Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Deluxe Edition

nobody owns a ps5. it should've been a multiplat release

I sincerely doubt putting it on series X would make it sell ten million more copies given that the series x sold half as many units as the ps5 and the game is way too big for the ps4 to handle

the digressions and side quests and goofy fluff are a significant part of what the game is "about." it's a 90s jrpg with the polish sophistication of a 2020s Western AAA game.

I think it's a fair criticism for people who care about plot; there are multiple instances where the gang goes from A to B without much rhyme or reason (which the writers seem to be self-aware of; see Barrett's gag right at the start of the Grasslands). I can see how this kind of storytelling won't work for everyone, but having said that, I don't think the plot matters much here since the game does a million things that I find more interesting. Despite being the middle of a trilogy and thus laying a lot of groundwork for the finale, I think the game still managed to deliver an intrinsically fulfilling sense of what this whole journey was "about", though it'll hinge on how much you care about these characters for sure.