I don't understand how any of you can give half of a shit about the story when the combat is sitting right there like a huge ol elephant turd begging to be mocked
To call this combat shallow is an insult to action games with shallow combat. I played on normal (the highest difficulty available) and didn't have to do anything other than button mash until the boss, and then I only had to button mash and occasionally use potions. It's shit, pure and utter shit, and completely indefensible. If you can't make decent action combat, use fucking turn based. You're a jrpg you dumb fuckers.
Midgar is very pretty. It's a shame you're only going to be able to go to very specific areas, completely on rails. At the pace they're going, we'll get to the open world section with the release of the PS7 in 2032, maybe.
This game is a bloated, terrible, on rails, tourism fest. It's a complete and total surrender to mediocre game development, and is entirely emblematic of Squeenix in this blighted year of our lord, 2020. A lot of you are going to buy it, "play" it, and claim to enjoy it, because you're dumb with no standards. I'm not going to bother to click on this thread after probably tomorrow, or any other threads about this stillbirth of a "game" going forward, so let me be clear: you're terrible human beings, I award you no points, and may a God I don't even believe in have mercy on your souls.
Bitches.