I will talk about the PC version.
I got 650 hours on ff7 Ps1 so i can compare, and 40 years playing video games. I am not just a ff7 original addict far from it. I play many more games, and am one of the best tank of Division 2 worldwide for example.
This way, you know what is talking.
The combat system and materia system are very good.
The graphics, musics and the design are astonishing.
But, for the game it self :
way too much boring story about XYZ way too much movies, cut scene, walk there ... 95% filler.
It is a corridor game with too many limitations.
You can't go there, you can't have more than 1 materia on this style, you can't properly farm, you can't duplicate materia ... ... ...
The summon system is awful, you can't control them, they are just here, can't die, can't be attacked almost, and you do not feel them at all. They are just here to be here and hit. This is very lame and put them at the lowest position into the game. And honestly they are almost all the time useless. You can't summon them when you want. You can't upgrade them.
FF7 was for me a game who open the players to freedom and farming was easy, cool and simple. On this one you simply can't farm. The essence of the game was to : go wherever you want, run in circle and kill random zone enemies to upgrade stuff and learn new stuff, steal new stuff and so on,
here NOTHING! You go there, kill the bad guys, and that's all. When dead, it is almost impossible to get more. What is absolutely boring and a poor choice of game design.
In PS1 you get 600h of pure gameplay to upgrade everything and you can get more than 150 combinations to do whatever you want with your stuff
Into the remake you got 45h of 3D MOVIES !
And less than 9h of gameplay.
The story is good, but we do not want to watch a movie we want to play.
Sorry, but any good mmo gives you 90% of gameplay and 10% of movies into ff7r you get 95% of movies and corridors.
When you finish the game, you unlock hard mode, and this mode is the most stupidest mode i ever played this last 40 years. You can't use ITEMS anymore. What a good idea, into any mmo's and particularly ff mmo's all players will COLLECT stuff any stuff, and now you have the hard mode on and you can't use them, what put the MONEY , the ITEMS and everything useful you have found this last 20 hours into a big trashcan.
And now we need to redo the game a second time to unlock stuff in hard mode ??? Sorry but no thank you. Game design is very bad on this point, because there is no point to do it.
The story will stay the same! There is no DER RICHTER like ff10, there is no real purpose to do it except 1 summon -_- and when you got it ?
That's all. There is the simulator, there is the arena ok ok but they are limited spaces with exactly the same enemies at the same moments at the same places what ti is extremely boring.
So to be simple, hard mode is : upgrade your stuff more for almost no purpose. And mash the skip button because 45h of cut scenes are coming AGAIN! Well ...
i am disappointed.
After 22 years waiting for that, it is a correct game but a bad rpg.
Without freedom, without customization, without a real purpose ...
i really hope : when all the opuses will be released, the game will be complete and we will have "at last" something extraordinary.
But for now it is a blablabla rpg with way too many limitations and i am not motivated to redo it just for scraps.
I got 650 hours on ff7 Ps1 so i can compare, and 40 years playing video games. I am not just a ff7 original addict far from it. I play many more games, and am one of the best tank of Division 2 worldwide for example.
This way, you know what is talking.
The combat system and materia system are very good.
The graphics, musics and the design are astonishing.
But, for the game it self :
way too much boring story about XYZ way too much movies, cut scene, walk there ... 95% filler.
It is a corridor game with too many limitations.
You can't go there, you can't have more than 1 materia on this style, you can't properly farm, you can't duplicate materia ... ... ...
The summon system is awful, you can't control them, they are just here, can't die, can't be attacked almost, and you do not feel them at all. They are just here to be here and hit. This is very lame and put them at the lowest position into the game. And honestly they are almost all the time useless. You can't summon them when you want. You can't upgrade them.
FF7 was for me a game who open the players to freedom and farming was easy, cool and simple. On this one you simply can't farm. The essence of the game was to : go wherever you want, run in circle and kill random zone enemies to upgrade stuff and learn new stuff, steal new stuff and so on,
here NOTHING! You go there, kill the bad guys, and that's all. When dead, it is almost impossible to get more. What is absolutely boring and a poor choice of game design.
In PS1 you get 600h of pure gameplay to upgrade everything and you can get more than 150 combinations to do whatever you want with your stuff
Into the remake you got 45h of 3D MOVIES !
And less than 9h of gameplay.
The story is good, but we do not want to watch a movie we want to play.
Sorry, but any good mmo gives you 90% of gameplay and 10% of movies into ff7r you get 95% of movies and corridors.
When you finish the game, you unlock hard mode, and this mode is the most stupidest mode i ever played this last 40 years. You can't use ITEMS anymore. What a good idea, into any mmo's and particularly ff mmo's all players will COLLECT stuff any stuff, and now you have the hard mode on and you can't use them, what put the MONEY , the ITEMS and everything useful you have found this last 20 hours into a big trashcan.
And now we need to redo the game a second time to unlock stuff in hard mode ??? Sorry but no thank you. Game design is very bad on this point, because there is no point to do it.
The story will stay the same! There is no DER RICHTER like ff10, there is no real purpose to do it except 1 summon -_- and when you got it ?
That's all. There is the simulator, there is the arena ok ok but they are limited spaces with exactly the same enemies at the same moments at the same places what ti is extremely boring.
So to be simple, hard mode is : upgrade your stuff more for almost no purpose. And mash the skip button because 45h of cut scenes are coming AGAIN! Well ...
i am disappointed.
After 22 years waiting for that, it is a correct game but a bad rpg.
Without freedom, without customization, without a real purpose ...
i really hope : when all the opuses will be released, the game will be complete and we will have "at last" something extraordinary.
But for now it is a blablabla rpg with way too many limitations and i am not motivated to redo it just for scraps.