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Cor, what a thing. Wasn’t that exciting? I’m particularly enamoured with the new Uematsu-composed theme song “Hollow” that plays in the first half of the trailer. That sounds rad, and the chorus sounds like it has some lovely little musical nods to other FFVII motifs, too. Really, though, I’m all about that re-orchestrated battle music in the second half of the trailer. Man alive does that get the blood pumping.
There is, I’ll admit, some rather cringe-worthy lines of dialogue on display in the new trailer (seriously, who walks round with an antique tea cup complaining about having run out of butter?), but that scene in the Honeybee Inn is just… as the man says, perfection. I am very much looking forward to conversing witheveryonewhen I’m walking around as dour cross-dressing Cloud. I also love that they managed to make him look like a buttoned up Victorian governess while Tifa and Aeris (sorry, AeriTH) are strutting around in backless cocktail dresses that look like they’re ready for a night on the town. And Red XIII! What a legend. The Shinra execs may have some truly terrible dialogue, but at least we can count on him for some sage words of wisdom.
I didn’t get a chance to play as Tifa when I tried theFinal Fantasy VII Remakeat EGX last year, as thebombing mission demoonly let you control Cloud and Barret. Still, its mix of real-timeFinal Fantasy XV-esque sword-slicing andFinal Fantasy XIII-style staggering mechanics proved to be a potent combination, making each battle a lot more thrilling and dynamic than the turn-based battles of yore. Like FFXV, enemies roam in plain sight, only here you can switch between different members of your party to make use of their respective abilities, such as Barret’s long-range gun arm when enemies move out of reach of Cloud’s buster sword.
Of course, we don’t know whether Final Fantasy VII Remake is even coming to PC yet, although the fact that Square Enix have confirmed that it will only be atimed PlayStation 4 exclusivefor a year gives me hope that we’ll eventually see a proper Windows Edition of the game sometime in 2021 a bit like they did for Final Fantasy XV. I’ll probably still dust off my PS4 to play it in April, because, let’s face it, I’m not going to be able to wait an entire year to potentially play it on PC, but if a PC version does get announced, you can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be playing it all over again come 2021.
