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Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Review - I Fie, Yufie | WGTC

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade ushers in the definitive version of one of the best role-playing games ever made.

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ScootaKuH1053d ago

Am I the only one who hates the combat in this game? I think the game itself is excellent but for me the combat is nasty. It's really killing the experience for me. Also some of the battles seem really unbalanced. Might just be me, but if the second instalment uses the same system I might well give it a miss

Give me back the old turn based combat!

Teflon021053d ago

You just seem like you can't accept change. The combat system is perfectly fine. Only thing I'll say is bad about it is the dodge roll. You have to use the counter dodge or its pointless to dodge. Otherwise it's about thinking. It's pretty similar when you're playing right. Also, while some fights are harder than others. It's mainly about strategy. It's like the 2 wolf fight at the beginning of Yuffies dlc. Most lose that fight the first go or few because it's not a normal fight you can get away with spamming. You're suppose to use your skills and such. Once you do it goes from being a unfair fight to easy

ScootaKuH1053d ago (Edited 1052d ago )

Of course I can accept change. I make no secret of the fact that I prefer turn based systems but real time combat is fine where it fits.

For me the remake looks and sounds the part but it just doesn't feel right. I've played plenty of games where real time combat works but for me it doesn't gel here. I know a lot of people like it and that's OK, but for me it doesn't work in this game. Shame because as a reimagining it really is good. If they keep this system for part 2 then fine, but I do hope they offer a proper turn based alternative

CrimsonWing691053d ago

As a turn based combat fan this is absolutely the best of both worlds. You still can slow down time to choose what you want or go all out in real-time. In my opinion this is the battle scheme that needs to be adopted in all future entries.

Unfortunately, FF16 looks like they’re going the Devil May Cry route..,

NukeDaHippies1053d ago (Edited 1053d ago )

It's ok, but it no turns based combat. My issue is it's kinda phoney at times too. Anything with a dumb stagger bar is usually a bunch of BS. Every time a boss's phase shifts the stagger bar goes back down in a feeble attempt to stop you from stomping the boss in 2 seconds. I REALLY hate when I work so hard to get that stupid bar up just for it to be forced back down to nothing cus I damaged it too much to get it up in the first place.

I think it at least has enough depth, nuances, and customization to have fun with, especially with how different the characters play. But boy is it cringy to see how hard they deny turn-based combat, despite how much they milk their legacy games WITH turn-based combat. Persona 5 is living proof it's still king.

ScootaKuH1053d ago

I agree, and funny enough I was thinking of the Persona games, and even Yakuza Like a Dragon for proof of how well turn based still works

NukeDaHippies1052d ago

I dunno weather this is for the yuffie part or intergrade as a whole. Either way a 10 is a major stretch. Yuffie dlc is a 6 at BEST. It's the most nothing story that ever was, with yuffie herself being the only good part....and fort condor? But it's still such a stupidly/poorly written side story, much like the side quests/storiesin the main game.

As for the main game I'd maybe give that an 8 or 7? Has a lot of pros which are often met with cons. Characters are faithfully written (mostly), combat is enjoyable even if it still pales to turn-based combat, there's a lot of customization, goofy minigames like the original, and when it's a faithfully remixed FF7 it's great.

But, Side Missions and most added story segments are terrible (looking at you jessie biggs and wedge side story). Many areas/parts of the game feel extremely stretched out even to newcomers, to the point where it messes with the pace of the story. An example being when your party needs to be somewhere in a hurry, but you spend an hour and a half in some dumb train yard that was cute for about 10 mins. More often then not there is too much fluff added to important scenes that need to be more focused.

Music is hit or miss, while there are some new themes added in that are cool, there's a lot of moments as a returning fan, i expect a rendition of an old song that was really memorable. Instead, I often found that it was replaced by a worse version or just a much more boring song. There are collectible remixes of old songs around the game, but it almost always makes you realize that the originals soundtrack had so much more personality

Possibly the greatest failure of this "REMAKE" is it's not a remake that stands on its own. Knowledge of the previous games are REQUIRED to understand end-game revelations. In which are convoluted, and disappointingly stupid. I'm looking forward to the second game, but some foundations that have been layed story-wise is terrifying, especially with their inability to write good original content for FF7. At least 80% of the newly added story was not good, but there was a some decent wholly original parts that give me some hope for the future.

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Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy vs Final Fantasy VII Original Story Comparison: Which Is Better?

Twisted Voxel: "We compare the story in the original Final Fantasy VII and the new Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy."

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The creation of a real-life Final Fantasy VII Buster Sword

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Final Fantasy VII Remake Cutscenes Changed With New Patch, Comparison Inside

A new patch for Square Enix's action role-playing game, Final Fantasy VII Remake, has brought changes to certain cutscenes.

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Sgt_Slaughter87d ago

If you can't go without breasts in a cutscene, you need help

Rebel_Scum87d ago

Should’ve ended that sentence with either “you maggot” or “you puke” Sarge

Barlos87d ago

Well bloody hell, I guess I need committing then. Stick me in a padded cell

Eonjay87d ago

People need serious help if you 'need' to stare at a minors breasts. And some of you admitted that so at least we have acknowledgement. Can we not sexualize children? It shouldn't be considered progressive. I think the mass majority of people regardless of political view aren't into to kiddie boobs.

