Because everyone was too busy crying about Aerith's death that they completely forget about the true plot twist of the game. Finding what really happened inside the reactor was by far the best part of the entire game.
I wouldn't go as far as saying that FFVII is the best game of all time, but the whole set-up and execution of the Nibelheim incident is the best storytelling in gaming history.
Aeris
They have classes you can take to help with speech impediments
the S is a mistranslation based on pronounciation. Japan doesn't have a TH so when spoken aloud would be more like an S. And if you're complaining about that over the mountain of other mistranslated and localized stuff in old FF games well you should probably take some meds. This isnt the 90's anymore where no one in the west knew any better.
1 year ago
Anonymous
It's technically both or either. It's Erissu in Japanese by phonetic. That suffix could be either a th sound or the S sound, they are indistinct from one another in Japanese, it's "su" either way.
1 year ago
Anonymous
And phonetic isn't the same as written which is the point. Now ask me how I know you are a homosexual who still thinks Guts' name is guttsu. Kill your self immediately.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>makes a post complaining about a translation error >tells others to take their meds if they complain about translation errors
Read your posts before replying, it'll help you from looking like a moron in the future
1 year ago
Anonymous
>it'll help you from looking like a moron
it'll stop you from looking like a moron
1 year ago
Anonymous
>based on pronounciation ... would be more like an S
so it sounds like Aeris, but should be written like Aerith
thanks burgerland for another high quality contribution to the English language
Wrong. She is called Aerith in FFVII. There is only one place where she is called Aeris, and that's in the naming screen.
If you bypass the naming screen (as speedrun skips do), you learn her name is Aerith by default.
She's been Aerith since the year 2000. Square wants her to be called Aerith. The same company that has carried other name changes forward (Tina/Terra, Frionel/Firion) doubled back on Aeris and said it's not her name. Get over it.
>Frionel/Firion
I always choose the name that is a noun, which means for example that my VI party has both Terra and Mash in it, so I'm still waiting for the day when hey slip up and call him Freon in anything official to give me an excuse.
I wouldn't say way more instead of just more, but that is true. Both were intricate in their own manner and method, but Cloud's notably more so. I personally don't separate the emotional impact from the whole, so for me it's a clear landslide.
NTA but while the Aeris death is far more shocking, I find the Cloud twist to have more build up and payoff. There's a bunch of events and dialogue that make no sense until you know the twist and then the game becomes better on new games. Here's a few favorites of the game warning you that Cloud might be a schitzo
>Aeris: What rank were you? >Cloud: Rank? >Aeris: You know, in SOLDIER. >Cloud:Oh, I was...
*Flash.* >First Class.
Or when Cloud starts finding plotholes in his own story
>Cloud: You again? >...Who are you? >?:...You'll find out soon. ......But more importantly, 5 years ago... >Cloud: 5 Years ago... Nibelheim? >?: When you went to Mt. Nibel then, Tifa was your guide, right? >Cloud: Yeah... I was surprised. >?: But where was Tifa other than that? >Cloud: ...I dunno. >?: It was a great chance for you two to see each other again. >Cloud: ...You're right. >?: Why couldn't you see each other alone? >Cloud: ...I don't know. I can't remember clearly...
The most glaring one being Aeris's date
>Aeris:......first off, it bothered me how you looked exactly alike. >Two completely different people, but look exactly the same. >The way you walk, gesture... >I think I must have seen him again, in you... >But you're different. >Things are different. >Cloud... >I'm searching for you. >Cloud: ............? >Aeris: I want to meet you. >Cloud: But I'm right here. >Aeris: (I know, I know...what I mean is...) >I want to meet...you.
1 year ago
Anonymous
There's also the bits where Tifa asks Cloud if he's sure about his memories. The very fact it's not a definite thing shows all kinds of red flags.
1 year ago
Anonymous
I think Cosmo Canyon is the biggest red flag
>Tifa >Cloud... >Bonfires are funny, aren't they? >They make you remember all sorts of things. >You know, Cloud. 5 Years ago... >......It's nothing. >No, forget it. I'm afraid to ask...
>Cloud >What is it...?
>Tifa >It feels like... it feels like you're going far away... >You really, really are...... you... right?
Although Gongaga was pretty bad too
Tifa.
>Tifa >Zack......
>Cloud >Do you know him?
>Tifa >N, no, I don't know him!
>Cloud >Your face tells me differently.
>Tifa >I told you, I don't!
>Cloud >A, all right.
1 year ago
Anonymous
lol, tifa has terrible anxiety. she was afraid of what bad things might happen if she confronted him on their memory differences, so she always needed more time, but so much bad shit happened anyway.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Cid after could is lost in the lifestream goes something like this if i remember.
>I want you to know i didnt hate him... but you have to admit he was a weird dude, one time he would do something really cool and impresse you but then then the next second he would do some damn fool thing and show you how truly dumb he was.. weird dude.
1 year ago
Anonymous
I like those too. My favorite though is: >A Shinra uniform... >I was so proud when I first put it on. >I wonder when it was... >...I couldn't stand wearing this thing anymore.
I've finished VII 36 times and love everything about it, except Priscilla. Cloud's twist is incredible in its own right, I was not trying to diminish that. However considering bringing justice for Aerith colors the rest of the game for a longer time and it having gameplay ramifications, I find it greater. And well personally I fell into such blinding anger on my first playthrough that nothing registered for me between Cloud saying "But I'm going." and emerging to the snowy overworld. It is a complete blank in my memory. Cloud just can't compete for me with that even if it was an amazing triumphant crescendo and made sense of a web of misdirection, psychoanalysis and mystery.
1 year ago
Anonymous
I think the thing that made Aeris's death hurt the most for me is that she deserved it the least. Most of the FF7 party is pretty Grey. Cloud was a merc hired by a terrorist organization. Cait Sith was Reece who is a Shinra spy. Yuffie was a thief. Vincent was a Turk. Cid may have been abusive to his wife. Aeris was just a flower girl who wanted to know her history. She hung out with Avalanche but it's not like she took part in the bombings. At the end of the game everyone comes together and takes a moment to say that they're not innocent but they still will do the best they can for the planet.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>except Priscilla
What a random thing to have an issue with
1 year ago
Anonymous
Priscilla looks stupid, is a total imbecile, is reckless, is extremely melodramatic, is entitled, self important, happy, rude brat, whose lightning fast arc makes her addition bipolar, turbotsundere event, which results in her becoming possessive and she somehow has Shiva of all things. As a breaking the ice event to befriend the party to Under-Junon it's alright. Little kids promising to marry cool adults may be in character and Cloud is her savior, so that's not my problem, neither is it the CPR minigame. Her being friends with animals pisses me off. A thing I have to look over with Cara as well. Priscilla is just a b***h with an ego problem and is a little too over-the-top character for VII.
Every other character in the world I like, no matter how inconsequential background npc they are.
Aeris twist has no buildup and happens so quick. Even devs said they want it to be a sudden death. The equivalent of eclipse scene but lack of gore/rape stuff for it to stick it your head.
Cloud's twist has perfect execution. You knew something was coming together but didn't exactly understand why.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Aeris was sudden but did have sufficient buildup IMO
the scenes like, trying to find her in the sleeping forest, chasing after her and being unable to move
or almost getting mind controlled into slashing her at the forgotten capitol, where every button you press to pull away raises your sword at her, its so fricked up and makes you feel a sense of hopelessness
those scenes were really well done and stick out to me even now, FF7's psychological expression is unmatched IMO no matter how primitive the graphics were
1 year ago
Anonymous
Final Fantasy 7 is the sort of fantasy that I like. I'm not sure if this is a hot take but I don't think Sephiroth on his own is particularly interesting. He's a tornado, the most interesting things about him are the ways he affected things around him. And I think that elevates Cloud. Not too many people can empathize with the idea of being mind control by an alien parasite. But they can empathize with somebody using their worst impulses and their greatest shames to gaslight them into doing things that they would never do in a vacuum. And then the following mental breakdown and distrust of yourself after you've already done it. Which Sephiroth is extremely effective at. The fantastical elements are just used for the more down to earth story beats to make them more interesting
1 year ago
Anonymous
Aerith's buildup is her being too good for the gritty world of VII (Not for me though, since I honestly think she's a prostitute) but more importantly by her being mysterious, selfsearching, self reflective in a distant and solitary way (happens in her church, her house, the Shinra HQ cell, Costa del Sol Inn and around the Cosmo Candle. Technically also when she leaves for the Forgotten City by herself, but officially what's actually happening there is much more disgusting.), which sets up a distance to pre-emptively mirror and soften the blow of her death. So there is hinting setup, it's just more symbolic and meta.
Though her death being sudden and meaningless is vitally important, only guilt being mixed into it further makes it enduring storywise and elevates it to the top of the franchise deaths, rather than mere player grief.
100% agree. Aeris hit hard, but wasn't out of the blue. Cloud's reveal on the other hand was perfectly foreshadowed and executed, and they absolutely nail the scene in the lifestream. it carries the game to this day.
No bud.
I nearly get the urge to tear up every time I simply hear that song.
Whenever the song gets to "that part" I can still hear Red XIII howling in my head, and see Seto's tears.
God I sound like a furgay, but I'm not. It was just probably the most emotional scene in the entire PS1 library.
Here's this father who is so honorable and protective of his tribe, he goes out solo to fight off in invading tribe, sacrificing himself to being petrified but still "alive" to continue keeping the invading tribe at bay for years.
