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Final Fantasy VII Remake - Review Thread (MetaCritic: 88 | OpenCritic: 89)
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I never understand people that think like this. Death Stranding is sitting in the low 80s and was many peoples GOTY. RDR2 is in the high 90s and quite a lot of people hated it. An arbitrary number should not be the defining factor on whether you think you'll enjoy a game or not.
You're more likely to hear their impressions on the Bomb/Beastcast than reading a review, but given how big this game is and given everyone is working from home and having a lot of time, it might be possible someone's writing a review about it.
wasn't that person just joking? I don't think anyone is seriously drawing a line at a 90 score
It's much better which isn't saying much. If a remake of FF7 ended up being worse than XV that would have been a disaster.
*shrug* I don't like 15 very much but reading through reviews and seeing impressions people uniformly seem to like the character work done in this.
No idea what you value in a final fantasy but personally that's something that has me a lot more hopeful currently than I've been in forever.
Glad for the team. I'm sure it'll sell amazingly too making it a huge success for them.
It's kind of crazy to me that this game finally is coming out. It's also crazy to me that a P5 re-release scored almost ten points higher as an average than FFVII Remake. Not for any reason in particular, just kind of crazy. I fully expected this remake to either score 90+ or below 85, so this is sitting pretty in the middle for my random assumptions.
Can't wait till Friday and I hate everyone who got it early.
Can't wait till Friday and I hate everyone who got it early.
Not different, but definitely better. As usual, new enemies/characters/skills add complexity to the encounters, forcing you to be more deliberate in your strategy and use every member of the team for a particular purpose. It doesn't always click (some enemies are too simple for that), but when it does, especially with bosses, it gets really satisfying.
See you in 2025, then. ;)
No doubt, but if Square Enix is able to flesh out the main characters, flesh out Shinra and those antagonist, make us feel more conflicted about the actions taken in Midgar, etc. it will leave you with a bigger impact once the story is complete. I totally understand wishing it wouldn't be split up, but there is opportunity to have a better overall product because of it. Especially if Square Enix is able to improve upon some of the weaker aspects in the first part.
It's not guaranteed to work out, but I can see how it has the best chance to reach its potential. If Square Enix tried to cram everything into one game the best it could be would be inherently lower, in my opinion.
I'm an outsider to this whole thing but perhaps its because you keep saying that the issue is "having too much stuff in a Final Fantasy game."?
I'll have a look. Just find it a bit weird that there are seemingly no reviews out right from people who didn't play the original upon release (or close to release); that leaves out the millions of teens and young adults who were either born after the original's release or were too young to play it in the late 90s.
Like, you'd think that the focus of a remake like this would be on more than just fans of the original :(
Awww this sucks you can't play hard from the beginning I hate when games do this.
Lol this reads like satire. Tastes in gaming are far too varied to rely on reviews like that.
It's unfortunate that review scores are so skewed that a "3-star review" for any game somehow seems like an absurd opinion.
Can we please stop with this shitty low scores equals wanting clicks narrative?
Well I liked it more than the average person. lots of locations and cool bosses, and it followed the movie (kingsglaive) nicely. I'm saying this because the combat in particular doesn't seem that better to me.
Nioh 2 has an 86 on MC and I have been really enjoying it. Lol
You're missing out on some awesome games if you only play 90+ scoring titles
You will be surprised by how many actually serious with their copypasta tier comment.
That Schreier review sure has me intrigued.
I had wondered if this was going to pull a Rebuild of Evangelion in twist changes to plotting.
I had wondered if this was going to pull a Rebuild of Evangelion in twist changes to plotting.
Yeah, because is impossible to not like as much as others a high profile game and must be clickbait.
Who cares? Seriously. Even if this shit was true (and people always talk about it in metacritic/rotten tomatoes discussions, that there are lone wolf review outlets that want to rank something low for clickbait), this game is going to be a massive success and is getting universal praise. Is anybody really that bothered by one 6/10 (effectively a 3/5)?
FF VIIR is the most bloated game I have ever played. Some extremely tedious missions which basically consists of walking a maze of narrow, samey, corridors to flip different switches, a lot of the game feels like stalling tactics and the gameplay, cutscenes and narrative does not compute at all during a really long and important sequence.
Imagine hearing that you daughter is about to die and you joke around about shopping and who's going to carry the bags? Then you keep chilling, giving long motivational speeches, take a couple of forced detours and you are still not that stressed about it?
The game has some chapters that reach 10/10 and becomes a true reinvention of the original. This is a game that I absolutely recommend but it's also filled with about 10 hours of trash. The highs compensate the lows enough to be worth an 8/10 but I can understand 6/10 as well.
If anything thing I could correct the egm statement to:
Too many hours WITHOUT real content.
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The point I made is summed up better then how I came about it by Grzi right here:
The fact is, when MC has 59 positive reviews, and 5 bad ones (and 03 of those 05 are 70 or higher), a 60 score just feels like a scream for spotlight and a flat-out clickbait, specially with the way the review positioned itself.
Same and Dying Light at 74 is one of my favorite games of all time.
Well this is just my two cents and I liked FF XV.
This one is significantly better.
what's up with Telegraph's review? Gave it a 6/10 with this quote?
da hell? EGM's I get it, read it, didn't seem like clickbait. But this one is baffling, what's with the shade to the og game?
perhaps they just didn't like it as much
entirely apocryphal i think, but this has been a story about ff7 for decades. it was a lot of folks' first encounter with JRPGs who checked the game out based on how crazy the ads (which mostly showed FMVs) looked, and they were upset when they found out what it actually looked and played like. so the story goes anyway, I don't know if there's ever been any hard reporting on it. it's one of gaming's Just So Stories
Don't tell me you think ff7 combat doesn't seem better than FF15 when you can win every battle in FF15 by just spamming warp strike
the first boss fight in the ff7 demo had better combat than all of ff15, where I had to use almost everything I had