I had to look this chapter up when doing this ranking, because I almost completely forgot it. Still, it’s fantastic to see Aerith and Tifa take such a liking to each other, and the chapter is over before it starts to get too grating. After a satisfying encounter with Abzu, you’re tasked with navigating the icky waters by raising and lowering water levels and completing a frustrating water pump minigame. In this chapter in which Cloud, Aerith and Tifa are thrown into the sewers, it’s the other way around.
Normally, a dungeon will start simple and then escalate over time, ending with a climactic boss fight. There’s a beautiful scene at the beginning with whichever character you’ve romanced the most, but it doesn’t make up for this desperate bid to lengthen the game’s runtime. If you go for all the side content, you’ll need to retread yet another dungeon, as well as other areas filled with filler enemies. It’s bad enough if you make a mad dash through, with a retread of a previous dungeon and an extended chase sequence. There are no chapters in Final Fantasy VII Remake I dislike… except for this one.
Here’s my unofficial ranking of each of Final Fantasy VII Remake’s 18 chapters. Other episodes took small or nonexistent parts from the original game and blew them up into their own storylines or dungeons, to varying success. Final Fantasy VII Remake’s sidequests in particular can feel tedious and unrewarding, yet if you wanted to complete them before the credits roll, you needed to do each new batch all at once, crippling the game’s momentum. Of course, not every chapter knocked it out of the park. This kept things varied and surprising throughout my playthrough, with highs and lows throughout. Each time I started a new chapter, I didn’t know if I was going to find myself in a sprawling dungeon, dig deeper into the relationship between Cloud and Sephiroth, or get to play through a grab-bag of sidequests.
FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE EPISODIC TV
There’s nothing new about separating a game into different chapters, but the way Final Fantasy VII Remake does it especially captures the episodic structure of a TV show.
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