This greatly contributed to my enjoyment of the remake as it made these characters I'd known for years and gave them more depth to their personalities, as well as enriched the interactions they had with one another. The characters in FF7:Remake, both major and minor characters are way more developed and fleshed out then they ever were in the original. The story of FF7 was not the only thing to benefit from decades of advances in video games. Without spoiling anything I am very, very interested to see where the story goes in part 2 of the remake, and I imagine that at the very least half of that game will be an entirely new story. This is by far the most pronounced in the final few chapters of the game, which take a very, very different series of events than what you remembered in the final part of the Midgar portion of the original game. You will find yourself in familiar areas and scenarios from the original, but in terms of how you got to them, how you get through them, and what happens after can look very different than what you remembered from the 1997 game. Part of this is because of the advances in technology, game design, and video game story telling that has developed over the past 20-years, but also has to do with FF7:Remake wanting to tell its own story as well. While FF7:Remake's plot and general story is mostly the same as the original, it gets to each new plot point in a different way, sometimes very different. I feel like the best place to start is with the story and characters of FF7:Remake. This manifests itself in obvious ways like the switch from turn based to an ATB (Active Time Battle) system and graphically, but also is heavily present in the story as well. There are enough new elements, both in terms of story, characters, gameplay, and plot to where FF7:Remake feels like a fresh new experience. It certainly follows the general plot and story of the original FF7, to a point, but is a significantly more developed, fleshed out, and detailed experience, so much so that it at times feels like an entirely different game. Having played through and beat FF7:Remake I can say that it certainly met those high expectations I had for it, and also surprised me in many ways I did not expect, mostly in a good way too.įinal Fantasy VII Remake is not a beat for beat remake of the original.

Even with FF7:Remake being personally overshadowed by Shenmue 3 that evening, my hype and anticipation for FF7:Remake was huge, and remained so up until its release last week.

When the remake was finally announced during Sony's 2015 E3 Press conference I totally lost it. The original FF7 was my first RPG and not only initiated a deep love I had for the genre during the 2000s, but also made FF7 one of my favorite games of all time up until recently. To say my expectations of FF7:Remake were high would be an understatement.

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