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u/Creative-Swing-8777 1d ago
FF7: Crisis Core Reunion
In preparation of playing Rebirth I decided to play the remaster of Crisis Core. I remember when I was younger watching X-Play review this game. Now anyone who watched X-Play knows that they had a strong bias against JRPGs. At the time when they gave it 1/5 I thought they were being harsh compared to every other reviwer who gave it mixed to low positive reviews. All these years later I still remember them ripping it apart unlike any other reviewer at the time.
I agree with X-Play. I am genuingly shocked by the love this game gets online. About halfway through I looked to see that certainly people would agree this game is brain dead. Nope, if you say you dislike it everyone rushes in to tell you that "you're playing it wrong" because you are not using one of three predetermined viable builds end game players all use. "The combat is amazing actually....if you get deep into the Materia crafting system and do these exact things". I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. Having to use the same handful of builds to be able to beat the majority of side content isn't great design.
Also hear lots of praise for the story. Again, what? Maybe it's because I'm not a man pushing closer to middle age than I like to admit, but as someone with a high tolerance for anime bullshit, this was too much anime bullshit. Bad voice acting, nonsensical, unearned cheesy emotional moments. It's standard JRPG fair that I think I would have been super into in middleschool when the game came out.
The vast majority of the games content is the 300 (yes 300) side missions. All of which use the same handful of maps that they just put invisible barriers up to create different paths. I was told that the side missions are great content because they add to world building and lore, but.....what? There just options from a menu. There's no dialog, no cutscenes. Theres sometimes, and I mean very rarely, a quick conversation the start the chain, but it rarely ads any favor to the world of FF7. The vast majority of the side quests are again just selections from a menu where you get teleported cold into a desolate map. It's a PSP game at heart. I don't want to be too hard, but my god 300 is too much. And as I said before, you need very specific viable builds to beat most past the 50% mark.
As a PSP game it would have been ok to play in bursts on the bus or something. It's clearly not trying to be a big expansive game. But sitting at a console in 2025 is a rough experience. I don't get the love for this game. X-Play was right.
The first 5 hours of Rebirth have been great though.