FFVII Rebirth is insanely bad.
It's like it wasn't enough that we get a remake in episodes, they upped their game here. Rebirth is 40% Chadley, 30% ludicrous side quests and 30% story. All this in big hub worlds that don't work, except if you skip every side content. Really it's not fun doing the same 25 quests in every region. I hate Chadley.
So ok, most of these are optional, that means that the main story must be good right? Yeah, it was butchered. There were some good moments but mostly it didn't make any sense neither did it capture the original's atmosphere.
Also the original game was 3 discs, something that was never done before, so I don't see why we couldn't get a full remake that is 300gb. That what the original did at least at the time.
The graphics were amazing, photorealistic at times, and the combat was fun, credit where it's due. There were some nice story points but nostalgia helped a lot this game.