Rose_of_Night
Pro Adventurer
Already downloadable on android, but hitting start only gives me a blank notice screen
FFVII: Ever Crisis Announced
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Lulcielid
Eyes of the Lord
- AKA
- Lulcy
ForceStealer
Double Growth
It does seem like it would have been pretty easy to keep the close-up dutch angle...
Leafonthebreeze
Any/All
- AKA
- Leaf
Suzaku
Pro Adventurer
Just as a heads up for anyone with an older phone who is interested in trying the game, you can run it via BlueStacks on PC.
I'm not going to give a complete tutorial here, but enable hardware virtualization, download the latest version of BlueStacks, create a new Nougat 64-bit instance (4 Cores / 8GB / High Performance / Performance Mode / DirectX). Open the Google Play app, sign in, search for and download the game. It'll even create a desktop icon.
Not sure what the minimum requirements will be to get decent performance, but you can try Balanced Performance / Compatibility Mode or lower the display resolution in the settings if it's not running well. The closed beta had some crashing issues, usually after playing for a while or going through lots of menus, which points to possible memory leaks which may or may not be resolved in the launch version. FWIW just based on launching the game it's already running better. In the CBT it would sometimes crash on startup or take a very long time to load.
If you played the CBT, your old BlueStacks instance might not be compatible with the game. I had to download the latest version and create a new instance to get it to show up in the Play Store as a compatible game.
I'm not going to give a complete tutorial here, but enable hardware virtualization, download the latest version of BlueStacks, create a new Nougat 64-bit instance (4 Cores / 8GB / High Performance / Performance Mode / DirectX). Open the Google Play app, sign in, search for and download the game. It'll even create a desktop icon.
Not sure what the minimum requirements will be to get decent performance, but you can try Balanced Performance / Compatibility Mode or lower the display resolution in the settings if it's not running well. The closed beta had some crashing issues, usually after playing for a while or going through lots of menus, which points to possible memory leaks which may or may not be resolved in the launch version. FWIW just based on launching the game it's already running better. In the CBT it would sometimes crash on startup or take a very long time to load.
If you played the CBT, your old BlueStacks instance might not be compatible with the game. I had to download the latest version and create a new instance to get it to show up in the Play Store as a compatible game.
ultima espio
Pro Adventurer
Suzaku
Pro Adventurer
Oh, and if it's not available on the Play Store for your device, here's the APK if you want to try sideloading it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zJmkmtMSUyLcNSRZcdEO8xUnZ5CK3Oqv/view
Might work, might not. If your device is below the required specs you can try setting the graphics to low quality. Might crash frequently if it works at all.
Might work, might not. If your device is below the required specs you can try setting the graphics to low quality. Might crash frequently if it works at all.
Redfang
Rookie Adventurer
For me that is not a negative.
It might be a bit laggy or it might be my connection. I wouldn’t want to play this on a phone, though. I’m enjoying it so far, but I have to go to work so I can’t stay up all night playing, darn it.
Tetsujin
he/they
- AKA
- Tets
All this gacha stuff and the countless menus and things to claim make my head spin. I hate all of this lmao
My PC is not exactly a gaming rig and several years old but it still managed to run on High settings, albeit framey. Medium works a bit better although it's quite blurry and text and artwork are lower in resolution as well. Briefly tried Ultra and it crashed in the menu lmao
Would probably still look pretty good on a phone screen tbh but I'm playing on a 55" 4K screen
I expected VOs to be Jpn. only but it's interesting that the text is English only. Thought they'd have at least EFIGS localization. Seems to be one of the most demanded things right now in the official Discord.
My PC is not exactly a gaming rig and several years old but it still managed to run on High settings, albeit framey. Medium works a bit better although it's quite blurry and text and artwork are lower in resolution as well. Briefly tried Ultra and it crashed in the menu lmao
Would probably still look pretty good on a phone screen tbh but I'm playing on a 55" 4K screen
I expected VOs to be Jpn. only but it's interesting that the text is English only. Thought they'd have at least EFIGS localization. Seems to be one of the most demanded things right now in the official Discord.