Then like 10 years later, overhearing his son, now grown up, visiting his petrified body for the first time, overhearing his son being told the reason for it all, overhearing his son go from being ashamed of his "cowardly disappearance" to being so proud of that the son declares it out loud after discovering the truth and not even being able to move or do anything.
Her death was very sudden and shocking and catches you by surprise.
Clouds slow mental breakdown and false past that he was lying to himself about is a slow build up but also more importantly: much less impressive to tell someone who doesn't know anything about the game.
X dies! is always an easy spoiler to digest
X wasn't [context only to understand] but a [context only to understand] doesn't make sense to people who haven't played the game.
Crisis Core changed that. Now he's so important that he still gets a force ghost despite the fact that he's been dead for half a decade and still hasn't diffused into a life stream despite the fact that he's just a normal guy. Well normal for now. I can't wait to discover that Hojo did a super secret experiment on him that separated his soul from his body and that he's the one who actually has command over the Whispers and the one who's been chasing Sephiroth through time which is why he shows up in an alternate time line
Most people shitpost about aerith dying because they didn't actually play the game and just want to whine about le old ugly psx game People who did play only shitpost about this by calling cloud a poser or a literal nobody unless they're complaining about Tifa willfully ignoring it the whole time even though her memory was probably also tampered with when they fixed Nibelheim
>even though her memory was probably also tampered with when they fixed Nibelheim
No? Zangan took her to Midgar with zero to one witness depending on your canon, so Hojo and Shinra never knew she was there.
Tifa went along with it because Cloud was so frighteningly accurate that the things he "got wrong" left Tifa doubting reality.
Remember: Tifa didn't know Cloud was there in an infantry getup. So when he starts dealing out all these facts that were almost perfectly accurate, just completely misplacing Zack with Cloud, Tifa was basically gaslit. If Cloud wasn't there and his story was wrong, how did he know so much that was right?
She couldn't sort out the contradiction herself and so she stayed quiet.
Same but it was in 2020, after the fricking remake came out. Kind of impressed the fans of the game managed to make Aerith's death into a legacy meme but hardly ever spoil the real twist.
Because no one cares about the real twist. I'm sorry but everybody just felt a more emotional connection to their waifu rather than to the content of the story.
The Aeris death is much easier to relate. She's the cute girl you meet in the first 15 minutes of the game. And the one skewering her is villain who's one of the most recognizable and iconic characters in any rpg. There's some additional context around the scene but it doesn't really matter and is only relevant later in the plot anyways.
By contrast, the Cloud twist only really has a impact when you understand the backstory and relationships of multiple characters and their motivations. Even if you were to give a very reductive summary, like "Cloud was never actually a SOLDIER", it doesn't make sense to anybody who hasn't at least played to Kalm.
much easier to explain you mean?
Because gaming journalists are mostly women whom didn't play pass disc 1, let alone explain the real twist of the game.
Also "muh dead character" makes good headline. People would drop reading when you say main character was actually a loser.
MC being a loser who miraculously accomplishes amazing feats is the ultimate modern male power fantasy though. He struck down a mythical, alien gene-infused super soldier, got 3 girls falling for him, and replaced the head of a resistance (actually terrorist) group as their new leader. Even Aeris who originally became drawn to him due to his similarities to Zack eventually fell for the parts of him that weren't emulating her late ex-boyfriend. Hell, his implied canon love interest is a demure big-tittied female fighter who was his childhood friend and never strongly challenge him on his behaviour either.
Spunky thief ninja is the canon love interest and no one can tell me otherwise. Nothing after the original is canon after all.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Nothing after the original is canon after all.
You need to get into theorycrafting youtube. Stop caring about the story being "good" or "bad" and watch people talk about the lore for hours.
Soon you won't actually care what is happening in the plot anymore and all that matters is what it adds to the lore.
For example Nero showing up in Remake is not good for the story, but it IS good for the lore and the theories.
Once you're a fan of FF7 theorycrafting literally everything that happens in the story, no matter what, is good - because it expands the lore. You can apply this to all the FF games and suddenly "bad writing" or "plotholes" simply disappear.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Unironically good advice. I used to hate Genesis (and I still dislike him CC) but theories have me looking forward to his possible appearance in remake.
1 year ago
Anonymous
This is like the "gorilla warfare" or the "shit was so cash" of Final Fantasy threads
>cloud finds out he was just larping as Zack >no one knows if cloud is really cloud or just some science experiment hojo made or whatever >turns out cloud was even cooler than he realized and he kicked sephiroths ass in the reactor
>Didn't they already kick Sephiroth's ass in the remake?
No, Cloud tried to use the omnislash which he defeated Sephiroth with in the original and Sephiroph effortlessly parried it then disarmed Cloud. He was toying with them the entire time, Remake is actually a sequel, the Sephiroth we beat in the original has managed to go back in time in some alternate timeline and is working with memories of being defeated the first time. That was the entire point of the ending, Cloud should have beaten Sephiroth there but Sephiroth knew what Cloud would do and countered him accordingly.
>Cloud should have beaten Sephiroth there but Sephiroth knew what Cloud would do and countered him accordingly.
No he shouldn't have. The Cloud in remake is at a point where a giant snake in the marsh is still a huge threat to him. Same type of snake that Sephiroth put through a tree. And yet in remake cloud has already defeated the metaphysical concept of determinism. I'm not going to write remake off and I don't want this to be interpreted as me seething that they changed the story but it does make me raise an eyebrow at it
Levels are a pure mechanical function and are not representative at all of the in character journey. The characters don't level up and gain more health in the story. They merely overcome every obstacle in their path as necessary, save for the ones they don't overcome due to lore purposes. This is why Tifa can punch giant sewer monsters to death, but can barely go toe to toe with Scarlet in a slapping contest. Also why random rats you can find on the 3rd disc are stronger than Genova or said marsh snakes. You're not supposed to look THAT into it.
I'm not talking about from a mechanical perspective. Cloud and the party are in awe, narratively, that Sephiroth was able to do what he did. "Did Sephiroth do this" is basically a meme but in universe, whether the party defeated the Zolom or they ran away, Sephiroth being able to not only win but to also brutalize such a powerful animal by himself is considered unbelievable at that point in the story
1 year ago
Anonymous
And they will still be impressed by it when it happens in the Remake, if only for the sheer size of the serpent being speared as it was, same as it was in the original. There's no difference.
>characters don't actually get stronger throughout the plot of the game, Cloud is as strong during the reactor mission as he is when they go to the crater
You have to be joking
They do grow stronger, but the actual plot narrative for that is the party acquiring materia. The more material they acquire, the more they are capable of busting out. As far as the plot goes, Cloud was never level 30 but then he gained some experienced and went up a level to 31. Levelling systems, hit points and all that shit is just a mechanical function of the game's design completely removed from the actual plot. It quite LITERALLY doesn't matter that Cloud was a low level in the original when he ran into a Zolom, so that means in the Remake it can't capture the same feeling because Cloud's already fought someone he shouldn't have been able to fight until later in the original. Power levels don't fricking work like that. The narrative is simply that the challenges the party faces continue to grow but they always overcome them, unless the plot is that they don't. Shit like party levels don't factor in to it at all. Yeah, Cloud survived a fight with Sephiroth in Remake where Sephy was completely toying with him the entire time. That doesn't detract from the fact that Zolom's in Remake Pt 2 are still going to be intimidating when first encountered, and Sephiroth apparently impaling one with ease is still going to be impressive and awe-inspiring.
>characters don't actually get stronger throughout the plot of the game, Cloud is as strong during the reactor mission as he is when they go to the crater
You have to be joking
>and I don't want this to be interpreted as me seething that they changed the story
Honestly, I'm perfectly ok with them changing the story. Not everything from the original was going to work in the new format or with the new gameplay, plus remakes don't have to be 1:1, why bother remaking it at all? What DOES bother me though is how this didn't end up being a remake at all and is instead a meta sequel to Advent Children. I wanted something that would tell more or less the original story but in a new way, not something that's constantly winking and nodding to me about what happened in the original, then capping it off with a Kingdom Hearts final boss getting BTFO as this fresh and inexperienced party is leaving Midgar. I'm with you. I'm not ready to write it off yet. In fact, I'm in it for the long run because good or bad, I have to see where this goes now, plus I legitimately loved the gameplay and the new life they breathed into the old world and characters. I had my grievances here and there but nothing that can't be fixed in the later parts (namely fixing aerial combat to be a little better than a single slash and then falling down again, or letting you actually modify your party when more than 3 members of the party are there). I'm excited to play more because it was fun. I just wish I didn't have to deal with this wannabe Evangeleon nonsense to get it out have to worry about how they'll have to up the ante being literally killing fate.
Cloud, a rank and file grunt, got stabbed right after that, lifted up like a ragdoll and still managed to plunge Sephiroth, the strongest Soldier in all of Shinra, to the bottom of the reactor by pure rage and adrenaline. You're not giving enough credit to the absolute madman.
If you don't appreciate the addition of Genesis to the series, you have no taste.
