FFVII Remake Is Ruined 

Recently tried Remake for the god-knows-how-many time, and once again gave up and went back to the original, only this time I thought I'd give the 7th Heaven/Tsuna version a go instead, with the voiced characters and improved graphics. Being a die-hard fan since the original launched, I was skeptical about the voice acting greatly improving the experience, but I have to say, it really does. It's by far the best version of FF7 to date. The voice acting is (mostly) great, and the graphics, while not incredible by modern standards, smooths the rougher edges whilst still preserving the charm of the original game. I was grinning from the opening scene to the end credits. Setting it up is only slightly more difficult than downloading it on steam (there's a full video guide), but it's well worth the extra effort. I highly recommend pretending that re-make doesn't exist, and giving this a try instead.

Your jaded cynicism is delightful. The remake has just been a total s---show.

What made me first sigh was how quick we started to see Sepiroth, then the flashback/hint of Aeriths fate and then the thing that broke all immersion for me, the freaking Midgars ghosts of christmas past 😫 I expected some small story changes, much changes of areas and fleshed out characters, not a fan fiction level rewrite of the story 😑

This dude is clearly the exact type of player that square enix wanted to replace when they remade this game lmao. He seems to hate everything he reviews, is clearly drinking that nostalgia kool-aid, and ultimately will be overshadowed by how successful this game is, screaming into the void and ignored for all eternity. This is a grown ass man putting fart noises in his video. That’s crazy

As a man who loves the first three KH games, I understand your criticism. After KH2, Nomura made the story the complete opposite of simple and clean.

I played FFVII for the first time through the remake and I agree with you. By the time it was over I was confused as hell, and pissed that it kept referencing older games I haven’t played. The whole remake builds up to taking down Shinra but in the end Sephiroth steps in (I still don’t who or what the hell is he) and starts a crazy battle with cosmic multiverse bullshit. Nothing about Shinra is resolved.

Aeris being in your party during beta testing is a running thing for FF7 since the 1996 demo.

I wonder how old I'll be when FF7 Remake releases in its entirety.

The icing on the cake here is that Zack is now somehow alive and these inexplicable "whisper" things not only have absolutely no business being in the story, but they exist as a plot device for the writers to do whatever the fuck they want to an already perfectly good story. This isn't a FFVII Remake. It's a bad fan fiction unfolding right before our eyes.

The ending broke me... The time traveling, 4th wall breaking ghosts are unforgivable... It feels like the characters were thrown into a story book and now they've beaten up the author and took his pen. Now the story can be anything.

FF7 was my first ever RPG and it will always have a special place in my heart. I was so excited to play the remake, thinking it could recapture that feeling when i've played the original but it quickly died down not even halfway thru the game. I was so disappointed so i stopped playing it before it gets worse. I've accepted that we wont get a true remake of that beautiful game, not in our lifetime. This game is for the new generation and it pales in comparison to the original even with the polygon graphics.

I'm glad i'm not the only one who feels this way. When Biggs Wedge and Jessie get killed in the original I felt that... I didn't want it to happen but it gives the player an emotional tie to the story. Is Aerith not going to be killed by Sephiroth now? Why not add to the stories and characters rather change things it's almost criminal. FF7 (ps1) is still a game I play to this day, the remake was a reason for me to buy a ps5 but after fighting and defeating Sephiroth in the beginning of this new story what's the point....?

Aerith was in the party in the playable demo of FF7. This is kind of casually known among fans at this point :P

Incorrect those ghosts are in game representations of you. Including hard mode I got over 80 hours of play. Less then a dollar an hour for entertainment. I hope they come out with 100 new games like this. I would gladly buy every single one of them. You mad because you didn’t get to see a man grape Cloud in high def or Aireth being forced to bang a dog? Ff7 original isn’t the perfect game with the rose colored glasses off.

I think you're the sort of person that Kitase and Nomura were poking fun at when they made the concept of the Whispers.

The fact this review which is 100% honest and calls out this awful remake has a dislike ratio to like ratio of 2-1 shows exactly why the world and gaming is in the state it's in. The number of moron shills is too large

So, 2 years later and I finally played FF7R with the Steam release. And you were right.

This review healed my soul It was honestly such a bad thought out game. I'm sick of the FF7 fans on Reddit circle jerking over this game.

