I really wonder how this will work against Emerald Weapon. By the way, they better include those optional battles!

I like it. I'm glad that they're changing up elements of the game.
I have already played through FF7 like... fifteen times, so something different is welcome.
Mostly, I'm just excited that the voice of Jet Black is playing Barret.

I looked at it some more.

The game is ATB turned-based, but characters auto-attack instead of standing there waiting for their turn. The attack command looks to be a strong attack.

I'm enjoying how everyone is jumping to conclusions thinking this is real time combat though. We should save this thread for crow eating. :P

Not turn based. Not Final Fantasy VII. Idiotic.

It looks like it has elements of turnbased combat and I'm glad we can switch characters. The only thing I scratched my head at was Wedge, he looked ridiculous. They really did Barret justice in this, he seems more likable than in the original.

Now, the BIG question that will impact this game the most is: Will the switching of characters be essential in this game? Or is it going to be too AI dependent? It really should not be AI dependent in my humble opinion. Switching characters on the fly and managing them in combat was essential to the original FF7.

I like it.Back in the late 90s I loved the ATB system, nowadays I don´t.

Believe me, I'll gladly eat crow. I hope I'll eat crow xDDD

We don't really know it will work , don't get too excited just yet my friend.  I'm sure an article with explanations from SE will be coming out soon so we should keep a lookout for that.

They showed a new video on the PSX stream and Yoshinori Kitase just said that it will more real time but all the strategy elements of the original FF7 attached to it(weapons, materia, and such). Although they did not say it is completely action RPG.

So yeah people, the PSX stream is still live and going and they are still showing new info, footage and announcements.

That would be the same as making two different games, and even if they were to do that, I will not endure more than two minutes of this crap to see if I can unlock a classic mode.