I finished a very enjoyable playthrough from start to VI thanks to Pixel Remasters, and I bought VII-IX on Switch to keep it going. I'm on the first arc in Kalm after leaving Midgard and I am finding it a struggle to get through. This game moves so slow, the story is not at all interesting so far, combat is entirely monotonous, the characters are flat, the controls are clunky, and the cut scenes are excruciatingly long and pointless.

I do not want to play through it for completeness sake, but I also don't want to give up too early.

I feel like I should be enjoying it by now, right? Is there some point in the story where it really takes off? If so, how close am I?

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[–] krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's so well regarded, I kinda feel like I'm missing something. I remember bring really excited about it when it came out, since I had played all the FF releases in the US up to that point. However, I had gotten a computer so I could play Diablo, so my parents would not shell out for a PlayStation.

I ended up playing it some at a friend's house, but right away I was not impressed. I've always guessed that its success was linked to the success of the PlayStation, and I think it introduced a lot of people to FF. Hell, if I didn't have the amazing games from NES and SNES to compare it to, I probably would have been a fan.

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It's really only regarded by people who played it as their first on their first disc based console. Objectively it's a downgrade from 6