Nathan Schad

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Remake definitely lives up to its title. or should i say re-write… warning spoilers they took a great story and added stupid time travel dementor mechanics that just were not needed, like at all for the story and at times i literally thought “am i playing FF7?” I was ok with and even loved some of the added depth. Jessie, Biggs, Wedge, Leslie, and wall market were great cause it wasn't/didnt feel like a rewrite, it was world building. But The whole main story time travel battling fate thing was bonkers. people that died in the original are alive now cause they killed fate in some alternative dimension and had the power of friendship…ugh what is this kingdom hearts?!? the original ff7 story was nuanced and emotionally deep with deaths that meant something and drove the story. they threw that out for some weird BS. also there is no debate that they padded this game with fillers and forced slow walking to make a 25 hour story hit 48 hours. this could have been the whole story with the excellent graphics if squarenix stood on track and on story. but nooooooo… they want to make you pay $69.99 2-3 times. enix-squaresoft merger ruined FF7. its only got worse as the years go buy. every game after the merger has been worse and worse. now on the battle system. well 10% of the time it is awesome. the rest is atrocious filled with impossible designed battles that make you button mash the dodge/block button. and on top of the 80% of the time bosses would interrupt your atb attacks even your limit breaks so that all your forced to do is cure/dodge, then mash the attack button. AI for teammates is atrocious so they just guard most of the time. so boring. so incredibly boring to play. button mashers are boring. 3/20 bosses were fun. the original FF7 required strategy of materia and turn pacing to win. it made you use your big boy brain to combine and use your materia and skills to win. in this games battle system all it required is darksoul like rolling blocking and button mashing, or switching characters to cure. materia is a second thought to the dumb stagger system that makes this game super tedious. stagger systems SUCK. they do that because they want to make a boring masher less boring. but it only makes its more tedious. oh and my materia? i have a sneaky suspicion i cannot carry it over to future installments? that was 60% of the fun of ff7 was collecting materia and maximing it out? if part two makes me start over materia wise i definitely will feel cheated. i regret buying this at 69.99$. Square enix was so far off track with this one.