I don't think people understand Final Fantasy 7 Remake's battle system; Let's talk about it.

[The Fury]

I understand it perfectly just would prefer if it was closer to FF7 than FF13/15 spliced together.

I don't like those games, I liked FF7.I'd weirdly say that the best ATB combat game SquEnix made for FF was FFX-2. Character's weren't fixed to a specific location and moved around based on their current class, you had an array of classes and abilities, smooth transition between classes. You could see all of the battle, HP bars, MP bars that you needed, not stuck on 1 character, controlled all members. Had actual ATB, not the variation of X or what we see now.

What was a stable between each earlier FF game 4-9 (didn't really play the ones before due to releases) was that the main change between each game was the story, characters and magic/leveling system. What remained was the ATB, yet since X, it feels like SquEnix do all they can to remove the ATB when that never dated. Random battles dated, chibi characters dated, fixed scenes dated. The ATB is just the core gameplay the series was built around. Think of it this way, Street Fighter is still a 2D plane fighter, that's it's primary gameplay. How it's evolved since then is how it's seen, adding new features better graphics, better cancelling etc, yet FF (SquEnix) seems to want rid of the ATB, it's core gameplay.

I honestly do not think SquEnix will ever make a FF game like 4-9 again, based on the fact this remake of 7's combat is not like FF7. Stagger? I mean fing Stagger? Get that crap out of my FF7 game.