TruPhan

urban_ryoga

ceredonia

I had to borrow my bros PSP to play this game, and hes got my PS2 because of it (i consider that an even trade for now). When i get some spare cash, ill pick up a used PSP.

Im like 7 or so hours in the game which most of that time was spent on missions to get more outta them, but it seems to be a game well worth it for fun. Im not a big advid FFVII fan, but i understand the story enough to know whats going on.

So, thats my mini review...

ZeonicFreak

excel_excel

I admit that the typical Japanese RPG always annoyed me and still do (too much non-interactive and imposed cut scenes and dialogues, super linear gameplay, Little Baby manga type with big heads, no deep character personization (you are stuck with an existant hero), aged turn-based battle systems ) etc...) but things went a bit better with Crisis Core: it still too linear and with too much imposed dialogues for my taste but at last they got rid of the manga babies and the turn based battle... with graphics up to par, I felt more immersed in this world.

If they goes on with more "ADULT" characters design (nomore little manga dudes with big heads),I'm in... even if it's stay a super linear rpg... I take it more like a big epic INTERACTIVE movie instead of a more open RPG (like Oblivion or Gothic where you build your OWN story, just different way of doing things.

I really like the plot line so far and the general awesome design in Core. It interested to the point that I digged all the information on the internet about the world and the timeline of events. The impressive score helped a lot for me to render the epic moments. I even bought advent children score to keep the epic scene alive during my work...

Dude27

jmsalal

1. Is the voice acting english-only in the american and european versions? Or can you choose the japanese voiceovers?

2. I pretty much hated the Kingdom Hearts battle system. For me it was just too messy and unprecise handling and the magic handling felt inadequate. Will I hate this battle system too? (I also didn't like the FFXII battle system.)

Logician

thePhildown

thePhildown

csizemore05

@Magic Emperor Anima: ""Everyone involved in the original game is gone."

Nomura is there."

Not only Nomura, but Kazushige Nojima, Yoshinori Kitase, and some of the other less important staff members are working on the Compilation, with the exception of DC, which had a largely differeny staff. Those three are the guys who had the largest roles in developing the world of FFVII.

Sakaguchi created the basic world concept and some other things like the Electric City, but his main plotline was drastically different (it was about a detective named Joe), and apart from the basic concept, he only worked in a producer position.

Nomura was the character and scenario concept designer of the original, Nojima was the scenario writer and event planner, and Kitase was the director and scenarior writer.

Nojima gets the most credit for creating the world and plot of FFVII, as he wrote the majority of the plot and came up with many of the characters. He also wrote AC and CC, as well as the short stories set between FFVII and AC, and supervised the plot for Before Crisis.

So... trying to say that the old staff "is all gone" is obviously wrong.

@CQC_NastyN8: Actually, it's Crisis Core -> Before Crisis -> FFVII -> AC -> DC, but both CC and BC take place over a large period and intersect a few times.

The Crisis refers to FFVII; CC details the events that were the would ultimately lead to the crisis (hence the core), while BC is simply set before the Crisis.

Suzaku

"Advent Children introduced three...GUYS with no apparent background or explanation who are searching for Jenova for unexplained reasons"
Those were the Remnants of Sephiroth's spiritual energy. They were searching for Jenova because of the Jenova Reunion instinct which was a major part of FFVII's plot. They are being puppeteered by Sephiroth in the same way that he puppeteered Jenova's remains, Cloud, and the others with Jenova cells that were trying to carry out the Reunion.

"Geostigma is introduced and never explained, then vanishes..."
Geostigma is actually explained *twice* in the movie, by both Vincent and Kadaj, and still exists at the time of Dirge of Cerberus, though some have been cured. When the Lifestream appeared at the end of FFVII, it passed through many people, dispersing Jenova/Sephiroth cells into their bodies. The body tries to fight the infection and wears itself out, causing oozing wounds, and in the young and elderly, ill, or wounded, it can be fatal.

"test of the Sephiroth test to see if the test could be done, and he's like...a hojillion times more powerful"
Genesis appears for all of 15 seconds in DC, and only vague information about him. He's also not stronger than Sephiroth; I have no idea where you get that. He was defeated by both Sephiroth and Zack in Crisis Core, and he has a pretty nasty genetic defect to boot.

