Final Fantasy VII Remake Deluxe Edition

maybe they mean scripted/forced encounters? this game does have a problem with that.

you mean bosses? what's the problem with that?

not exactly the bosses (altho i do dislike how damage spongey the bosses got) but just all the mob encounters. i remember being forced to do almost all of them even if I rlly didn't want to. the game feels like it was made by control freaks.

You can definitely just run past enemies to flee, and avoid them in the overworld though. There are a handful of story related encounters like bosses and stuff but Midgar's linearity I guess makes things feel more like encounters are placed. But that's not the same as scripted

Because there's no way to buy intermission separately from Integrade

Actually, you can buy it separately if you own the PS4 version of Remake and play it on PS5. I really wish the Persona series would do it like that.

Yeah i swear people are looking at the original through nostalgia goggles because that plot was insanity bordering on nonsense, but in a fun way. Remake was written by the same guy who wrote the original, why would you be shocked more insane stuff is happening in the plot. The glue that holds FFVII together is the characters anyways, which imo are even better in the Remake series than the original.