But, for me, it's all just too much of a tease to get full marks so 9 out of 10 it is. The battles have been brilliantly updated so you can now mix the turn based actions with all out button bashing (although mostly just the square one) The visuals are incredible but then again, what did you expect? And the soundtrack is also a real win too.
The storyline goes deeper than I remember and there's loads of extra time to explore the various sectors of the Midgar undercity and play side quests. if you loved the original, you're probably gonna love this too. But I'm hoping that in the next few months a DLC will be made available for a reasonable price and off I go again in the adventure. I'd known for ages that this release was only going to take you to the end of the Midgar part of the original so I shouldn't be too disheartened but if Square Enix think I'm going to shell out another £50 for the second of possibly 3, 4 or whoknowshowmany sequels then, well, they're absolutely right, actually. Having said that, I felt it got better throughout the game and by the end, Barret was slightly less irritating (or maybe I had just gotten used to him) and in general the scripts seem to have been given more thought. It all just makes the script writing feel very dated. Then, there's the random comments your team makes, it's like they're joining a conversation they didn't quite hear from across the room in an effort to feel included. Maybe that was the case in the original, I don't really remember. I kept justifying it as being targeted at the younger audience but then you're reminded of it's PEGI 16 rating buy the often unnecessarily 'S#!T' blurted out in an effort to make it feel more grown up. It's just feels very B-Movie, especially off the back of playing games like Death Stranding or The last of us (for instance) where the considered dialogue has been handed to A list professionals. for all the painstaking detail this game has been given, the voice acting is often terrible, Especially Barret who really got my back up from scene 1.
it's only small things but they start to grate, Sometimes immediately.
That doesn't stop me wishing I was swapping out disc 1 for 2 and continuing the adventure rather than writing this review though. I know it's probably unfair to expect more from Square Enix considering the effort that has gone into this game, after all, if they expand the rest of the original to the lengths they have with these 19 chapters, I'd probably still be playing up until christmas to reach the end. For me however, there was always the feeling of being shortchanged whilst I marched on towards what was the end of disc 1 of 3 back in 1997. The graphics are amazing, the battle engine is loads more fun this time around and the extension of storylines has made what was really the opening couple of acts in the original epic a solid 40 hour game that is probably one of the best this year. Could it be months or years? There's no doubt what an improvement there is in this offering. It's been over 20 years since I played FF7 and although my memory of the whole story is fairly hazy, the main thing I think of at the end of the remake is just how much of the journey there is left to play and yet I'm not able to and I've got no idea when the next of probably 2 or more installments will be made available. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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