I just got it 50% off on steam. For a second I was regretting my buy until you said it’s ok to wait for a sale.

As an avid final fantasy fan who lost large chunks of his life to the original version and a fairly large chunk with this version I agree, the game is great, but its not the complete package. the extensions to characters backstories did make up for this some but I am very much looking forward to having the complete trilogy as one package.

Thank you for the review Lone Wolf, having just finished Baldurs Gate 3 I needed a new game and this is on sale at the moment for half off so I pulled the trigger. Goof review, very well done, informative, helpful d entertaining. I'll be checking out your channel further. And yes, sub. Thanks!

@lonewolfex

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, much appreciated! I'm definitely going to keep following up with the FFVII games, and I'm planning on reviewing Crisis Core Remake on the day Rebirth comes out. But uh... sidenote, maaaybe don't watch my Baldur's Gate 3 video. I was very critical and people really didn't like that. ^-^;; Upside, speaking of fantasy RPGs, I just did God of War Ragnarök Valhalla, so there's that.

Subscribed, really enjoyed the video. This channel deserves more subs!!! I've only played and finished the remake once, but I feel Square Enix just wanted to pad out the old balance sheet by splitting the game up into three bits. I'm a big fan of the original game and I've always seen the Midgar section as a tutorial section, You defeat ShinRa and then you learn about the true enemy of the game. Anyways, just wanted to say I really enjoyed the video.

@lonewolfex

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I had a debate with my buddy McFly after I reviewed it. The original game came out on 3 discs, and so now it seems as though theyre remaking one disc at a time. Problem is, when you bought the original, you got all 3 at once. Now we have to pay the full price of the game 3 times.

@lonewolfex

Жыл бұрын

Super appreciate your subscription, welcome to the pack! If you actually think I should have more subs, pleeeaase share my stuff around. I'd love to do this full time eventually and a fanbase is the best marketing I could ask for.

It's nice to see a review that doesn't outright shit on the game. Most of the reviews I've seen are OG fanbois that just CANNOT let go of the past and just let themselves enjoy the game

@PGIAHousing

4 ай бұрын

That said, there's no way they're fitting all that into one game. Would be like....400gb of game and like $200+ and that would be insane

@henriklarssen1331

3 ай бұрын

Iam one of them, but how iam supposed to enjoy anything in this Game? it pretty much shits on the legend that is FF7 with all the changes, and comes with all the bad gameplay changes that came from all the awfull FF Games after 10. Combined with the disgusting padding to fill the game time and wanting the Player to pay 3 fucking times to get the whole Game. There is realy nothing to like here if you arent hardcore into the newer JRPGs, which iam not.

@PGIAHousing

3 ай бұрын

@@henriklarssen1331 Easy solution. Don't play it

@henriklarssen1331

3 ай бұрын

@@PGIAHousing Dont worry i never will. Why would any FF7 Fan do that to themself?

@PGIAHousing

3 ай бұрын

@@henriklarssen1331 Maybe this is something you never learned, but your tastes, experiences and what you like and don't like are irrelevant to literally everyone else

Really well made good sir! I'm just wondering how you have Xbox key prompts, I'm using a series x controller but still don't get them :/

@lonewolfex

7 ай бұрын

I can't explain why you don't have the prompts, but I can tell you that I was using a wired Xbox One SCUFF controller. Maybe it's a firmware problem with newer controller variants, I'm not sure.

Thank you. I've been postponed to buy this game. 😅

@lonewolfex

Жыл бұрын

I'd say wait until the reviews for Rebirth come out and we see how much of the game has been remade overall. In the meantime, Crisis Core Remake seems good if you want to wet your appetite.

Speaking to your last point about how the game ends at point 7 of 30, while you go to many more locations in the OG FF7, the game’s script plot wise actually is heavily front loaded in the midgar section, which houses about a third of all the dialogue in the game. How they end up pacing the next two titles is up in the air, but I don’t think where the game ends compared to the original is as much of an issue as you may think it is (at least right now, since the other two games could always end up not going through everything thoroughly enough)

1:14 dude can destroy massive machines and slay monsters with that sword. He can also climb stuff and ride on top of trains. But….somehow a fence with some tape is an impassable obstacle. Video game logic. 😂😂

i kinda liked the game being solely focused on midgar as to me it felt like there wasnt enough of it in the original game

God of war does this with its looting too. I spend more time exploring an area to the best of my ability at that point in the game before continuing on whatever quest I’m on. Extremely time consuming.

I apsolutely loved this game. After my replay including dlc. Its my favorite game ive ever played.

@lonewolfex

Жыл бұрын

Based

@SnuSnu91

6 ай бұрын

Same here - one of the best games I've ever played.

@briansilva4165

5 ай бұрын

Quite possibly the best game ever existed. Where have I heard that before? lol. But seriously what other game has everything in one game, excellent story, great music, good combat, looks great. Most games will have one or two of those. Like I tried to replay last of us after playing this and it felt so slow and story not as deep as FF

@henriklarssen1331

3 ай бұрын

Such a medicore Game like every other FF that came out after 10. You people realy have such low standards.