"And while ALL of this is going on, they're ret-conning, re-ret-conning, un-ret-conning, re-writing, adding, changing everything about the original storyline just to make it fit into their new twisted chronology."
Actually, Crisis Core is pretty much retcon free, all of the scenes from FFFVII are more or less the same. For that matter, so are AC and, I believe, even DC. They add things to the story, but the original story remains pretty much unchanged.

"Seriously how MANY people in this universe were made by Hojo? It's stupid."
Hojo didn't create them. Maybe if you informed yourself before bitching, your opinions would carry more weight.

Suzaku

rhugghed

Word Man

J0hnny-Kickass

Mune

P.S: To solve your cut scene problem: Dont Die. You wont have to re-watch anything.

TheBoxNinja

cokpendejo

eastx

...because there's ALOT of those.

Ashurahori

RejuvenationX

Also, while Zack really is a "puppy" according to the more experienced SOLDIER members, he grows up and matures and that is shown during the final moments of the game, beginning when he gets the Buster Sword. His final actions put him up as a top FFVII character, and he basically GAVE Cloud his personality. Cloud is Zack's "Living Legacy".

Also, Zack is right in the middle of the "big, interesting things that are happening in the world" because, you know, the game tells how the events of Final Fantasy VII came to be.

Also, if you can't handle the Materia system, sucks for you. With time it is an awesome way of making Zack immensely strong with the right combinations.

Saint Anima

Square can do with it what they want. Doesn't mean I have to lap it up like everyone else. There are Fans, and then there are Fanboys. A fan can appreciate a work of art for what it is, and get caught up in it and the story. Retro-active changes to the original hurt the fan. The Fanboy, on the other hand, will follow the series into hell and back, even if they made a prequel changing the story so that it took place on the Moon and the ancients were little green Martians. The Fanboy would be right there with them. "Oh my god it makes TOTAL SENSE!" shell out the 50 bucks and eagerly await the next sequel where Cloud revives Aeris, and sends their children back in time in order to stop Ultra-Super Omega Weapon, who was the TRUE mastermind behind it all and is like, fifty times MORE powerful than Jenova...

But hey, it's all personal preference. You like it, so good for you. I don't, so good for me. No one here is "Right."

PathRifter

Ashurahori

I suppose I sit on the side of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," mentality. And VII was most deffinitly not broke. Perhaps a little better translation here and there, but storywise, it was solid.

If you take each game, and sort of...ignore that they're (supposed to be) connected, then VII is unmarred. I look at VII and pretend that nothing else happened. But if you play VII while keeping in mind everything newly established as well as what's to come later...it sort of makes the satisfacion in beeting the game hollow as well as not making much sence when you try and fit the prequels into the original.

But when you step back and start looking at the BIG picture it gets messy. That's like trying to link all the Armored Core games into one long continuity. You'll just give yourself a headache. :p

PathRifter

Go fuck your self, seriously. You would be more productive then you are being right now. News flash, FFVII doesn't belong to you it belongs to Square and so far its great and a lot of people love the compilation. I loved the new elements they introduced and I am so fucking glad they changed the way Zack dies, actually I was shocked how it happens because it was so different. That act made me sympathize with Zack so much that it brought tears to my eyes and still makes me depressed when I think about it.

Which no game has done to me. Zack felt incredibly real as did his relationship with Aerith, I can honestly feel how horrible it was to Zack to have been away from her for 4-5 years without even knowing and as soon as he finds out he tries to get to her only to get killed protecting his friend. Zack truly dies a hero.

MikeA

Oh, and not being able to turn the camera mid-battle is a bitch. They should have assigned the battle option change to the d-pad.

Ashurahori

Loved: battle system. Truly a step up from KH.

Hated: that computer voice at the beginning and end of every battle.

Furysetzer

@Pathrifter: You said it, man. I couldn't agree more. Why isn't FFVII allowed to be great on its own without all the unnecessary prequel and sequel nonsense?

atarashii_123

Otherwise I rather liked the game. Really showcases the power of the PSP, and Sephiroth is always cool. Interesting how he uses a bottle of shampoo for his hair though... >_<

Shadowmist

残心

I DO agree with you with the Nibelheim reactor scene. Genesis came out of nowhere and yeah, it messed up the nostalgic mood I was in at that point. I can try and say that since Cloud wasn't actually there, he didn't see Genesis and he just recreated the scene from Zack's lack of details of the moment, but that's just my theory.

