{"id":10682,"date":"2023-06-14T13:27:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=10682"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:47:42","slug":"final-fantasy-vii-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/final-fantasy-vii-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"FINAL FANTASY VII: REMAKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally I had wanted to play <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Final_Fantasy_VII_Remake\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this game<\/a> when it first came out, but it was console-exclusive for a while and I haven&#8217;t played on one of those since the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PlayStation_2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PS2<\/a> era. Then I sort of forgot about it while waiting for the PC port until suddenly remembering it last month.<\/p>\n<p>The game starts out quite good but somewhat quickly runs into a rather severe issue: Fate Ghosts. They&#8217;re terrible. They accomplish nothing beyond degrading the story and character behavior, so I guess the devs just really wanted a big set-piece endgame fight to go out on and couldn&#8217;t think of a better way to implement it.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t particularly thrilled by the combat system either. If you&#8217;re going to do real-time battles you should not force people to switch between characters during those battles in order to hit enemies&#8217; weaknesses (or force you to use abilities for multiple characters concurrently for that matter). It&#8217;s just a giant pain in the ass and I was already tired of it by the fourth chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Normally this would be where I&#8217;d say that I won&#8217;t bother playing the next game in the series&#8230; but since the ghosts will presumably be absent it may just end up tolerable. Guess we&#8217;ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally I had wanted to play this game when it first came out, but it was console-exclusive for a while and I haven&#8217;t played on one of those since the PS2 era. Then I sort of forgot about it while waiting for the PC port until suddenly remembering it last month. The game starts out quite good but somewhat quickly runs into a rather severe issue: Fate Ghosts. They&#8217;re terrible. They accomplish nothing beyond degrading the story and character behavior, so I guess the devs just really wanted a big set-piece endgame fight to go out on and couldn&#8217;t think of a better way to implement it. I wasn&#8217;t particularly thrilled by the combat system either. If you&#8217;re going to do real-time battles you should not force people to switch between characters during those battles in order to hit enemies&#8217; weaknesses (or force you to use abilities for multiple characters concurrently for that matter). It&#8217;s just a giant pain in the ass and I was already tired of it by the fourth chapter. Normally this would be where I&#8217;d say that I won&#8217;t bother playing the next game in the series&#8230; but since the ghosts will presumably be absent it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[148,499,121,62,473,30],"class_list":["post-10682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-action-rpg","tag-final-fantasy","tag-rpg","tag-science-fiction","tag-third-person-perspective","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}