Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Review

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Reaction's Review of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

14th Jun 2009

Overall Rating

2 stars
  • Value for money
    1 stars
  • Graphics
    4 stars
  • Addiction Level
    1 stars
  • Multi-player
    No

++ Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for PSP ++
Good points: Nice graphics, in a Japanese-cartoon style.
Bad points:...
* On opening the game, you find there are 20 (yes TWENTY) pages of instructions needed to explain it.

* Astonishingly bad game play! Having just finished God of War: Chains of Olympus I am used to exciting battles with multiple enemies/monsters, where you can freely move about and select which monster to hit next, and enjoy a real challenge of working out how to beat them before dying. That just doesn't happen in this game! A group of enemies turns up, there's a pause, the game stops to pointlessly tell you that you are "entering combat mode", then it targets each enemy in turn *for you*, while all the others pretty much stand around and wait their turn to be killed (like a bad Jean-Claude van Damme film!). To use a different move / magic etc, you have to use the PSP's shoulder buttons to cycle through a range of options before you can use one. Is this 1989 or 2009? I have never seen such a clumsy, wooden, fighting experience in a PSP game.

* Infuriating (and bad) music *all the time* that *can't be turned off*. Have you ever heard of a game where there is no "Music volume" and "SFX volume" settings? The cheesy guitar track rapidly drove me nuts!

* If you lose a mission you are taken back to the beginning... but then have to sit through the same lengthy cut scene before you can have another go. Grrrr! There is no skip button to let you jump past it, so there you sit for ages waiting and waiting for another go.

* Ridiculous and unfathomable numbers / statistics everywhere. So you're in the middle of a 'battle' and then the screen suddenly changes to a full screen that chooses a random number by itself. So if there was even a tiny bit of excitement left during a battle, it's ruined by these numbers popping up constantly.

I had high hopes for this game, but it shows a complete lack of understanding for involving and visceral game play. Any style or excitement it might have had has been ruined by the clumsy mechanics of the game - and the geek who thought it would be funny to spoil the game by popping up numbers everywhere in the middle of battle. This so far the worst game I have bought.

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