Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core Isn't Perfect, But It Still Deserves This Remaster
Square Enix has achieved the impossible and is finally remastering Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core. Now equipped with the ‘Reunion’ subtitle, this upcoming revival of the PSP classic will likely act as the perfect primer for those with no idea who Zack Fair is ahead of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and where it plans to take the original narrative. It’s gonna get weird.
He’s going to be a big player, especially given he’s (spoilers) come back from the dead after Cloud, Aerith, and the gang managed to reverse fate and change their collective destinies. Rebirth’s reveal trailer features Zack a number of times, with him and Cloud returning to Midgar after their once fatal encounter against Shinra to seemingly continue their lives that in previous iterations would always end in tragedy. It’s impossible to tell if this was always the case, or Remake’s conclusion saw this altered fate jam itself into the existing timeline like Back to the Future or Terminator. Time travel is the worst, especially when it resides within a JRPG.
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Crisis Core is a good game, but I’d hesitate to call it a great one. It’s certainly an excellent PSP game, and pushed the platform further in terms of graphics and mechanics than most when it came to exclusives on the portable machine. It also fell during a thirsty time for Final Fantasy 7 fans. We had just come off the back of Advent Children and a selection of now extinct mobile games, with Crisis Core building upon the aesthetic, narrative, and ideas of this new direction. It was wanky anime melodrama of the highest order, and Crisis Core would double down on these tenets whether we came to like it or not. Many had mixed feelings, and it
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