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Having enjoyed Final Fantasy VII on ps1 as one of the greatest video gaming highlights of my life I was curious how this game would play out. I just finished the game which on normal was a bit shorter than I thought it might be but getting to watch the end scenes and credits made it worthwhile to get through this edition. I always love Square's cinematic storys and the music is well above par. The action oriented and vegas slots randomizer at first threw me off but I learned to like the new combat system. The story is great with many of the core characters I loved from many years ago. Thanks.
Most of what I knew about Final Fantasy was that Sephiroth was a very very bad man, and the reason I starting playing it was to find out why. its certainly reason enough to look into getting one The story follows his ultimate ending, and his journey along the way. but thats also a good thing)I have played many videogames since my NES back in the day. Story aside, the game is perfect as far as gameplay is concerned. I am one of those people who was never able to get into RPG's like the final fantasy series, all the characters to manage and tedious micromanaging gameplay just isnt for me.
That being said, Recently I got my hands on this game, and with only a limited knowledge of Final Fantasy and several negative preconceived notions, this game simply blew me away. Many were decent, some outright bad, and afew necessary of mention.
Back in the day however my brothers played Final Fantasy 7, and over time I caught onto the story and enjoyed it for what it was worth without playing. For people who enjoy action games like Devil May Cry or God of War, the gameplay and combat will bring you right at home (although nowhere near as fast or as complex.
This is one that deserves mention. It has just enough complexity to not burden you, yet offers alot of depth and options as to appeal to the hardcore people out there.
This journey made for one of the coolest video games i have ever played. However, an hour into the game i found myself finding new areas of interest, mainly Zack.
I found myself caring about the characters in this game more than in any other game, and when the ending finally came i even found myself getting choked up. If you own a psp you should own this, if you dont.
But on Hard, the challenge increases tenfold, meaning fast reflexes and good strategy are necessary to win, especially early on.It's true the game's a little linear for an RPG, but Crisis Core is perfect for the PSP because the missions are great to do while on-the-go. Plus, it's good to know what the characters are saying, haha.Basically, Crisis Core is a very solid companion piece to FFVII, and while the story has some glaring inconsistencies with the original game (such as, while Genesis seemed like an incredibly important character in Crisis Core, he's not mentioned once--by Sephiroth, Cloud, or anyone at Shinra, in Final Fantasy VII, which is unbelievable considering all he does here), the gameplay helps make up for it. So in the US version of the game, bad voice acting replaces the Japanese version, but no worries because the addition of hard mode in the US version makes this superior. On Normal mode, the game's too easy, and the player need only press X most of the time. And for the story's faults, Zack's character is infinitely more likable than Cloud's which makes the events surrounding him all the more interesting.
But the final boss of the mission took me well over 15 minutes with constant healing, constant uses of Phoenix Downs, and each hit of mine dealing 99,999 damage. And that wasn't even the hardest part of the game. For those of you who are saying this game was too easy, you are dead wrong. All you did was play through the story, that's it.
There were missions before that that were much harder. Yes, the missions are kind of boring since almost all of them are exactly the same (fight to the final enemy of the mission and beat it) but the enemies in the later missions are amazingly strong. Once you get to missions it starts toughening up. That's the easy part.
Let's put it this way, when I completed the final mission which was only a boss with 10,000,000 HP my character was so strong that I defeated the final bosses of the story in 1 and 2 hits. I'm talking about if you don't have the costly punch materia (99,999 damage) it will take you about 10 minutes to kill one enemy.Basically what I'm trying to say is that if you venture PAST the story you will find this game to be quite difficult.
Thank you for asking. Enough said. It has Young.Sephy. Yes, I am a huge Sephiroth fangirl. I loved this game.
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