Hey, I guess it all comes down to either you love the original so much that you don't want it to be tarnished, or that you love it so much you just want more.

Saint Anima

I even got a little choked up at the ending, way more emotional then I expected excellent game.

A FF7 fanboy like myself I pretty much love all things FF7 even the extremely average Dirge but if you have a PSP do yourself a favor and picked this up.

I want a remake more then ever now.

WolfGod

Wow, that opinion disagrees with a lot of others I've seen...and the others seemed more spot on...

SuperMaxZero

Ashurahori

Which is not to say that I'm not enjoying the game (besides the repetitive side missions, the actual play is excellent); I still want to see where it ends up, but not because of Zach or any of the plot that he's involved in. Really, the interesting characters are Genesis and Sephiroth, the one that's already gone nuts and started wreaking his twisted havoc, and the one that you know eventually will. Sephiroth comes off as genuinely likable at points. Very strange. Zach, on the other hand, feels like a wayward interloper from a different game universe. FF7, like 4 and 8, to some extent, featured darker heroes, brooding loners. Zach feels more like a Tidus, Vaan, Zidane, or Sora; a shallow, overenthusiastic kid. This isn't entirely bad, since he's actually a harrowing counterpoint to the deadly machine that is Shin-ra, but I have trouble comparing him with the cast of the original game. But I haven't finished it yet, so perhaps there is a saving grace in the second half.

I'm definitely a FF-fanboy, but I feel like I should warn other fanboys of the writing problems: it's not flawless, or even close.

yurodivuie

Kyle81

Zack is an obnoxious attention-seeking puppy and pales in comparison to the classic Squeenix stoic, heroic characters like Chrono, Cloud, and those in FFVI.

The gameplay is watered down, trying to make an action slash-em-up pretend it's an RPG. The DMV or whatever takes away your ability to save and utilize limit breaks and becomes a chaotic and unstable element of gameplay that you can't count on.

As if trying to cast up to six different spells and abilities real-time wasn't confusing enough, there are random status and AP/MP cost things happening plus the ever-present threat of a Limit crashing down and throwing everything off.

I like the story and I loved FFVII, so I want to play it 'til I see the ending, but to say this warmed-over handheld version of the Kingdom Hearts system painted with the SOLDIER brush and sprinkled with Materia is a great game is a stretch.

It's just a shade better than LOST: Via Domus. You're playing a boring system with less interesting characters while big, interesting things are happening in the world around you and the story demands that you stay out of the way as much as possible.

jMonken

Eirias

number_77

You ARE correct in assuming that is a remake of VII were to be made I would think it is crap, and it WOULD be. Dialogue would be changed to fit with the prequels they added, characters would be altered based on their (newly added) history with eachother, the whole G/Genisis plotline as well as Geostigma would have their introductions throw in just so the game will flow smoothly between installments. Oh yeah...and they'd all fly too. I will admit though that it would be handy. Because after watching Advent Children and Crisis Core it occurred to me that if Cloud and Co. can leap thousands of feet into the air or run up the side of skyscrapers, then it would be nice if they could do that instead of climbing up the 60 freaking flights of stairs when they infiltrate the Shinra building.

But I digress...

They already HAVE altered the storyline in VII. Direct example, the scene with Zack and Sephiroth in the Nibelheim reactor in Crisis Core is *almost* accurate with the scene in FFVII. In FFVII they have their dialogue, then that container opens up and the monster falls out. Fade to black and we're back in Nibelheim. in Crisis Core the dialogue and everything happens pretty much the same and then right where it's supposed to face to black they INSERT AN ENTIRE NEW SCENE WITH GENISIS! I'm promising you that in FFVII that scene was never even thought of, intended or imagined...Crisis Core took a camera change as an opprotunity to insert their entire new contiuity. Not cool.

What is this, Star Wars? Are we changing the story every 5-10 years now claiming that it's "not what you intended?" I hope not Square... :(

PathRifter

No, my hangnail was though. It also has spikier hair, a bigger sword, and robot rocket boots and can shoot its fists. And it is a prince from outer space simultaneously and has a power level of six million. And is the second coming of Christ.

Now go idolize my hangnail, put wallscrolls up, cosplay as it and read slash fanfic.

