Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII 2007

Is it still worth playing?

Square Enix's 2007 action role playing game for the PlayStation Portable, a prequel to Final Fantasy VII. You control Zack Fair, a young member of the special forces organization SOLDIER, who is assigned to look for a missing SOLDIER named Genesis Rhapsodos. You move Zack through and between open areas, talking to characters, interacting with the environment and fighting monsters. At save points you can take side missions, which move Zack to a special area to defeat monsters and reward you with items. Combat is real time: you move, attack, use abilities, spells and items, and block or dodge. Zack's abilities depend on his equipped materia, which you can fuse into stronger versions. Fusing materia and equipping what you fuse still makes building Zack a puzzle of its own.