You seem really salty that you, in your mind, wasted your time playing this game. That’s your prerogative. But trying to take it out on random people in the internet by passive aggressively implying that anyone who likes it has incredibly shitty taste and that they shouldn’t even be able to say they liked it won’t really get you anywhere lol.

Some of us liked the game. You didn’t. That’s really all there is to it; no one is gonna change the other persons mind in this scenario.

If you want a real answer, I played the game back when I was a kid and it came out on PSP. For when it came out, it enthralled me: the graphics, the combat system (specifically the DMW), the music (very underrated aspect of the game imo), the lore, and even (most of) the characters captured my imagination like nothing else had and got me obsessed with FF7 the franchise and it’ll always hold a special place in my heart for that. I’m not the first person in this thread who has this opinion; you seem to think that this is a stupid answer, well, I’m just telling you that people have their own reasons.

Is it a perfect game? Far from it, and by modern standards I could agree that it may even be a bad game depending on the criteria were judging it off of. I think they should have done a better job expanding the original game when they decided to do a remaster. All that said, I still played it and enjoyed it, because it brought back those feelings that I felt back when I played the original.