Beat Final Fantasy VII, the legendary JRPG and I'm mostly disappointed.

The story doesn't get good until you get to Nibelheim for the first time, which is about half-way through the game. Everything before that is more on the meh side.
Cloud is not an exciting main character. Dude's got serious mental problems. I also didn't like Barret. Always cursing and threatening, it was getting old quickly.
Also why are people making so much fuss about the Aerith scene?

Thank god the "remaster" comes with a x3 speed increase. Feels unplayable otherwise. Even then some ingame cutscenes play out too slow. On the other hand it's a bit too fast for running around and fighting, so a x2 would've been the ideal speed (with optional x3 or x4 for the rest).
Graphically it's a disaster and an attack on your eyes, but I guess that's what the proper remaster is for. Walking with 3D characters on 2D backgrounds can be extremely hard, about as hard as finding an exit in one of the background pics. Thankfully there's a fix for the latter when pressing Select, but I'm not sure if that was also in the original.
World map is quite boring, empty and forgettable. The two main continents look basically the same, there are barely any things to tell them apart when walking on them. It took me hours to know where some of the main places are located on the map because everything looks the same.
Talking about combat, I'm not a fan of the real time gameplay while you're slowly fighting your way through item, magic or summon menus. The UI can also completely block smaller enemies. Also I don't like the Materia stuff.
Lastly I think the mini games are mostly bad. Some were impressive for the time, for example when you're chasing behind Barret and Tifa on a motorcycle or when you're snowboarding. However the execution is absolutely terrible and not fun at all. I doubt it was good for PS1 standards.

On the plus side, the story gets far more interesting later on, even if the twist is completely ruined IMO.
The FMVs are nice and the transition between them or in-game cutscenes and gameplay is well done.
The villains are pretty good, some support characters (obviously not the ones listed in the section above) are good too.

7/10

I'm thankful I bought the game by using MS reward points. I don't think it's worth that much (€11 on sale). Got Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition for €8.50 and that's better in a lot of ways (while far from being amazing).

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is getting terrible reviews. Hopefully that will get their asses up so we can see a new Splinter Cell game instead.

56 meta so far... Ouch.

The Coalition is too talented to just stick with Gears forever, I pray that it’s a new IP or Perfect Dark Reboot them not being tied to one franchise would be huge for MS and bring even greater diversity to XGS.

Can't believe Fable is 15 years old. Half my life.

What a great game! Shame PM made it out to be more than it was and ruined its reputation!

Sony released more PS5 info today. Y'all expect Scarlett info at XO19?

Wow.. Act IV was probably the best Gears has ever been. Whole game would have been much much better if they kept every act linear instead of this open world bullshit. At least it ended on a high note with some intense action. I'll do a solo run later and maybe Act II and III will play better, but it wasn't good for co-op. 

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Those are insane gamepass numbers for an indie game. The sales number is also good too.

Yeah there must be a huge number of game pass subscribers if an indie game gets this many downloads. I'd imagine only a small percentage download it.

Outstanding game though. Bought it myself and it was money well spend.

Agreed. While certainly one of the more prominent indie games on there, it's still a far cry from something like Rocket League, ARK, Terraria or Minecraft. I'm not even starting naming the big AAA games on there.