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FormerlyTeamSilent13 on 18 August 2020
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I honestly am surprised it hasn’t sold better. It’s a great game imo. Objectively it sold well at launch, but has had underwealming legs. Marketing wasn’t the greatest. The final trailer for the game spoils everything in a juxtaposed manner that doesn’t really make sense. I’m glad I didn’t see that as I never played the original, but even still it’s just poorly done in general. A lot of older fans seem uninterested by the gameplay and the fake classic mode might be part of the problem. I’m sure older fans on the fence saw Nomura’s name as director and read about how classic works and felt they were being trolled. Almost every review I’ve seen critical of it on youtube are from older fans unhappy with the changes. People don’t view it as a complete game. I think the game has many flaws, but I still give it a 9/10 and consider it my favorite RPG to date (of this type at least). As a standalone the game feels complete so even if I don’t like part 2 or 3 I enjoyed this game a lot. I am looking forward to PS5/PC release. I’m at least planning on playing it again on PC as long as framerates aren’t capped like console.

My guess is 7-7.5 million, but I’d like to see it hit 10 million

 Story spoiler below:

Spoiler!
Unpopular opinion, but I’d like Aerith to live and the story to change in a way that actually makes the game go off the wall. The have inserted this idea that anything can happen and if it doesn’t in part 2 I might lose interest. Her living along with something unexpected to go with that would be what I’m looking for. Although seems like she might die again, but it would be nice for the whole series to have a happy ending (in comparison the original ending which was considered “bad”) especially if this is a sequel trilogy to the original compilation 

Edit: butchered Nomura's name. fixed

Last edited by FormerlyTeamSilent13 - on 19 August 2020