1 year ago
Anonymous
there is not a single piece of ff7 spinoff media that isn't a moronic fujo cashgrab dragging the original game down
1 year ago
Anonymous
I like the remake It's actually kind of a relief in a weird way that it's Rebuild of Evangelion shit and not really a remake, that means the original doesn't get tarnished by retcons that it inevitably would have gotten if it was a straight remake
1 year ago
Anonymous
It is a relief in hindsight yeah, since the remake actively raped literally everything about FF7 already and looks to be primed to do worse in the future. Shame that we got this tripe instead of its interesting gameplay without an offensively bad story
1 year ago
Anonymous
>its interesting gameplay
at the end of the day there's far worse things than a game that's entirely carried by its core gameplay being really, really good. I was shocked the materia system wasn't just there but actually as fleshed out as it was, especially for an action game. pretty much everything in between battles can go frick itself but the combat's on point, played the game to completion twice (normal and hard), did almost every side combat mission (beat Weiss but never did beat all the summons).
1 year ago
Anonymous
>game that's entirely carried by its core gameplay being really, really good.
It's not that good. It's worth playing but the story really ruins it if youactually enjoye FF7 and aren't just a famboy that clapped when he saw the thing he knew. The customization is great for an action game but the core combat system is pretty simplistic and too easy.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Say that again when they pull a rebuild 4 and ruin everything.
1 year ago
Anonymous
4.0 is literally the best of the rebuilds though
don't tell me you actually cared about the plot...
1 year ago
Anonymous
I hate modern fans and modern SE. Frick the Remake.
1 year ago
Anonymous
the remake is fine despite its issues
the combat is great and the character writing is also great
i have high hopes for the sequel
1 year ago
Anonymous
The combat is fricking awful like every other post RPG FF. Hell, the RPG ones weren't even that good, just ok.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>The combat is fricking awful
care to articulate why
1 year ago
Anonymous
It's not even good visually. The farmer Rei stuff was fine but good god did the 3d crap ruin everything else. And I don't mean the giant cgi Rei either.
Actually officially no. An interview clarifies that Before Crisis and Last Order are a faulty Turk report and that the events of VII are canon whenever they conflict. A Turk, probably Martial Arts Female, arrives after the scene and writes in her report that Sephiroth must've jumped into the Mako, because she finds it inconceivable that he could've possibly lost the fight.
"Hideki Imaizumi, the producer of Crisis Core, stated that they had received "considerable negative feedback" from fans, who were displeased with changes made to the Nibelheim event in Last Order. Due to this, the scene was redone for Crisis Core, and the production crew was careful to avoid making the same decisions."
>survives getting stabbed after thinking his best bro got killed >hojo takes advantage of their weakened states to put them in a materia vat for 5 years
Hojo is and always will be the true villain of FFVII
Definitely.
Sephiroth just went into a rage. He was still evil for it, killing Cloud's mom and a bunch of other innocents. But at least there was motivation. And he got fricking killed right after.
Jenova is just simply existing and doing what she naturally does. Basically another Lavos.
Shinra has done a lot of evil, but really dropping the plate is just an extreme means to solve a problem. AVALANCHE willingly killed innocent people too (until FF7R retconned that)
Hojo is just fricking insane. Evil doer for the sake of being evil and generally a sick frick. He basically caused all the problems in FF7 and didn't even care.
>survives getting stabbed after thinking his best bro got killed >hojo takes advantage of their weakened states to put them in a materia vat for 5 years
Hojo is and always will be the true villain of FFVII
>rape >genocide >testing on animals >testing on humans >warcrimes >sexual assault
Hojo is just typical japanese man honestly.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Hojo is an avatar of everything modern Japan fears re: science and it's habit of literally spilling-over onto the proles, a bunch of Japanese kids in the 80's and 90's got a fresh supply of horror exposes on how cool LCD watches lead to widespread mercury poisoning and eternal groundwater contamination
The main question is: "Would a Red x Aerith pregnancy actually work?"
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Would a Red x Aerith pregnancy actually work?
You should ask Tifa considering all the time she spends in the chocobo stalls.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Well Nanaki had 2 cubs despite being described as the last of his kind so maybe Aeris got him pregnant
1 year ago
Anonymous
Bugenhagen, on his death bed, tells Red XIII to search the Planet for a mate after the conflict is over, because maybe they're wrong and he isn't the last of his species.
This is contradicted in Before Crisis, because they both know Dinah will thaw a few years later, so the conversation doesn't make sense, but please ignore BC concerning Red XIII.
1 year ago
Anonymous
I find it's just best to ignore any compilation shit and other side material for FF7
1 year ago
Anonymous
Of course. VII standalone is a masterpiece. But when I want to add a fun side dish, a thriller noir entry spice addition, I consider VII + BC + LO + the interview an exciting alternate compartmentalized canon (ranked for me as "Notably good" 8/10). BC is actually loyal to VII's setting and characterizations except for Cloud and Red XIII. The rest of the Compilation, with or without Remake, is abysmal with no positive value.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Isn’t bugenhagen the grandfather? Maybe he fricked the tiger dog in the first place and their species does reproduce with humans.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Plausibly. Everything is just cycling Lifestream energy, so them procreating more freely is theoretically not too out there. That's why Hojo needs to test it.
1 year ago
Anonymous
I doubt it. Otherwise the Cetra would spontaneously return
1 year ago
Anonymous
Risk is everything, and for all we know, we could be sitting on the return of our common ancestor by not having sex with bonobos
1 year ago
Anonymous
>"Would a Red x Aerith pregnancy actually work?"
I'd assumed before extended universe crap that he knocked up some poor woman who had a you just know fetish and the babies came out looking like him
He yeeted him into the bottom of the reactor. Nomura decided to be a homosexual and retcon it to Sephiroth willingly wanting to die even though that doesn't make any fricking sense.
>So did sephiroth go crazy because the reactor and Dr Gast's research confirm suspicions that he already had
Yes >did Genesis just make him crazy?
Who? Not a real character
The scene in the reactor is the best scene of the game. I'm always baffled how much people are bandwagonning.
Level 1 side character manages to slap the final boss is one of my favorite things in all media. I hate emo Cloud, the shy real Cloud is so much better and nearly no one ever talk about it.
>I hate emo Cloud, the shy real Cloud is so much better and nearly no one ever talk about it.
It's literally the largest complaint with everything that came post FFVII
That they shit all over Cloud's character and made him a brooding emo instead of his goofy weird self
Nah, he's still cool. Not even a cuck, just a simp who needs to move on already.
I'll be fricking livid if 7R retcons him into being Sephiroth's father.
Yeah I hope they make that scene physically believable, it only worked in PS1 FF7 because it was so low res you basically had to imagine how it worked yourself
>cloud get stabbed
Bloodsprays >long drawn out 3 sentence dialog
Blood in corner of mouth >cloud gets angry
Aura of light surrounds Cloud >they engage in a fight
30 foot jump in the air followed by conveniently placed QTEs >Sephiroth falls into the reactor
Time jannies drag him down >cloud hanging on edge of pipe, losing consciousness
Cloud is carried out by Gackt
It should go like this. >Sephiroth stabs Cloud. >Cloud grabs the sword. >Power struggle. Cloud tries to pull it back/away from Sephiroth. Seph keeps a firm grip on it maybe with both hands to keep it his. >Cloud suddenly gets a burst of adrennaline, quickly lifts and twists Sephiroth who goes flying into the reactor too quickly to react.
I like how it doesn't nullify the theory about Cloud getting the jump on Sephiroth, since Cloud picks up the buster sword and it's safe to assume Pre-Emptive Attack was still the materia Zack was excited about using. Explains how a literal nobody like Cloud could stab Sephiroth in the back.
I don't think that Zack had Preemptive. I think preemptive was the only materia that Cloud could get. For the same reason why Cloud was at lv1 in the flashback which is weaker than the lv5 he starts the game with. Despite the things he's saying and the information he's giving, Cloud doesn't know what it physically feels like to be that strong so he can't emulate it in his head. He's larping as Zack but he didn't know what materia he had or how to use it so he couldn't fill in that blank. Therefore flashback Cloud just hides behind Sephiroth the entire time.
I think Cloud was disassociating and it's safe to say that everything he thought he said and did in the flashback actually applied to Zack. His excitement about the new materia even matches Zack's energy.
Not true, his true self was talking to him throughout the game, long before he ended up in the lifestream with Tifa.
Cloud's experiments involved him taking an indefinite sauna bath in pure undistilled soul juice, that's probably how he maintained a connection to his prior self back in the lifestream. He visits it physically with Tifa when he encounters all those shades of himself and finally reconverges with them. That's where Cloud really was, which is the afterlife. Cloud died.
Cloud's soul/true self remained trapped in the Lifestream up until the point that he revisits it and you discover all of this, so it's probably safe to say he fricking died and was reanimated with Jenova cells in the experiments in the Shinra mansion. Like, he still walked the earth, sure, but his literal soul was still removed from his body.
The more you look back at the older Final Fantasy games, the sillier things get. They're still great, but you can see why they were never going to do a straight remake. On the other hand, the FFX Remake will be just fine being 1:1.
for all its 2deep4u themes about spirituality FFVII is just a game about masculine pride when you think about it
Cloud wanted to be billy badass to impress a girl so hard that he larped as one but ultimately had to accept the he wasn't (but he still got to hit that)
meanwhile sephiroth over there like "hey nice cheap shot Black person come 1v1 me in the Void you won't" and gets btfo because of power creep
Everyone talks about the environmental/ capitalism message but a recurring theme in the game that I don't really see people talking about is the importance of history. The obvious one is Cloud. Yes I know any the Jenova brainwashing but Sephiroth was only able to get as far as he did because Cloud voluntarily forgot his own history to RP as a man he saw as better than him. Once Cloud accepted his own personality Sephiroth couldn't prey on his insecurities anymore. But that idea is kind of everywhere. There are no named nations in the world, it's all Shinra. The last one is Wutai and I bet in 2 generations no one will remember it's name either. Icicle Area used to be called the Knowlespole. Barret mentions that Midgar used to be a series of villages but no one remembers their names anymore because it all belongs to Shinra now. Hell the LifeStream lost its name. LifeStream explains what the purpose of the river of life is but now no one knows what that is. It's Mako now, the energy source that belongs to Shinra. And I think that's cool.