You summarized all my feelings about the remake perfectly....

I've become so used to every company i loved and every game franchise i loved being ruined in recent years. we need a collapse of AAA gaming. we need to gatekeep again. thats the reason we are where we are.

I dont think it's a bad game, it just isn't FF7. The only thing that bothers me is the title. They didnt remake Final Fantasy 7. They took elements and characters from FF7 and made a different game. Most of us who actually played the first one when it was released wanted it to be the original story with updated graphics and sound because the title of the fucking game is Final Fatasy 7 Remake. I really dont think that it is out of the question to expect that the game will be the same game with current graphics, given the title.

After watching Kingdom Hearts 3, I decided not to buy any Square Enix games anymore. Seems like it is a good decision.

I think the Aerith thing will be a changeable thing after you unlock her and you can play her in previous chapters most likely.

I totally agree. The lies like "it wouldn't fit on one disc", or " it wouldn't be any good if it was just a one to one remake" are what makes me he most angry. Then they completely changed the story, showed Sephiroth in the first 10 minutes or whatever, and the spooky time ghosts. I already got scammed out of 70 dollars for part one, now I'm not touching rebirth. I can't believe so many people call this game a good remake when it's 90% filler. Also how much money do you think square stole with the "FF7 first solder battle royal". They killed it in less than a year. Squaresoft is dead. "F*ch you, give me money".

The fact that they slapped remake on the title was bad enough but not adding a part 1 was even more gross.

You can't say they're screwing over the fanbase if the fan base mostly enjoys it.

Those "new evil characters" in the yuffie dlc aren't new at all ! They were also bosses in both crisis core for the psp and dirge of Cerberus for PS2

It should be called FF7 Reboot, since they’re gonna change up the story. Also, is part 2 just gonna be endless side missions in Kalm?

