Final Fantasy VII - "Remake"

Pighardia · 19 Apr 2020 at 19:31

I'm on chapter 11. I am still really enjoying it. I'm really loving the combat. I don't think there has been a boss fight yet that hasn't been excellent.
The thing that is tarting to annoy me though is the camera during battles. It never seems to follow enemies well.... And it's incredibly annoying when there are flying enemies!

ShortWarning · 19 Apr 2020 at 21:00

Finished the game a couple of hours ago. I posted my thoughts in the spoiler thread but I really loved it.

As we're in lockdown and all I thinking of going for all the trophies but there's so much to do I don't even know where to start. Grinding to 50 maybe? What's the best way to do it?

ricky1981 · 19 Apr 2020 at 21:37

I'd imagine the wall market colosseum or maybe VR training would be the best bet for grinding or just do the new game plus as your levels carry over and it'll be less repetitive.

Vengance · 19 Apr 2020 at 22:39

ShortWarning said:
Finished the game a couple of hours ago. I posted my thoughts in the spoiler thread but I really loved it.

As we're in lockdown and all I thinking of going for all the trophies but there's so much to do I don't even know where to start. Grinding to 50 maybe? What's the best way to do it?

No need to grind, you’ll level up to 50 very quickly if you start chapter 1 on hard.

TNA · 20 Apr 2020 at 13:36

On chapter 14 now at the moment. Enjoying the side quests more on this chapter

So far done all side quests up until now.

ChrisD. · 20 Apr 2020 at 15:25

Just done the robot hand thing in chapter 7 or 8, wow, so boring. Seems to me that it's put in there for no other purpose than to add more time to the game.

.Lethal · 20 Apr 2020 at 18:50

ChrisD. said:
Just done the robot hand thing in chapter 7 or 8, wow, so boring. Seems to me that it's put in there for no other purpose than to add more time to the game.

I don't think these dev's went in with an idea to come up with a mechanic to prolong the gameplay experience. That being said I didn't think it was "fun" but if we just charged through with no ladders, using the pressure value, the hand robotics, obstacles to unlock gates etc I'd have also felt it was very dull. The robotic hands were in the original FF7 but weren't interactive for obvious reasons, for that reason I thought oh cool they added them into the area interactively, before the novelty wore off.

TNA · 20 Apr 2020 at 19:46

ChrisD. said:
Just done the robot hand thing in chapter 7 or 8, wow, so boring. Seems to me that it's put in there for no other purpose than to add more time to the game.

Yeah. Things like that really bored me. Now that I am in chapter 14 I am having a lot more fun again.

ricky1981 · 20 Apr 2020 at 20:33

Chapter 14 has been more fun, finally a bit of time to explore a little

malachi · 21 Apr 2020 at 08:33

ChrisD. said:
Just done the robot hand thing in chapter 7 or 8, wow, so boring. Seems to me that it's put in there for no other purpose than to add more time to the game.

Came upto this last night, got bored when I go to the 3rd set....I was like "more of them?!?! :rolleyes:

Jeezzz"

Had to quit the "mini game" before I could save as I started operating the controls and couldn't back out easily. After a 15 to 20 second loading screen to be put in the same place(why wasn't checkpoints used to speed it up :confused:

) I was finally able to save and quit.

ChrisD. · 21 Apr 2020 at 08:35

I remember the hands in the original, but one or two of them would have been fine. Put in some more fights if anything.

.Lethal · 21 Apr 2020 at 16:03

ChrisD. said:
I remember the hands in the original, but one or two of them would have been fine.

There's only 3 puzzles with the arms, with the 3rd being remotely close to a puzzle. But like I said, it wasn't fun to do, and on the other hand (pun not intended) it wasn't big enough to bother me.

ShortWarning · 21 Apr 2020 at 19:15

Completed the first 6 chapters on hard. It's not too bad, so far the first boss is the only one I've had real problems with but that was only because I tried way too long to 1 man it with Barret after cloud feinted. I should probably reset my weapon skills and think about it properly as I was pretty random with it when playing through.

TNA · 21 Apr 2020 at 19:23

Probably towards the end of chapter 16 now. 2 chapters left, hopefully they are lengthy.

The_Arbiter · 21 Apr 2020 at 19:43

What are people's playtimes to finish? (If allowed in this thread)

TNA · 21 Apr 2020 at 19:59

The_Arbiter said:
What are people's playtimes to finish? (If allowed in this thread)

From what I can see 40-50 hours. Which fits with likely where I will finish.

ShortWarning · 21 Apr 2020 at 20:09

The_Arbiter said:
What are people's playtimes to finish? (If allowed in this thread)

There are no actual story spoilers below, just my time.

It took me about 39 hours to complete on normal. I did as much exploring as I possibly could (but still missed a load) and completed all side quests possible).
Hard mode is going a lot quicker because I'm skipping all the story and exploration. I'm up to around 45 hours now I think.

The_Arbiter · 21 Apr 2020 at 22:32

Thanks both. Shame i'm at work as otherwise would have got a PS4 now. Those playtimes ain't bad at all, IIRC disk 1 was about 30+ hours.

.Lethal · 22 Apr 2020 at 03:42

ShortWarning said:
Completed the first 6 chapters on hard. It's not too bad, so far the first boss is the only one I've had real problems with but that was only because I tried way too long to 1 man it with Barret after cloud feinted. I should probably reset my weapon skills and think about it properly as I was pretty random with it when playing through.

I finished hard mode earlier today, I now wish there was an even higher difficulty, only Rufus gave me a bit of trouble. The Ultimate weapon (Boss via VR) in remake was way too easy with an OP reward. I would suggest doing hard mode story before going into VR for the Ultimate boss, it'll cheese the rest of the game if you get Gotterdammerung.

TNA said:
Probably towards the end of chapter 16 now. 2 chapters left, hopefully they are lengthy.

Chapter 17 took me a good while on my first play through, make sure you don't miss the hidden armor Chain Bangle (the one and only time you find it in the game).

I'm done with FF7R for now since I've just got the Platinum trophy, maxed all materia and seen the additional content that didn't have an achievement behind it (Chapter 14 scene with either Tifa, Aerith or Barret aka Cosmo Canyon reference to the date Cloud goes on)

TNA · 22 Apr 2020 at 08:22

.Lethal said:
I finished hard mode earlier today, I now wish there was an even higher difficulty, only Rufus gave me a bit of trouble. The Ultimate weapon (Boss via VR) in remake was way too easy with an OP reward. I would suggest doing hard mode story before going into VR for the Ultimate boss, it'll cheese the rest of the game if you get Gotterdammerung.

Chapter 17 took me a good while on my first play through, make sure you don't miss the hidden armor Chain Bangle (the one and only time you find it in the game).

I'm done with FF7R for now since I've just got the Platinum trophy, maxed all materia and seen the additional content that didn't have an achievement behind it (Chapter 14 scene with either Tifa, Aerith or Barret aka Cosmo Canyon reference to the date Cloud goes on)

Damn. You completed it a second time already? I got it 4 days before release and do not have 40 hours on the clock yet and I have been playing a lot lately

Thanks for the tip. So far I have done everything as far as I can see. Just doing all the missions in the be simulator at the moment before moving on to complete chapter 16

I will likely complete it by Friday.