Koztah

You're crazy, Mike. Or have terrible taste. Or both.

I liked FFVII well enough a decade ago, and while Crisis Core has plenty of fanservice (which hurts FFVII proper, really) and fantastic cutscenes (and very good in-game graphics), it plays horribly, just as the Kingdom Hearts games did before it.

Let's face it: if it weren't for the cutscenes and the tie-in, this wouldn't even rise to the lows of mediocrity. It's so bad it makes Dynasty Warriors look good.

emag

I can understand why someone may not like Genesis or the creation of a bit more back story for Sephiroth, but do not say that it makes no sense for a scientist, albeit a fictional one, to perform more than one experiment. As a resident lab-rat I actually enjoyed the fleshing out of some of the pseudo-science of the FFVII world. Please hate Genesis for whatever reason you have, but don't tread on good science!

Science rocks!

GothPunk

Ryu Kazama

D Mitsuki

now that i have said that, i am also aware of its shortcomings. i loved FFVII, but i think i would have been content without any of the additions. i dont really feel like this adds all that much to the whole FFVII story, nor do i believe the battle system is that great. once i realized jamming on attack would win me the game, i boosted my attack like mad and now i just hit X furiously and win. the side missions get tedious pretty fast, and with 300 of them, you're eventually going to have to just grind through them to get the benefits, ensuring that you'll be tired of them. i probably would have enjoyed a more classic RPG approach, but apparently thats really taboo now or something. sure is a pretty game though.

i think a lot of people have said these things before me in these comments, but a lot of them seem to be people who werent big on FFVII. i was (still am), so i figured why not.

Flashfire

It feels like it has its "Kingdom Hearts" moments on how you attack, use magic... ect, but when it comes to level up/summons/"limit breaks" feels like the game is based on Cait Siths limit break.

I would understand if the DMW was used for limit breaks and the character limit verges (am I right about this? Octaslash=Sephiroth, Lucky Stars=Ceccini[sp]... ect.) but it being used for actual level up for both materia and character level up? It's not really good imo.

Keanu

vanderblade

Yea. Try again hoss.

Seruza

To be honest I have played all except the cell phone game. I just recently played crisis core and I am amazed by this game so much. I am so addicted to that game that I end up playing 3 hours or more without knowing it. It is by far one of the best games on PSP and also has the best graphics(that and god of war)

Also the combat system was SOOO easy to get into I don't understand how some people find it difficult. I like the story even tho I already knew the out come of it. The voice acting was great and so was the cut scenes (the battle between angeal ,genisis, and sephiroth was awesome!!)

This game pretty much got me into Final Fantasy mode again!! I can't wait for FF13 and Versus now!

CQC_NastyN8

Besides I drive, I don't usually take buses and the only chance I get to play any portable games is about once a year on some random trip, that doesn't warrant me getting a PSP, yet. If it was a phone I'd already have one.

artofwar420

This game is a must buy for anyone who likes RPGs and has a PSP. Regardless if you have ever played a final fantasy game.
(Unskippable cutscenes are annoying, but it is still very worth playing this game)

I started the game on Hard mode, and this game is very HARD on Hard mode! Especially if you have a tendency like me to avoid the random encounters.
I asked a question on forums if on Hard mode, things get easier or harder after Wutai. Thankfully, you have more of a chance to customize your character after Wutai, which makes the difficulty more manageable.

And thank you Fahey for reporting how much you playing the game!

challen

Garo

Nomura is there. Frankly, FFVII is his baby. Also, as outlandish and crazy Advent Children was, it was made for the fans, and they gobbled it up.

Crisis Core IS faithful to the original. Sure, there are characters introduced to fit into the universe, but it doesn't hurt the original game at all. This game is told from Zack's point of view. In your case, in order for it to be faithful, it would have to be a one hour game that covered Cloud's short flashbacks of Zack in the original.

Not only does it do THAT, but it tells how Zack met Aerith, how he gets the Buster Sword, and other details. What, just because Sephiroth was once a decent guy who had two good friends that weren't mentioned in the original makes this unfaithful and bad? Guess what, the story expanded, it didn't get worse. We have an honest excuse as to why we don't know Angeal, Genesis, Lazard, etc. Cloud didn't really know any of them.