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cold_spirit
he/him
- AKA
- Alex T
During the parade of notifications upon reaching the main menu, I let out a big "WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING!?".
ForceStealer
Double Growth
It's the worst. Same reason I uninstalled War of the Visions minutes after booting it up, lol.
cold_spirit
he/him
- AKA
- Alex T
When I was playing it, The First Soldier featured the worst monetization I'd ever seen. But this... this is somehow worse!?
In the bottom right corner of the main menu, you can earn blue crystals by watching commercials. Like, commercials for other real world apps. I have never seen this before. Maaan, I can't believe I just watched a commercial in a FFVII game.
And then there's the 12 hour deals, engineered to aggressively target your FOMO. The future of gaming is terrifying.
In the bottom right corner of the main menu, you can earn blue crystals by watching commercials. Like, commercials for other real world apps. I have never seen this before. Maaan, I can't believe I just watched a commercial in a FFVII game.
And then there's the 12 hour deals, engineered to aggressively target your FOMO. The future of gaming is terrifying.
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ForceStealer
Double Growth
I mean it can only be expected from a game with such a pro-corporate message 
ultima espio
Pro Adventurer
It takes up about 6gb in total. After the tutorial it needs to download 5gb+ of data. Keep in mind if you’re low on space.
Suzaku
Pro Adventurer
That's super common. This is actually one of the more generous gacha games I've played, given the rates are really high (7.5% chance of a five-star weapon)and you can get multiple stamps in one go. You can even select six weapons you want to have boosted rates for. Plus you get all the characters for free by default, the weapons and costumes just make them stronger.
The most egregious monetization I've seen is still Genshin Impact. I'm not sure if it's still this way since I haven't played it in over a year but it has characters and weapons shared in its gacha and the chances of getting a good 5-star character are 1% with limited windows of availability, and the premium currency is doled out in an absolute trickle 10 or 30 at a time.
Misterbadguy
Phantom Lord
- AKA
- METEODRIVE
Re-rolling is also extremely easy, fairly uncommon with these kind of games. No salting of Gmail addresses or anything like that, just a simple data reset, and from what I've read you get all the pre-reg bonuses again too. Honestly I'm surprised at how comparatively generous it is, I've already got the 5* Murasame and Hauser weapons.
Ite
Save your valediction (she/her)
- AKA
- Ite
Played all day, got a handle on the different systems. I have been soft locked somewhere in the FS storyline. It wants me to either grind out levels to continue, or preferably pay through the nose. Typical.
I have played a lot of gacha this year because I find myself working on a team that is designing one at the moment. Ever Crisis does not get a passing grade from me.
None of my issues are with the gacha, by the way, I have no problem w gacha that’s just a reality of the industry. Gacha has nothing to do with what I’m about to say, you can have excellent games centred on gacha, and bad ones too, the blame or praise doesn’t have to land at gacha’s feet, so don’t blame gacha for this game’s failings. I’m also no stranger to ads-for-gems and the time and place to bitch about that would have been when Candy Crush was new on the market. Please enjoy Baldur’s Gate 3 or the original Final Fantasy VII if you want a more dignified experience.
Music: 11/10 epic stunning gorgeous
Graphics: 7/10 Good I guess but the recreations of the OG lack the original game’s inspiration, coming across pale and flat. #dutchanglegate I like the battle event graphics and it still looks good on the lowest settings without heating up my iPhone 12.
Story: 4/10 what the hell is this cloud atlas dogshit forcing me to stop one storyline and boot up a spoiler-laden prequel, only to stop again to boot up a spoiler-laden prequel to THAT? What’s available from the OG’s story is hacked to high heaven, but hey, points for at least playing it straight… this is still no way at all to experience FF7. Not only would I not recommend EC for newbies, I’d posit that one CANNOT enjoy it unless they’d already sunk hundreds of hours into the various Compilation titles already. Anyone still saying this is the “apology” remake can get bent.
