Oh yeah. A huge one, actually. Years ago I upgraded my PS4 Pro's hard drive and just straight up forgot to back up my saves in the cloud. That was a pretty deflating moment once the realization sunk in.
Just finished it and overall really enjoyed the experience. I do wish it leaned more heavily into the archetypical Groundhog Day perfectionism aspect of adding layer upon layer of additional information to subsequent loops. Sadly, after a while, the protagonist just stops adjusting his methods altogether. You kinda just reach sort of a "final act" and are basically left with a character sitting at an adventure game's equivalent of max. level. Depending on how many times you went through it all, that can become really repetitive and even frustrating, since no real person would just brute force his way through a scenario like that, eventually just refusing to refine their approach. It's a small video game, though, taking place in a tiny, 12-minute window, and there's only so many lines written ... it ought to be like that, I guess. Still, as decent as their performances are, I can't shake the feeling that there'd be a hell of a lot more variations and intricacies to the loops had the developer used more easily accessible voice actors. Still, at points I loved uncovering this mystery. I can overlook the game's shortcomings. 4/5 from me and a big recommendation.
I downloaded a few demos, gonna check them out as soon as I can. So far, I have only been able to put some time into these two ...
Aerial Knight's: Never Yield A runner with funky music and a nice art style. Seems competent and well polished. Not my genre, but I can see the appeal.
Dead Estate This one I would recommend people give a chance. It's a simple top-down shooter rogue-like with a well-realized pixel-art horror/comedy-theme. Hooked me right away, managed to beat two bosses until the difficulty spiked a bit on the third level. Very easy to get into. Tried and true concept.
For what it's worth: I'm your age and fall into the opposite camp. I loved the Remake's combat. To a degree where I now believe it'll be the one thing keeping me excited for these games even after they'll inevitably have gone full Kingdom Hearts.
There's nothing wrong with traditional turn-based combat, but it sure is an antiquated gameplay mechanic. To be honest, I remember thinking that as a kid when I played the original FF7. But how much it really has the potential to turn people away? No idea. Could only speculate.
Prior to the FF7 Remake Square Enix' attempts to revamp the series' combat have never struck a chord with me either, I must admit. FF15 (which FF7R build upon) and 13 (which often gets lauded in that department) in particular felt off to me and I would've gladly swapped those systems with old faithful.
My adoration for FF7R's gameplay likely stemmed from an absolute willingness to engage with it from the get-go, which ultimately led to a better understanding of its intricacies early on, and thus a more rewarding experience throughout. Although I'd definitely describe it as more accessible--simply "easier" to fully wrap your head around than previous games, which also helps, of course. But some effort still has to be spent.
But can I just say...as an NBA fan, I pronounce Kyrie a favorite specific way and I feel like this is a huge wink-wink nudge-nudge joke that it is not pronounced like "Kairi" because another character in another universe has that name. But...Kir-E-Yay? Even Gwyneth Paltrow would never!
There's no joke. That's a fairly regular Japanese name/word. That's just how it is pronounced.
It needs to feel really good because Sony nailed the DS4. I use(d) all sorts of controllers and am always bummed out when some PC games won't let me use the DS4, even though the alternatives at my disposal (360 and XOne controllers) are mostly fine.
The design is ok. I'd probably opt for an all-black or all-white variant.
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