Thread 717348474

I was so hyped up and having a good time with the game up to the point of getting to the open world for the first time. In fact I enjoyed the first few minutes of the open world and fighting monsters, it felt so beautiful.

But after I came back to the game later, it just dawned on me. WTF IS THIS FILLER PADDING??? Is it just me or did they add even MORE than the first one? The opening with Sephiroth got me all excited and having the crew be on the run in the aftermath of Midgar had me feeling like things were gonna be hella dramatic.

But the open world makes it all seem detached from the story. So much so the NPC's feel completely unphased by the events going on. I'm not gonna say the game feels like trash all of a sudden, but this doesn't feel like an FF7 Remake, it feels like a fanservice padding simulator.

It's been awhile since I've played FF7 but going off what I remember, even though a lot of it was running around blurry prerendered backdrops, the stuff that felt side content-ish didn't feel detached from the main story, even in tone.

There was a lot of melancholy to the npc interactions and you'd get their perspectives of the impact Shinra had and the state of the planet.

The opening of Rebirth had me so amped, like the game was gonna up the anty from Remake. Like it was gonna be a big chase with lots of action and weight. But I've played 14 plus hours and feel like I've gotten NOWHERE. I'm only at Junon now and after wrangling the mountain climbing chocobo, I have to follow a context-less MAP to find some random gear pieces to wake a dude up. It was there where I said to myself "wtf they padded this MORE than Remake!?"

It's not that I dislike side content though, it's just the stuff I've been doing feels so irrelevant from the main story, like total pointless deviations.

What do the dedicated fans of the original FF7 feel with Rebirth comparing? I feel disappointed that we didn't get the game promised in the first couple trailers over 10 years ago now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kznek1uNVsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3sBZ5Nr4hc
First 2 trailers had much darker tone, but over time they replaced it with the silly fanservice instead of focusing on the core of the unoriginal. May have turned out this way because the dev team switched. Isn't Remake and Rebirth made by more of a Square B-Team? I remember originally Cyberconnect 2 was involved but Nomura was also more closely tied to he dev too. But things changed.

>>717348474 (OP)
Gooning for Tifa's breasts.

>>717349880
thank you, anon. though i think tifa got changed a lot in the remake. she has somewhat motherly wholesome vibe about her whereas the old one had more girl-next-door energy. they put some of that on remake jessie instead minus the flirtatiousness

I'm not lying when I said I like Remakes and both are 10/10 RPG.
Shame that people are so blinded for nostalgia that they can't enjoy new things.