So I finished this yesterday and my earlier criticisms still stand. In fact, I'd say the game only got worse in the last few chapters, which I thought were complete nonsense. As a video game, I sort of hate it.
However, if there's one thing they got right, it's the characters. This may sound like faint praise because these characters already existed, but they still had to drag them into the modern gaming era and they could've made an absolute mess of it. Instead, they did them justice. In my head, these are now the definitive versions of Aerith, Tifa, Barret, etc, even when I'm replaying the original game (which I restarted immediately after finishing this one
). I love what they did with the supporting cast as well. Just a shame about the video game side of it all.