I'm going to break things down here since there are so many things wrong with this and, honestly you are just complaining instead of making a compelling argument and for whatever reason... it has really gotten under my skin since so much said here is just... flat out false. It's a long comment (a VERY long comment) so I don't expect you'll actually read all of it. Breakdown below: Nomura being "kicked off" of FF15: Nomura does have some crazy ideas, one famous being he wanted FF15 to be a musical. But him being taken off of FF15 wasn't because of his crazy ideas. It was because he was working on 3 major games at the same time. FF15, FF7R, and KH3. 2 of which he was heavily required to be apart of, FF7R and KH3. Square chose to announce all of these games way before they were ready and they needed something out soon. FF15 had so much engine trouble that it had changed to accommodate the engine so much, Nomura's original vision was no longer in play, so Square decided to have him focus on 2 other already established IPs that required his involvement to complete. Have you ever worked 3 full time jobs? Yeah well that was pretty much Nomura for the majority of 2000-2016. Saying Square kicked him off the project because of his "crazy" is what Kingdom Heart haters say online to sound "cool" Game 1 only being in Midgar: I'll admit, I was shocked too. I thought, how can they turn 6-8 (not 2-3 that you stated since that's what speed runners clock for the Midgar section) into a full 30-40 hour game. I even made a video saying it couldn't be just midgar before they announced it at E3 that year. In truth. about 33% of FF7s over all story dialog takes place in that opening section of the game. That's 1/3 of the overall spoken story in the first 6-8 hours. There is so much to unpack there. In all honesty, if they made the series split into 3rds based on story, the first would literal end when you escape midgar. That's also not to mention the amount they expanded on (which I will elaborate on later). They turned 6-8 hours into a full 30-40 game without much downtime dedicated to travel or mindless mob killing. Then if you wanted to 100% the game it turns into about 80-90 hours long with a Hard mode that actually changes how you need to play the game and presents an actual challenge and not just a "make enemies take more damage." They run different AI, have new attacks, and even have counters for your tried and true tactics. You have to plan out every battle. It's a completely different game. Then you have the extra battle challenges, side quests, different story beats that change based on actions you make in game. What you remember is 2-3 hours (Again these are speed runner times with sequence breaking) and making a huge meaty 40-90 hour game that actuallt delivers the whole time. The added sections of the game like The train graveyard and chapter 13: While I think these were some of the greatest parts of the remake, i get that not everyone liked them and that's okay. Being "Episodic" and "milking": For one, "Episodic" was a mistranslation and everyone knows this so don't purposefully use it cause fear, and secondly this is a terrible argument because if you are complaining about this, then you need to complain about Mass Effect's Trilogy, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Crash Bandicoot, Spiro, Halo, Mario, Legend of Zelda, do you see where I'm going with this? Any sequel falls under your definition of milking, the only difference is you know the whole story before hand. It;s like The Lord of The Rings movies, and the Harry Potter movies. Especially the last Harry potter movie that took the last book and turned it into 2 movies. I guess they were milking it by your definition. And before you go on about the mobile games, they are all free to play with microtransaction built in that don't involve story progression. And hell, even if they did, Ever Crisis is the remake you were claking you wanted at the start of this video soooo are you just complain to complain at this point? "Filler" vs Expanding: These are both different words for the same thing in this game's context. You can't say its exxpanding on something that you liked, but "filler" on something you didn't. This was a 6-8 hour section of the game consisting of 33% of the overall story's dialog expanded to 30-40 hours. That means there is about 24-34 hours of expanded story and gameplay or as you put it "Filler." You can't even say the "Filler" is the train graveyard and chapter 13 because every area in the game was expanded upon. The sewer, Sector 7, hell even the collapsed highway. And it added more gameplay, and world building. Sorry it wasn't "2 screens" as you put it. God forbid you have more areas to explore in the world of a game you claim to love so much. The whispers: I think someone said it best here in the comments. I think the whispers were representing you. Up until chapter 18, I think the game did one hell of a job staying true to the source material. I personally liked the whisper aspect because I like to experience something in a new light, and I loved how they were trying to keep things on track and by beating them I can now fully explore the world of FF7 without it being on rails. Final Fantasy 7 Remake being "Ruined": No, it isn't being ruined. You still have it, you can still by it on PSN and Steam, and xBox, and Switch. It's not going away. The remake isn't even retconning anything. They could have left the whispers out and still (spoilers) brought back Zack, and had Sephiroth kill Barret (end spoilers) and thought would have been an actual retcon. But no, the original FF7 is still intact, it's still accessible, and available to play. They aren't talking it down off of the stores and saying "This is the only way to experience FF7 now" Like some remakes. No, it's all still there. Your nostalgia isn't being attacked. You just don't want things to change. You wanted a 1-1 (at least in story) remake of the OG and they decided to not make the old one obsolete but rather apart of the cannon. The series isn't "ruined" it's progressing. "We all feel this way": flat out false, and I think your like to dislike ratio speaks enough to that. You've managed to make a 13 minute video complaining about things you don't like, and not actually support anything you are saying with any real proof, reasons, or facts beyond "it wasn't like this in the original." You are entitled to have an opinion, but this video was just complaining, you don't compare the OG to the original and explain why you think the OG is better other than "This was 2 screens now its about an hour long with added cut scenes and a sub plot." The majority of people would love more content. I'm not saying you have to like the game, but get your facts right or actually provide adequate example to back your opinion. Because, if you make a claim as bold as "It's Ruined" you better be ready to back it up with some compelling arguments. This video was a complaint session, presented as facts, acting like an opinion. And no, "I'm not in denial" because I can back up my claims and this type of video does more damage and harm to the community than good.

I find it great for the game to go in another direction but not like this. There is a difference between changing the story while being faithful to the original and putting a bunch of flying penises to change the timeline. If anything, it is fine to put Zack in the cast to be more fleshed out as a new character but I think the ending should remain the same as its predecessor, open ended and most likely everyone dies as if that is the fate of the world...collapsing by a fucking meteor as Earth lives another century. FFVII is a reboot, the title isn't lying if there weren't any flying penises

I like the route they took with the Remake. It just makes the original more impactful, relevant and encourages people who haven't played it to do so. It gives people a reason to play the original instead of abandoning it just to play the Remake instead. I think it's just much more exciting to look forward to the unknown which I think are what people are most afraid of.

