Reviews

Where do I start, this game, scoring it a 7/our of 10, in general is ok, but what carries the game is the in story telling, story and events that happens even with various flaws that for me were annoying. Played 45 hours in normal difficulty, used one third of my stuff to the end.

WARNING SPOILERS

I loved both games, the original and this one, Final Fantasy 7 remake starts straight out expanding and detailing the story of the original FF7, each sector have its details giving you side-quest by making you spending more time in each sector. At first the story borderlines square enix bad habit of the games of Kingdom Hearts and FF13> specially part 2 in FF13, and 3 of Kingdom Hearts not because of story information or lore, is because bad story telling, to the point in those games they like to make a mess, make a giant monotonous mess and never condenses the story so that it has a better story telling. Is like someone not edited a 1000 page story book. But it didnt went that far, the storie even longer creates cool scenes, gives more details on our guys, wedge, biggs, and specially Jesse plus our regular cool characters Barret, Aerith and Tifa in which at their own mechanics they to have cool combos and weapon mechanics.. But here is the issue that im seeing and depending on how they write it, apart from the new characters that are introduced, they introduced this type of spirits/ghosts called whispers, new, not much details with the exception they intervene as if the future is already written, like the if they make something connecting to the ancients/cetra but they are written as spirits that makes sure the future stays as it should, like the movie the adjustment bureau with Matt Damon if you seen it, meaning more extra leg work but giving an excuse to write whatever is comming in the next part of the game or the future of the game, but who knows what conspiracy theory might come true. Spoiler alert, it ends at Midgar after the bike scene of the original FF7 original as that is just one third of disk one when you get to meet the world before hitting the chocobo ranch. Another spoiler with a theory, for the Original FF7 end of disk one, probably the second part of Remake might end up killing a certain girl that you meet in the end of FF7-2 might mix it up with the whispers? Pushing you to do something unless the whispers are the spirits that make you do stuff, like scenes in the original that cloud starts doing stuff without the control of the player. Many theories how this might go.... Either way, the story almost goes with the same flow with FF7 original but adding more in between as in the original those who get killed don't survive but that s the mystery, as here some survive but the whispers intervene as if those spirits seen how the original ends. And the thing is Biggs survive and Wedge survive, Jesse supposedly die in front of us, but those moment are also guided by the whispers, as later on the spirits even they dont show it, apparently Wedge is pushed out through the windows of the Shinra Building and killed, if the whispers make him live so he served a purpose and then we are done with you, kill. YOu end the game and give you the option of hard mode with all that you got through your first run.

But the story caries the game greatly, same with most of the soundtrack, some even similar to the music i hear like, Immediate Music, two steps from hell, positron, Ivan Torrent, etc etc. As to some, well, not so so...

Battle system and mechanics, i dont have a comparison, i haven't played Final Fantasy 15 but some aspects are just plain annoying, specially the camera in some instances, sometimes at random it unlocks, when it locks and depending on the level or scene, it hits the 3D model box environment and doesn't move or sends some enemy too close to one side of the screen or when there's a mob attacking you and a some rare instance the locked enemy is not in the screen and i have to sometimes unlock and re-lock to see if the camera readjusted as mostly do, the camera doesn't adjust to be able to see further away and the options, tried them all, the only difference is a few 3 feet of distance.

The battle system was meh, also sometimes annoying too, as all statues that served as stop, time, or something that prevents you of moving did have status markers in the User interface, but other enemy attacks didn't so various monsters specially if they were in a group shocked you in a way without leaving a status marker, and sometimes it took turns, your controlled character and it wouldnt move for a minute or two, of course i could switch in to another character but another thing was the AI was sometimes incompetent making battles like 3vs enemy to 1 vs. enemy, they just stood there sometimes delaying their attack for almost two minutes in one where you fight the failed experiments in the basement where tiffa had a mob of 3 hitting her and she was looking at something else, or in another place Barret started to spin uncontrollably doing nothing. Still manageable. And by switching character in battle sometimes you could exploit it if you had the time, as it seems all enemies specially bosses are programmed to have a priority system? to attack controlled characters and not your companions in most cases, when you switched in time and mostly in half life is that you do it to avoid damage, the enemy switched to attack your switched character giving you time to heal the last character you used.

Now as to battles in general, mostly worth it, and some, way too long and annoying that you just was to beat it and continue with the story. Some are worth it because it flows, even in moment if you really take a beating and get handed and that victory is really worth it in which they should concentrate more in future games.

Minigames are average, some are plain annoying with with some level design that become another long minigame of moving that you sometimes sense the game trying to stretch the game even more and pushes you to stay on that level longer even when you see visually and some cases that both Tifa and Cloud are athletic plus they jump very high capable of skipping some section of the pathways but no, the game pushes you to go to that patch so you hit more time doing nothing, instead of adding to the levels more things to do that are interesting or more to the story. But once again when you hit more to the story and things to do in the story after bad moments, it carries you again in which

Visuals - 10 Sound/Music - 9 Mechanics - 6 Replay - Average Story - 9 Gameplay in general - 7

A game worth it, some might not like it and some , YES.

