Squeenix Final Fantasy VII Remake Integrade - now on Steam

[Abu Antar]

Damn, am I really gonna buy a console and a TV just to play this?

Wait a year for PC release.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

I hate that this is only 1/3 the storyline and I hate that I am going to play it anyway.

 

[eric__s]

Damn, am I really gonna buy a console and a TV just to play this?

Well, the game has a 1 year exclusivity deal for the Playstation 4, which means there's a real chance of it being released on the PC afterwards, which is what Square has been doing recently.

Soundtrack

Man, a lot of this is great, but the Scorpion fight song (Those Who Fight Further) is such a huge disappointment. Why would they make a prog rock song into orchestral mush? So much is lost in the bombast.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Ack, the opening looks like butt.

-longer for no reason
-Added weird opera chanting to the soundtrack
-reveal the city before the big crescendo so it has less impact
-cut to silence after the train attack transition ??? why

When you copy a Rembrandt, don't think you can improve the style.

Why would they make a prog rock song into orchestral mush?

They should have used this version

 

[Monkeyfinger]

I liked the first 75% of it. The part with avalanche getting off the train was cringe. The way the characters move, the way they grunt and talk. Tropey in an uncomfortable to watch way.

 

[kaisergeddon]

Meh.

 

[Starwars]

FFVII remake, now with over a million voiceacted lines. 90% of which consist of "hnnn", "uugh", "mmmph" and of course... everyone's favorite "heavy female breathing".

 

[Reinhardt]

Damn, am I really gonna buy a console and a TV just to play this?

Spending money you could donate to Bernie on such frivolities...

 

[Terra]

Damn, am I really gonna buy a console and a TV just to play this?

Really no reason to do so at this point, an improved version is doubtless coming for next gen consoles & pc a year after release. You've waited this long, what's one more year?

 

[sullynathan]

Need at least 100GB.

 

[vonAchdorf]

That's less than FF XV.

 

[Modron]

That's less than FF XV.

3 100 GB parts.

 

[Rahdulan]

IT'S HERE.

 

[Abu Antar]

I'll try it after work. Expectations are kept in check.

 

[GhostCow]

IT'S HERE.

I was wondering why I woke up at nearly 3am and couldn't go back to sleep. Must be fate. Downloading now. I fully expect it to suck ass.

 

[GhostCow]

I've only played a few minutes so far but man classic mode is shit. It doesn't feel like a classic turn based JRPG at all. Classic mode is just "let the game play its self" mode. I ended up switching to normal after the first two fights. Really disappointing. I feel like I'm stuck with this arpg combat if I really want to enjoy the game. At least it's not FFXV arpg shit. It feels more like Crisis Core. I'll post something more detailed once I've finished the demo unless something pisses me off before then.

 

[GhostCow]

Ok, forget what I said about posting longer and more detailed stuff after I finish. I feel more like pausing and posting my thoughts as they come to me. I hope no one minds the spamming or blog posting.

Jessie is super hot. My middle school crush on her feels much more justified now. Biggs looks like a badass. They did a great job on his design. Wedge looks kind of weird like he doesn't fit in with the more realistic design of the other characters and the world. Pressing triangle to talk to people and open boxes is weird. I don't know why they went with that instead of X. I feel dirty saying this but I like the combat so far. It's not what I wanted and still not what I would prefer but it's not bad. That's probably because I was a HUGE fan of Crisis Core.

 

[GhostCow]

They made some odd choices with this intro. For some reason you start with Fire instead of Lightning as your first materia. Seems like a random choice. Going with lightning would have been better for nostalgia purposes. Holding square lets you do a heavy attack that hits multiple enemies and sends them flying. That's nice for bigger fights. Guard dogs have way more hitpoints and seem way more powerful than the random security grunts which is another odd choice.

 

[GhostCow]

I finished the demo. It was pretty short. It ends right after you blow up the mako reactor.

I'm not big on the story changes.

Spoiler

I don't see why they were showing the shinra president so early and I don't like that they changed it to where shinra caused the huge explosion instead of AVALANCHE causing it.

The combat is fucky. It's not horrible but feels a little clunky. It's not as good as Crisis Core but feels a little more tactical. I think I'll probably end up buying the remake when it comes out but it's still not what I wanted. 6.5/10 from what I played. Maybe a 7.

 

[†††]

Spoiler

I don't see why they were showing the shinra president so early and I don't like that they changed it to where shinra caused the huge explosion instead of AVALANCHE causing it.

Because you can't show good guys doing bad things anymore, sweetie. Grey morality is passé, everything needs to be a marvel movie now.

 

[HoboForEternity]

I finished the demo. It was pretty short. It ends right after you blow up the mako reactor.

I'm not big on the story changes.

Spoiler

I don't see why they were showing the shinra president so early and I don't like that they changed it to where shinra caused the huge explosion instead of AVALANCHE causing it.

The combat is fucky. It's not horrible but feels a little clunky. It's not as good as Crisis Core but feels a little more tactical. I think I'll probably end up buying the remake when it comes out but it's still not what I wanted. 6.5/10 from what I played. Maybe a 7.

My second biggest worry is the changes in the story are in favor of appealing to people with nostalgia, pandering to the biggest moment in the original game. Aka it changed in favor for people who played the original instead of polishing the imperfections of the original story.

They showing the shinra boss could either be early foreshadowing because the game is split apart or it's nostalgia pandering "hey hey hey look at this guy!!? You know him right? Please get hyped!! " another example is hinting us that big death scene to the point it's obnoxious instead of natural foreshadowing.

 

[GhostCow]

Here's some random videos I took of the demo if anyone wants to see them. They mostly just show off combat.

Here you can see the melee abilities menu and the fire materia being used. You start with two melee abilities. One is for damage dealing and the other is for staggering enemies so you can deal a bunch of damage while they are stunned. You have to fill your ATB gauge before you can do anything other than block, attack, or dodge. You can't even use items without a bar of ATB.





Here's the last video I took. You can see a bit more combat and I go through the menus at the end. There's no equipment menu but I assume that's just because it's early in the game. There are two combat modes for Cloud. In the first one you move and attack much faster. In the second mode you are extremely slow but deal more damage. You can't block or dodge in the second mode and if you try it kicks you back into the main combat style.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

One guess I could make regarding the changes to the bomb is that AVALANCHE's bomb was not up to the task in the first place, and the whole situation with not only being able to assault the reactor successfully (one thing possibly suggesting a set-up is that AVALANCHE has only one contact inside Shinra, who happened to be able to get them the access codes to the reactor elevator; alternatively it might be Reeve but I think that would be a bad change considering Reeve's character arc in the original game) but how in the long run Shinra never really cared about that reactor anyway is that they're setting it up as part of whatever President Shinra was planning on doing now that he thinks he's almost found the Promised Land. At least, that's one guess.


To me the biggest concern changes are still Sephiroth apparently showing up more judging by the trailers, and I don't quite like the new headache and hallucinations thing quite as much as the red overlay and screeching noise with a voice.

 

[GhostCow]

One guess I could make regarding the changes to the bomb is that AVALANCHE's bomb was not up to the task in the first place

It pretty clearly blows up the reactor. You get a good view of it

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

To me it looked like all it did was damage the thingamabob with a fairly anemic puff compared to the actual explosion, I'm not sure if that's enough to do the job. At least, I'd imagine the gang expected it to do way more given that they were in a hurry to escape before the counter goes down. And they don't seem to be at all surprised by the huge explosion.