Some things to say...

[Zerathustrae]

Every games has it's pros and cons, but this games pros and cons both hit hard because the title clearly means alot to us who grew up with FF7. Graphics, music, combat and voice actors are all incredible, not to mention that some of the plot points are very well executed.

However; this game is like 80% a waste of time with its repetitive exploration objectives... Not to mention the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ chocobo flying through the rings nonesense- like, what is this? Spyro?

I love the piano pieces and the gold saucer stuff that goes on and queens blood is fun too. But they really could have done FF7 in 2 games rather than milking it into 3...

[Xengre]

I hear you, but counter point:

You can just do the story and skip all the filler which doubles the game's length, just like it doubles or even triples every other Final Fantasy since the original VII.


On another note, since flying chocobos are a bit of a reoccurring element of the FFverse and they wanted to do something with each chocobo type it really isn't that odd. Sadly, it isn't as good as Spyro. Even more of a bummer is the chocobo races could have been good but were way too easy/simple. A shame the chocobo mini-games were some of the weaker ones, though exploring on a chocobo was decent at least (sadly, exploration itself was mostly pointless lower quality filler).

I'm really not sure they could have done FF in two games. Keep in mind that Remake is almost entirely linear with little extra content, even when factoring its side quests. While Rebirth is even longer and has more side content its main story is still around 30-40 hours approximately. The side content is mostly worked on by other team members and not impacting the main story. Typical AAA games tend to be around 5-40 hours for their main playthrough (in fact, typically if they're not a RPG of some sort they tend to be far shorter). Having an 80+ hour main story (as episode 3 is intended to be even larger) is just very unlikely. Almost no games have ever done this, including even ultra story heavy games like Grandia, Witcher 3, and Tales of Abyss.

Further, the team members that would be working on the main story would be a bottleneck because they can't just add more people to develop it faster as that isn't how it works, unfortunately. Thus, if it took them around 3 years to finish the main story while side content was worked on simultaneously by other members than if they simply skipped most of the side content and had done the main story it still would have taken around 3 years... and thus if they also did the apparently longer episode 3 then we would be looking at 6-7 year gap after Remake episode... (1 year of the 4 year gap was confirmed to be DLC work for Yuffie's DLC, rather than full steam on Rebirth).

[james01]

Originally posted by Zerathustrae:

Every games has it's pros and cons, but this games pros and cons both hit hard because the title clearly means alot to us who grew up with FF7. Graphics, music, combat and voice actors are all incredible, not to mention that some of the plot points are very well executed.

However; this game is like 80% a waste of time with its repetitive exploration objectives... Not to mention the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ chocobo flying through the rings nonesense- like, what is this? Spyro?

I love the piano pieces and the gold saucer stuff that goes on and queens blood is fun too. But they really could have done FF7 in 2 games rather than milking it into 3...

I have not played OG but, you dont need to do those, and still get the blast of it, but still, I find that there is still filler, though I am not sure if its an OG filler.

On the side note, I also hate that mini game, but flying around with the Chocobo is a blast for me lol!