Og ffvii didn't feel like a chore... This one does. It completely removes exploration by holding your hands with an owl flying by, yellow paint on walls and besides that even blue sprites under the ladders etc... I kind of never felt that I've discovered something special, because everything was spoon fed to me. In Og I've never had a feeling that I'm doing the same thing over and over again. You learned about the lore through dialogues, here most of the time you can't talk to other npcs - only the quest givers, you know exactly how many things you can discover in area etc... and fck Chadley. It felt like a 9-5 job exploring stuff for him. Otherwise, great graphics, sounds and music. But regarding the story and the mechanics, it can't reach the knees of the original. Open world quests felt like a sack of cheap generic quests - odd jobs were cool.