FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE

“The PC port is extremely simple with only two graphics settings other than resolution being low or high and that's it.”

“The only downside to this game in particular is there are very few graphics options you have at your disposal; you're met with either 'low' or 'high', you have to edit files to work around this if you want the absolute most from the game.”

“This is such a bad PC port; also I don't know what they were thinking by forcing TAA, it looks horrendous. I've been trying to mod it for so long but my files are different from the ones in the tutorials and stuff. I don't know why a multi-million dollar company can't do the bare minimum of making graphical settings for PC. Like genuinely, what goes through their minds? It's just so lazy. How are you not aware that this game is probably what introduces most new Final Fantasy players and still not make good quality-of-life patches.”

“More than half the gameplay is just sprinting from point A to point B to get to the cutscene that will make you go to point C.”

“Like 70% of the gameplay is running around, climbing ladders, pulling a lever, climb back the same ladder etc. So much of the game is just made to make you waste time.”

“The entire game it feels like a slog - like they had actually 3 hours of actual gameplay and then the management said: 'how can we stretch this to 40h' so we can put a price tag of 70€ on it.”

“The theme music ranges from mid to abysmal, only Sephiroth's theme was the absolute peak that carried the rest.”

“With extensive mods and editing ini files you can get it to where the gameplay doesn't stutter the entire time, where the music isn't always skipping, and where the cutscenes might sometimes sync up with the audio.”

“For example: the song that plays after tens of thousands of people have just been killed (including several main characters) is an annoying, repetitive, and astoundingly out of place 'jazz-funk' track.”

“None of that matters with how poorly optimized the game is on PC.”

“The only thing that is inexcusable about the game is the optimization; this is an expensive game and you should not need mods to make the game not stutter like crazy, and even then stutters never go away specially in the slums where it's honestly so bad it's probably the worst I have seen a game stutter.”

“Performance is terrible, ANRs multiple times in my short playtime.”

“This is a 10 hour game that's been padded out to well over 40 hours with some of the most tedious and dull nonsense I've ever seen in a videogame.”

“Everything about this game is tedious and drawn out, everything takes longer than it should.”

“The story of Final Fantasy 7 is good and all but what I really loved about it was exploring the entire planet, fighting weapons, grinding materia and doing cool combinations with it and none of those things are in this game.”

“A boring story was already a chore to play through, but the game also has so much filler content... nothing interesting ever happens.”

“If you want to buy this game, make sure you have the patience to put up with the slow and boring story arcs that come and go throughout the whole game.”

“Boring story, annoying supporting characters with bad voice acting, stiff gameplay.”

“The script and character development are practically non-existent, as this is a remake square-enix relies on people's memories to fill in the gaps, but those who are experiencing this for the first time will get to the end without understanding what is going on, even for those who know the story the ending is a mess.”

“As mush as I would recommend this game I have to say that it has some of the most infuriating boss battles I've experienced in my life, be prepared to use a hell of a lot of phoenix downs as you'll get one hit KO'd a lot, and I actually found the build up to Sephiroth to be quite bland, he kinda just appears from nowhere and is hardly ever mentioned, I would even go as far to say he's an unexpected side villain that just appears from nowhere at almost the end of the game, his character development coulda been handled way better.”

“They didn't progress the story and didn't really help character development, it just felt like filler.”

“Most of the dialogs seem to be oriented for little kids, with unfunny jokes, etc. (typical Japanese, I guess).”

“Then immediately after that, let's go fight 4 bandits alone but they stun you for 8 seconds and then just kill you, so you get to watch the unfunny, uninteresting, uninformative, and unnecessary speech of the bandits over and over.”

“The mini-games are unfunny.”

“The atmosphere is garbage and lets you hold onto an emotional moment for about as long the average guy can hold a nut while dreaming of Tifa in a swimsuit 4k style.”

“Square managed to butcher every ounce of atmosphere and mystery that was presented in Midgar in the original and just stick so much unnecessary time wasting filler everywhere.”

“I'm about 10 hours in and my experience so far is.... walking down linear copy pasted hallways with copy pasted objects with zero atmosphere of which sometimes the game forces you to walk slower and squeeze between boxes, holding a button down to do very slow actions that completely waste your time, listening to characters talk about things non-story related which just feel like time-padding... remember running along the rooftops after the church sequence with Aerith in the original that took 5 seconds?”

“To start this review off, I spent the initial 5 hours troubleshooting an audio problem where anytime I'm near water or fire it starts to crackle and everyone speaks in slow motion.”

“Downside: so far I've come across about a half dozen instances where the port almost freezes and moves at like five frames per second... oftentimes reloading will fix the issue, but still detracts from the gameplay.”

“I have a PC well beyond recommended requirements, yet I'm experiencing extremely laggy, glitchy, stuttering, and buggy gameplay (especially in scenes with a lot of visual effects like large fires and lots of water) and cinematics, making it hard to play at all.”

“I can say with confidence there is no replay value; the game is super linear and after finishing it I said to myself 'why would I replay this?' My build would be the same, the cutscenes would be skipped, the slow moments and boring sections would have to be replayed and I just felt it was unnecessary. I know the game changes some mechanics but it doesn't seem enough of a change for me.”

“Doesn't feel really replayable either. The game wants you to since you get chapter select and a harder difficulty after finishing, plus trophy hunting, but I felt there wasn't anything of interest to do that I didn't finish already the first go around.”

“There isn’t enough replayability to warrant doing so at all.”

“I still strongly feel this was a massive cash grab to break the game up into 3 parts rather than sell it as a whole.”

“Splitting the game into 3 parts is a cash grab that absolutely makes the game worse.”

“Instead of delivering a comprehensive and cohesive experience, the episodic format ultimately feels like a cash grab, unnecessarily fragmenting the story.”