sawyerpip wrote:Tomous wrote:I never played the original, read this in a review:
The first installment centers solely on the city of Midgar, which takes up, by some estimates, a little more than the first quarter of the original game’s first of three discs.
Is this true
they'll never finish it at that rate
Midgar probably took about 6 hours or so in the original game for a first time player. I think the game probably took about 40hrs on average so yeah it's a very small chunk of the game
Yeah it's by no means a tiny section of the game but there is still a concern that it's going to take them a long time (and a large number of "episodes") to get through everything. Especially as whole new systems of the game still appear after Midgar so it's not like this first chapter gives them the basis for everything.
I think there is plenty of scope to expand the Midgar section into something more elaborate than in the original game, it would be easy enough to bulk out the content so this first game is pretty large. Even this demo section already includes more content than the original opening.
I really enjoyed the demo, just seeing the world and hearing that music in glorious detail was awesome. Not entirely sold on the battle system yet but these things take time to bed in so I'm confident it will come into its own. Some of the voice acting is bloody annoying, especially Barrett. Hate how they say some of the terminology as well - "Mack-o" instead of "May-ko" etc. That's not how I've been saying it in my head for 23 years!