It's crazy to me. People gave Dirge of Cerberus, Advent Children and Crisis Core (to an extent) so much shit when they were released. Now people are praising this game when it's almost literally the SAME thing. Weiss and Nero returning from Dirge, FFV7R having the same physics as Advent Children, and names mentioned from Crisis Core. It won't be long before we see Genesis again. 🤦‍♂️

Worst remake ever made the original had it face spat in I will not be playing part 2 you have ruined a beloved masterpiece so sad 😞

The “new” enemy in the DLC was in Dirge of Cerberus ☺️

I can't begin to express the disappointment . They took a beloved childhood game and shat on it literally. The only thing I can appreciate are the beautiful graphics. But that's all. They ripped the rest apart and shat on 'em. Please do a vid for Rebirth, so we can all attend the funeral.

As someone who's playing the Remake again I can proudly say that you are 100 percent WRONG about this game and it's concepts. From the characters to the graphics to the story itself this was a waste of a video and you have no clue what you're talking about. I'm looking forward to Rebirth. Have fun being in the minority of people who hate this game!

Giving you an upvote for a good video that gets it almost 100%, but about the whispers, I"m not sure if you meant to say it differently but the whispers are the good guys. They are there to make sure the plot STAYS THE SAME as the original, Red XIII says as much. The problem is the dumbasses directing this game force the player to KILL the whispers/Arbiter of Fate in Chapter 18, thus freeing the devs to fuck up the timeline all they want. They tried to frame the "freedom" to destroy the original story as a good thing to the players, and judging by the reviews of the game, they fucking succeeded. Thank you for an honest review. Unfortunately the damage is done. We were fools to expect anything else from slimy greedy Square Enix, the true embodiment of Shinra Corp

This abomination of a "remake" is a disaster.

"I'm not saying I needed a shot-for-shot remake, but if it's not a shot-for-shot remake, I'm going to whine like a toddler"

They didn't even had the guts to make Avalanche the ones that blew the reactor and killed a lot of people as collateral damage. Instead they gave them some firecrackers and forced Shinra to blow the place up instead. Everything is so spineless compared to the original, truly a shame.

Our best hope for a proper remake is some sort of independently developed game that is funded by the fans. Keep SE out of it.

Well said. What on earth were they thinking? They led us on for half a decade making us think it was a remake, not a "remake". Those fate ghosts completely ruined so many classic moments too.

FF7 is it’s own franchise. More games does not mean it’s bad

No way.... there is no possible way that you could've told me in 1997 that there would be a FF7 remake that has gameplay that looks better than the CGI in Advent Children and that I would be completely uninterested. The remake is beyond egregious for what it does to the legacy of FF7 (which made it the most popular in the franchise's history). Its not as if they were handed a winning formula out of the blue that they didn't know what to do with, THEY HAD the winning formula FOR OVER 2 DECADES! And this is what they chose to do with it.... They had a chance to show 2 WHOLE NEW GENERATIONS why this was (for good reason) the most beloved entry in the series, and fucking it up to this extent is infuriating beyond what words can even describe. The main antagonist of the original is Sephiroth, but the main antagonist of the remake is Tetsuya fucking Nomura.

Sephiroth isnt even supposed to be seen or mentioned until the end of Midgar, Cloud isnt supposed to know he killed Sephiroth, Zack isnt supposed to even exist until a pivotal part of the story. New players wouldn't know any of these things. Why can Capcom make a dedicated remake but Square couldn't

Nomura RUINED this remake. That last section of the game where you're fighting these other worldly creatures literally have me kingdom hearts deja vu. I was so angry and disappointed they went off script in this "remake". all they had to do was follow the story of the original and they couldn't. Zack now being alive destroys the significance of the buster sword and clouds character arc. good job Square Enix for doing such a terrible job

It's basically the idea that has been done for ages now "ILLL MAKE MY OWN FFVII! WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS! ACTUALLY FORGET THE FFVII ILL JUST DO MY OWN THING!" and it's why the instant I heard it would have a new story, I stayed the hell away from it. oh and Square is still using its hallway system of game design that was old in 2001 wit FFX and the reason why Nomura is leaving the Remake is that it was actually a financial loss for Square, they expected double for what they got in sales (it's why they did a "intragrade" shorter game with assets they already had because I don't believe Yuffie and Vincent hadn't been modelled before it and then 2 mobile games based on stuff that is far quicker to do than a full game) He's aware of how badly this has been taken by the fandom, the large majority have been saying since 8 and 9 came out "just remake it like them" and we get this. He knows when something is a stinker and is just cutting ties so he isn't blamed ultimately for its failure. Because the remake fans alone aren't going to be enough to keep that going, they need the tens of millions of fans who have been on this story since 97 to be interested. and I don't think we are.