You'll probably bitch even louder if a remake is made. Too bad. Blame Nomura and Square Enix. Oh yeah, and the FFVII fans.

Saint Anima

FrogJon

@Word Man: [www.amazon.com] there you go :P

Yin

Vexorg

Garo

My beef with the Compilation Project is that it has added completely unnecessary conflict to the world of FFVII. At the end of Final Fantasy VII every single major plot points were resolved (with the possible exception of TWO issues) Then there's Advent Children, Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core, Before Crisis...I mean how many times can this world face certain destruction that has to be averted by the same group of 30 characters?

Look at the plots of the games/movies. Every one of them has done nothing but negate the work that the heroes did in the original. Advent Children introduced three...GUYS with no apparent background or explanation who are searching for Jenova for unexplained reasons, Cloud is still upset over Aeris's death two years after the fact, despite the fact he was WELL over it at the end of VII, Rufus who had a dignified and badass death was resurrected for REASONS. Geostigma is introduced and never explained, then vanishes...Advent Children was simply a story that did NOT NEED TO BE TOLD. It added nothing but bad things to the series.

Fast forward to Dirge of Cerberus which then negates Hojo's death by having him downloaded into some never before introduced and unexplained "network" some giant city under Midgar that had remained "hidden" until then. more badguys, useless characters, and just...random CRAP to give the world MORE conflict. And let's not forget the introduction of G/Genesis. The "test of the Sephiroth test to see if the test could be done, and he's like...a hojillion times more powerful" or whatever the HELL his explanation is... Again, a story that didn't need to be told.

And while ALL of this is going on, they're ret-conning, re-ret-conning, un-ret-conning, re-writing, adding, changing everything about the original storyline just to make it fit into their new twisted chronology.

Crisis Core should have been about the War of Wutai and Shinra's rise to power, a nice political drama between two nations, FF Tactics of FFXII style. Instead we get more mandurain cinema wire/flying stunts that Advent Children introduced and we will never ever get away from, and your Clone/project/creation storyline we can't get away from. Seriously how MANY people in this universe were made by Hojo? It's stupid.

In my long ranting closing, Final Fantasy VII Compilation Project has done nothing but smear an otherwise very high quality game's universe and characters. It reintroduces conflict after pointless conflict with things that don't need to be told. FFVII, by itself tells you all you need to know about the world, and everything they've added after this has only hurt my love of the game and what the game creators were going for.

And now, I need a drink... :p

PathRifter

Wreckoner

I have hangnails more interesting than Cloud.

Koztah

This is the first PSP game that makes me forget I'm playing a handheld.

It's got that Squeenix charm all over it.

sascha23

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree there. Crisis Core's soundtrack isn't quite fit to stand among Chrono Trigger (Yasunori Mitsuda), FFVI (Nobuo Uematsu), Secret of Mana (Hiroki Kikuta) and Xenogears (Yasunori Mitsuda).

Koztah

Pombar

Zaos

memaro

Gameplay's the blandest "repeatedly press X and sometimes press square to dodge" bullshit I've seen, surpassing Kingdom Hearts, the Graphics are beautiful in cutscenes, but the sceneries themselves in the game are bland and repetitive, not to mention the game is INCREDIBLY straightforward/linear, if not for the side-missions which basically deliver the same "kill the only monster you can see from afar" objective over and over. Story's basic FFVII fan-stuff, but it has the merit of having a good main character, which instead of sobbing all the damn time like Cloud, knows how to do his darn job, has a good sense of humor, and is able to die in the end in an incredibly badass way, which makes us sorry that Square definetly gave the wrong character the main role in the actual game. Antagonist's annoying enough to be blurting lines of some novel nobody read all the time, which is probably S-E's latest excuse to make their characters spew out bullshit whenever they want. Game's basically a huge interactive movie with unable-to-skip cutscenes, and the most ANNOYING combat gimmick of all time. A roulette which spins consistingly, giving you special attacks and levelling you up once in awhile. Although this might be good for story drama situation thingies, it's not good to face it EVERY SIINGLE TIME I step into a battle in the damn game.

Crisis Core is a pretty movie with a few bland gameplay elements in between. It's true blue fanservice, something which might either be good, or bad. I say get some of the other incredibly good RPGs available for the console, such as Disgaea, FF Tactics, or Jeanne D' Arc.

