I wanted to respond to
Timothy's post from the 'Kingdom Hearts' thread but figured that it would be better not to derail that thread and post it here instead...
That FF remake is gonna be great.
Now where have I heard that before?I'd be willing to bet good money that it's going to be a major disappointment. The development has already been started over from scratch once and the lack of news is rather telling, I reckon (it was announced 4 years ago now!). Aside from anything else, I abhor the art style for the remake. It's been rendered in the
Advent Children style. Urgh. A decent remake would have used Tetsuya Nomura's art style from the original game as a jumping off point...
Imagine that cartoon aesthetic rendered on the PS4 (or PS5 as the much delayed remake's production is likely to switch over to - mark my words). Bright, colourful, charming, full of character and timeless. No, instead they've gone for a semi-realistic look...
Soulless, dull, fucking 'dark and gritty™' and already it looks dated; with that horrible 90's
Matrix pissy green filter. Yuk.
This remake is gonna be absolute crap. No more turn based battles; fuck updating it for a modern audience. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with turn based battles and if you're going to change such a fundamental part of
Final Fantasy VII, then why even bother calling it
Final Fantasy VII? Also, I'll be very surprised if the game still has a world map that you're free to explore because of technical limitations and the fact that Square Enix have said that they intend to release the game in an episodic format.
Nope, I'm calling it now; this remake is going to blow.
Final Fantasy VII is in my top 5 games of all time but I have absolutely zero faith that this remake will be anything other than a horribly misguided and inferior waste of time, resources and potential.