Finished FFVII remake and I was very divided.
Up until the last hour, I would have given it an A grade with the only nitpicks being that it felt padded in places and I would have liked them to take it a little further past Midgar, but besides that I was loving it.
but then...
Spoilers
So its not even a remake, its a sequel and it goes into interdimensional, time traveling, alternate universe, future sephiroth coming back in time like Back to the future II and changing the timeline and re-doing everything. And this all happens in the last hour. Yeah, no thanks.
And those annoying ass cloaked spectre things that keep showing up, they are the "guardians of fate" or whatever and they are trying to preserve how the original story was supposed to play out (a meta allegory of fans that want everything to be exactly the same as it was originally) and at the end you defeat fate itself??? What the hell is going on?? and the ending plays out like "well going forward, anything can happen" basically saying that they are just gonna do what ever they want now.
I didn't sign up for any of that. Its a wild out of left field move to do and if they would have been up front about it, then I wouldn't have felt so blindsided, but there was no mention of this at all in the trailers or marketing. I just wanted to replay a modern version of my favorite game and I got that for for 30 ish hours, but then they flipped the table over. I have no idea if I even want to play episode 2, so we'll see.