Ashurahori

Zack was one of these underdeveloped characters. He got maybe two minutes of screen time and half a page worth of dialogue.

Crisis Core fixes all that. All of it. It adds a tremendous amount of depth to the otherwise interesting world of FFVII. It adds the brains to the hot chick, as it were.

Also: Angeal's character design was originally supposed to be Cloud's. If they had gone through with that, my opinion of FFVII would have been much higher.

Bottom line: Crisis Core = awesome. But don't play the story missons in noisy transit, such as the subway, because that ruins the cut scenes. Subways are for side missions only.

Koztah

jeffx

Garo

Got 3-4 hours left of story im guessing and only 40% done with missions...this is 29 hours in. Looking at over 50 easily.

Seruza

bethel1614

I know it's only a minor detail, but I really liked the fact that Fahey states how much of the game he has completed; this should be something that everyone features in their reviews.

GothPunk

hoopesk2

I've only played through for a few hours, and I think it's a decent game so far. The Kingdom Hearts like battle is interesting, the wave/wheel not so much. I agree with Fonic as I think Tales of Eternia had great real-time battle, as well as Star Ocean 2.

The unskippable cutscenes are a nuisance, especially since I hate the voice acting. It's awful. Voice acting in most video games is awful. Especially in American ports of Japanese games. The same studios have a grasp on the market and they send the same people to do the voices over and over again. They're more stock actors than anything else.

"OK, we have a character here that needs a deep voice. You can do it. Cheery protagonist? You can do it."

They tend to speak their roles more than act them.

TwoSetBonus

Luv2Hate

Strong points:
+ beautiful story
+ epic music
+ Dynamic Combat interface very intuitive
+ impressive cut scenes
+ likable characters
+ impressive graphics for the PSP

Bad points:
- Linearity !!! much like an INTERACTIVE MOVIE (generic with common Japan RPG)
- no character personalization (generic with common Japan RPG)
- no outfits, armor and weapons visible (apart the buster sword)
- too much linear dialogs (generic with common Japan RPG)
- Too easy at the beginning (look like we already have a Super super hero), and very hard at the end (some ennemy attacks can kill you in ONE time... bit too much random)
- No f-ckin'ways to skip the cut scenes when replaying after having been killed !!!

Since Oblivion will be very butchered if ever it is released and apart of a miracle to see one day FABLE ported to the PSP... FF7CC is the best we can get on this machine at the moment if we like RPGs...

Dude27

I view Crisis Core as a game set in the FFVII universe, but is its own game and tells its own story. I am very fascinated in learning more about the guy who Cloud modeled himself after. In the original, he was just a mysterious, black-haired, Cloud look-alike without a back story. Learning more about Zack is reason enough for me to play this game. And so far, it seems Squeenix has stayed true to the spirit of the original. It may even be more emotional than the original.

vizual3y3z

xarchsagex

phnord

Rebelphoenix83

Luv2Hate

JohnD212

kathartik

Shiryu

rob2112

Goron2000

When I get sick of the DMW? I waste all my MP, because the second I do, I roll nothing but modulating phases as the game attempts to give me a chance to get back into the fight.

aveneyer

tme2nsb

Goron2000

TONX

The stores in the menu = GOOD IDEA.

Having Save in a seperate button from the main menu = bad idea.

Tonberry summon = AWESOME.

@fuchikoma: On top of not being able to skip them...they really ARE that long. I lost a boss fight once and checked my email during the repeat cutscene.

Ajh

Sweet Tooth

Benzak

I think the combat system is over all pretty average. While it does work it's nothing to write home about. In my opinion it's like dumbed down version of the Kingdom Hearts battle system. The lack of party members is also a bit of a bummer.

I think a battle system with more emphasis on hack and slash, something similar to Devil May Cry or God of War, would have been better. To each his own though.

RichMeisterMan

KM91

Advent Children was an insult to FFVII and honestly, knowing what they've done kind of makes me hate the original a little bit, and that's sad. I feel guilty for playing it...sequels and prequels aren't supposed to make you do that.

I can go into an in depth list of failings of Advent Children as well as how this prequel has added NOTHING good to the story, an in fact only made it worse with this Genesis and "Testing of a testing of a project for Sephiroth" bullshit.

If you LIKE Final Fantasy VII please do yourselves a favor and stay AWAY from anything after the first game...