CrimsonWing6986d ago

look, man... why support censorship in any way? Forget the cleavage, it's the principle. Do you like owning the cable television edited version of a movie or do you want the original R-rated version?

I'd be just as irked by this if WB Games put out a patch that censored all the swearing and gore in an MK game. So, regardless of how you feel about boobs being covered up in the game, it's the principle of censorship that gets most people. I couldn't care less if she wore a sports bra from the beginning, what I hate is people covering my eyes and ears like I'm a 5-year old telling me, "This is too inappropriate for you."

So, yea, censorship is dumb as f*ck regardless of the content. Changing something that's already established that nobody made a big deal about, and nobody is getting their rocks off to (let's be real here), all because people get uncomfortable with boobs is dumb, plain and simple.

Like, give me a f*cking break here...

AdonisIsBeast86d ago (Edited 86d ago )

Yea, apparently you’re incapable of comprehending the point of the complaint. As another user mentioned, it’s principal. These are fictional characters in fictional worlds, it gives most people no pleasure see “the cleavage” as used in this example. The entire point is that we are all getting sick and tired of these fake and unnecessary DEI and ethics departments censoring media simply for the sake of it. Unless theres nudity, they should leave it alone.

Babadook786d ago (Edited 86d ago )

I prefer the before, but I won’t make a mountain out of a molehill. (No pun intended)

CobraKai86d ago

It’s about the needless censorship.

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andy8587d ago

I mean she is portrayed as being 15 in the scene. I don't really consider it woke to cover up a child (begs questions why they did it in the first place though).

Rocketisleague86d ago

In the original nomura was going nuts with child panty references and such. Look it up

k2d86d ago

Devil's advocate here.. who's doing the objectification here though? How would progressives react if teenagers where asked to not show skin and cover up their feminine traits? No bare shoulders. No hair. No make-up etc.. 20-30 years ago the main stream tune was the complete opposite, and games where under attack from conservatives and we had to defend games from them. Now publishers are pre-emptively chastising and censoring to please left AND right, depending on which region of the world their trying to up ease.

dmonee85d ago

Alot of Japanese animation, cartoons, video games, are SuS, when it comes to sexual exploitation lol.

Gamingsince198186d ago

She's not anything , she's not a real person, she was never born, they could make her nude and no harm would be done to anything but the minds of people that can't tell real life from video games.

OMGitzThatGuy86d ago

Black rock is against sexualizing minors? Those demons!

AdonisIsBeast86d ago

Actually they’re FOR exploiting children and promoting puberty blockers and life altering hormone treatment for minors. Do your research

qalpha86d ago (Edited 86d ago )

BlackRock is apparently FOR sexualizing minors. They (along with Disney) were vehemently against the Florida parental rights bill (better known as the 'don't sexualize young elementary kids' bill).

banger8887d ago

"It’s unclear why Square Enix opted to make this change around 4 years after the game’s release."

Because some progressive, blue-haired freak started quivering uncontrollably and frothing at the mouth?

CrimsonWing6986d ago (Edited 86d ago )

What’s weird about it? Females wear low cut shirts all the time, do you bust a nut over it? No… well, I’d hope not.

This is a person who has breasts that wore a low cut shirt, the end. It’s not child porn and nobody in hear was fapping to it.

When you go to a mall and some 15 year old has cleavage showing do you run up and throw a bed sheet over her? I mean Geezus you see more with swimsuits…

Our culture is so weird. We have people championing women for doing OnlyFans as such a brave and empowering decision. I see celebrities barely wearing anything on the red carpet exposing their nipples and butt cheeks and everyone is gawking at how amazing the outfit is.

A freaking game has a fake character that in no way looks 15 and in no way is oversexualized, but had a shirt with cleavage in what, a 30 second scene, and suddenly that’s where we draw the line… like what world am I living in?

andy8586d ago

Just personally find it weird. But what is actually weird is the people who are complaining about it. If she was 12 is that suddenly not OK. 10? There's a reason stuff like that isn't shown in media on children. You'll obviously see it in real life but doesn't mean it's right.

gold_drake87d ago

yes and to make it more in line with Rebirth. shes wearing a black undershirt in that game. consistency.

the japanese definetly didnt care if she has one on or not ha.

Barlos87d ago

Sweet Baby Inc is probably the reason

I_am_Batman87d ago (Edited 87d ago )

Seems much more likely that the team simply wanted to prevent perverts from zooming in on the cleavage of a 15-year-old in photo mode. I'm pretty sure the Nibelheim flashbacks in Remake were only a couple seconds with a fixed cutscene camera, so that wasn't much of an issue until Rebirth where this character model is obviously used a lot more.

Maybe you guys should hold your horses until you've played the game and stop jumping to conclusions. I've already got spoiled about a scene that happens later on in the game and it certainly didn't fit your hypothesis of Square bending the knee to oversensitive "progressives" with an allergiy to attractive females.

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franwex87d ago

They wanted to have consistency with the new character model. That basically it.

Why not make the new character model resemble the design of 4 years ago though?

gold_drake87d ago

while i want my games, especially the ff games with alot of lore, to be as accurate in their translation as possible, the english localisation took huge liberties in the first place.

the japanese and german for example are in line with one another. english is not. but yea. its a silly change, the steel sky was a great thing when she said it, but apperantly the original english lip movement was more in line with "i dont like it" than with "the steel sky, i miss it"

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