Beat this a couple days ago. The ending was kind of lame, just giant whispers fighting you out of nowhere, the world collapsing all over the place forming pathways in some other world with junk...what? But that’s on par with most FF games I guess so whatever. Fighting sephiroth solo as cloud was cool, although him interrupting you constantly was annoying.
Anyways, music and graphics, great. Loved the music, so much nostalgia. Graphics were mostly great with random textures fucking it up...I still don’t understand clouds big blur of a door and the weird graphical ghosting that happens a lot. I was really fucking tired of the slums and put it down for a while due to boredom of running through slum hallways for more than half the game.
Picked it back up and luckily the plate fell and it got more interesting. I loved fighting my way up the fallen plate. That sunset over the wreckage was beautiful backdrop during the fights up. The shinra tower was a great change of scenery too. Still sucked the entire game was a hallway, really hope the next one opens it up.
Still not a fan of the combat. Mobs randomly moving so you completely miss an attack or limit break or spell is really fucking annoying. Mobs that constantly interrupt what you’re trying to do was really annoying. I also think items should cost a fraction of an ATB bar or something. All I ever used was mega potion, Phoenix down, ether, and the toad item. Never used a single other thing because a full ATB is just too much to waste to cure poison or sleep or whatever else. It was much easier to just switch to a different character and wait for whatever to wear off who you were playing. I wish there was a way to set up some minor AI stuff too. The other characters in the group are basically fucking useless except to switch to when you get silenced or something. They barely do anything, their ATB crawls, etc. The auto cure thing was ok but I’d switch enough it wasn’t all that useful, and material slots aren’t plentiful enough so it wasn’t worth everyone equipping.
I didn’t care for the side quests. I did them all but they were all lame and halfassed. Just felt like time filler to me, the little story they added was worthless. Would’ve rather they left those out and just let you get further into the story than they did.
At the end I only had four summons. Looked it up and saw you could get bahamut and leviathan. I didn’t do the “Refocus” limit so never got the VR missions for them. I tried at one point but after playing for hours on end without getting a limit break I just took it off, waste of materia slot like mentioned before. Pretty lame to hide VR missions behind that BS...limit breaks are just so rare. Think I did all the other battle intel things though. I see now I can go back and replay chapters so I could try to get it but not sure I want to bother, I don’t really want to play through the entire chapter again to get to the VR station.
Anyways, the nostalgia was great, I’ll play the next installment but I really hope it opens up a bit and they tweak the combat with some AI options or something.
7/10.
