A while back, I wrote a post with a very similar title (that can be found here) about beating the video game Final Fantasy VII after having to make many attempts to do so because of erased saves. Here I am, eight years later, telling you that I finally beat the new version of the game, Final Fantasy VII – Remake (or FF7 Remake, for short)!

I bought the game about a year and a half ago and I started playing it right away. Now, it wasn’t erased/failed saves that made it take that long for me to beat it this time. It was my lack of time. Between work and the things I needed to do at home on a daily basis, there wasn’t always time for me to play video games. And, when I did have time, it was usually only chunks of time that were maybe a half hour to forty-five minutes long. I don’t like playing story-based games with that little time because you can’t advance the story very much. If I knew I only had that short amount of time, I’d usually play games like Madden, where I could get in a game or two in.

I probably wouldn’t even have pushed to finish it except that they just released a remake of the prequel story to this, Crisis Core. Originally, Crisis Core was released as a PSP exclusive, although I heard you could download it via the PlayStation Network on PlayStation 3. I only ever played it on PSP. Crisis Core (the original version anyway) is still one of my favorite games, regardless of platform. I’m hoping the remake does it justice. Of course, the only way I’ll know is to play it. I wanted to finish the FF7 Remake first, though, so I made a little time over the past week to finish it off.

It’s not as satisfying as beating the original Final Fantasy VII game, but it was still something that I’m glad I finished.