Welcome to the iconic city of Midgar, a steel-plated metropolis built atop the dreams and aspirations of those less fortunate souls living in the slums and shantytowns below. Final Fantasy 7 Remake Review: Modern Mythology In fact, it could be the best Final Fantasy game I've ever played - period.
However, after 50 hours spent adventuring as spiky-haired protagonist Cloud Strife, I'm comfortable calling Final Fantasy 7 Remake the best Final Fantasy game I've played in decades. I was at first skeptical that Remake could balance these elements without losing anything that made the original great. It was heavy stuff back then, but it set the bar for the types of stories that games could tell, and thus it went largely unmatched in the years following its release.įinal Fantasy 7 Remake takes cues from some of the best games to release in the past two decades, all while maintaining the best parts of the original’s weirdness.