

“We feel optimistic that most of you will receive the game for launch day,” the statement reads. For players in the Americas, copies of the game started shipping the week before launch. To counteract potential delays, Square began shipping copies of the game early in some regions. Just weeks before the game’s release, Square Enix announced some physical copies of Final Fantasy 7 Remake could be delayed by “unforeseeable changes in the distribution and retail landscape” due to coronavirus, although the game’s release date was not pushed back. Square Enix previously confirmed the remake of FF7 will be released in multiple installments and that each installment will be quite substantial during the E3 2019 press conference, the team also confirmed it will contain two Blu-ray discs’ worth of content. The remake brings some huge updates for FF7 fans, who have waited anxiously for the game during its long development period. “The wait for its release was a long one, but in gameplay, story, characters, and music, it delivers–the wait was worth it.” If you’d like to play a chunk of the game for yourself ahead of release, you can check out the demo.

“Regardless of your history with the original game, Final Fantasy VII Remake is an astounding achievement,” he writes.

In his glowing 10/10 Final Fantasy 7 Remake review, GameSpot’s Tamoor Hussain praised its updated combat, characters, and stunning rendition of Midgar. Some fans even got their hands on the game days in advance after Square opted to ship copies of the game to Europe and Australia ahead of schedule, and the reviews are already in. The first part of Square Enix’s sprawling, episodic remake of the seminal PlayStation RPG released April 10, so now we can all dive in and finally see Cloud, Tifa, Barrett, and the rest of the crew in HD. The long-awaited Final Fantasy 7 Remake is finally out on PS4.
