In order to get through this game though, you’ll need to know the basics and understand how to play and what you’re getting into.
Midgar is just as gloomy as you remember it. Immediately, you’re thrown into combat and you get a sense of what the battles are going to be like but you can’t help but be excited about the nostalgic journey you’re about to head on going forward. Not only that, there’s actually voiceover work. It’s nighttime and you’re at the train depot in Midgar, you can see that the look of this game is so modern and every character this time looks like a human being unlike the boxy polygonal characters we got in 1997 albeit revolutionary back then. Right off the bat, when you start the game up and in Square Enix fashion you’re thrown into the typical melodramatic Final Fantasy cutscene. Here is my take on probably the “Game of the Year” (Yes, I’m calling it early) on what to expect and what I liked and didn’t like. While I have not finished the game and I’m still involved, I’ve played enough of it at this point to have an opinion for a review. Cloud and BarretįINALLY! After 20 plus years of fans and faithful begging for it.
In my opinion there is NO game that needed to be remade like this game. So when Sony announced that FFVII was being officially remade in 2017, it set the gaming world on fire. Over the years since the original we’ve seen a bunch of different variations of the original FFVII game, from modded versions to a “remaster” but never a complete redo in current gen graphics. It had a story like no other, a look like no other, a villain like no other, an unforgettable cast of characters/heroes, it was on three CDs which at that time was a big thing, it was everything that you wanted in not only a Final Fantasy game but a game as a whole. Final Fantasy VII (1997 PS1)įor the young kids and Gen-Z generation that don’t understand or want to understand, Final Fantasy VII was an epic game on so many levels. Yes, I’m that old and yes, there’s going to be some nostalgia in this review because I was there. I can remember like it was yesterday the day that I bought Final Fantasy VII back in 1997.