Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII: Reunion

[one-armed dwarf]

 

They are running out of 're' names

 

Looking like a mostly visual upgrade here. This game is actually pretty ok in parts but very uneven, hard to see it being fun now without a big rethink of its combat

 

Expect it to be important to the 'Rebirth'

[DisturbedSwan]

An easy Day 1 for me, I really need to get round to playing Intergrade at some point.

[mfnick]

Don’t know anything about this really but will definitely be a day 1 for me too. 

[Maf]

I played this through to completion back on the PSP and don’t remember anything about it. I remember it had a slot machine battle system but can’t remember how it worked. I remember the final shot of the game before the credits but can’t remember story details or context, I can just remember what it looks like. I remember liking this game but since I can barely remember it I guess I didn’t like it too much.

 

Dunno. Not excited about seeing it again but also why not I guess.

[one-armed dwarf]

I have a relatively decent memory of what it is like, and I generally just didn't enjoy it much cause of how it felt to play, its repetitiveness and the new characters it introduced

 

On the other hand I really liked the soundtrack, the ending is excellent which I won't spoil out loud obviously, and Zack and good guy Sephiroth were cool characters to follow

 

Genesis mostly sucked, but we will have to get used to him I bet cause I would be very surprised if they didn't bring the character back in some fashion for the remake trilogy but that's just me speculating.

 

The famous ending spoilers

Spoiler

the way the slot wheel mechanic worked is you would get special attacks based on some sort of weird stream of consciousness Zack was having at any moment, which resulted in very annoying RNG combat. At the end tho while Zack is getting killed it keeps flashing up Aerith and eventually replaces her with a sillouhette 😢

 

That moment sort of saves the game, even though it's pretty average overall

 

[HandsomeDead]

I played maybe a little over an hour back in the day but... I think I just don't really like the SE action RPGs.  I think I played Kingdom Hearts around the same time and just bounced off them both.  I'm interested in the story, though, but maybe I just need to hit the wiki.

[Maf]

Spoiler

Since this has a subtitle will this be different like FF7R is or is this going to be a straight remake this time? Is there anything in FF7R which means this would have to change 

 

[one-armed dwarf]

Spoilers to ffvii remake and Crisis Core

 

Spoiler

Well FFVII Remake ends with a twist of fate that apparently leaves Zack alive and likely to return in future installments of the 'core' FFVII plot. So it definitely feels like 'Reunion' is setting up a reunion between Cloud, Aerith and Zack

 

It would suck to change that ending tho, cause it's done pretty well with how the slot wheel stuff changes as Zack is dying. It might end up being a secret ending for killing a really difficult boss, like in FFX-2

 

But the game itself will probably just be the exact same, just with a different ending. 

 

All of this of course renders ridiculous the discussion of spoilers of the original FFVII wrt these new games imo, how the eff does anyone who isn't 'spoiled' parse this fucking nonsense lmao 🤣

 

[DisturbedSwan]

 

[one-armed dwarf]

I've a pretty good memory of the original PSP game (for some reason, I don't know why), and looking at that this looks like an excellent remaster. The combat is way more active and they seem to have taken the original FMVs and made them native HD

 

This game is peak 00s cringe, Genesis is probably one of the worst things they added to FFVII. Hope he's in Rebirth as well lol.

 

Spoiler

It's really weird to me how both remake and this are so casual about spoiling that Cloud was never in SOLDIER. It was such a big plot twist in the original game and they just spoil it now lol

 

[DisturbedSwan]

 

[DANGERMAN]

That's not a lot of settings for pc, but given its 4k 30fps on the Pro consoles it sounds like it isn't difficult to run

[one-armed dwarf]

Unfortunately, FFVII Remake had really bad shader stutter issues on PC so I'd be wary about this on PC as well (both UE4)

 

(source: stuttered my way through a modded playthrough earlier in the year)

[radiofloyd]

Couldn’t give a hoot about frame rates but I’ll be playing this for sure (before Rebirth comes out).

[DisturbedSwan]

Spoilery launch trailer below:

 

Spoiler

 

[one-armed dwarf]

I know Crisis Core has a bad story but it's hilarious that this trailer just spoils all of it lol

 

Literally everything is spoiled, you don't need to play the game now. You're caught up.

 

🤣

[DisturbedSwan]

Square trailers are a joke lol, I won't watch it then. I do roughly know what happens at the end I think but the whole rest of the game is a mystery so I want to keep it that way.

[radiofloyd]

Cheers for the heads up, I won’t watch it then.

[DisturbedSwan]

Reviews:

 

OpenCritic

 

Metacritic (PS5 Version)

 

 

 

[one-armed dwarf]

Those are higher scores than I'd expected for a game which was basically a 7/10 by PSP standards, which aren't high standards. That said the clips in that review seem to have some pretty radical changes to its combat, it has a posture system/interrupt system in it now where you can break through enemy shields and stuff. That definitely was not a thing in the original

 

Visually it looks very dark tho, and the details get lost in the flashiness. 

 

Square are also saying that people should really play this before Rebirth. Square's whole approach with this stuff is so weird to me, in that these games seem designed around the idea that people should be spoiled on plot events in the old games (VII and Crisis Core) before playing the 'remakes' of them. Like remaining 'pure' on them is a bigger spoiler (see the new player confusion over Remake's ending)