Really looking forward to you being wrong :). FFVII Remke/Rebirth is far from ruined.

Also, shout outto the 1.7k people that disliked this but didnt watch it

The amount of time this game wastes with useless dialogues and cutscenes is obscene! Most of them are corny or cringe to say the least!

The fact it wasn’t turn based ruined it all for me

I think Aerith being in the first boss fight is after unlocking her and they go back a chapter just how some games you pick specific chapters to play that you beaten in the past with your current stats and skins

The pacing of the train graveyard was horrendous indeed! Here you are rushing to stop a massacre and now you're wasting time with this pointless ghost side story. And after the tragedy unfolds, none of the characters mention that it could have been prevented if they hadn't wasted so much time. They threw in so much filler, yet cut out so much memorable content like escaping from Shinra jail and seeing the blood stains caused by Sephiroth. Instead of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, they should have named it Final Fantasy 7 Retcon. It caused me to lose excitement for the rest of the game.

This game was the biggest disappointment in gaming history and the demo was a huuuuge con. Fuck the new characters, fuck the simulations, Kingdom Hearts plot and I know I already mentioned them but especially fuck Chadley. The fact that the faithful bits and musical score are beyond incredible is just salt in the wound. Can you imagine playing the complete story in 2040? Imagine slogging through x games worth of robot arm / kid hunting / Air-Buster dismantling equivalent filler. I honestly don't think I'll bother playing at all. They literally came back to 7 as they were sinking after years of destroying the franchise with exactly the above bullshit. This is how you fuck up a sure thing, but sadly all the new fans have no idea and will buy it anyway.

Ff7 og to this day is still my favourite ff game, and ive tried to get other people to play it, and i try to get people to steer clear of the remake (atleast until theyve played og) And my biggest hurdle to get over with trying to get people to play ff7 og is "that its dated" or "theres too much reading" Echo-s7 mod for ff7 og pc port has really helped me get more people into this game. Fully voice acted (including every single npc), new rearrangement of music, and so much more. Seriosuly, that mod is slowly becoming the remake we actually wanted

The game doesn't tell you its repetitive and boring... I couldn't get past the part where you have to control the robot arms. Gameplay consists of repetitive combat, running and cutting boxes once in awhile. I'm a die hard fan of the original and this remake is trash and highly disappointing. They turned it into a shitty cringe anime with anime grunts, awkward pauses and all... and it just drags on and on and on with so much bullshit filler. I hate it

When I first played FF7 it was only my older brothers playstation. At first, I was like, "How the hell does this work?" It was new but the story line and everything else about it had me completely enamored. I remember my older brother saying, after about 200 hours playing it for the nth time, "If you spent only a fraction of the time spent playing this game as you do with your school work, you'd graduate collage before high school". It captured my imagination and, quite frankly, I don't know who I'd be without it. It inspired my art work. It inspired me to study mythology. It inspired me to research culture on a level that no academia could. It inspired me to do good in the world and, even as rudimentary as the RPG factor was concerned, to make good choices. To master the shit out of something. To this day, nothing will compare to this story and my intrigue with it. I haven't played the remake and I don't intend to. My impression of it is the same as the dude who made this. Money. Milking. Machine. Introducing so many elements into the game so fast...the whole game is a spoiler alert. Filler content. Watered down. Shallow. Like laying Aerith down in a mud puddle. The first time I saw Sephiroth kick the everlasting shit outta that dragon for the first time, it was like, "Holy F%$#@. This is why I'm going to finish this story to the end. There ain't no gettin off this train we're on!" It dragged me in. I had to know. It left so many things open for my imagination to run away with. I remember my Dad bitching about the game because the dialogue had "Shit" in it. Made me want to play it more. I guess it is a testament to how the late 90's were. To all those who love the game, keep loving it. If you never played the original, you have no idea what you are missing out on and how much you are being cheated now. I had a feeling they would fuck it all up. Any true fan has an idea of what they would like to see in their own mind. For me, I'll play FF7 in my head, like reading a book, which is something the developers and people in charge of the remake have clearly never done. R.I.P. FF7. And thanks dude who made this video. I don't need anyone else to tell me what my Promised Land should be.