Still I like your contrast between Cloud pretending to be strong and Cloud actually being strong
>those in power will make you abandon your own heritage in their bid for more power
scary
The thing about Cloud's arc is that it concludes in his own eyes by arriving at "I'm not actually strong" but it isn't true. Stuff like that lends to there being real potential for sequel material for the character to continue to grow but Goddamn do they flanderize the shit out of all of those characters in everything since. I do like him alright in the Remake though, he's still kind of a dork sometimes and I appreciate that
Everyone talks about the environmental/ capitalism message but a recurring theme in the game that I don't really see people talking about is the importance of history. The obvious one is Cloud. Yes I know any the Jenova brainwashing but Sephiroth was only able to get as far as he did because Cloud voluntarily forgot his own history to RP as a man he saw as better than him. Once Cloud accepted his own personality Sephiroth couldn't prey on his insecurities anymore. But that idea is kind of everywhere. There are no named nations in the world, it's all Shinra. The last one is Wutai and I bet in 2 generations no one will remember it's name either. Icicle Area used to be called the Knowlespole. Barret mentions that Midgar used to be a series of villages but no one remembers their names anymore because it all belongs to Shinra now. Hell the LifeStream lost its name. LifeStream explains what the purpose of the river of life is but now no one knows what that is. It's Mako now, the energy source that belongs to Shinra. And I think that's cool.
Still I like your contrast between Cloud pretending to be strong and Cloud actually being strong
Don't forget that no one remembers what happened in Nibelheim. Shinra reset it all as if it never happened. Makes you wonder how many times they've done that
A long time ago when the remake was announced I argued that Barret still had relevance in the modern day because he epitomized the kind of person left behind when technology made broad swathes of the labor pool obsolete: a coal miner, already a fossil in his own time, forced to build the very thing that killed his dreams just to survive, forced to watch his wife die of a probably preventable illness, tragically triggered the events that cause his town to get wiped out in reprisal for sabotage. I really hope they lean on him in Part 2; in a lot of ways he was the heart of the group despite being extremely dumb. He deserves to be remembered as more than a Mr. T knockoff (this was entirely the translation team's fault)
I wouldn't call Barret dumb, just impulsive. He knew what he was doing the whole time. He knew he was just making it up to himself how he sold out his own hometown to the Shinra and dragging other innocent lives down in the process. But it's all he knew how to do to make it right, and he had to make it right.
The great thing about Barret is that despite his flaws, despite his real reasons for doing shit, he was essentially right in the end. Radical acts were the only way to prevent Shinra from killing the planet. There wasn't any kind of democratic solution, Shinra were a corporation not a government.
I like how in the original Cloud telling of Nibeheim, Sephiroth is still looking at the Shinra guard when he asks about his hometown even though Cloud is entering from the center in SOLDIER attire.
I like FF7R but the other two parts are going to go so far off the rails that there's no way this plot twist will remain in-tact.
Never played FF7.
Probably never will.
I have no clue what you people are talking about.
If I ever do play FF7, I will have forgotten all about this thread.
what do people usually mean when they say he was larping as zack? wasn't he larping as the idealized version of himself, cloud, the hero he set out to be when he left home at 14? with his own weakness and desire/will to not be seen by tifa in the state he was in at the train-station, he managed to trigger the scells/sephiroth's will that triggered the jcells to use mimic on tifa to read her memories and reshape what happened 5 years ago to where it was him, cloud who returned standing next to his idol sephiroth at the gates, parading around town taking pictures.
in reality it was zack who did all of those things, sure, but all memories of zack were suppressed so his fantasy of returning to nibelheim as the hero he set out to be would be believable. i guess it was like a self insert, but i wouldn't say he was larping as zack, that gives people weird ideas. i don't think the ego would allow for that anyway, ultimately we may imagine our selves in someone else's role and we might fake confidence, but we're still us. cloud isn't a victim, everything that happened to him is his own doing, his own desire. jenova's cells were just a tool to make it happen.
Cloud knows things that only Zack knows.
For example Sephiroth knocked Cloud off during Nibelheim's incident but Cloud still knew what happened inside the reactor after that (before he got there)
what i want to know is why did barret/red13 unquestioningly give cloud back the black materia when he asked for it? cloud already demonstrated that he couldn't be trusted with the black materia when he had a meltdown and just handed it to the sephiroth clone in the temple of the ancients.
both barret and red13 knew full well that cloud's mental state is dubious at best, but all it took was a "hey could i see that black materia for a second?" for them to hand it over no questions asked.
The whole game would have been over if you had the option to give it to Yuffie. You'd turn around and she'd just be fricking gone, never to be seen again. Problem solved.
Crisis Core is abysmal. Dirge of Cerberus is extremely bad, so it's better. However I will also say that at least it was respectable Dirge of Cerberus had the decency to create and go after new lore rather than revolve around Sephiroth or Jenova Cells like VII and the rest of the Compilation besides Before Crisis.
Can I go on an autistic rant about the dick sucking that goes on with Sephiroth and Gackt, especially in the mid 2000s?
Kingdom Hearts 1 featured both Cloud and Sephiroth. Originally Cloud was supposed to be Vincent but some shades of his design was given to Cloud like the Red Cloak and the demonic wing. Sephiroth was given a black raven wing not only to contrast Cloud but also as a reference to the one-wing angel. It was just a silly little redesign to make them fit into the Kingdom Hearts world.
But for some fricking reason Crisis Core decided to canonize the black wing. Now the Black Wing is an indicator that a person is carrying cells related to Jenova. Even though that was never a thing in the original game. The one-wing angel in the original game was meant to show that Sephiroth was approaching godhood. So we can think Kingdom Hearts for the stupid fricking Wing appearing in every Final Fantasy 7 related instance since. And more amusing than any of this is that because Genesis is now a canonical character in The Final Fantasy 7 universe, that means he beat Sephiroth to the black wing by 5 years. That shitty Gackt fan fiction character who was motivated by frustration at being a Sephiroth knock off just turned Sephiroth into a knock off of himself.
You articulated and unpacked exactly why the iconography in nu-FF7 is scrambled dogshit. I never really bothered to deconstruct it but there you go.
It completely ruins the aesthetic of the original game. When SE released that render of Sephiroth with his homosexual wing I knew remake was going to suck. Pic related. That shit is ok for KH or I guess Dissidia but actually linking black wings to Jenova cells is just so dumb. And then there is also the feline eyes...mixed with wings. it makes no sense.
>show that Sephiroth was approaching godhood
It's a JRPG cliche but I think the way that FFVII does it is interesting. It's like he's the game's Messiah except its version of God is an evil space alien that parasitically latched onto the life force, assumed influence over it, and retroactively made itself a Godlike influence over the world with the ability to make Sephiroth into a deity. It's like it's purely incidental at the end of the day, not of any grand design, just a John Carpenter monster that sucks up and controls so much soul juice that it can imbue its chosen son with God powers. Scifi meets mythology. Frickin' rad.
I look at Sephiroth as the bastard child of Shinra and Jenova. Unlike most people, Shinra knows what they're doing. The know that Mako is the lifeblood of the planet. They know and believe all the Cetra legends including the Promised Land. And rather than be Enlightened by that knowledge they bastardized Cetra lore to try and create a Cetra child for no other reason than to exploit more money out of a world they already owned. Even Jenova is more noble. Jenova was just an organism looking to feed. And Sephiroth is the "best" of both worlds. A complete monster that would've taken the lives of everyone who ever had or will live to use for himself. I don't think anything could embody Shinra or Jenova more.
well I liked that in the final zone of FF7 there was a lot of harrowing imagery about life and biology, wombs, embroyos. It really felt like when Sephiroth changed forms it was because he absorbed some forbidden genetic truth via all of the mako absorption.
and the black wing shit reduced him to "muh dark angel"
I'm so fricking mad that they gave him a literal black wing when the "angel wing" that Safer Sephiroth has is a big goopy meat flesh growth jutting out of his arm
I am convinced Sakaguchi moron checked Nomura and Nojima since every FF7 piece after the OG game has been a disgrace. FF7 would have had a much better reputation had it remained a single game, shrouded in ambiguity and mystery.
I think Advent Children and Final Fantasy X-2 were Pandora's Box for SE. Prior to X every entry had to be its own self-contained thing. The story had to set up its premise, move that premise to its logical end, and then close the book. But now each entry has to leave the potential to be its own Universe open. Final Fantasy 13 being a clumsy attempt, Final Fantasy 15 being clumsy as frick, and Final Fantasy 7 being the apotheosis to the stupid extended Universe bullshit. We all point and laugh at Final Fantasy 15 for being unfinished and for having character arcs being chopped out of the actual game to be sold as DLC, but with Final Fantasy 7 nobody can even agree on what the frick even happened because of the entries all contradicting each other. Until we get to present day where the concept of narrative integrity is the fricking antagonist of the story.
