All they had to do was take the original and spruce up the graphics

Instead they went full retard completely re-doing the game and put in gay voice actors and shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39953850)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3alSpW18SnE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39953934)

(the voice actors have no range so you can't tell)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39958734)

one of the best parts of jrpgs is that the characters and environments are symbolic/representative, which gives your imagination a lot of room to fill in the gaps. modern graphics fill those gaps with hyper-realistic sounds and images and depersonalize the experience.

imo that's one of the reasons games like Stardew Valley are v popular right now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39953915)

check out Terranigma if you haven't yet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39953958)

Two other things have worked against them imo—

1. The meme that open-world/non-linear = GOOD and turn-based/JRGP = BAD among game reviewers.

2. The fact that they have gotten worse at making games since the Enix merger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39954020)

Final Fantasy 7 Remake reviews have been published ahead of the game’s official release on Friday, April 10.

At the time of publishing the Square Enix RPG has a Metacritic score of 87 from 56 reviews, with many critics concluding that Remake is an accomplished but flawed retelling of the 1997 original.

In VGC’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake review critic Jon Bailes calls the RPG “a game full of beauty, intelligence and nostalgic power.”

Players in the UK and Australia have reportedly been receiving the game as early as Wednesday last week – 9 days before digital copies unlock.

Despite this, a Square Enix support page has claimed the Final Fantasy 7 Remake digital release date will not be brought forward.

Read on for key review scores from across the games press.

FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE REVIEWS

VGC (5/5) – “The scale and detail of this partial remake is at times almost absurd. But this is a game full of beauty, intelligence and nostalgic power.”

Eurogamer (Recommended) – “An expansive remake that treads carefully upon this most cherished of games, though some blunders will linger long in the memory.”

USGamer (3.5/5) – “It’s one of the most coherent and enjoyable Final Fantasy releases in years, but it’s also likely to be one of the most divisive.”

VG247 (4/5) – “Midgar is so well-realised, the main characters are wonderfully done, and the battle system is masterful.”

PushSquare (8/10) – “Measured against the immense expectations that surround it, Final Fantasy VII Remake is a great game that will inevitably disappoint some fans.”

Gamespot (10/10) – “Regardless of your history with the original game, Final Fantasy VII Remake is an astounding achievement.”

The Telegraph (3/5) – “A breathtaking but bloated retread of a classic”

IGN (8/10) – “Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s dull filler and convoluted additions can cause it to stumble, but it still breathes exciting new life into a classic while standing as a great RPG all its own.”

RPG Site (8/10) – “Despite some misgivings about some of the liberties taken, Final Fantasy VII Remake is an admirable foundation to build off of for future entries”

Polygon (no score) – “Remake is wildly uneven, poorly paced, and not entirely successful as a game in its own right.”

Daily Star (4/5) – “If you can break through the more sluggish and unenjoyable moments of the game, you’ll find an absolute gem of an action-RPG shining at the core”

Gaming Bible (7/10) – “An unshakable takeaway from Remake (part one) is that it needed more time – time enough to turn around all the moments, of which there are too many, where the magic disappears.”

The Verge (no score) – “Perhaps the most notable thing about FFVIIR is that it makes a game I’ve played multiple times over the last 23 years into something interesting and new.”

Game Informer (8.75/10) – “Regardless of what the future holds, Final Fantasy VII Remake finds an impressive equilibrium between its past and its present.”

EGM (3/5) – “Final Fantasy VII Remake manages to balance the introduction of new concepts with faithfully recreations of the original game’s most memorable aspects, but it also unnecessarily pads out this first installment in a larger story with too much downtime between its most striking moments.”

Wccftech (9.3) – “Final Fantasy VII Remake is a masterful modernization of the series’ classic formula.”

Games Radar (4.5/5) – “A beautifully crafted and entertaining reimagining of a classic that brings renewed life to its story and characters”

God is a Geek (9.0) – “It’s a mesmerising video game from start to finish, and even in its many slower moments there’s humour to be found, or scraps of character, or Easter Eggs for the observant fan.”

Destructoid (9/10) – “A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won’t cause massive damage.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39953936)

What I didn’t love, however, was when FF7R clearly decided it needed more stuff, regardless of quality, for the sake of achieving “full” RPG length. The most dull of these pop up whenever Cloud reaches a new residential area of Midgar’s slums – all of which are wonderfully detailed and brimming with life in a way that was truly magical to see realized – where he’ll be asked to do odd jobs as part of his mercenary work (something we previously never saw him do in Midgar outside of his work with Avalanche). The problem is that these are, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the weakest parts of this entire game.

Suddenly, the unique and foreign world of Midgar gives way to bottom-of-the-barrel JRPG tropes: a shopkeeper who unironically wants you to go kill some rats, a teacher who asks you to find her boring students around town, multiple fetch quests that send you looking for random items for essentially no good reason. All of this kills the pace and belittles the importance of the high-stakes events going on around you in the most cliche RPG sort of way. Their stories are rarely interesting, but worse is that nearly all of the combat areas in these quests have you retreading areas you’ve already completed, sapping these segments of FF7R’s strength in variety.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake vs Final Fantasy 7 - Early Scenes Compared

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While these side quests (as well as more amusing arena-style fights and minigames like darts or Wall Market’s signature squat competition) are entirely optional, skipping them will cause you to miss extremely valuable items and unlocks – things like unique weapons, rare accessories, and much more – and can sometimes even minorly influence sections of the story later on without warning. I completed nearly all of the side quests, but more felt forced to do so out of a sense of obligation rather than amusement. Most of the time I was on one I couldn’t wait to get back on track.

The noticeable padding isn’t entirely limited to side quests either, unfortunately. One required mission later on in the story also has you retreading a previous section in what felt like little more than tried-and-true filler. I’m certainly not opposed to this remake inserting more than just added detail – the way the Train Graveyard has been reworked, for example, is truly fantastic, along with another fun new level near the end – but there’s a notable issue: Square Enix clearly wanted to make changes, but didn’t want to alter the core plot, which means many of its more elaborate inserts are entirely irrelevant to the story at hand. It reminded me a lot of the filler episodes and movies of popular anime: these diversions can definitely be fun, but nobody in the story will ever really mention them again and nothing about the plot will actually change as a result. If you could somehow skip some of them entirely, you wouldn’t even realize you’d missed anything at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39954442)

Why didn't they just make a shorter game or do the whole disk 1?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39954938)

https://pastebin.com/wdEmjg4P

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39963324)

sounds pretty good tbh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39963335)

https://gfycat.com/franksociableirrawaddydolphin

https://gfycat.com/naivepleasingblowfish

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4500205&forum_id=2#39963398)