Even i got it to an eight, i might given it a 6 as in above average show. I just was entertained. The show sets like in today's world, as we cannot deny that some people today are corrupt and some are shady, but here they crank it to almost 100% corrupt, each protagonist have its own dirty little secret to the point of killing their own cops, each one of them is given a role of problems, sociopath, corrupt, dirty, lazy, stubborn in a bad way, not beign true to one self, empty, and many many more. But follows the dirtiest player alive (not rick flair), a corrupt corrupt cop that is way over his hard head to the point of obsession with everything, even not seeing his own faults, his own problems, his own errors in parenthood and all of it comes back to his obsession of power and freedom. And the whole series is like an onion, little by little you peal it until you end up with nothing, well almost nothing if you get to season seven in which in reality is another fantasy unless something in real life ends up someone winning out of it but thats way way far of an idea, but wont deny it. But in the end, he is the same vick, the same hard headed cop that just want to act the hero, repeat his own denials, and many other problems and not facing his mistakes.

The characters were interesting for me, fun in the sense of playing a game. Also some other higher profile actors were in the series probably to push ratings up again? Also we got Saw Gerrera before he turned in to a insane radical rebel shouting "Lies, Deceptions." and inhaling the air juice because he couldn't capture vick's in his lies and deceptions. It fits the timeline with the shield and star wars: rogue one.

As why if i would give it a six out of ten, the script could have been polished a little bit more but also in the same time it fits in with the idea of this world. Maybe is in purpose but in some episodes could have done a little bit better, but cant complain, at least i was entertained.

As episode one went down the route of explaining some details through out the time of the romulan super nova and giving various easter eggs, this episode add more details to it, of course, some of the dialogue could have been condensed and taken less time from the episode, also some scenes were not necesary, by her, the android twin just smiling at the romulan at the end if episode one it was clear that she was banging the romulan, the series up to now needs some of the pacing of the Mandalorian. I like the episode since it takes another route to new stuff, new events, new characters, ... here some spoilers... after the romulan star system was destroyed their homeworld, the federation, a fleet lead by Picard, he tried to help them by going his own principles and what the federation should stant for... something we loved in TNG from him... but once again starfleet started to split in half on how those resources were managed and dealt with species that weren't so kind in the past to the federation , and when someone hijacked the sysntetics that have parts from Data and designs of Nooniang, they were programmed to destroy utopia planitia hindering part of starfleet's production of new ships, this might be the Romulans doing or someone new, Why romulans? Romulans were always in a cold war with the Federation after a few wars against the humans, even after the Dominion things were still cold, same thing in the federation, some never had the same ideals and agendas, romulans were also split on the idea of warming up with the humans after various times the humans... specially Picard helped them in various internal conflicts and events, like in the movies and the books. The events on mars triggered the higher ups to cut ties and anything related to helping the Romulans was out... giving an excuse and say byebye, some were furious and others were at least grateful that they were helped like for example the TalShiar that are living on Picard's vineyard in which they help him in this episode to figure out some of the investigation Picard is doing behind Starfleet's back in which reveals everything was swept and reveals an older order/kabal similar to the Talshiar called "YakVash" or whatever the name is, keeper of secrets of the dead.

Picard was obviously forced in to retirement/pushed away back then and you could see it when he talked with the Admiral, she had a strong position on another agenda when Picard was still in command, he tried to explain the situation but denied his request of a small recon vessel and also slammed him with another excuse because of his condition, mentioned in TNG when Q was sending him to solve the anomaly and in the future self he learned of his condition, in which he gives a slight reminder to the doctor that served with Picard before the Enterprise D and talks of ...he was reminded to him that he knew this condition of his brain was going to catch up with him in the future.

As for the borg cube, more scenes are shown in this episode, it seems the romulans are in complete charge of the dissection of the borg cube, for tech and research and who knows what else, and probable theory is they want the tech to once again regain their superiority they had before. The drones are dismantled, probably making them part of the workforce but the series aren't yet going in to details about the complete plan and story of it as it might fall with 7of9 helping picard to figure it further and explaining it, also other scenes that show a varied compliment workforce under the romulans control, humans, other romulans, other species that i dint remember the names, there's at least 8 different species i could see. But no one else know about this place with the exception of the romulan spy that works under the vulcan commodore in star fleet, as this could explain who was pulling the strings for the romulan insurgents from episode one and the clean up of evidence and giving red flags when the Admiral mentioned the YakVash to her, but here clearly something dark is wandering under starfleet in which history repeats itself as it has in other series of star trek.

This is another filler/side-quest episode that doesn't align itself from the main plot but it throws jabs at other Star Wars movies making fun of them, the episode just follows Mando through some interesting points of his travels with the baby around the galaxy. Now, I liked it and loved it, I had fun with it, seeing some new stuff, seeing xwings even for a tiny bit and I easily set aside the flaws of deviation and some obvious plot route that the episode takes, even i was thinking this could go another way that would connect to the next episode involving the baby. The episode starts with Mando getting called for a job, teaming up with some scummy mercs, they are hired to do a prison break on a Republic Prison Ship for one target. As they go, infiltrate the ship, the story slowly develops to the point that the baby would be in obviously in danger when the pilot robot finds out about the baby and the guild history, the mercs also try to betray Mando but from there, things go south , One side, mando escapes and messes with them by taking care of one by one while baby yoda have to deal with the droid. Because death is to easy, as of why you serve them alive, then end sets it up for a possible return of one of them.