Finished my first Final Fantasy game today (FFVII Remake). It was kinda hard to stay silent few days ago when you were discussing it but i couldn't talk about it when i was like 60% through. I played and finished it on Deck in close to 39h (started it back in November and took few breaks before fully committing to it at the start of this month). I kinda have mixed feelings about it. Absolutely the worse thing about the game is pacing, it is awful. Then comes overall linearity of the game. And they did stretch this game a lot for no reason outside making i longer. But i liked characters and story even though there were few issues with that too, for example you finish emotional cutscene and first thing after that is Barret singing that tune of his ruining moment XD Or that story is heavily backloaded (i know i know, they were building things up and then giving you big exposition but in my opinion some things could be better spread out).
Combat is also mixed. For the most part is fine but there are issues like when you are fighting faster moving enemies and camera can be problematic when you are trying to track enemy. Or when game splits your party and you lose party member that you built with specific elemental power that enemy you are fighting is weak at. Switching stances being tied to animations is also issue for me (as far as i noticed you can't switch stances while animation is in progress) so game feel laggy during faster paced encounters.
I have other complaints like side missions, fast travel unlocking basically at the end of the game and then you can basically use it only for one chapter and that it, lack of meaningful choices for an RPG, kinda pointless collectables and mini games... But those are minor compared to what i mentioned before.
As i said i liked story and the characters and i will play Rebirth when it comes to PC but as a complete game it is not as good as others say, it is closer to 8/10 for me just because of the story, gameplay and rest of the game is closer to 7/10. And i am not big JRPG player, closest thing to it i played and finished before was Tales of Arise so take that into the account when you start screaming at me
Combat is also mixed. For the most part is fine but there are issues like when you are fighting faster moving enemies and camera can be problematic when you are trying to track enemy. Or when game splits your party and you lose party member that you built with specific elemental power that enemy you are fighting is weak at. Switching stances being tied to animations is also issue for me (as far as i noticed you can't switch stances while animation is in progress) so game feel laggy during faster paced encounters.
I have other complaints like side missions, fast travel unlocking basically at the end of the game and then you can basically use it only for one chapter and that it, lack of meaningful choices for an RPG, kinda pointless collectables and mini games... But those are minor compared to what i mentioned before.
As i said i liked story and the characters and i will play Rebirth when it comes to PC but as a complete game it is not as good as others say, it is closer to 8/10 for me just because of the story, gameplay and rest of the game is closer to 7/10. And i am not big JRPG player, closest thing to it i played and finished before was Tales of Arise so take that into the account when you start screaming at me