And dood, that “sephiroths cousin guy” that’s Weiss from dirge of Cerberus..... .-.

Ppl are still complaining how much remakes story covers? Bro it’s been a year, y’all need to pipe down 😂

you forget the slow walking passages just to make the game seem longer...

Years later and I'm still pissed off about buying remake and trusting SE. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... you can't fool me again! They marketed and sold the game as a faithful remake with expanded side stories. Straight up false advertisement anyone who does not see that is delusional.

I actually got tired of Aerith in FF7R... They just over did it. I think they tried to cram most key events of FF7 in Midgar so they fate could be changed at the end of Midgar. So after they can take the story wherever they like.

Soooooooooooo, you wanted a remaster. I think it is worth pointing out that a "remake" and a "remaster" are two completely different things. But you know what FF7: Evercrisis is coming sometime in the near future. And from what they have shown, THAT, is for all of the whiny fanboys who wanted the exact same game, just not as blocky textures. So if you don't want to accept the fact that they are the ones making the video game and it is their creation, then you can wait another potential 4-5 years. I'm going to enjoy the REMAKE, not REMASTER, of my favorite video game of all time.

I didn't like how they changed the Wall Market scene. It went from Aerith devising a silly, innocent plan in her silly, innocent way to dress Cloud up like a girl so they can trick the guards into letting him through and turned into a huge public gender affirming drag show to appease a man's sexual attraction to you. That made me uncomfortable and it was stupid. Is the Don into men now? How did he not know that this major event just took place in town? Cloud is already a local celebrity from fighting in the colosseum and scores of people just saw him get a makeover. Also the guard at the door seemed to know it was Cloud and yet still lets him in. It just makes no sense.

It’s so funny watching stuff like this after all the information has come out and how wrong people just are about it. We are now aware of the true intentions of Remake and the rest of this story, you don’t like it, then bye, but for the rest of us that aren’t having an aneurysm over how it’s not 1 to 1 the original game, we are gonna enjoy a thrill ride and have fun coming up with theories and enjoy ourselves while people who hate it can sit there and act like babies. It’s okay to not like it, but to actively lie and go out of your way to say crazy off the wall out of pocket shit is just hilarious

I just finished this game and it was as bad as pulling teeth. The endless pointless corridor after corridor, Aerith and Tifa's personality being stripped down to being Cloud fangirls, Barret's useless and irritating yelling, and the combat wasn't anything to write home about. Honestly it was a chore to finish, and i was forced to because I had gone over the 2 hour mark for refunds and thats exactly where it all went to shit. It was bland and boring and should just be called FF7: HALLWAY SIMULATOR. The train graveyard was the WORST yes, like Cloud has a 6 feet sword and you're telling me he can't cut down a flimsy door and I have to go round 4 times just to find a dumbass key???? The story changes completely negates the message of the original game. i felt so guilty disliking this game because fanboys tout it as the BEST FF EVER, FF7R IS A MASTERPIECE, THE COMBAT IS THE BEST IN THE SERIES. Thank YOU so much for this. I feel so much better. (tho i will disagree with you and say FFXV is my favourite-- yes, I'd rather push the Regalia again than play FF7R ever again. And Noct's warping is hella fun hahah)

Entitled to your opinion but I loved every second of this game it couldn't have been long enough and you talking about Marlenes ghost? You know Tifa was stressing about the plate dropping and everyone underneath was gonna die right ? Including Marlene ? You dont get too much but it's ok man keep doing your thing

4:43 Umm, about that. Turns out that Nomura actually wanted the story to be faithfully adapted but the ORIGINAL DIRECTOR requested that it needs to be changed. If you want to vent out your anger, do so with him too. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7YplCqFbDNg.html

i heard that nomura originally wanted to keep the story like the original but kitase came in with "the whispers" idea

