15 Best Video Games Of 2020 (So Far)
3. Final Fantasy VII Remake
For some, the Final Fantasy VII Remake will be the greatest thing they ever experience in gaming.
The stratospheric, nostalgia-meets-modern day production highs of Midgar in 4K, the gorgeous character models, Nobuo Uematsu's phenomenal score - and cleaving THAT red scorpion in half with Cloud's Buster Sword. It nails all these beats for returning fans and newcomers alike, taking the risky directive of fleshing out the original's opening into a 30 hour epic.
Thankfully, finishing this once only encourages you to keep going, and FF7R's Hard mode is where the original game's strategic mentality comes back in. Your teams need to be meticulously balanced, magic use rationed for specific offensive charges per chapter. Bosses now require precise timing and timed assaults on weak points.
Truly, it's rare a difficulty tweak changes so much, but here it's the way to play.
Combined, you have the best single-player Final Fantasy Square Enix have put out in almost two decades; a risky first instalment that ends in a ludicrous way, but makes all of us yearn for what's next.