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JWeinCom on 06 April 2020
DonFerrari said:
Xxain said:

What? Did you make this up? 

Most common complaints so far are:

- New plot content irrelevant in grander story

- some KH Bullshit in the final hours of game.

Seems like the two 60 scores that complain about the story being buffed in content to cover for the split of the original. Just like the preconceived complains we heard over the last couple years.

People anticipated there may be problems in turning what was the first 5-10 hours of a game into a full game.  Just because they anticipated this problem doesn't mean it's not legitimate.



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vivster on 06 April 2020

People call this one a bloated version of the original. I call the original an abridged version of the real game.



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Link_Nines.XBC on 06 April 2020

It's a great score but

Spoiler!
it will be more interesting to see the reception among fans given all the insane KH-esque shenanigans Nomura pulled in the ending that potentially change the whole story. 
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Xxain on 06 April 2020

@Link_Nines.XBC - I read about this suppose strange ending ..... why do I have the sinking feeling Aerith will live in this version. (I have not played the game or seen the KH Bullshit. Just my personal feeling)



Metallox on 06 April 2020
Hiku said:

Around what I expected. I was thinking 89.
With the amount of people who always wanted it to be something else, even if it's unreasonable, some mixed reviews were unavoidable.

JWeinCom said:

Could it possibly be that they added this content to stretch the game into three parts?  And if the developer team was told that this was only going to be a single release, what would have happened to all of that content?

What do you think would have happened to a lot of the content from the original game we loved if they were told to make this into a singular release?
It would be cut from the game, because it's not possible to do in this kind of fidelity in one game.

"The other option was to include the entire scope of the original game in a single release. But in order to make that work as a modern game, we wouldn’t be able to go for the highest visual quality and we’d also have to cut back on areas and scenes from the original."

So this wasn't "unnecessarily splitting". It was necessary if they wanted to include everything important from the original.

The only question then was at what point they end each game. It has to be somewhere that feels appropriate for a full game experience. And not just as far as they can take it.
If they can't get to say the City of the Ancients on a one game budget, but only as far as Costa Del Sol, ending the first game there would not feel appropriate. So the decision to focus on Midgar and move some later events into the Midgar section, while expanding on that city and its people sounds reasonable.

People who think they could fit everything from the original into one single game in this kind of fidelity are just not reasonable.

If they made it into one game, people would complain about all the things cut from it.
If they made it into multiple games, people would complain about the extra "unnecessary" stuff.

I've seen a lot of complaints about this over the years, but never accompanied by a constructive or realistic suggestion along with it.

A better company than Square Enix could have done it better. No cuts, single release, no compromises in visual quality; everything as it should've been from the start.  

But alright, I don't want to give the impression that I still whine and care about the partition of the game. 



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Link_Nines.XBC on 06 April 2020
Xxain said:
@Link_Nines.XBC - I read about this suppose strange ending ..... why do I have the sinking feeling Aerith will live in this version. (I have not played the game or seen the KH Bullshit. Just my personal feeling)

It wouldn't surprise me, Nomura seems obsessed with "shocking" plot twists.



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Azzanation on 06 April 2020

I expected this to be a lot higher than an 87, as its FF7 but I feel the chopped up story line didn't do it justice.
Looks like Half Life Alyx is front runner for GOTY.. Ahh just kidding, who cares about GOTY, FF7 is sure to be a great game, cannot wait to try it out for myself once it appears on PC...……… if it ever does..



JWeinCom on 06 April 2020
Hiku said:

Around what I expected. I was thinking 89.
With the amount of people who always wanted it to be something else, even if it's unreasonable, some mixed reviews were unavoidable.
Others may be due to reasonable critique.

JWeinCom said:

Could it possibly be that they added this content to stretch the game into three parts?  And if the developer team was told that this was only going to be a single release, what would have happened to all of that content?

What do you think would have happened to a lot of the content from the original game we loved if they were told to make this into a singular release?
It would be cut from the game, because it's not possible to do in this kind of fidelity in one game.

"The other option was to include the entire scope of the original game in a single release. But in order to make that work as a modern game, we wouldn’t be able to go for the highest visual quality and we’d also have to cut back on areas and scenes from the original."

So this wasn't "unnecessarily splitting". It was necessary if they wanted to include everything important from the original.

The only question then was at what point they end each game. It has to be somewhere that feels appropriate for a full game experience. And not just as far as they can take it.
If they can't get to say the City of the Ancients on a one game budget, but only as far as Costa Del Sol, ending the first game there would not feel appropriate. So the decision to focus on Midgar and move some later events into the Midgar section, while expanding on that city and its people sounds reasonable.

People who think they could fit everything from the original into one single game in this kind of fidelity are unrealistic.

If they made it into one game, people would complain about all the things cut from it.
If they made it into multiple games, people would complain about the extra "unnecessary" stuff.

I've seen a lot of complaints about this over the years, but never accompanied by a constructive or realistic suggestion along with it.

I really don't have the technical or budgetary expertise to say if it was or was not strictly necessary on either of those grounds to split it.  So, if it pleases you, strike the word necessary from my initial comment.

Regardless, the fact that the game is split into three parts, for whatever reason, has apparently led to a lot of filler that has diminished the experience for at least a substantial portion of critics.  Whatever the reasoning may have been, it's a flaw that detracts from their enjoyment.

As for constructive criticism, I can't really say as I haven't played the game yet.  But based on the feedback the most constructive criticism would be to actually come up with 3 games full of worthwhile content. If it was truly necessary to have the game split into three parts, it was also necessary to have three parts worth of good stuff.   In the Witcher for instance (also haven't played) people praise all the side quests for being well written and engrossing.  So, it's possible to have a lot of side content and not have it detract from the experience.  Here, again according to some critics as I haven't played the game, they apparently missed the mark.



konnichiwa on 06 April 2020
think-man said:
pikashoe said:
I'm interested in playing it, but paying full price for 1/3 of the game seems ridiculous. This is likely going to end up costing €180, even more if people are buying the deluxe versions.

Its not 1/3 of the original, tell me where in the original did you go *Spoilers* to top plate? Rob Jessie's house? Battle a new villain named Roche? You do loads of stuff in the main story that didn't exist in the original. Meaning that once all games are released you will be getting 200-250% more game than the original ever had. 

A lot of the extra stuff belongs to the negative points of the game






pikashoe on 06 April 2020
think-man said:
pikashoe said:
I'm interested in playing it, but paying full price for 1/3 of the game seems ridiculous. This is likely going to end up costing €180, even more if people are buying the deluxe versions.

Its not 1/3 of the original, tell me where in the original did you go *Spoilers* to top plate? Rob Jessie's house? Battle a new villain named Roche? You do loads of stuff in the main story that didn't exist in the original. Meaning that once all games are released you will be getting 200-250% more game than the original ever had. 

I never said anything about the original. I don't mind paying more money, but €180 seems excessive. If each game was around €35-40 that would be more reasonable. The extra content seems worth paying extra for but not that much extra.