Final Fantasy VII Remake

I love this game so much, as a die-hard ff7 fan from the go. Yeah there are elements that are massively different and it does look like things may change in the future, but the characters are still very much the same characters I grew up with. Seeing them fleshed out and expanded on just makes me so hyped to see what more we get with future characters. 7 seconds to the end

Good review while avoiding spoilers (even though I have completed it). I am a big time Final Fantasy 7 onwards fan (having played all except the MMO 11 and 14). FF7 was my first addiction game and FF7R for me personally has not just met my expectations it exceeded them (it is so pretty and breathtaking on 1st playthrough). I was lucky to get it a week early and I am now doing the hard play through. I am at 83 hours and don't mind at all (going for platinum trophy). Where this story has gone has left me particularly intrigued and that is a good thing as a fan. The big challenge is for square enix to not dither with parts 2/3 (not take the piss with part 15) and not have the next release coming out when I am 50.

I never played Final Fantasy but I know the story of 7. I love turn based JRPGs but FF always seemed to bloated to me in the grindy sense, but after finishing my 120 hour playthrough of Persona 5 Royal, I had hoped FF7r would be my next game, but I'm not sure about the combat. P5 seemed to perfect that turn based combat and make it feel fast paced and action packed, this seems to have gone for more action and painstaking load out management than tactics, but the constant switching with poor AI seems like the best thing going for it, reminds me of P5s baton pass system. The review kinda just worries me when there's only a few minutes spent talking about combat compared to story and graphics and the summation is that combat is "more for a modern audience, like Kingdom Hearts" which could either mean blow all your big damage spells when the cool down is up or that it's not a grind and winning is about tactics more than numbers. The review could have used more examples on that, as a result I'm not really sold yet, might wait for price to go down a lot.

i would like to see something like gambits they had in ff12 for setting up stuff for your characters for when not controlling them in battle

doing everything took me 38 hrs and that includes me leaving the game on for bathroom breaks and food breaks

I liked the game until the last 2/3 when things were changed in a way that literally effects the timeline of ff7. also you don't get to play as red 13 :(

I have to say, if they're going the route that I think they are with the remake, then I'm super excited to see where they're going with the other parts, but I get the feeling that the game's going to be something like 5 or 6 more parts.