I played up to chapter 8 over the weekend. I gotta say I've really been liking it. I didn't do a ton of side quests since I wanted to get through as much story as possible.


Combat was strange at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty intuitive and fun. Wait mode can make it similar to the old style.


My biggest complaint is lowering your max HP after taking damage in a dungeon for a while. I usually just backtracked to the entrance and rested since Gil and items can be hard to come by, but it's a bit annoying, a spell to do the same as the items would be helpful.


Looks like this is the direction the FFVII remake will most likely take, wasn't sure at first, but it has the potential to be very good.

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