>Until we get to present day where the concept of narrative integrity is the fricking antagonist of the story.
kek and also true. Nomura and Nojima are incredibly talented and creative, their body of work speaks for itself and they've come up with ideas that I couldn't even if I was high on peyote, but either there used to be someone wrangling them, maybe Sakaguchi, or their talent is just a series of accidental moments of genius which even they don't understand why they worked.
Regardless of WHO can be thanked for FF7's great successes. It's clear with hindsight that the game was lightning in a bottle, and Square has a quarter of a century foolishly trying to capture it again.
Why do people get so autistic about Aeris vs Aerith? Is it just nostalgia? The only other example I can think of is Butz vs Bartz and that's only because Butz is funnier
No, but there's a singular in-universe effect it has on the story.
So, there's no in-universe explanation, but we can speculate Digital Mind Wave (the slots), is probably just a depiction of Zack's state of mind and how hyped he is.
In the beginning of the game the MC Cloud is introduced as an ex-elite soldier of Shinra. Turns out he never was elite soldier but simply a low grunt of the Shinra.
Through out the game there were hints Cloud not being who said he was, like none of the Shinra exec recognizing him. Then he finally breaks down when the main villain said he is not real but a puppet and Cloud's childhood friend confirms Super Soldier Cloud never came to their hometown. Yet Cloud knew events from the destruction of their hometown he couldn't have known unless he really were there. It was then revelead Cloud was there as a grunt soldier wearing his mask/helmet all the time. After the incident Cloud adapted personality of his friend Zack who was actual Super Soldier. The reveal was played out in Cloud's mind where he and his childhood friend tried to piece together the facts and it was shown Cloud taking off the helmet with the game's main theme playing
Super megacorp Shinra has functionally taken over to world with their weapons and their unique reactors that sucks The Souls of the Dead out of the earth and turns them into electricity. Main character Cloud is a mercenary hired by a terrorist organization to blow up the reactors and allegedly save the planet. A couple of missions later and Cloud bumps into a street girl named Aeris who can hear the cries of the planet. They fight in the party discovers that Shinra created an Unstoppable super soldier named sephiroth that everyone thought was dead but apparently is still alive. See Aeris is an Ancient, a race of people thought to be extinct. Shinra wanted to create a person with the abilities of the Cetra so they could use that to find the promised land, a hidden place with Infinite spiritual energy that that could slap a reactor on and make infinite money. What they didn't understand was that the Cetra corpse they took DNA from wasn't actually a Cetra. It was an alien monster, basically The Thing, that tried to feed on the planets spirit energy and was responsible for wiping out the Cetra in the first place. Cloud chases Sephiroth around the world realizing as bad as Shinra is, Sephiroth is worse. Sephiroth reveals his plan of attracting a giant meteor towards the planet, cracking it open to get at all the spiritual energy locked inside. Meaning Sephiroth is as much a parasite as his "mother." Sephiroth continuously gaslights Cloud until he has a mental breakdown, kills Aeris, and successfully calls Meteor. His other waifu helps him recover only to realize that the whole world is in chaos now at the literal end of the world is visible in the sky. The planet is trying to destroy all threats to itself including Humanity since humans are responsible for just as much damage to it as sephiroth. But the twist is that before Aeris died she begged the planet to show mercy to humans and the planet heard her.
The planet can't defend itself because sephiroth is keeping it bound and so cloud and the party have to dive into the center of the world and kill him off. Holy fires but it fires too late to stop the meteor and so all of the spirits of the planet have to join in to help and then meteor is destroyed.
>part 1 was just midgar >part 2 will have to go through kalm, chocobo ranch, ft condor, junon, costa del sol, corel, gold saucer, gongaga, nibelheim, cosmo canyon, rocket town, bone village, and the ancient village
how are they going to do it?
assuming if they want to end part 2 on aeris's death
also they'll have to include all of the dungeons relevant to the main storyline
and they also have to think about adding wutai since they spoiled yuffie already, and possibly vincent will need to make an appearance because we're headed to shinra mansion
They can't. Junon is the military centerpiece of Shinra. It has a lower and an upper level just like midgar. So naturally I'm very interested in whether or not it gets the same treatment as the first game. But even then we can't skip Cosmo Canyon since not only is that Red XIIIs hometown but it's also where we get the explanation for the structure of the planet and how big the stakes really are. There's also Corel where we get Barret's backstory. Unless SE decides to sell that as DLC or some shit.
Chocobo Ranch, Bone Village and Fort Condor are not critical for the main story. Not saying they won't or shouldn't be in, just saying if they need to cut locations they'd be the first to go.
i don't mind if they drop ft condor. some of those battles had some incredibly absurd timing windows. like you had to visit the village of the ancients, go to sleep at the bed, and go to ft condor when it's night time all the while your team is like 1 mile away from aeris
Part 2 and 3 are most likely to follow a similar but still completely different path than the original game so they can end it on whatever point they want just like Remake did.
FF7R is a sequel and not an actual remake of the original game.
The same way they did FFXIII and FFXV, carting the party from place to place with no agency or drive whatsoever and incidentally running face-first into the plot on occasion.
The past twenty years of Final Fantasy has been nothing but a roller-coaster ride of setpieces strung together by "they wander aimlessly" or "they perform menial labor until something happens"
Wind Waker, I guess? The whole plot is that you're not some chosen one meant to save the world, you're literally just some kid with a lot of guts and a heart of gold.
Deathblow rules because iirc it stacks with added effect. I love hitting with a beefy physical and inflicting poison or sleep on top of it. So weak that the remake only included the defensive capability of it in the "ward" materia.
In my case I stacked Deathblow with Added Cut on a Powersoul Tifa. I know everyone says all the characters are the same but Tifa is uniquely a fricking nuke in this game
Which weapon was Powersoul again? Was that the one that gave her a buff when she suffers a status ailment? Or was it tied to HP? I remember there being one that I kept on her where I gave her the Curse Ring and had her dumping 9999 earlier than anybody else, in like disc 1.
Powersoul gets 2x power if Tifa is a low health and 4x power of she's suffering from status. And yes they stack. So while your party is dealing 500 damage per attack, Tifa is shitting out 4000 damage before the Temple of the Ancients
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That explains why inflicting poison on herself was so strong. I thought it was just the status effect.
I was one of the mooks that played Remake first expecting it to be an actual remake of the OG game, and when it ended I was so confused about everything that happened at the end, I was ready to write Ganker off as being moronic again. I went back and played the OG last year and it's unironically kino. I wish I would've known going in that Remake was trying to be a sequel.
I'm not going to screech REMAKE BAD but what I will say is that where there's smoke, there's fire. I dislike the the twist in two ways. If you played FF7 then the twist is bad because it changes the story in ways that fricks up the original game. If you didn't play FF7 they the twist is still bad because it's subverting a narrative of a game you never played before.
To be fair, SE did never even try to clarify that Remake is a sequel and just rode high on the "look guys, we did what you asked and remade FF7" hype as hard as they could and it only became apparent it was a sequel if you play it or watch the last 2 hours of it on youtube or something, The subttitle "Remake" is basically a play on the words meaning and refers to the sequel remaking the future to basically be different than the OG game so they can do dumb shit like keep Zack and Aerith alive.
That's quite nice, but I like this one, that eventually builds up to my main reason to despise the Remake, the meta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOnuG9Y-LOs
Two hours really isn't that bad, but you don't need to. I was just saying that it's my favorite even if I much more heavily hate the game's content & mechanics and disagree with minutiae in the review, but its general permissiveness to change and tolerance to the product being off being counterbalanced by (potential) successes elsewhere being fine is my sentiment as well. Just to show that even with that benevolence, it's no good.
This was basically what made it for me, the music swelling at this moment and then getting the real flashbacks where cloud was. Absolutely perfectly executed.
one thing that is not talked about enough is the pacing of ff7 its basically pitch perfect literally non stop progress and never lets up until its finished...one of the few things ff7r kinda fricked up and is fricked up by being split up in three parts.
Not just the story but the world building and progression too. The way you go from a buggy to a boat to a submarine to an airship. It really encourages you to try going to different parts of the world just because you can get there and is able to deliver the game to you chunks at a time without it ever feeling small.
one of the things about this is that there are basically no real sidequests (as in shitty mmorpg sidequests) its all mainquest and story full stop and it never lets go
I still think FF7 has the best intro + first 6 hours out of any JRPG in existence. Pure ludo kino with so so much happening but in a concise way that doesn't feel bloated.
That's because every hour or so you're getting new information that will be followed up on and is important to the setting. Even the silly ass shit prostitutehouse section sets up not only life in the slums and the need to save Tifa but also that everybody in sector 7 is now in danger. And the run over to sector 7 is tense because you're moving with the knowledge that all of the people that you just met are probably going to die in a few hours. All founded on a mini game where you pretend to seduce a pimp
This is why I consider FF7R to be the anti-FF7. FF7 was a rollercoaster ride from start to finish. It never bored you for a second. You were constantly in the midst of crazy shit happening. Meanwhile FF7R is the literal definition of filler and time waste design. I am repulsed by how little SE thinks of its fans, that they can just rehash UE4 corridors endlessly and hoping we'd be impressed by it. The fact that the game wasn't universally panned ET-style on release is a disgrace.
For having played it recently, FF7 suffers from the same problems as FF6. Until the end of Midgar it's a gigantic tutorial with no fun allowed, zero customisation excepting an enemy attack materia that you can miss (and I missed it). And the rest of the CD1 is riddled with shitty mini games, boring slow parts like fort falcon. FF6 was the same, taking 12~15 hours before giving you the magicites and only really opening in the second half.
