Yes, it's beautiful. Yes, the music is amazing. Yes, the combat _can be fun_.
But most of the game is spent either watching cutscenes or walking forward (to get to the next cutscene). The vast majority of the combat is boring because mashing square to win is faster than actually fighting "correctly". A few battles were actually engaging and asked me to think a bit, but most of them are a button mashing snooze-fest.
I'm in Ch16 right now, which a lot of people said was their favorite part, and it's probably the most boring section of the game. The building is mostly empty and all I do is enter a giant, empty room and run to the exit. Going up the 59 flights of stairs was beyond painful and the entire sequence that forced me to walk through the museum was worse. The only "gameplay" in this entire chapter so far involved me playing as Tifa doing some really janky platforming (it was not fun).
Maybe I just don't like JRPGs anymore?
Bad idea to say that you dont like FF7 on gamefaqs. Everytime either Link or Cloud wins those stupid character/game battles. You're gonna get pitchforked by all the fanboys.
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