Playthrough thoughts thread

[tony123]

I'm on chapter 14 and I put the game down. I don't intend to finish it.

LIKED
Aside from some low polygon backgrounds, the game looks amazing.
The voice actor for Barret nailed it, plus he had all the best lines.
The main story beats brought over from the original were awesome.
I love some of the new music, really good stuff.

DISLIKED
The side missions were boring, except darts and whack a box.
The game lost the atmosphere from the original.
FF 7 remake is padded with filler to extend the play time. Some of that padding is OK, but most of it is really annoying. I just want to move forward with the story. I don't want to fight X boss monster in an area that only lasted 5 minutes in the original.
The game loves to slow you down and make you walk.
The voice acting, aside from Barret, Jessie, Wedge and a few others, was pretty bad. Side note, my girlfriend heard me playing one day and asked why all the women in the game sound sexual. I couldn't argue with her or defend the game.
I love the music for Wall Market in the original and can't fathom why they changed it in the remake.
Too much padding in the story.
The game is effectively now a dungeon crawler?

I actually got really frustrated playing and put it down. I was simply enraged. I can't really explain it, but I was not having fun with the game after a while. Maybe my nostalgia goggles are on too tight.

What really bothers me is that all of the review sites and YouTube reviewers are foaming at the mouth over how great the game is. It boggles my mind. Even some of my go to reviewers, who are usually brutally honest about games, are tripping over themselves. Not one iota of criticism. I don't mind folks who like the game. My opinion is my opinion but I have yet to hear any constructive criticism of this game anywhere. If you do, please let me know, I'd love to read it.

As a fan of the original game, I am deeply disappointed in this game.

I think we will find out once everything settles that this game will end up being fairly divisive. I honestly do think it would have been the better move to cover more ground in the first game. I have seen reviews that have brought up a lot of the unneeded padding that this game has. It isn't a bad game but it did do some things that some fans of the original game aren't going to be to keen about.