i like tifa

Free Chibi Final Fantasy. Only downside is the purchasable stuff is INSANE lol

Return to play during their 1st Anniversary. One of the most generous gacha game, so you don't need to spend money if you don't want to. Recommended for people who love the FF7 universe.

To unlock, certain summons you need to play multiplayer mode, wich not a single soul plays xdd

Online only Gatcha game.
It reaches online and downloads new chunks of game every time you turn the game on.
"4.8 hours played" = 4.5 hours of downloading large chunks of game, 1 scene and a 20-min FF7 chapter.

Intro scene was a pretty good quality teaser, but the game itself is just re-skinned, exact chapters from 90's FF7 with a revamped combat system designed for mobile phone 3-button screen.

Maybe there is something interesting hidden behind the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ UI and constant downloading of unused content?
Either way, its not worth it.

No... Just No...
It looks gorgeous and that's already it...
It's basically a handy game... Not even a real game, as it can be set to autoplay/autobattle... It feels like a totally lazy cash grab...

For a free Gacha game I was pleasantly surprised at how much there is to it and you can play through FF7, Crisis Core, and The First Soldier in bite sized mission based gameplay.

I'll divide the pros and cons of this game, but upfront the biggest pro is that this game is free, so all it costs is time. Dailies and battlepass progress take maybe half an hour each refresh. No grind or payments are needed to keep up with content.

First the CONS (to maintain an illusion of being unbiased despite my playtime)
- The game's main purpose, ie, conveying the lore of FF7 in bite sized chapters, is at odds with how slowly the story is updated. There is only one story chapter added per month, so if you are playing solely for narrative content, it can feel like the game moves at a glacial pace.

- The game definitely bombards new players with prompts (at specific relevant milestones) to check the shop for limited time MTX packs - extra gems, weapons, memories, all that kinda stuff. I personally just clicked off those prompts and ignored them. They're overpriced for what you get. (If you're curious, there is a single ~$2 pack that is maybe worth getting for its cost, but overall you don't need any paid DLC to succeed in this game.)

- Game does a poor job explaining how to synthesize Materia optimally, and some features have gone many months with little-to-no updates (Chocobo Farm, Criterion Dungeons, Character Quests). I'm sure these will get some sort of update eventually, but right now they feel kinda forgotten.

- The game was initially very generous and creative with animated wallpapers for your home screen / profile. Over time they've become quite lazy on these and mostly given up animating them, releasing lots of static image wallpapers.

- The events, where Applibot has to make up its own stories, are very shallow. The characters repeat themselves way too much and they lean HARD on the Portals as a handwave to make things happen without logic. All events are a boss sandbag fest, which is probably fairly standard for gacha but I find it dull.


THE PROS
- Visually the game looks excellent, in and outside of battle. Head and shoulders above the graphics of most mobile titles. Makes for good screenshot fodder. I personally mainly play the game for this reason, along with collecting costumes, and I've found the game fairly satisfying in this regard. It's nice to see various new scenes and stories depicted in the 'chibi' style of the original FFVII, which carries a ton of nostalgia for me, and training them up to stomp difficult bosses for little badges of honor to put on my player profile.

- The story content that is in the game is all very polished and charming. Every chapter has prerendered backgrounds to explore in the style of the original game. The dialogue for Crisis Core and OG VII is basically 1:1 from the original cutscenes, with slight deviations to add combat encounters. FMVs are included at various points.

- The First Soldier characters and their specific arc explore a side of Sephiroth that we've never seen before, when he was young and inexperienced. The P0 Squad (Glenn, Lucia and Matt) are a likable trio (even if the game awkwardly tries to depict them as sympathetic, despite their horrible actions toward the Rhadorans).

- The game is planning - or hoping - to stick around long enough to adapt more unusual media into EC from the VII Compilation, like Dirge of Cerberus, Advent Children, and Before Crisis with the Turks. I wish they would release more story per month to allow the game to reach these arcs more quickly, but I'm enjoying the current content plenty regardless.

- The gameplay has various nuanced systems to build up your characters, including the recently added Brands (which let you apply random stat buffs to weapons). While the lower-PWR content might make you think the game is all auto-battling, the higher PWR content definitely requires manual control of the party and good ATB management, in addition to nurturing Materia with optimal stats.

- You DO NOT need to pay money. At no point will you feel 'paywalled' in the story content. The Season Pass's free half + gems from dailies and events will often be enough pulls to get at least one costume per Banner.

I do not recommend this game unless you enjoy looking and dressing waifus. The males in this game got mistreated except for Sephiroth, Cloud, and sometimes Zack. The developers are racists since they do not give black characters banners or make them usable. If you enjoy using Barret or Cait (the cat is a black cat) or a new black character introduced in First Soldiers, you will not have a good time. The AI is a disaster. The hard contents are for whales, and the rest a veteran can just auto battle without looking. Each paid pull costs $15-$20 for no guaranteed weapon and you need OB10, which means 11 copies of a weapon to fit one slot a character, and a character needs 5 weapons + a new type of Ultimatic weapon for a total of 6, if you want to clear challenging contents or compete for any high ranking pvp. And let not forget some dresses that you need to do 12 pulls for if you're unlucky. There is no one to do regular co-op with. All events repeat over and over. Event story starts with characters going into a portal and at the end coming out not remembering anything. The writing is worse than a common fanfiction. They butchered the original games by removing all the important places and replacing bosses with a lesser version (looking at you Bahamut). They added 2 new characters for Sephiroth's story and Glenn, who appeared in Rebirth. They are mostly useless and do not get banners since they do not sell and one of them is also a black character, which means he is in a similar state as Barret - getting 2 banners in a whole year. Meanwhile, the waifus get a banner every month. It is disgusting how they are trying to make Yuffie into a waifu, since she is only 16 - an underaged character.

No need to spend money. Good story mode of FF7.