Fan base is a bit unhinged cause it's a game full of hot people.

Probably my favorite group combat in any game, soundtrack is legendary, voice acting and atmosphere rocks.

I didn't play the OG, but still loved it, hard recommend!

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade is an masterpiece game. The story, music, world design, character design, cutscane, everything perfect.
But while I was playing this game, there were some issues I experienced.

The issues:
- Terible Control with Mouse & keyboard.
As mouse & keyboard player, i should change the keybinding, default keybinding it's really terrible, for keybinding reference you can use people post on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasyVIIRemake/comments/rkz82b/comment/jm27hrz/
And i recommend use this mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy7remake/mods/1552
this mod improve control with M&K, for example with this mod you can use scroll wheel for select menu, zoom map with scroll wheel, WASD when ride a motorbike.
- Stuttering issues
It's weird, I can run smoothly at 2K High 60 FPS but sometime I get random stuttering & FPS drop.
However, thanks to modders and the community, this issue can be resolve.
I would recommend use this mod to fix stuttering/fps drop.
https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy7remake/mods/66
And if you use nvidia gpu, try adjusting settings in nvidia control panel someone post on reddit, it really helpful on me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FFVIIRemake/comments/rlj29z/got_stutterring_issues_on_pc_with_high_end

I find the story better in Remake than in the second (not saying that Rebirth has a bad story, that one is good as well), Remade has a linear design which makes quests and missions easier to complete and the gameplay plus the graphics are quite good and on par with Rebirth.

Not much here feels as a downgrade, although Remake is 4 years older than Rebirth. Quite amazing on Square Enix that they managed to pull this off.

Pros: Good story, graphics, Tifa Lockhart (but most characters are amazing, design and lore wise, including the villains), other stuff I can't write because I want to keep the review spoiler free.
Cons: -

Anyone wanting to play FF VII Rebirth when it's getting out of the PS exclusivity lock should defo pre-order the Twin pack and start their journey with Remake, if they haven't played it already.

Tifa

Nearly 20 hours in, and I just don't understand this game or its reviews. I loved the original. It was the first 100 hour game I'd ever beaten as a kid. I know I have some rose tinted memories of that experience, but I just don't remember the game being so damn frustrating. Honestly, this game is a check box of the most irritating features to include in a modern title

Long periods of forced slow movement: Check
Steal control of the camera at random: Check
Wild swings in difficulty: Check
Character dialogue that is at least 20% "confused grunt" noises: Check
World design that shows items/chests behind trivial barriers, like two people talking: Check
"Open levels" with invisible "can't go that way" walls: Check
Search a vaguely defined area fetch quests: Check
NPCs that shout the same dialogue every single time you pass them in a narrow street: Check
Allies that spell out plot points and puzzles in excruciating detail before you even have a chance to look around: Check

And the combat! Holy **** the combat. People rave about the combat in this game, and I don't understand at all. There is a block and a dodge, but instead of designing combat around skilled use of those mechanics the devs made sure that the majority of attacks are untelegraphed, unblockable, undodgable, or ALL THREE. Combat boils down to "Are you lucky enough to have this particular enemy's weakness equipped?" and if not, can you generate enough ATB to keep the dumbest AI since Oblivion alive. You can't even tell the AI to focus a particular target. Ranged enemy? Better switch from Cloud to Barrett but oh look now Cloud is just standing in an AoE fire/poison blocking instead of moving away and engaging a different enemy.

While admittedly I'm not even close to done with the game, I've fought about ten bosses, and every single one is just frustrating rather than challenging. I just finished fought a story boss that you are forced into with one melee character and one ranged character that spends 95% of the time either entirely immune to physical attacks, or just mostly immune. Just sidelining the main character entirely while you whittle away and a spongey health bar for close to an hour. And the fact that this scenario doesn't even narrow down the list of boss encounters in the game kinda makes my point on the combat.

I was excited that part 2 was on the way to PC... now I don't know that I'll even buy it.

I am amazed by this game. Went through 2 PlayStation 1 consoles because of the original game back in 1997. I had well over 1000 hours in the game back in the 90's. This is a dream game that came into fruition through technology, labor and love. The fighting in the game is fluid, dynamic and very responsive. The story is very fun and explains a lot more of the backstory from the original FF7. Obviously there are a lot of fans of this final fantasy story as there should be and I can say without a doubt this stands up to my expectations if not supersedes them. People that find this story today will be amazed and if you played the original like me, then you will be awarded with something special. I can say for a fact that if I had this game in 1997 I would have played the entire game with my jaw on the ground. Took forever and a day for it to come to PC but well worth the wait in my book. Tifa was always kinda hot but this takes it to a whole other level, just saying. Don't judge me.

The visuals..... are insane it's one of the best modern day games. They did stick to the main plot albeit you can see where they strayed a little bit but it's like 99% true to the original.

Pros:-
- Graphics
- Battle System
- Characters
- Story(Decent)

Cons:-
- Optimization
- In some chapters story is stretched

Overall I enjoyed the Game

From a story perspective, the narrative and presentation of events is 10/10. The characterization of everyone but Barrett is incredible, and the sound design is flawless as usual.

The gameplay, however, is a mixed bag of decent combat and absolutely miserable side missions. The amount of backtracking, sequences of slowly walking, squeezing between tight spaces, and climbing ladders is tiresome.

This game is best played with mods that allows you to run faster, quickly level to 99, win every mini-game with minimal effort, and keep limits break active at all times. Also, there are lewd mods which greatly increased my interest level during my second playthrough of the game after the DLC launched.

As for the DLC content, it's pretty bad. More of the same dog water mini-games and slow platforming sequences. The combat adds some nice touches and Scarlet is the forever waifu, but overall, the DLC serves as an introduction to Yuffie's combat mechanics and little else.

The entire package falls into the category of " great presentation, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gameplay." The structure of missions and traversing the world feels very dated and needlessly pads the game time. I can only recommend people play this game with a Cheat Engine table and some nude mods otherwise it's just not worth the effort to suffer through the majority of the content.

I will be playing Rebirth because I've seen and heard about drastic improvements to the mission structure and combat, and I do love the way the story is being told, but the first installment is very rough when you break it down piece by piece.

Story and sound design are peak 10/10, combat is mid 6/10, level design and mission structure is awful 3/10.

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