At the Tokyo Game Show 2019, when I got some hands-on time with <\/span>Final Fantasy VII Remake<\/span><\/i>, one thing quickly became clear: if you want to be good at the game, you need to be switching characters constantly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The TGS 2019 demo starts about halfway through the opening dungeon of the classic game as our heroes, Cloud and Barret, infiltrate a mako reactor in order to destroy it. You fight some guards, destroy some flying drones, and eventually make your way to the boss.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, while the story and location are familiar to anyone who\u2019s played the original, the combat is anything but. Unlike the original, turn-based game, <\/span>Final Fantasy VII Remake<\/span><\/i> is more of an action-RPG. You move around and attack in real-time but are also able to freeze time at any point to select magic or abilities instead.<\/span><\/p>\n Due to this new battle system, you can only control one character at a time–though you can change who you are controlling on the fly. In fact, the key to combat is not to spend your time controlling just one character and leave the other characters to the AI, but to switch between them regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n