what is this game about?

[heime2003]

i just finished the first 4 segments (mission+ dialogue) and have no idea where the game goes.

[Junoh]

It's supposed to be a retelling of all of the Final Fantasy 7 stories with an added prequel but it's a gacha. They only have FF7, Crisis Core, and the prequel so far but Dirge of Cerberus, Before Crisis, and Advent Children are supposed to be added in the future.

[The Immortal King]

Have been playing off and on since September.
Yeah, If you came for a retelling of Final Fantasy VII story, I hate to disappoint you, but they really didn't try. As of about a week ago, the Final Fantasy VII story is at Nibelheim (where you initially learn some past history of Tifa and Cloud, the Promise, and Sephiroth burning the town). Crisis Core is even worse with it being at the Island where they find out about the hidden goals of the SOLDIER Project, but Genesis hasn't arrived yet. I didn't play the First Soldier game, but I doubt they have finished that story either which is fine, I don't like the characters and the story is boring.

Aside from it being incomplete, many, many segments are cut, there isn't any free-roaming in any maps or overworld, and there technically isn't side quests unless you consider the other content of this game that which is more developed. Besides, what they do give you in story, it is told worse than the original game.