honestly one of my favorite games. there's so much I find insufferable about this game and in many ways I hate how it twisted the series. the sidequests are god-awful, the story's presentation is horrific (regarding what's in the game; the DLCs are pretty good), and I only really like the main cast. but there are no FFs I want to return to as much as I want to return to Eos. I love the camaraderie, I love the open world (kinda), I love the day/night cycles and the story in broadstrokes and certain key moments are some of my favorite moments in any video game. It's my favorite 7/10 and I'd rather play this than most of my 8s and 9s.
It's not. This team was its own thing, and they eventually worked on Forspoken.
Actually, the team who made FF7Remake and Rebirth was primarily comprised devs who made the FFXIII trilogy. Remake has a lot of similarities to the XIII trilogy in general (in good ways), and it's all the same composers (primarily Hamuzu and Suzuki). Naoki Hamaguchi for example (who's the Remake trilogy director) worked on the entire XIII trilogy, but not XV.
They still have 10/10 game in them. There are moments of such brilliance in this one, the way the main characters interact with each other, how it builds a bond between the player and the cast, is incredible. The modern touches are really invigorating. If not the development hell, this could've been one of the best games. In a way, it's a classic Final Fantasy mess.
Thought the game was pretty generic in terms of story and gameplay, but the characters are charming enough to carry a lot of its woes. Theres also menus which I found to be insanely clunky. Not being able to save inside a dungeon is really really annoying.
Actually, the team who made FF7Remake and Rebirth was primarily comprised devs who made the FFXIII trilogy. Remake has a lot of similarities to the XIII trilogy in general (in good ways), and it's all the same composers (primarily Hamuzu and Suzuki). Naoki Hamaguchi for example (who's the Remake trilogy director) worked on the entire XIII trilogy, but not XV.