I've added my favorite shots at the bottom. There's also a new photo mode in Intergrade, making it easier to captures some beautiful stills from what is a gorgeous game. The original Remake (I hate having to write that) didn’t choke too often, but sometimes all the pyrotechnics and detailed boss battles did take its toll on framerates on the fourth-generation PlayStation. It feels easier on the eyes and just more satisfying to play. The former is a revelation during your battles across both the game and the Intermission chapters, as your team fluidly moves around enemies. In Intergrade, you can now switch between performance (60fps fixed) and graphics (4K, more graphical flourishes) modes. Things that the internet went to town on, like those atrociously rendered doors, have been fixed. I took issue with the grainy land and skyscapes you’d see from the detailed areas in FF7R, and in Intergrade, the resolution has been increased and detail improved. Given that FF7R was a recent exclusive to the PS4, the changes aren’t groundbreaking but they’re certainly noticeable. In the Remake, they move and attack almost completely differently, demanding different playstyles when you switch. In the original, barring stats and limit break attacks, characters were blank slates which you loaded out with materia to offer more attack options. I’m impressed Square Enix was able to eke out yet another completely different fighting style for this DLC chapter - and this bodes well for the subsequent four characters that were party members in the PSOne’s Final Fantasy 7. Sonon also has a convenient resurrection skill that triggers if Yuffie gets KOed, ensuring you’ll center your fight strategies around letting Sonon draw the enemy’s attacks, while Yuffie attacks weaknesses and shoots across the area for enemy crowd control.

You can also bolster Sonan with materia, making him a more tempting lure to enemies, or just amping up his hit points to ensure he survives more often than not. This leaves Yuffie able to deal damage safely from a distance she has the ability to mete out elemental attacks without having to equip the necessary materia (orbs that add magic and skills to characters), able to attack weak points without tinkering much with your loadout. While he’s an uncontrollable support character, and will choose his own movement and enemies to attack, you can still order him to attack with skills or equipped magic from the battle menu.

He acts as a close-range tank, distracting enemies from Yuffie who’s more easily damaged. Soon into the first chapter, Yuffie is joined by a new character, Sonon. But from the perspective of Yuffie, she doesn’t know that, and when she crushes the anxious Avalanche member in a board game, the ninja doesn’t hold back. At points, it’s borderline tone-deaf: Jessie may have just sent her friends, part of anti-Shinra group Avalanche, to their deaths. When you take on secondary characters from Remake in Fort Condor mini-games, she’ll talk smack to the likes of Jessie, Roach and Kyrie. She’ll hurl her oversized shuriken at enemies, and then either close the distance for melee attacks, or launch magical elemental attacks from afar, with the shuriken acting as a sort of lightning rod.Īs a young, out-of-town ninja, Yuffie also brings a healthy dose of sass and attitude to a game (and characters) that can take everything a little too seriously. Yuffie’s battle style switches between long- and close-range fighting. In Remake, each character had a unique playstyle in battle, and that’s still true in Intermission. Sadly, you can only play Intermission with a PS5. It also includes new original content called “Intermission.” This is a two-chapter run completely separate to the main game, following the once-optional character Yuffie arriving into Remake’s main setting, Midgar, and bringing her own fight to the evil Shinra corporation. It’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake, remade (or at least polished up) for the PlayStation 5.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade is a little confusing, if the name didn’t give it away.

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