@SnuSnu91

3 ай бұрын

@@henriklarssen1331 get outta here

I'm 16 hours in, it's a great game! I mean, the music in the original is still much better in certain segments, but some of the new renditions hit harder elsewhere.

The combat was fine the problem is the ai targeting only the person you control. Its super annoying and forces playstyles and forces you to use the quick menu instead of being able to actually enjoy the character you want.

@lonewolfex

5 ай бұрын

I understand the complaint, but at the same time, the enemy AI only targeting the player-controlled character means that you can manipulate enemies by drawing their aggro away from the character you want to control or keep safe at will. Say if you mostly want to play as Cloud, and you start getting rushed down in a way thats preventing you from channeling a given ability, you can swap to Tifa just to get the enemy to look at her instead before swapping back to Cloud. You could argue it's lazier, but it also gives you more control over the pace of the fight.

@NoxLegend1

5 ай бұрын

@@lonewolfex I mean them giving me a solution to a problem they created isn't exactly anything interesting or a cool gameplay mechanic. It funnels you into doing exactly that which is limiting your playstyle and as you said that is the way the game is meant to be played. By playing against the ai targeting. That is what the complaint is about. That is not fun because it means you have to constantly play hotseat or tank with cloud. Its not lazier its more tedious because it becomes a game of menus and buttons and you are focused on the menu selection rather than the gameplay you don't even really look at your characters if you are trying to be efficient or on hard mode/underleveled/challenge runs. You also have no time to enjoy or view combat because the longer you stay on one character in thier animation the faster you will be targeted or manipulated. So you essentially cannot cast 3rd level spells while in control of a character or you will be interrupted. The worst offender and an easy example is Sephiroth and Bahamut who's entire gimmick is that they have like a 0.4 second targeting time and many other bosses have this. You can experience it yourself by just cycling through characters and watch their head spin tracking each character you switch to and the second part of their gimmick is they have almost immediate atb refill so you can easily see this poor aspect of the combat system in action by them firing at whoever the targeting was landed on while you were cycling. This is noticeable on normal or easy in most cases out of boss fights in that since you just tank the damage you never really think of it. It's just bad design and like you said "being good" or "being efficient" means playing hotseat knowing that the ai will target the last person you controlled before their atb is filled. I don't think its a cool minigame. It's like playing in reverse. Instead of playing different builds or trying new playstyles the game wants you to just manipulate the ai targeting. For example if you had non weighted targeting then you could play as a healer and designate your tank build to front line. But you cannot play as a healer because you are always the tank no matter what you do. Less player agency and a basic enemy ai gimmick just ruins this otherwise interesting combat system. It comes down to having no ai in your party because they did not want to build any ai functions for your party members and/or more complex ai for the enemy. So their way around having to do this was essentially make the enemy only target you and so your party memebers rarely take damage but they also just stand theere mindlessly.

@Judasz696

3 ай бұрын

@@NoxLegend1 thx. Saved me 70$.

I would easily pay 70usd for each of the 3 games. This isnt a third of a game. The og was 3 disks. The point was to make this one 3 games and flesh out argueably the best rpg in history.

@lonewolfex

Жыл бұрын

True, but you bought all 3 discs as a single unit. I agree that the game's quality is worth the $70, but it isn't worth it if you wanted an actual remake of the full game rather than a reimagining. And in fairness, the creator did announce that the games would be releasing like that in a press release, but few casual fans will know that; so calling it FFVII Remake when you get less than a 3rd of the game remade will leave people disappointed.

@rodrigonogueira9375

10 ай бұрын

i mean, i feel like most people that are buying the remake of a 1997 game have played the original and are more on the loop than most other consumers, so i doubt there's a significant portion of ff7 fans that did not realize its not the full game before release. And for those playing ff7 for the first time through the remake, its kinda like an infinity war situation, most people who went to see that movie didnt know it was the first part of a duology of movies, but since it was really good, the movie ending on a cliffhanger created excitement for the next part rather than disapointment for having to go watch the next one. @@lonewolfex

I keeeeeeeep trying to get into this game, but in my opinion if they kept the graphics the way it is with the old turn based fighting style, it would have done better...if i wanted to play Kindom Hearts, i'd just play Kingdom Hearts. Original wins hands down still :/

Not as fun as tales of arise for example but its a good game quality wise and battle system is fun, has some good nostalgia moments. But as a remake its a mixed bag as some die hard fans hated the changes. I can see why some didn’t likenthe changes they did, me personally i was kinda let dowm but as a game its prety good i did enjoy it for the most part. Dungeons were kinda too long tho and ending was weird and different but good game

Warning: SPOILERS I genuinely don't understand why people think this isn't a complete game. When you think about the lore, it makes more sense to make it a somewhat episodic experience. This isn't just a remake but also a sequel to the original game. They're alternating the story by defeating the whispers, who are trying to prevent them from making different decisions and actions than they made in the original timeline. Either this means we're gonna get to make choices, like in Life Is Strange, or the story is going to be much different than the original. And based on how players review each game, Square Enix will take the feedback and make the next game better in some way. Rebirth is going to be an open world experience, which that was one of the main criticisms of FF7R was that its not open world like the original. If they took everything from the original game, and squeeze it all into one or two discs and call it good, not only would it take literally years because the story is so long, it would be over 300+ gigabytes which is insane. It wouldn't do this game justice. I'm glad they separated it into longer parts and putting time into the quality of the games. This is a complete game, its just not the full story. Just like any game series with sequels.

