Playthrough thoughts thread

[Aulayna]

Figure we can do what the internet is so good at hosting, and use this thread to provide some thoughts as we playthrough for the first time.

I guess in the interests of spoilers we could say what chapter we're on, and hide anything really spoilery behind spoiler tags.

Me:

Just started Chapter 3

Pros

• Combat feels great
• Judging by the trophy list there is a Hard difficulty which I guess acts as a NG+
• Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie are so much more fleshed out as characters
• Generally the game looks fantastic
• Boss fights have been pretty fun so far
• It was really staggering getting to see the destruction caused in Sector 8 by the explosion from the Mako Reaction 1
• The Senior Guard and New Recruit in the Sector 7 slums are fantastically voice acted lol
• (SPOILER)I knew from interviews that Sephiroth was going to be featured a lot more, but I did not expect to be seeing so much of him so early on.

Cons

• Some quite low-res textures at times that take ages to load in higher res versions.
• Some of the music choices for locations are... interesting, not sure if this is a con but there's some locations I feel could've benefited from a brand new track rather than re purposing an existing one.
• Not sure how I feel currently about Weapons having their own crystarium like skill point system on top of Materia.

Overall so far it feels like a brand new game but still maintains the distinct essence of FFVII.