PathRifter

s2sxiii

Sadly I REALLY want to see this game so I'll probably buy it. But in most cases that would be a no-buy right there though.

fuchikoma

Fonic

shaselai

I do think it's neat to go back to the beloved FF7 world remade with new graphics. That being said, I'm getting tired of the current Square style, where EVERYBODY is designed to be a beautiful man, often with blue or green eyes. I liked it better when Sephiroth was the only one like that.

burpingcat

vizual3y3z

I'd actually recommend FF7 before Crisis Core, but it's a matter of preference, as only some things don't add up if you go from CC to FF7.

Just flip a coin in my opinion.

超外人

A remake seems likely, judging by the ending's FMV and a few minor facts don't make sense in FF7's story after playing CC.

It's just a question of how they'll make the Remake, I hear some people are hoping for PS3 with 4~5 active party members at once.

超外人

I kind of wanted to play this game until I found about that. What the hell is wrong with game developers?

James in Dupont

jjpember

Note: if you are planning on playing this, with out ever playing the greatest rpg of all time....FF7 where have you been? yes greatest is a big stretch, but i have it close to chrono trigger

zanzibarlegend

The battle system is alright. I like the fact that you can use the top buttons to cycle through your command list, but hate how restrictive the amount of your in-battle actions are. I like the DMW system, but good lord, sometimes you just want a move to come out without basically being forced into using a special you don't want.

I despise the repetitiveness of the missions. They seldom change in diversity; they're very bland looking and have nothing special about them other than being a necessary evil in the hunt for better items. Oh, and the fact that the difficulty description for missions being extremely vague doesn't help matters (honestly didn't know I was beating down enemies 20 levels higher than me, until I checked an outside source).

This game may seem like a mediocre experience, but it's no Dirge of Cerberus. Every time it seems like an average game, it does something to make itself shine. This, and God of War 2, are some of the best games for the PSP hands down.

Now excuse me while I go back to my sad Lv.44 Zack with a 36% mission completion rating.

KeroseneClimax

Everard

NocturnOwl357

Word Man

GhaleonUnlimited

greeble

Yes, this game was great. They may have made it PSP for the want of putting a great game out on PSP and also, the mission modes fit well for portability.
Hard mode is great for players wanting to challenge themselves.

The ending likely won't fit what most fans will expect and its so emotional, it rivals FFX's ending.
I cried as well... ;-;

超外人

I have the game, and I love it. I guess it's not saying much as I loved the original and even Advent Children, but it really is a great game. It looks gorgeous, and one can only hope that Square would remake VII in this graphic style. (the hyper realism of AC was bit much imo.

Amuro1X

ph15h HATES ph15h

Saint Anima

Saint Anima

Word Man

McBonk

Fabrice

Milihpen

ph15h HATES ph15h

Menolly

McBonk

You must have really big hands if 25 million is a handful. I've little doubt that this title will sell in the millions and will be considered a success by anyone of the non-fanboy variety.

On a less troll-driven note, a question: would someone who's never played FFVII be able to follow and enjoy the game?

The Wreckard

solidsquirrel

Foggynotion

-EDGE-

Scott3D

JonC

Kj719

Gadzooks149

It's turning me into a Zack fan, which is a big feat for a Cloud fanboy like myself. You just can't dislike the guy.

Machete_Bear

Deltakiral

The game is beautiful. Soundtrack is excellent, and the graphics are pretty. Gameplay also works well and it's really fluid for being on a portable.

Also, yes, I cried at the end. I mean, cried. That's right, I'm a big emotional baby. I just get too into storylines of both movies and games, it seems.

Now I need a hug. -_-

Saint Anima

Here's hoping for a PS2 port, à la GTA:LCS.

mashuren

djricekcn

Mavwick

kennyd1

Chaoticevl

So I am really happy to hear such universally positive reviews on this game. I don't have a PSP so deep down I hope this gets a PS2 port, but if I ever do get a PSP this will be my first purchase.

Lackshmana

MrPerson

Kyle81

Unstop

Striker118

OT79

M

Darthearl

The mission mode, god, its very solid but they sure could have spiced it up abit more.

pangbulle

Rastaman4200

Norellicus

Again, one of the best parts of the new review system is telling us how much of the game was played before the review. Very helpful.

Slint