I just don't understand why people got so attached to Aeris. She's barely in the group or available most of the time. >Only available in Midgar during the Church part, gets kidnapped after >She's babbling during the Cosmo Canyon part, not available. >The village under the gold Saucer is centered on Barrett >She's once again not available during the Pyramid part (if I'm not mistaken) >Junon is focused on Cloud infiltrating a base and kissing a e-girl >She's leaving the party once you get close to the village of her ancestors.
She's barely there at all honestly. The only part where she can be relevant is the gold saucer date part but you need to have done specific shit to up your date-o-meter with her (got Tifa's and it was fun)
Honestly after all these years hearing about how it's sad and shocking, I never heard about the rest of the game which is honestly plain better. CD2 is where the game goes full Evangelion and goes full crazy and the plot twist of the actual memories of Cloud is one of the best parts of the game, mindbreak, Tifa actually confronting the fake memories, it's great.
I played this game last year, and I honestly feel like people have been bandwagonning for years, but never got past the CD1. I felt the same with FF6 which has an absolutely incredible part with the beginning of the world of Ruins leading to the Falcon, and yet people never talk about it.
I think part of it is just hype. It's one of the most well known twists in gaming, I knew about it before I even knew about FF7, so people jump on like it was some defining moment in their lives. That being said she is given some prominence and importance to the plot only to suddenly be cut down. It's not just a momentary injury like you'd expect in other games, she has no dying speech to make her sound more heroic, no mcguffin solution to bring her back, just poof dead. Having the party gather around to mourn her was a nice way of really driving home the point.
I only played this a few years ago already knowing every twist, thinking Sephiroth was just going to be grandaddy of anime villain trope, a look often imitated by people on early deviantart to show how edgy they were, but I was really surprised by how well the game handles it. Him being introduced as a war hero seemingly gone rogue was engaging. That scene in the library with him just pacing back and forth learning about his past was a great highlight moment.
Sephiroth is a fairly compelling character. It's a shame that one cutscene with him in the fire and KH has given most people a weird view of how he actually acted in the game
I blame his theme song. It's so over the top epic and iconic that Sephiroth stopped being a character with an arc and instead turned into a trope. Even the remake seems to fall for this with them doing the wall of fire so early on because he's just a trope. But I guess it's more of a sequel than anything.
Something that's pretty good about his characterization is that heating isn't presented as a bad person just because he was standoffish. He's focused on the assignment but he takes time out and ask his subordinates about how they feel about being home and to offer them leave to see their families when he has spare time. He knows he's different but he wasn't necessarily a villain until he read that research and became disconnected from Humanity as a whole
Forgot to mention that. I loved that he wasn't just some sort of silent brute or looking down on the other man before the reveal, it would've made his turn heel a lot less meaningful.
and it fits him perfectly, it's ominous, menacing, and hair raising
it's used perfectly in the original game and elevates sephiroth's threatening presence to something truly memorable
yet for some reason the only thing people care about is le final boss theme that's supposed to be out of place compared to everything else
it's really gay how the remake abjectly dumbs down Cloud and Sephiroth's relationship to "you killed my mommy and my hometown, I h8 u." in the original Sephiroth's presence is masterfully alluded to and built up before being drip fed leading up to the climax of disc 1, and nobody, Cloud included, really have a clue what he's up to only that it can't be good. (Cloud's source: dude trust me)
Well there's also the matter that Cloud wanted to be Sephiroth. That was his motivation. Cloud thought he was weak so if he could be strong, like sephiroth, then he would be satisfied. And Sephiroth uses that to gaslight him into doing the things he does. Sephiroth is a bad role model. Everyone looks to him as a hero but he is not. And when cloud accepts himself and that he's good enough and he doesn't have to pretend, neither Sephiroth or Jenova can control him anymore. As a matter of fact Cloud outright styles on Sephiroth with a move he invented and is completely unique to him
>in the original Sephiroth's presence is masterfully alluded to and built up before being drip fed leading up to the climax of disc 1
They deliberately got rid of this buildup because they felt their audience was too familiar with Sephiroth for it to work twice. Remake in general has a lot of issues with pacing because they padded out the Midgar section with a shit ton of filler and also tried to cram in Sephiroth's backstory in between all that shit.
The part they always omit regarding Sephiroth is that you're never fighting the real Sephiroth. The real Sephiroth died in the reactor before the events of the game, you're always fighting meat puppets controled by Jenova, and Cloud's fricked up memories fill in the blanks.
I supposed SE over the years have prefered to retcon the whole mysterious menacing antagonist side as his real personality, but the Sephiroth you're encountering is closer to a crazy cultist than a mastermind.
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You do fight the real Sephiroth at the end though right? Because he's awakened from his slumber in the ice fortress.
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Anonymous
yeah that's his real body (along with jenova) and when you kill him you beat him again in a weird metaphysical world
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That section is so weird and stylized that I've always held the headcanon that it's Cloud killing the memories of Sephiroth that plague his mind.
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it's sephiroth trying to take control of cloud through his injected jenova cells but it doesn't work because cloud and tifa pieced together who cloud really was sometime after mideel.
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the real sephiroth is the one in the north crater, the one cloud hands the black materia to
the other ones are clones, or body parts of jenova
the real sephiroth transforms into bizarro and then safer
1 year ago
Anonymous
You do fight the real Sephiroth at the end though right? Because he's awakened from his slumber in the ice fortress.
yeah that's his real body (along with jenova) and when you kill him you beat him again in a weird metaphysical world
Yes it's the real body, but is he the real Sephiroth at this point or just the mouthpiece of Jenova?
Because I don't really remember him talking much.
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Anonymous
that's never really explained and up to your headcanon
i like to think it's sephiroth doing the controlling and not jenova. makes more sense considering the personal themes of the story
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Jenova is dead.
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Anonymous
Jenova never really dies because it can never join the lifestream.
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Anonymous
It's never stated that joining the Lifestream is necessary in order to die?
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Anonymous
Lifestream is the Farplane of FFX, the games take place in the same universe. The non-cetra people of FF7 are humans from FFX world who travelled to FF7 planet in the past. Sephiroth thinking he was Cetra called non-cetras usurppers. If planet rejects the soul of the dead, they are left to roam on the planet as fiends
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>Lifestream is the Farplane of FFX, the games take place in the same universe.
Go home, Kitase. You're drunk again.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Resist all you want, you know it's true
1 year ago
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FF7 is a sequel to 10 after space travel.
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Jenova is a virus. As long as there's its cells left, it isn't dead
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Jenova doesn't really "speak". It's a psychic space virus, the only thing it tries to do is reproduce. It's not even really sapient.
It has some cunning, but it's the cunning of a predator. It doesn't hate or philosophize, it just wants to make more Jenova, then Reunite into a greater Jenova amalgam.
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If all it does is try to reproduce why doesn't it just have sex? I'd frick a sexy alien virus chick.
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Anonymous
It's not a chick. The Jenova body in the game is a Cetra female who fell victim to Jenova
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That is, in fact, its most major modus operandi. It turns into your loved ones and once it has you alone and in close quarters, it infects you. This is explicitly what Jenova does.
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It's not a chick. The Jenova body in the game is a Cetra female who fell victim to Jenova
>jenova was sentient space aids all along
Naruhodo. I always thought it was an actual space alien that just mind controlled people using ESP or some shit.
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Yes it's the real Sephiroth. Shinra thought he died but he was at the northern crater puppeteering Cloud and the clones. Cloud gives him the black materia. Clones bring him his mommy.
1 year ago
Anonymous
I always assumed it’s a bit of both. Sephiroth was holding Jenova’s head when he fell into the reactor and it became a case of Sephiroth’s will keeping his wants but incorporating Jenova’s own modus operandi of being a space parasite. You see this with Sephiroth’s motivating factors prior to the reactor: he assumed Jenova was a Cetra and desired the ruination of humanity for not only creating him as a fricked up science experiment but also for destroying what he assumed was his race. When he got all the information in the Lifestream and learned he’s actually a fricked up space parasite chimera he also took in Jenova’s ideal of destroying all life on the planet and absorbing the energy to go out into space and do it again.
Functionally Sephiroth is just a smarter space parasite once they were attuned. The only real personal flickerings of himself is his conscious choice to kill President Shinra right after he gets the Jenova torso to bust out of HQ and the sadistic delight in tormenting the frick out of Cloud since he both defeated him but also brought him to the state of apotheosis as a risen planet busting space parasite 2.0. Killing Aerith is mostly done to service that Cloud torment and prevent an annoying contingency to the god parasite plan.
Speaking of Aerith though, I kind of suspect his goal in 7R is to not kill Aerith since her death and presence in the Lifestream is what saved the Planet in the end by reinforcing Holy to repel Meteor, not Holy itself.
1 year ago
Anonymous
I think it would be neat if instead Seph's motive in Remake is to keep Aerith alive specifically. He's warned Cloud about the 7 seconds and I think he's going to play it like he's helping Cloud correct history by playing on his attachment to Aerith.
