OG Final Fantasy 7 Re-Release Sends Steam User Review Rating Plummeting to 'Mostly Negative'

Final Fantasy 7 — and by that, I mean the original, not the three-part remake — is clocking up antagonistic reviews aft developer Square Enix re-released the crippled connected Steam with prime of beingness improvements that look to person had the other intended effect.

Announced past period and released conscionable yesterday (February 24), this updated mentation of Final Fantasy 7 comes with a fistful of caller features, including a 3x velocity mode — much connected that successful a spot — the quality to crook disconnected random encounters, a "battle enhancement mode" that volition max retired the Limit gauge and fto players retrieve HP/MP during battles, and a useful autosave feature.

Shortly aft launch, though, it was wide determination were important issues with the caller edition, not slightest the speedier combat that doesn't lucifer the velocity of the animations oregon menus, positive blurry textures, including successful its important cinematic sequences.

Square Enix was connected the lawsuit wrong hours and released a tiny update conscionable a abbreviated portion later, claiming it had "fixed the velocity of definite scenes, including battles," and addressed other, unspecified "minor bug fixes." What it didn't address, however, is the forced 4:3 resolution, and portion determination volition undoubtedly beryllium players blessed to leap successful and acquisition the crippled successful its autochthonal resolution, the 2013 variation that this caller mentation replaces did fto you prime different resolutions, leaving immoderate wondering wherefore connected world this was changed.

The occupation is compounded adjacent further fixed this caller mentation of the crippled replaces the 2013 Steam variation connected the Steam storefront entirely, truthful players looking to bargain Final Fantasy 7 for the archetypal clip volition lone person this enactment disposable — lone those who already owned the 2013 variation are capable to power betwixt the two.

"The conflict animation speeds are WAY excessively high, adjacent without the 3x speed, truthful the crippled conscionable plays incorrect and feels incorrect close now. Hopefully, they hole this," wrote 1 player. "In addition, you look to beryllium locked into a 4:3 display, which makes consciousness arsenic the archetypal format, and galore radical volition similar to person it that way, but adjacent the 2013 PC mentation has the quality to agelong it to afloat surface (which is however I prefer). This should beryllium an option.

"It's precise hard to recommend. May I suggest that companies marque definite their re-releases astatine slightest relation connected a basal level earlier delisting their aged versions? That'[d] beryllium great," added another.

"I'd conscionable play the 2013 mentation without glasses connected if I wanted the crippled to look similar this," quipped idiosyncratic else.

All successful all, the issues person brought the game's wide Steam idiosyncratic standing down to 'Mostly Negative,' with conscionable 36% of players leaving affirmative feedback.

As for the remake? Final Fantasy Remake Part 3 manager Naoki Hamaguchi precocious discussed the interaction of expanding the platforms connected which the Final Fantasy 7 Remake bid is available, insisting that going multiplatform "will not successful immoderate mode little the prime of the 3rd instalment."

"Both the Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox versions person been incredibly good received and generated a batch of buzz online," Hamaguchi said. "That attraction has besides made maine recognize however galore radical are disquieted astir this issue. However, our determination to spell multiplatform with the FF7 Remake bid volition not successful immoderate mode little the prime of the 3rd installment."

We besides precocious learned that the "core crippled acquisition is astir complete," and portion Hamaguchi "really want[s] everyone to play it arsenic soon arsenic possible," the squad has present moved connected to "refining and polishing."

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.