Yuffie and her companion Sonon in FF7 Remake: Intergrade. Square Enix should do this for every character, even if that means we get several shorter story-based DLC over the next few years before Part 2. We haven’t been to Cosmo Canyon to visit Bugenhagen, so we don’t know anything about Nanaki (that’s Red-XIII’s real name!) yet.įF7 Remake: Intergrade, however, is taking a novel approach to character development with a brand-new episode introducing Yuffie “as she infiltrates the shadowy Shinra Corporation to steal a powerful Materia and restore glory to her homeland.” It’s a much more interesting way to introduce the character compared to the original, where she was an annoying stranger you meet in the woods who later steals ALL of your Materia in one of the game’s more frustrating sequences. That’s obviously because the original game’s story has been sliced up. The talking wolf-lion is introduced in the game’s final act as an NPC who fights alongside the party and engages in some cat-like platforming maneuvers, but we don’t learn anything about him beyond his desire to bite the evil mad scientist Hojo.īy comparison, learn a lot about Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Aerith throughout the adventure: what motivates them, the general direction of their moral compass, their relationships, and tidbits of personal history. Square Enixįinal Fantasy VII Remake is a superb game with very few flaws, but one of the most glaring is how it fails Red-XIII.
A flashback focused on Vincent’s past would inevitably make us despise Hojo even more.