This game is so goddamn weird. I'm only around a third of the way through... Just got to Golden Saucer and then immediately kicked out of Golden Saucer, and so far my impression is this is one fucking odd videogame. I played quite a bit of FF7 as a kid but I am realizing I retained next to nothing of the story.
The tonal whiplash is just outta control. Traveling from town to town feels like walking in and out of totally different games. Midgar is just a depressing horror show and then suddenly it turns into a goofy buddy road trip comedy.
Meet wacky characters as you and your band of misfits travel around to random locations hoping Sephiroth is there. The game spends more time as a comedy to the point the main plot threads get buried between bits. Legit question, as the only other FFs I've sunk serious time into are III, X, XV, and remake... is FF7 a comedy? The tone seems way wackier than any other FF game I've seen.
Having fun with it though, the section immediately after Midgar seems like it will make a killer opening to Remake 2. I feel bad for those who are working on the new Golden Saucer, it's hard not to have your expectations run wild on what they could do with it.
This game gives me a huge appreciation for Remake though. They really just knocked it out of the park with reimagining Midgar. It does make me wonder though what the scope of the rest of the Remake series is going to be because it legit feels like it would take 5 hours in Remake time just to go through the 30 min part right after Midgar. I didn't really understand the scope of FF7 until I started playing this and now I realize why Square was so gun shy about remaking it for so many years. Also for real they nailed it so hard in the Remake I'm just giddy thinking about what each town will look like in the Remake....and my god... Sephiroth extracting Jenova cutscene.
Just wondering if anyone else there is revisiting the original FF7 or playing through for the first time and realizing just how damn weird this game is.
The tonal whiplash is just outta control. Traveling from town to town feels like walking in and out of totally different games. Midgar is just a depressing horror show and then suddenly it turns into a goofy buddy road trip comedy.
Meet wacky characters as you and your band of misfits travel around to random locations hoping Sephiroth is there. The game spends more time as a comedy to the point the main plot threads get buried between bits. Legit question, as the only other FFs I've sunk serious time into are III, X, XV, and remake... is FF7 a comedy? The tone seems way wackier than any other FF game I've seen.
Having fun with it though, the section immediately after Midgar seems like it will make a killer opening to Remake 2. I feel bad for those who are working on the new Golden Saucer, it's hard not to have your expectations run wild on what they could do with it.
This game gives me a huge appreciation for Remake though. They really just knocked it out of the park with reimagining Midgar. It does make me wonder though what the scope of the rest of the Remake series is going to be because it legit feels like it would take 5 hours in Remake time just to go through the 30 min part right after Midgar. I didn't really understand the scope of FF7 until I started playing this and now I realize why Square was so gun shy about remaking it for so many years. Also for real they nailed it so hard in the Remake I'm just giddy thinking about what each town will look like in the Remake....and my god... Sephiroth extracting Jenova cutscene.
Just wondering if anyone else there is revisiting the original FF7 or playing through for the first time and realizing just how damn weird this game is.
