Second Grader

Miyazaki has truly upped his game since 2016 from "wow that was so good" to "please dont kill me im baby"

just finished it and now I know why my friend, an avid FF enjoyer, disliked FF7 the most.

why is everything so loud. i don't mind in-game sounds cuz those can be set lower, but every cutscenes ever always plays on the loudest volume possible. with that said the game itself is enjoyable but only to a certain extent. even for someone who enjoys doing side quests wont be having a good time exploring the world. everything from the maps, puzzles, gameplay mechanics requires the most perfect perfectionist with hours of experience in this game. any kind of slight mistake will not be tolerated. there are no Iframes when dodging and getting hit, but you will get the knockback of the later, making you really vulnerable for even a few frames. puzzles were very absurd, most likely only able to be done if you were really scouring the area thoroughly, even the walls. Or maybe if you read guides. levels are ludicrous as most of the time i don't know if I'm walking into a wall, floor, or just a foreground attribute. some bosses are beyond obnoxious, yet a lot of them are still fun. another thing that bugs me is near the end you were thrown as many bosses as possible for unknown reasons. the story was ambiguous as there were only images. the UI was also only images. there's no text in-game, except telling you that a warp portal can be used.

beautifully crafted from the start till the end. Visuals are great, soundtracks are mindblowing, story while ambiguous is so deep, Puzzles are challenging, everything this game has done has led to a beautifully crafted game. There's only several technical issues like performance and bugs, but you can configure that so it won't disturb your experience while playing. Personal preference, but i think the world is too big. Some collectibles require you to drift from your goal, and with such a big world, it sometimes is confusing.

it's weird, but amazing. i dont think anyone has ever decided to make a game where you control gravity, especially when the physics are still a bit wonky. every input either feels too sensitive or very insensitive. i still able to play it till the end tho. story wise, there's not much to offer. Well, this is a game for kids in their teenage years, so you can't expect much. i think the only reason why i kept playing was to mess around with the weird but amazing mechanics and explore a world so wide and weirdly designed as well. definitely a game for adventurers, not for strategist nor fighters.

wasnt as good as they said. optimization is still bad even several years after launch. The decision to make this more "approachable" to non-FF fans is whimsical, even for a non-FF fans. It does not feel like an RPG, more like an action game. The action part wasn't even good, neither is the RPG. Some parts like exploration was really fleshed out, while the combat system was left to rot. They took out the very thing that makes an RPG games fun and put in a weak excuse for an action game. I've seen several games with lower budgets done action better than this game. The plot is too convoluted. Most of the times I don't know what's happening, why is it happening, or how it happens, resulting in moments full of emotions to be bland because of confusion. There's either too much or too few to take in, never in-between. The open world is big but empty, with exception of cities.

I hate that now whenever i see my dogs i got reminded of trico. Makes me sad

its fun and adventurous. Definitely a game like in the old days, with updated graphics. Don't expect too much on the story though, since it's created for kids. still cant believe they used the movies for the cutscenes.