10 Times Final Fantasy 7 Remake Made Our Jaw Drop
3. The Scorpion Sentinel Encounter
The Scorpion Sentinel is one of the more memorable boss battles in the entirety of FF7. Many players will have died here, if only thanks to that translation error. Thankfully, there are no such issues in the remake. This encounter has instead been entirely reimagined with some flashy, if a little over the top, pyrotechnics.
Like in the original game, this battle offers us the first real challenge in combat. Up to this point, we’ve waltzed through the rabble of Shinra guards that have proven woefully unprepared for their role, and now we come across this.
The fight itself is not particularly challenging, but the scale of the carnage that unfolds throughout is quite astonishing. Here we are trying to string together some offence while all around there’s fire, explosions, and laser beams. The cinematics that surround the gameplay turn this fight into one of the more striking moments of the entire game.
This is the first real experience of proper combat in the game, and it perfectly rounds off this tutorial of sorts, serving as a good indicator of what's to come.