Final Fantasy VII Remake Review Thread - Current 88 Metacritic / 89 Opencritic

[JWeinCom]

So about halfway through I think.

Aside from some crappy textures lying around the game looks lovely and the music is amazing. The voice acting is mostly good too.

Battle system is decent enough. Animation is good and makes the combat feel satisfying. All of the characters play different which adds much needed variety to the combat. There's more strategy to the combat than something like Kingdom hearts, but not as much as most full blown RPGs. The ATB system makes combat feel a little choppy. Would be better if you can have settings for the AI so you didn't have to manually go into the menu.

The problem with the game is pacing which is what happens when you stretch 6 hours into 30. There's a lot of added content to pad things out. The content falls into one of three categories. A) Content that helps you get to know the characters better and fleshes out the world, B) silly additions that go against the original story, and C) NPCs you don't give a shit about doing boring shit. Unfortunately a huge chunk of the content falls into that third category. Between the parts I want to play, the parts where they're actually remaking parts of FF7, there's a bunch of really uninteresting stuff to slog through.

A score in the 8 range seems about right. The fundamentals of the game are really solid, but the pacing problems are too significant to overlook. I'd personally put it on the lower half of the 8 range.