JENOVA: The explosive combination of music, memories and tension
This might just be yet another article on the unending list of the zillions that have come out regarding Final Fantasy VII Remake. But in it, I won’t be wasting a lot of time talking about the game itself or about what it did wrong or right compared to the original or even what my expectations are for the second part of this saga. Those are all conversations that you can easily find elsewhere and that, by this point, even as we stand just 40 days after (what was meant to be) the game’s initial release date, have already been analyzed to death.
No, this is a story about a tiny portion of the game. A section that literally forced me to drop my controller to simply lose myself within it. Something that I had been expecting for over 20 years, yet the payoff was so much greater than I could’ve imagined.
Before I begin this story however, allow me to put in my own two cents by pointing out that by no means do I think that Square Enix did a perfect job with the Final Fantasy VII Remake. They re-did sections of the game that in my opinion, would’ve worked pretty well even today, substituting them for tedious battles and running around empty corridors that felt more like something you needed to get out of the way in order to reach the good stuff rather than anything substantial. Not to mention the lack of blood so the…