Play it at 60fps. It's another level of awesome.

@lonewolfex

5 ай бұрын

I did, and it was!

so ur answer is to wait 10+ years to be all finished when u just played it now. Got it thanks great review.

@lonewolfex

8 ай бұрын

If the entire 26-minute review only existed between 24:27 and 24:52, and the scores didn't exist, then yes. If you came here wanting a full remake of Final Fantasy 7, we haven't gotten that yet, so I don't recommend the game on that principle. You do, however, get the same amount of game to play time-wise, despite only making it a 3rd of the way through the story, and that game is very good; so you can do with that information what you want.

@AttractiveOtaku

8 ай бұрын

@@lonewolfex So because they wanted to expand the entire universe of a game that already was incomplete to begin with its not worth playing and u gotta wait 10 years got it.

@dewinter1411

5 ай бұрын

@@AttractiveOtakuwell, if you want to play the entire story from start to finish, yeah by all means, wait. I don’t like episodic releases either, but im not going to wait to play. The game is very long and filled with stuff to do. I guess I don’t see the difference between this and other series that are trilogies that tell one part of the bigger story in one game. As long as the game is complete and filled with content, it’s alright. If it were only 10 hours, yeah, I’d feel cheated.

Tifa's fall can be avoided. Jump to the side, not front.

I beat ff 7 remake again on my pro and just got a five so wondering if intergrade is worth it

@lonewolfex

9 ай бұрын

If you dont mind the chore of having to beat it for a 3rd time, then I would say it is. Intergrade changes the entire endgame by adding additional challenge mode simulations, along with the hardest boss in the game that can only be fought on hard mode. And the Fort Condor autochess thing that I played too much of. Lol Besides, the devs are effectively making Yuffie a main character instead of an optional one, so it would probably be good for you to get her part of the story before Rebirth comes out.

@ImarBenIsrael

9 ай бұрын

@@lonewolfex dope

@anvy1231

2 ай бұрын

@@ImarBenIsraelI have the same question. Did you play it?

@ImarBenIsrael

2 ай бұрын

@anvy1231 I beat remake . Skipped intergrade and I'm at nibel region I'm rebirth while mainly doin all content up to that point .

The story is top notch, the gameplay mechanics is ok because this is a Japanese RPG game which I called semi turn based game.. but the world design & this is basically not a full open world game is somehow what I hate about this game.. 😅

@lonewolfex

3 ай бұрын

Not to be a shill, but if the thing you like least about Remake is that they didn't make it properly open world, then I think you'll probably love Rebirth. Which I just so happened to reupload my review on today - kzread.info/dash/bejne/fmllw8mRfZvVkdI.html

Don = Tate 😂 I’m dead

@lonewolfex

Жыл бұрын

Evades police about the same too

Combat systeem completely ruined this game for me 🤷🏾‍♂️

@lonewolfex

Жыл бұрын

If you were hoping for a more faithful remake of the original with turn based combat, I completely understand that.

@rommyremus9650

5 ай бұрын

I HATE hack n slash games. For the first time in my life, I'm not getting the newest final fantasy numbered release. I was weary of this fighting system because of my hate, but I felt they did an amazing job of blending the ATB bar into the hack n slash to keep the strategy in there. You can't just mash bottoms like an automaton. I was relieved because I really really wanted to play this game. I'll never play 16 sadly

What 9/10? This is one of the worst game I've ever played and is the worst RPG I've ever played by far... I never play the original and tough I would play this one since the graphic are a lot better and I also prefer the type of gameplay but the story is poorly explain they change it to make more boring and the're is too much freaking cutscene for no reason. Seriously this game is a mistake.

@lonewolfex

28 күн бұрын

If this is the worst RPG you've ever played, then I envy you.

The game isn’t that great tbh.

It's a decent action adventure but a poor action RPG

This game was dogshit. A disgrace to the original. Movement taken away moments, enemy encounters, slow movement induced, a small section of game from the original blown out into a full $70 game, etc etc etc. The list is too long. I regret buying this game full priced.

@lonewolfex

11 ай бұрын

Except that the remake was created by the same three original writers/directors/character designers heading the project almost exactly as they headed the first one. Whether we like it or not, it isn't a disgrace to the original, it's what the original creators wished the original could have been.