I didn't even click the link but I already know you're talking about those chosen by the planet. And if you are and I want to tell you that you are absolutely correct because that Sephiroth's character. He genuinely believes that he's the heir to the entire planet. And that his mother deserved it and the people who took it from her deserve to die. I genuinely believe that Final Fantasy 7 is being written by its own fame at this point. It's not a story, it's a greatest hits highlight reel. It's the video game equivalent of a YouTube AMV except it was sponsored by Square Enix themselves
I didn't even click the link but I already know you're talking about those chosen by the planet. And if you are and I want to tell you that you are absolutely correct because that Sephiroth's character. He genuinely believes that he's the heir to the entire planet. And that his mother deserved it and the people who took it from her deserve to die. I genuinely believe that Final Fantasy 7 is being written by its own fame at this point. It's not a story, it's a greatest hits highlight reel. It's the video game equivalent of a YouTube AMV except it was sponsored by Square Enix themselves
agree
so much stuff that the compilation just doesn't get
Something that's pretty good about his characterization is that heating isn't presented as a bad person just because he was standoffish. He's focused on the assignment but he takes time out and ask his subordinates about how they feel about being home and to offer them leave to see their families when he has spare time. He knows he's different but he wasn't necessarily a villain until he read that research and became disconnected from Humanity as a whole
I prefer the X party. They fill similar personality roles but part of it is that X has stronger tech and therefore can afford to show off a lot more of them interacting and talking.
It's kind of weird for me. With the PS1 and SNES games (not just Final Fantasy but other JRPGs as well) it's very easy for me to accept the minimal emoting from the characters. My mind just kind of fills in the blanks from the combination of writing and the small gestures/movements that the characters do.
But the more advanced that the graphics get, more all the the canned animations stick out to me, like in Yakuza games or FFXV. FFX is probably the last FF game that I could play without being bothered by it.
It's honestly weird.
I can understand that. For me it does depend on the game rather than speaking more generally but there are games where the more minimal interactions end up feeling more meaningful than a highly complex, technology impressive, full motion capture performance.
6 and 9 off the top of my head.
i really liked the cast in bof2 but the dialogue options are really limited. same with bof3.
dq 11 is a newer game that has a really likeable cast.
chrono trigger you might like, but the characters in the game don't really grow like they did in ff7.
>original game builds up the twist all through the first disc and it takes until halfway of the second one for the truth to be finally revealed >remake pretty much spells the whole thing out during Midgar
I seriously fricking dislike the Remake. Yes, you could make the argument that everybody already knows the twist, so they are putting a different spin on the story. But as is evident, plenty of people aren't/weren't aware of it, and they did actually want to play the Remake for modern take on the game that was still faithful to the story, instead of some kind of weird meta experience.
Frick the whole shit with Sephiroth in the Remake too.
Yes. Probably why Cloud's story doesn't resonate as much with me compared to Aerith and
Everyone talks about the environmental/ capitalism message but a recurring theme in the game that I don't really see people talking about is the importance of history. The obvious one is Cloud. Yes I know any the Jenova brainwashing but Sephiroth was only able to get as far as he did because Cloud voluntarily forgot his own history to RP as a man he saw as better than him. Once Cloud accepted his own personality Sephiroth couldn't prey on his insecurities anymore. But that idea is kind of everywhere. There are no named nations in the world, it's all Shinra. The last one is Wutai and I bet in 2 generations no one will remember it's name either. Icicle Area used to be called the Knowlespole. Barret mentions that Midgar used to be a series of villages but no one remembers their names anymore because it all belongs to Shinra now. Hell the LifeStream lost its name. LifeStream explains what the purpose of the river of life is but now no one knows what that is. It's Mako now, the energy source that belongs to Shinra. And I think that's cool.
Still I like your contrast between Cloud pretending to be strong and Cloud actually being strong
FF7 was one of those games that I went into knowing full well what to expect because I bought the strategy guide years before I bought the actual game. Everyone in my school was talking about it and my parents wouldn't buy me a Playstation so I read the strategy guide cover to cover just so I could talk about it with my friends.
I didn't have the strategy guide but I did have the manual that came with the game and for just weeks and weeks I would draw the characters inside of it while in school
Cloud as a character is one identify with more than any fictional character so despite his fame I actually do hold both him and his game very near and dear to my heart
Should I play this game? Which version is the best? Also are there any mods to make the field avatars not look like lego men? I've only played FF2, 6, and 8 and enjoy all of them.
>Should I play this game?
6, 7 and 10 are often seen as the best FF has to offer so you'll probably enjoy it. >Which version is the best?
Emulated is probably the best. >Also are there any mods to make the field avatars not look like lego men?
I believe the PC version has a mod community, one of which is an update to the models to make them more high-res but personally I think it clashes a bit too heavily with the rest of the game. After a while you get used to the lego proportions and the game does a decent job with showing some emotion through body movement so I don't think it's really necessary.
A liquid that doesn't absorb in to the skin should, in theory, exist.
The skin ain't perfectly solid, but there should be A liquid possible that wouldn't be able to enter it, either because it is so viscous that it can't, or via other means.
Jenova cells make them durable. It's the same reason why Cloud survives his fall all the way to Aerith's church. Speaking of which, the same rationale also saves another character earlier in the franchise.
i played this shit for the first time in 2019 and somehow accidentally managed to avoid getting this part spoiled for me for 20 years
First time playing, didn't see that coming at all. I thought I knew the big spoiler. Fricking kino.
Better leave the thread, bro.
make sure you check out the mako tanks in the shinra mansion library on disc 3 for an extra flashback
Because everyone was too busy crying about Aerith's death that they completely forget about the true plot twist of the game. Finding what really happened inside the reactor was by far the best part of the entire game.
I wouldn't go as far as saying that FFVII is the best game of all time, but the whole set-up and execution of the Nibelheim incident is the best storytelling in gaming history.
Yeah, probably.
Aeris
They have classes you can take to help with speech impediments
She's called Aerith in the games
Not in FF7, which is the only one that matters.
the S is a mistranslation based on pronounciation. Japan doesn't have a TH so when spoken aloud would be more like an S. And if you're complaining about that over the mountain of other mistranslated and localized stuff in old FF games well you should probably take some meds. This isnt the 90's anymore where no one in the west knew any better.
It's technically both or either. It's Erissu in Japanese by phonetic. That suffix could be either a th sound or the S sound, they are indistinct from one another in Japanese, it's "su" either way.
And phonetic isn't the same as written which is the point. Now ask me how I know you are a homosexual who still thinks Guts' name is guttsu. Kill your self immediately.
>makes a post complaining about a translation error
>tells others to take their meds if they complain about translation errors
Read your posts before replying, it'll help you from looking like a moron in the future
>it'll help you from looking like a moron
it'll stop you from looking like a moron
>based on pronounciation ... would be more like an S
so it sounds like Aeris, but should be written like Aerith
thanks burgerland for another high quality contribution to the English language
Wrong. She is called Aerith in FFVII. There is only one place where she is called Aeris, and that's in the naming screen.
If you bypass the naming screen (as speedrun skips do), you learn her name is Aerith by default.
She's been Aerith since the year 2000. Square wants her to be called Aerith. The same company that has carried other name changes forward (Tina/Terra, Frionel/Firion) doubled back on Aeris and said it's not her name. Get over it.
>Frionel/Firion
I always choose the name that is a noun, which means for example that my VI party has both Terra and Mash in it, so I'm still waiting for the day when hey slip up and call him Freon in anything official to give me an excuse.
It's supposed to be Aerith because
Air + Earth
As a person who was unspoiled for both twists, Aerith's death was the greater one of the two.
It's more emotionally impactful sure. But clouds reveal was way more interesting.
I wouldn't say way more instead of just more, but that is true. Both were intricate in their own manner and method, but Cloud's notably more so. I personally don't separate the emotional impact from the whole, so for me it's a clear landslide.
NTA but while the Aeris death is far more shocking, I find the Cloud twist to have more build up and payoff. There's a bunch of events and dialogue that make no sense until you know the twist and then the game becomes better on new games. Here's a few favorites of the game warning you that Cloud might be a schitzo
>Aeris: What rank were you?
>Cloud: Rank?
>Aeris: You know, in SOLDIER.
>Cloud:Oh, I was...
*Flash.*
>First Class.
Or when Cloud starts finding plotholes in his own story
>Cloud: You again?
>...Who are you?
>?:...You'll find out soon. ......But more importantly, 5 years ago...
>Cloud: 5 Years ago... Nibelheim?
>?: When you went to Mt. Nibel then, Tifa was your guide, right?
>Cloud: Yeah... I was surprised.
>?: But where was Tifa other than that?
>Cloud: ...I dunno.
>?: It was a great chance for you two to see each other again.
>Cloud: ...You're right.
>?: Why couldn't you see each other alone?
>Cloud: ...I don't know. I can't remember clearly...
The most glaring one being Aeris's date
>Aeris:......first off, it bothered me how you looked exactly alike.
>Two completely different people, but look exactly the same.
>The way you walk, gesture...
>I think I must have seen him again, in you...
>But you're different.
>Things are different.
>Cloud...
>I'm searching for you.
>Cloud: ............?
>Aeris: I want to meet you.
>Cloud: But I'm right here.
>Aeris: (I know, I know...what I mean is...)
>I want to meet...you.
There's also the bits where Tifa asks Cloud if he's sure about his memories. The very fact it's not a definite thing shows all kinds of red flags.
I think Cosmo Canyon is the biggest red flag
>Tifa
>Cloud...
>Bonfires are funny, aren't they?
>They make you remember all sorts of things.
>You know, Cloud. 5 Years ago...
>......It's nothing.
>No, forget it. I'm afraid to ask...
>Cloud
>What is it...?
>Tifa
>It feels like... it feels like you're going far away...