I much agree with you. Feel like the remake took advantage of the original to satisfy the FF VII game who much expected the remake. The gameplay was so lacking and having no re-play value whatsoever, the item and magic was so limited and small, the camera was suck, giving me confusion and headache because it was too close, the movement was slow, even sometime the characters move even slower for no reason, the side quests were basically no where, the story telling was confusing and having many plotholes, the graphic was great but there was no scenary in the game to enjoy and the camera made it worse, the battle system was no boring, and no great interract with environment. I felt like fans praising this game because they were hardcore of the original game who had waited for the remake for so long to the point that they accepted this suck remake since it looked beautiful in graphic

The pase for FF7 remake for the train graveyard was horriable for me as well. It litterly make no sense, everyone else Jessie and Big was attack by Shinra and they fill-in this ghost cut scene? for what? to fill up the play time. The ending fighting Sephiroth and a lot extra ghost? and Zack is also coming back a live? it should be called a remake it is more like re imagine or multiverse

I was mocking people who trash on the ff7 remake but I was in chapter 2. Anyway, I sent an apology letter to everyone after I finished the game.

Yeah it's the first 2-3 hours if you run from 80% of the battles and be underleveled as hell😂

The "new kingdom farts character" is a preexisting character named Weiss from Final Fartasy 7: Dirge of Cerberus. He's not going to play into the FF7 story. He might just be used as a mini boss, or pure eye candy...and that's it.

I heard that Nomura did not even know he would be the director of this project before they announced it and has voiced that he is tired of working on old things and wants to do something new. Maybe that is why he screwed us over. Take this with a pinch of salt since it is pure hear-say.

I avoided anything FFvii related because I wanted to try it for myself, and only now I finally got the chance to buy and play the game. It isn’t a game, it’s an interactive movie. And a mediocre one at that.

Ok so you don’t like the episodic? Would you rather have had them take 10-15 years to develop the entire game? I know the answer. No you wouldn’t have.

How dare they add more content to a section of the original game you were done with in 1 or 2 hours... The devils...

I wouldn't say it's bad but I was like why does ff7 feel like.......Kingdom hearts

Square Enix is absolutely disgusting. Thank you for the video, I will cry now because my epic remake will never come.

Squeenix knew what they were selling us, even though what we ended getting was right in the title: REMAKE. That's what pisses me off the most. They hyped it like it was the remaster we all wanted, and then gave us some crappy fanfic "But what if" story instead. The bait and switch makes it dirty and personal.

Episodic was definitely the best choice... By far.

Might as well warn you about the rebirth...It really made want to throw the game out.

I haven't found a single "Remake" of any video game done in the past 5, or maybe 10 years, that actually stuck to the original gameplay and story. You would think instead of changing mechanics, changing the story, etc. they would simply improve upon the graphics and audio. I think that's where the industry is messing up. Instead of calling these games "Remakes" maybe they should call them "Reimagined" or something. I think when people hear that a game is being "remade" they expect pretty much the exact same game, just with better, more recent graphics and audio. Instead we are handed a completely different version of what we were expecting.

Bruh the dislike ratio on this one💀 Eventhough you're making a lot of good points

Star Ocean 2 R and Persona 3 Reload are what TRUE remakes are meant to be FF7R is NOT a true remake and the only people who defend this trash are the Fanboys and the idiots responsible for ruining this franchise to begin with

Nomura leaving being a director of this game is like someone letting out a huge fart in an unventilated room before walking out leaving everyone in there to deal with the smell and trying to mask it with Febreeze. Sorry for that image. 😂

Thank you so much for making this, can’t believe how many videos I watched of people totally missing the point. All these arguments of people “oh you just don’t like that they changed the content” no a$$holes, I’m fine with changing the content if it’s good, jessy info add was sick. I was even down with the plot twist at the begging reactor blow. But the rest is a dumpster fire. The fact that a whole section of the game is the director expressing his agitation that the fans want him to stick to the story and representing them by fates. Dude stfu the reason fans are excited about a ff7 remake is because they love ff7. If you want to create a new story go do it, but don’t call it a remake. That’s like selling concert tickets from one of the most popular bands of all time, but when the fans show up all you play is a remix. You don’t sell a remake of the lion king where you don’t kill mustafa. One of the best selling games, heart reaching stories, thought provoking, they had a perfect formula they had to just not fuck it up. On the plus side, fighting was good, graphics were nice update. Glad they kept as much music as they did. All story parts that they kept were cool. Downsides: Barrett and arise voice acting was pretty cringe. Changing awesome plot elements into bad ones, instead of creating new areas in midgar to explore endless grinding for ghost babies and shinra tower, these damn repeating saving party member x moments as they are about to fall. Lol man way too much anger to even articulate it all. I wish I could sit with their creative board and just filter all the bad ideas, it’s not rocket science.

