S5E10 - Final Fantasy Extravaganza! FF7 Remake Demo, FF XV DLC, and FFXIV - “It bothered me a little bit”

<h2><strong>In This Episode:</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We talk about where we stand with the Final Fantasy franchise right now. There's the FFVII Remake Demo on PS4, some FFXIV Shadowbringers talk, and even Void getting to the FFXV DLC that really should have been part of the main game!</span></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">FF7 Remake Demo, Misc Thoughts:<br /></span></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Void - Combat is fine. Not the best, not the worst.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Curious to dig into the materia system.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beej - it’s not great, but at least it’s not totally button mashing with no real depth</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Void - Likes it better than FFXV.  It feels more responsive.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beej - It feels like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy XV had a baby, and XV has the dominant genetics </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Void really wants to replay it in “classic” mode to see how it feels.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No jump button. Beej hates. You jump like in older 3d Zelda games, by running up to a ledge. It’s awkward. And I want to jump while running around, dangit.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The buttons change their function based on combat, so if you get aggro and expect to dash away, think again. You’ve just opened up your tactics menu for a party member.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The character swapping/menu opening during combat seems counterintuitive. Pressing X to open the menu instead of the D-Pad Up/Down made Beej constantly swap party members back and forth when all he needed was a Potion or to cast Thunder. Other SE games trained us that D-pad was how menus work in real-time ARPGs. Why change it now? WHY?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s already obvious that it’s going to be much more fleshed out, both in terms of the world and the story. It will be f</