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Post by Matrix Dragon on Feb 22, 2020 7:24:04 GMT -5
Random thought. These days, it's a well known spoiler that Aerith dies. It is NOT a well known spoiler that Clouds stoic badass act was, in fact, an act brought about by trauma, memory bullshit, and more trauma. Especially when the most easily accessible media of him is Advent Children.
I think a lot of people might be in for a surprise everyone already knows.
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Post by Greatshot on Feb 22, 2020 21:27:18 GMT -5
Indeed, one of my most anticipated moments of the remake is seeing the Mideel arc, where Cloud faces his past and his demons. Was a great moment even with the janky engrish.
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Post by Matrix Dragon on Feb 23, 2020 4:42:11 GMT -5
Speaking of Not-Actually-Spoilers-But-It's-Not-Well-Known... Aerith not being as pure sweet and innocent as a lot of later media and the internet paints her as.
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Post by Greatshot on Feb 23, 2020 11:03:10 GMT -5
Speaking of Not-Actually-Spoilers-But-It's-Not-Well-Known... Aerith not being as pure sweet and innocent as a lot of later media and the internet paints her as. That, honestly, is why I dislike most of the Compendium stuff, the retconning of the original game's characterizations. She grew up in the slums, hunted by a paramilitary megacorp. She's a good person with a good heart, but there's no way she hasn't seen/done some shit. Likewise with Cloud -- by the end of FF7 proper, he is coming to terms with his past, wants to face off with Sephiroth and save the world, *specifically* for his friends and to honor Aerith's sacrifice. He no longer is the moody "whatever" badass by the end of the game.
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Post by Matrix Dragon on Feb 23, 2020 14:30:12 GMT -5
She grew up in the slums, hunted by a paramilitary megacorp. She's a good person with a good heart, but there's no way she hasn't seen/done some shit. She knows where the bodies are buried, and it's entirely possible she put some of them there when they wouldn't take no for an answer...
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Post by SporkBot on Feb 23, 2020 15:10:52 GMT -5
She's why 1-800-Flowers never got a foothold in Midgar. Don't ask her how.
NEVER...ask her how.
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Post by Matrix Dragon on Feb 23, 2020 15:40:34 GMT -5
Because she might just tell you O_O
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Post by Greatshot on Mar 2, 2020 20:04:25 GMT -5
So I started my replay of the original game today. Did Reactor 1, headed back to sector 7, saved it, went to eat dinner. Turned the PS4 back on, and wait, what, there's a fucking Demo?! The timing was hilariously perfect. But okay, having actually PLAYED the remake a bit, now I can weigh on the gameplay. GS is excited. It feels like a modernized, surprisingly clean ARPG with an optional party menu system. Like, if PSO and FFXII had a bastard child, but the camera and targeting AI weren't trash. You can, indeed, just act right out of the menus but honestly, playing the game as it's designed is pretty damn fun. They've rebuilt a lot of the original game's concepts into something that flows really well -- Barret is basically your ranged character who excels at picking off flying and distant targets, and they've turned his old Hammer Blow into an "overcharge" big single hit attack while his regular attacks are rapid and weak. Cloud is up close, and can perform combos and juggles. It took me til I got to the Guard Scorpi--er, Scorpion Sentry (accurate names are gonna be a real bugbear for me ) to be forced into actually learning the under the hood stuff (he's surprisingly tough!), but once I did I realized you could combo into spells and special attacks (Some of which are reflavored OG limit breaks) to cause staggers and create openings. Limits still exist, and do massive damage when you land them properly. One thing I found odd (unless I either A, missed a Materia, or B, it's not in the demo), was that the Scorpion retains his lightning weakness (according to Cloud), yet you have no way of casting a lightning spell as Cloud comes with a Fire Materia as opposed to the Bolt he carries in the original game. Beyond that, from a pure game perspective, it's so far exactly what I wanted -- a true remake. It feels like home, but there's just enough little twists to keep me surprised. The opening of the reactor raid is almost a blueprint copy of the original down to the music and I had a stupid shit eating grin on my face... and then the interior of the reactor is completely different as you actually have to go through what's effectively a lobby. Then the inner part is very similar, but just different enough to hit the same beats but with a different tune. If the rest of the game follows suite I'm going to be extremely pleased. Final notes: A fully fleshed out, realized version of Jesse is every bit as awesome as I thought she'd be, and Wedge is fucking Badger from Breaking Bad, which may be my single favorite VA casting of all time. Avalanche dying is gonna hurt so much worse this time around.
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Post by Optimal Megatron on Mar 3, 2020 2:17:36 GMT -5
Actually, Cloud doesn't have lightning, but Barrett does. He also has Cure which is useful to keep your potion stores from getting too low. I may go back in later to take on the Scorpion again now that I know its tells. Healing is the only thing that got me through the first run. Also, was President Shinra setting the drones to wreck the plant in the original? It makes sense : he can blame Avalanche even if their initial goal was a much more surgical strike.
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Post by Greatshot on Mar 3, 2020 9:35:49 GMT -5
Actually, Cloud doesn't have lightning, but Barrett does. He also has Cure which is useful to keep your potion stores from getting too low. I may go back in later to take on the Scorpion again now that I know its tells. Healing is the only thing that got me through the first run. Also, was President Shinra setting the drones to wreck the plant in the original? It makes sense : he can blame Avalanche even if their initial goal was a much more surgical strike. Okay, either my version of the demo was pre some patch where they didn't have them (as fire was the only spell Cloud could cast, and Barret had none -- my first thought after the dialogue was indeed "huh maybe Barret's got it in the remake?" but I checked and he had no castable spells)...or I'm a total idiot and I didn't look to see if I was carrying any unequipped materia (I confess I did not look too deep into the inventory management at all, because that to me was a "meh, I'll figure that out when the actual game hits" bit, so this is a very possible answer. The Drones/Shinra seeing Avalanche's attack is new, but it's a more believable twist on how the original game does it - in the original Shinra blames Avalanche for the terrorist attack, and once you get back to 7th's Heaven, Jesse is freaking out about how powerful her bomb was, saying all she did was follow the instructions she got from the computer. It makes her look less like she can't read a Wikiboom article and is a nice bit of foreshadowing for the inevitable plate drop. I always handwaved it in headcannon as the mako itself having some sort of critical reaction to the explosion, but I like this angle tbh.
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