I mean, no one’s saying the original FF7 looks good. The characters were blocky messes. It’s just, I’ve been gaming since the early 80s, and I still think FF7 looks good. But yes, the random battles were problematic, especially when you were lost. Fortunately the new version (of the OG) lets you turn them off, so if I’m lost, I turn off the random battles and I just get my bearings, then turn them right back on again.

One thing about Remake, it wasn’t just that the quests were filler (they were), but the way it would waste your time. Go here, go there, squeeze through this gap, do the animation every time you wanna talk to the moogle cosplayer… it was not great as far as the pacing. And some parts were just too long, like the part leading up to Sector 7, or the climb up to HQ.