Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version?
zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I played Remake, then played the original FF7, and then played Rebirth. They’re not very comparable games, but I think I enjoy Remake/Rebirth more than the original.
But I acknowledge that I don’t have the nostalgic attachment to FF7 like others do. To me, I feel like the original game did not age well. I’ve played every other mainline Final Fantasy game (except for 11) and I honestly think 7 is the worst of the PS1 trilogy.
I also wouldn’t treat Remake/Rebirth as separate chapters of an incomplete game. They’re all full-size games. I beat the original FF7 in about 2/3 the time it took me to beat Rebirth.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
So whereabouts does Rebirth leave off?
And yes, Remake is the length of a full game, but it also leaves the story incomplete. It might be better to think of them as parts of a trilogy.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sure, but do we not consider the installments of a trilogy to be complete products in their own right?
Like, I don’t think it would be fair to say a similar product like Dune is a waste of time because they set up for a part 3 that has not yet come out.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I think the bias is because it was originally one game, and everything added to pad it out to 3 is mostly filler. The people the game is made for know where the story ends. Ending the first one right after Midgar feels like we played a demo, even if it only took 2-3 hours to do in the original. It’s even kind of the same in the remake. Bomb the first reactor. Get back to Seventh Heaven. Bomb the second reactor. Meet Aerith. Head back to Seventh Heaven. See Tifa being taken to Don Corneo’s place. Follow. Get dolled up and picked. Go through the sewers. Back to Seventh Heaven. [redacted] happens. Go topside and kick some Shinra ass. That all happens in both games, but Remake pads it out, and with almost nothing worth doing. You jump through a lot more hoops. There’s a mission where everyone but you gets to meet Jessie’s parents and you do something else. You meet a new SOLDIER, and you get practice for the bike scene at the end. They expand the trip to the second reactor, they expand the stuff around meeting Aerith (meeting all the other kids), and they expand the climb up. Somehow 2-3 hours becomes 25-30 hours. So yes, especially if you never played the original, it’s a whole game. For $40 (and I get Remake + Intergrade, plus I get the OG FF7) I’m not complaining. If Rebirth is also $40, it’s an insta-buy. More than that, and I’ll consider it. Much more than that, I’ll just wait for a sale but it’s still going on the wishlist. But, for someone who hasn’t played it before? Yeah, it’s absolutely valid as its own game.