Combat: 3/10 either stressfully slow or stressfully fast, it’s like pinball — you don’t need to do anything for a while until you REALLY DO. There’s no sense of flow or control, and the weapon and materia system doesn’t really bring anything fun to the table. None of the weapon perks I have access to are worth a damn against the vast majority of enemies, or if they are their abilities cost more ATB than the same elemental materia, which means the AI will never use those abilities and neither will I. The most interesting parts of boss fights - trying to interrupt a big charge up attack - is mostly impossible unless you successfully race to grab control of your own party members before the AI uses their ATB. Combat just isn’t fun for me, it takes all the dumbass aesthetics of the three-motherfuckers-in-a-row style and all the neck-bulging stress of an action RPG. Fail fail fail.
Menus/UI: 4/10 afaik there’s no way to sort your items, and your equipment and materia reset with every encounter, which makes the “party” section of the menu basically useless. The in-game shop is hard to find (hint: it’s the Exchange button underneath the irl money shops). For a brand new game this bodes really poorly. As they add features the menus are going to be pretty much impossible to navigate.
I have no idea if I’ll open this tomorrow. Another terrible disappointment from team Final Fantasy.
I have played a lot of gacha this year because I find myself working on a team that is designing one at the moment. Ever Crisis does not get a passing grade from me.
None of my issues are with the gacha, by the way, I have no problem w gacha that’s just a reality of the industry. Gacha has nothing to do with what I’m about to say, you can have excellent games centred on gacha, and bad ones too, the blame or praise doesn’t have to land at gacha’s feet, so don’t blame gacha for this game’s failings. I’m also no stranger to ads-for-gems and the time and place to bitch about that would have been when Candy Crush was new on the market. Please enjoy Baldur’s Gate 3 or the original Final Fantasy VII if you want a more dignified experience.
Music: 11/10 epic stunning gorgeous
Graphics: 7/10 Good I guess but the recreations of the OG lack the original game’s inspiration, coming across pale and flat. #dutchanglegate I like the battle event graphics and it still looks good on the lowest settings without heating up my iPhone 12.
Story: 4/10 what the hell is this cloud atlas dogshit forcing me to stop one storyline and boot up a spoiler-laden prequel, only to stop again to boot up a spoiler-laden prequel to THAT? What’s available from the OG’s story is hacked to high heaven, but hey, points for at least playing it straight… this is still no way at all to experience FF7. Not only would I not recommend EC for newbies, I’d posit that one CANNOT enjoy it unless they’d already sunk hundreds of hours into the various Compilation titles already. Anyone still saying this is the “apology” remake can get bent.
Combat: 3/10 either stressfully slow or stressfully fast, it’s like pinball — you don’t need to do anything for a while until you REALLY DO. There’s no sense of flow or control, and the weapon and materia system doesn’t really bring anything fun to the table. None of the weapon perks I have access to are worth a damn against the vast majority of enemies, or if they are their abilities cost more ATB than the same elemental materia, which means the AI will never use those abilities and neither will I. The most interesting parts of boss fights - trying to interrupt a big charge up attack - is mostly impossible unless you successfully race to grab control of your own party members before the AI uses their ATB. Combat just isn’t fun for me, it takes all the dumbass aesthetics of the three-motherfuckers-in-a-row style and all the neck-bulging stress of an action RPG. Fail fail fail.
Menus/UI: 4/10 afaik there’s no way to sort your items, and your equipment and materia reset with every encounter, which makes the “party” section of the menu basically useless. The in-game shop is hard to find (hint: it’s the Exchange button underneath the irl money shops). For a brand new game this bodes really poorly. As they add features the menus are going to be pretty much impossible to navigate.
I have no idea if I’ll open this tomorrow. Another terrible disappointment from team Final Fantasy.
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