to having a rotating camera it kinda robs the magic of what the originals fixed camera did, make you see exactly what you both wanted and needed to see while hiding secrets in cool creative ways. It's just another modern game. It's a good just another modern game, just not what I would have wanted and what I got isn't something I want. Not every game has to be innovative, not every game has to be what I want. But I also don't need to like every game either. I'm sure you can thoroughly enjoy FF7R, I could see it being your new favorite game. FF15 I still don't understand how it could be anyone's favorite, that was hot garbage from the ground up, mostly due to a hellish development process. But FF7 was an incredible game. FF7R by it's nature has a great groundwork to start a build from. I don't like what they built but, If I understand correctly, the story, general aesthetic and character writing is the same, then in those regards we still have an incredible game and the only thing keeping me from enjoying it is the fundamental design of gameplay. However the whole Butterfinger cross promotion thing, total bull. That's some Fortnite levels of Sellout.