While the Remake may be a lot of things, it definitely isn't boring. Final Fantasy VII is a petri dish of ideas, and yet what emerges from the ashes of this concept bonfire is something wholly unique and compulsively interesting. There are influences of the cinematic storytelling found in most AAA video games today and side quests are presented and tracked like a Yakuza game. Running concurrent to these oddities is the gameplay which is a refined take on much of what was done in Final Fantasy XV, blended with elements of Final Fantasy XIII. Narrowing the scope to Midgar, a grungy, dystopian sci-fi metropolis only serves to accent the strangeness of this entry. From the inescapable influence of 80s/90s cyber-future anime present in the aesthetic, to the hyper-political narrative of corporate over-reach and eco-terrorism, Final Fantasy VII rebukes much of the whimsical fantasy often present in this series. It was weird in 1997 when it first came out and the Remake is equally so. That being said, it's my duty to evaluate and by the time this review is over, you'll have a tidy score that tries to capture my feelings about this game - distilling the complex concoction of influences both on myself and the team that made Final Fantasy VII Remake into something that should resemble a score - so pray for me, because here we go.ДЇinal Fantasy VII is a weird game. And of course there's a matter of my own feelings toward the original game, which I've always respected but don't love the way others do. Trying to convince some fans otherwise would feel like an exercise in futility.

Some fans are going to buy this Remake regardless I know people who are buying PlayStation 4s (less than a year before the next generation is due) just to play this game.

I think the Final Fantasy VII Remake is good - but I don't know how much that matters.

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