sarianna saberwolf

Easily the worst in the series, despite markedly better 3D graphics than VLR. The non-linearity of the pilot's delivery system squandered any dramatic tension created through plot developments; several of the characters are either forgettable or completely insufferable; and the game's Nonary Game is far less interesting than either of the ones presented in 999 or VLR. As the final nail in the coffin, the game's ending "twist" feels more like a twist of the knife... and not in a compelling way. It's hollow, lazy, and anticlimactic. What's more, it creates more plot holes than it resolves. This game was a huge disappointment in just about every way, and I have no idea how it received ratings as high as it did.

I've had enough of Nomura's cynical, lazy writing for one lifetime. So much more than enough. So many people did an incredible job holding up their end of this project, but the juvenile, overly (and boringly) twisty plot populated with fate ghosts is so, so bad. These "remakes" seek to fix what was never broken, but their "improvements" only reveal that they don't understand or appreciate what made FF7 good in the first place. Every ounce of meaning, resonance, and artful world-building has been stripped away from this property, clarifying that Squeenix has no interest in doing this title or series justice. I feel genuinely sad for all the gamers who are being introduced to FF7 for the first time through this atrocious, zombified corpse of a game (and its predecessor, FF7 "Remake"). And if anybody from Squeenix is listening: please, for the love of god, stop giving Nomura the power to defecate all over your most beloved IP. He has been slowly but surely eroding the commercial viability of Final Fantasy for years, not to mention its heart and soul. It's a pointlessly tragic decline for a series that meant so much to so many people, but I'm calling time of death on Final Fantasy.