This video was so good, I laughed really hard at the jokes.

>Remember when we were all hyped for Final Fantasy remake No. I remember us actual fans praying they leave FF7 alone.

You do realize this isn’t just a remake but a sorta sequel/alternate timeline where aerith and sephiroth are aware of the events that are about to occur and try to defy fate and evidence of this are in the descriptions of the spirits the events of the original are still cannon but the is a break off from the original cannon hence a timeline split plus if you truly want a remake of the original they are still doing that lmao

100% agree. Thank you for hitting the nail right on the head. It's good to know I'm not the only one saying all of this.

I've never liked Nomura and Never will as a game developer or whatever. I liked the remake but I'm still skeptical and they may just screw it by milking it heavy.

Had to watch this again when I saw the new trailer for FF7 Rebirth. The new story is utter garbage. I wish we could've had the original story. Guess it's back to the original.

This was one of the biggest disappointments in my gaming life.

Wtf is up with Square enix and ruined plots with time travel bs?

Disgrace and shame on those who downvoted this video.

yeah bro this video is a straight up L lmao you completely missed the point

Just finished FF7 remake last night. Yhea i know I am late to the party. But i had heard so many thing about it and I was fearfull, and I was right to be.... While the combat, music and graphics are all incredibly great, the writing is abysmal. What a slap in the face this is... No consequence at all.. everybody live, the whispers will appears to save the day anytime the writers paint themselves into a corner for the chock value... When Sephiroth impale Barret, a ghost just flew into him to repair the cheap chock value they just freely throw at us. Because it will look good in the trailer... That reminded me of Chewbacca in ep 9 exploding, only to realise 5 min later that he was indeed in a offscreen ship safe and sound the whole time... The end of that game remind me a lot of ep.9... Somehow, Palpatine return... Somehow, Sephiroth is here throwing criptics lines.. The fucking whispers idea is the laziest excuse to 'fix' what the 'fans' have been screaming for 25 years : ''We need to save Aerith''.... Aside for a few people who never had to deal with loss, conquer it and getting over it, who are those 'fans' ? Failure should be part of the journey... it make the dramatic tone so much more real. But NO... in 2023, for this new generation, we cannot kill innocent people. Lets evacuate the sector seven before the plate goes down... lets say Bigg survive somehow... and maybe even Jessie... well NOBODY DIE... are you happy now? I promise you, they will save Aerith somehow... because nowaday, heroes does not fail... the MCU told us that. They just smirk with a witty comment while fighting the monster, and conquer it all. Lazy writing will always want to go for the over the top cliché and cheap chock value while disregarding the natural arc progression of their character. Look at games of throne. When the directors ran out of good writting (abooks), they immediately rushed into plot armor heroes and 'subvert ou expectation' with cheap chock value.. FF7 remake did the exact same thing. This game is not for new players... it has too many weird ff7 OG reference... This game is not for OG fan either... it literally spit in their face telling us how bad the OG script was... Whos is this for then? They do their own thing despite calling it 'REMAKE'... That whole last part of the game is just nonsense throwing on top of more non sense. I just wanted a prettier retelling of an epic story... and for a good part of the game i was hopeful. The combat system is excellent, the music, incredible and the graphics are insane.... I could have excuse the borings part and the excessive padding... but that ending is just the last straw.. OMG, what a deception! I dont know how they will continue the adventure, but they can do whatever they want with this title... it is no longer ff7... It is just the laziest writing context and throwing as many cool frame in the shot as possible no matter how little sense it make.

So I really hate the argument that the Midgar section is 2 to 3 hours. Even rushing as quickly as you can through everything in Midgar is eight hours. 8 hours of a 22 hour game. It also has over 30% of the total dialogue in the game of the OG. So whether you like it or not, Midgar is about 1/3 of the total Final Fantasy VII experience, and since there are three games total, it makes sense.