Tetsuya Nomura

[StuffedPlatypusLuvsOrigamiRabbit]

More like Tetsuya No More of being in charge of FF7 plz.
Just started playing, 2 hours in of hallways leading me to filler side quest, to set up two more games filled with Kingdom Hearts levels of nonsense. Think I'm gonna have to tap out of this one.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Good luck friend, it's pretty rough out here if you dislike parts of the game.

[.Zaga]

Isnt the OG also filled with sidequest, sideboss, and even optional characters?
personally I found that the sidequest is not enough compared to most FF games, JRPG has always been filled with sidequest

[Makan Sate]

Filler sidequests are not what killed this game, it's that freaking chapter 18.

[Xengre]

The filler side quest take you a grand total of like 5 minutes, maybe longer in Wallmarket. Keep in mind the original FF7 was even more linear than this game. This is simply how Midgar is, though I would have loved to have seen an expanded Midgar to explore.

The core issue was UE4 and last gen consoles was too limiting. This wont be an issue in episode 2 & 3 as they are next-gen and PC only with open world segments as officially confirmed. How open we don't know though. It also might run on UE5 but that has not been confirmed unlike the open design.

The entire episode 1 is going to be largely linear story oriented so if you don't like it you might want to pass, or struggle through it for episode 2 and 3 but if you hate it in the remake then odds are you hated the original, too.

The Kingdom Hearts "nonsense" has hardly any relation to this game. I think you are confused...

Originally posted by .Zaga:

Isnt the OG also filled with sidequest, sideboss, and even optional characters?
personally I found that the sidequest is not enough compared to most FF games, JRPG has always been filled with sidequest

Yeah, their complaint is rather ironic.