There are plenty of raw materials you can pick up during questing to use later for crafting items in the transmuter menu.
So it's very convenient to combine materials to form things like potion to heal your party.

Enjoy over 400 beautiful sound tracks that pay homage to the original PS FFVII.

There will be plenty of ways for you to traverse the world, including riding different Chocobo that either fly or climb mountains, Segway, Skytram, Daytona bike, Airship and more?
While you are traversing, take on side jobs to complete engaging mini quests that include playing the piano, catching chocobo, racing, fishing, unique card game, tram target shooting and much more.
Enjoy some fun interacting with environment such as petting a chocobo, a simply taking a seat for a break and gain fully your health and mp.
Whenever you find a vending machine, always check out the item prices, as some may be sold at a discount than compared to the shops you find in town.
If you encounter a river, your team members can even swim across it.
As you traverse across the world, use the map to see your points of interests.
The further you travel, more regions will be revealed to show new areas which are previously fogged.
There will be key locations highlighted as icons for you to track them and also where towns, important quests and side-quests are.
The world is divided into 7 regions(continents), consisting of Corel, Nibel, Northwood, Cosmo Canyon, Grasslands, Gongaga, Junon and Meridian Ocean.
As you visit to the 7 various locations, where each has it's own unique signature structures and special places to explore and to gather your team members.

Here are the major locations you will visit mostly.
Corel Dessert (Gold Saucer), enjoy interesting themed parks and lots of fun mini classic arcade games there.
Junon, a large expansive open area of forests.
Costa Del Sol, water filled terrain
Cosmo Canyon, mountainous highlands
Forbidden City, mysterious giant city
Kalm, sub-urban town bustling with villagers.

A new battle system has been added to make combat more engaging and dynamic. Introducing multi-character synergy, a pairing ability that two or more team members can combine their special attacks to deal devastating damage to enemies.
However to use these, you need to unlock each weapon's abilities by visiting the bookstore and spend skill points to unlock each abilities skill core.
And to get more skillpoints, you will need to level up your party members and build up social points with each character.
When attacking, you can choose from fully auto to manual settings, when it's auto, your character will auto attack enemies and defend as well.
In manual mode, you have to press the buttons constantly to engage with the enemies.
Each character will have their own over-charge ability, and you can use it once your vengeance gauge is full.
To charge up your gauge, you need to block enemy attacks.

Skill Tree
Your heroes can learn new skills when you access their Folios, new skills can be unlocked when you raise your party member levels.
And the folio skills are used in tandem with 2 team members to either attack enemies or cause status effects.

Card Decks
You will have a deck of cards of various characters that you collect from the Red Queen's card game that you play.
These can be used to upgrade the stats of your team.
The Red Queen card game is an unusual, deep, and strategic game within a game.

Summons
There are plenty of mystical beasts, demi gods, gods you can summon like Bahamut, iFrit, Odin, Shiva, Titan, Ramuh, Leviathan, Pheonix, and mega cute and fat chocobo, Caith Sith special cat summon which will summon tons of Chocobos to attack enemies, all of which deals heavy damage to enemies depending on their elemental weakness.
But in order to use them, you must be find and defeat them before you will have the power to command them.
Some characters have their own unique summons and allows you to use them if you have enough MP which it consumes alot.

The game provides a myriad of unique side quests, training combats, compelling stories, engaging sound tracks, and the interactive element with your dualsense controller makes it even more exciting.