>You really, really are...... you... right?
Although Gongaga was pretty bad too
Tifa.
>Tifa
>Zack......
>Cloud
>Do you know him?
>Tifa
>N, no, I don't know him!
>Cloud
>Your face tells me differently.
>Tifa
>I told you, I don't!
>Cloud
>A, all right.
lol, tifa has terrible anxiety. she was afraid of what bad things might happen if she confronted him on their memory differences, so she always needed more time, but so much bad shit happened anyway.
Cid after could is lost in the lifestream goes something like this if i remember.
>I want you to know i didnt hate him... but you have to admit he was a weird dude, one time he would do something really cool and impresse you but then then the next second he would do some damn fool thing and show you how truly dumb he was.. weird dude.
I like those too. My favorite though is:
>A Shinra uniform...
>I was so proud when I first put it on.
>I wonder when it was...
>...I couldn't stand wearing this thing anymore.
I've finished VII 36 times and love everything about it, except Priscilla. Cloud's twist is incredible in its own right, I was not trying to diminish that. However considering bringing justice for Aerith colors the rest of the game for a longer time and it having gameplay ramifications, I find it greater. And well personally I fell into such blinding anger on my first playthrough that nothing registered for me between Cloud saying "But I'm going." and emerging to the snowy overworld. It is a complete blank in my memory. Cloud just can't compete for me with that even if it was an amazing triumphant crescendo and made sense of a web of misdirection, psychoanalysis and mystery.
I think the thing that made Aeris's death hurt the most for me is that she deserved it the least. Most of the FF7 party is pretty Grey. Cloud was a merc hired by a terrorist organization. Cait Sith was Reece who is a Shinra spy. Yuffie was a thief. Vincent was a Turk. Cid may have been abusive to his wife. Aeris was just a flower girl who wanted to know her history. She hung out with Avalanche but it's not like she took part in the bombings. At the end of the game everyone comes together and takes a moment to say that they're not innocent but they still will do the best they can for the planet.
>except Priscilla
What a random thing to have an issue with
Priscilla looks stupid, is a total imbecile, is reckless, is extremely melodramatic, is entitled, self important, happy, rude brat, whose lightning fast arc makes her addition bipolar, turbotsundere event, which results in her becoming possessive and she somehow has Shiva of all things. As a breaking the ice event to befriend the party to Under-Junon it's alright. Little kids promising to marry cool adults may be in character and Cloud is her savior, so that's not my problem, neither is it the CPR minigame. Her being friends with animals pisses me off. A thing I have to look over with Cara as well. Priscilla is just a b***h with an ego problem and is a little too over-the-top character for VII.
Every other character in the world I like, no matter how inconsequential background npc they are.
Aeris twist has no buildup and happens so quick. Even devs said they want it to be a sudden death. The equivalent of eclipse scene but lack of gore/rape stuff for it to stick it your head.
Cloud's twist has perfect execution. You knew something was coming together but didn't exactly understand why.
Aeris was sudden but did have sufficient buildup IMO
the scenes like, trying to find her in the sleeping forest, chasing after her and being unable to move
or almost getting mind controlled into slashing her at the forgotten capitol, where every button you press to pull away raises your sword at her, its so fricked up and makes you feel a sense of hopelessness
those scenes were really well done and stick out to me even now, FF7's psychological expression is unmatched IMO no matter how primitive the graphics were
Final Fantasy 7 is the sort of fantasy that I like. I'm not sure if this is a hot take but I don't think Sephiroth on his own is particularly interesting. He's a tornado, the most interesting things about him are the ways he affected things around him. And I think that elevates Cloud. Not too many people can empathize with the idea of being mind control by an alien parasite. But they can empathize with somebody using their worst impulses and their greatest shames to gaslight them into doing things that they would never do in a vacuum. And then the following mental breakdown and distrust of yourself after you've already done it. Which Sephiroth is extremely effective at. The fantastical elements are just used for the more down to earth story beats to make them more interesting
Aerith's buildup is her being too good for the gritty world of VII (Not for me though, since I honestly think she's a prostitute) but more importantly by her being mysterious, selfsearching, self reflective in a distant and solitary way (happens in her church, her house, the Shinra HQ cell, Costa del Sol Inn and around the Cosmo Candle. Technically also when she leaves for the Forgotten City by herself, but officially what's actually happening there is much more disgusting.), which sets up a distance to pre-emptively mirror and soften the blow of her death. So there is hinting setup, it's just more symbolic and meta.
Though her death being sudden and meaningless is vitally important, only guilt being mixed into it further makes it enduring storywise and elevates it to the top of the franchise deaths, rather than mere player grief.
100% agree. Aeris hit hard, but wasn't out of the blue. Cloud's reveal on the other hand was perfectly foreshadowed and executed, and they absolutely nail the scene in the lifestream. it carries the game to this day.
It is Nomura and Kitase's favorite part of the game too.
For me, it was Seto's backstory.
Am I a b***h if Nanako howling at Seto's tears still illicits an emotional reaction? I think it's the music that does it
No bud.
I nearly get the urge to tear up every time I simply hear that song.
Whenever the song gets to "that part" I can still hear Red XIII howling in my head, and see Seto's tears.
God I sound like a furgay, but I'm not. It was just probably the most emotional scene in the entire PS1 library.
Here's this father who is so honorable and protective of his tribe, he goes out solo to fight off in invading tribe, sacrificing himself to being petrified but still "alive" to continue keeping the invading tribe at bay for years.
Then like 10 years later, overhearing his son, now grown up, visiting his petrified body for the first time, overhearing his son being told the reason for it all, overhearing his son go from being ashamed of his "cowardly disappearance" to being so proud of that the son declares it out loud after discovering the truth and not even being able to move or do anything.
not that anon, but thanks for making me cry again about that part
Her death was very sudden and shocking and catches you by surprise.
Clouds slow mental breakdown and false past that he was lying to himself about is a slow build up but also more importantly: much less impressive to tell someone who doesn't know anything about the game.
X dies! is always an easy spoiler to digest
X wasn't [context only to understand] but a [context only to understand] doesn't make sense to people who haven't played the game.
I agree it was very kino
Because Aries death was the first major spoiler and everyone just rode that out. All the real fans kept quiet about it because its fricking awesome
I played for the first time in 2007 and somehow didn't get spoiled until watching the machinabridged last week.
It's the real plot twist and probably the best in any game
A lot of people who played this game don’t even understand who zack fair is
It's not like hes that important to 7 hes just some soldier cloud convinced himself he is
Crisis Core changed that. Now he's so important that he still gets a force ghost despite the fact that he's been dead for half a decade and still hasn't diffused into a life stream despite the fact that he's just a normal guy. Well normal for now. I can't wait to discover that Hojo did a super secret experiment on him that separated his soul from his body and that he's the one who actually has command over the Whispers and the one who's been chasing Sephiroth through time which is why he shows up in an alternate time line
Most people shitpost about aerith dying because they didn't actually play the game and just want to whine about le old ugly psx game
People who did play only shitpost about this by calling cloud a poser or a literal nobody unless they're complaining about Tifa willfully ignoring it the whole time even though her memory was probably also tampered with when they fixed Nibelheim
>even though her memory was probably also tampered with when they fixed Nibelheim
No? Zangan took her to Midgar with zero to one witness depending on your canon, so Hojo and Shinra never knew she was there.
Tifa went along with it because Cloud was right on the fricking verge of breaking down and she was trying to keep him together.
We outright have scenes of her mentally correcting his tale. "It was five years ago..." "It was actually six..."
Tifa went along with it because Cloud was so frighteningly accurate that the things he "got wrong" left Tifa doubting reality.
Remember: Tifa didn't know Cloud was there in an infantry getup. So when he starts dealing out all these facts that were almost perfectly accurate, just completely misplacing Zack with Cloud, Tifa was basically gaslit. If Cloud wasn't there and his story was wrong, how did he know so much that was right?
She couldn't sort out the contradiction herself and so she stayed quiet.
Same but it was in 2020, after the fricking remake came out. Kind of impressed the fans of the game managed to make Aerith's death into a legacy meme but hardly ever spoil the real twist.
Because no one cares about the real twist. I'm sorry but everybody just felt a more emotional connection to their waifu rather than to the content of the story.
The Aeris death is much easier to relate. She's the cute girl you meet in the first 15 minutes of the game. And the one skewering her is villain who's one of the most recognizable and iconic characters in any rpg. There's some additional context around the scene but it doesn't really matter and is only relevant later in the plot anyways.
By contrast, the Cloud twist only really has a impact when you understand the backstory and relationships of multiple characters and their motivations. Even if you were to give a very reductive summary, like "Cloud was never actually a SOLDIER", it doesn't make sense to anybody who hasn't at least played to Kalm.
much easier to explain you mean?
Because gaming journalists are mostly women whom didn't play pass disc 1, let alone explain the real twist of the game.
Also "muh dead character" makes good headline. People would drop reading when you say main character was actually a loser.
MC being a loser who miraculously accomplishes amazing feats is the ultimate modern male power fantasy though. He struck down a mythical, alien gene-infused super soldier, got 3 girls falling for him, and replaced the head of a resistance (actually terrorist) group as their new leader. Even Aeris who originally became drawn to him due to his similarities to Zack eventually fell for the parts of him that weren't emulating her late ex-boyfriend. Hell, his implied canon love interest is a demure big-tittied female fighter who was his childhood friend and never strongly challenge him on his behaviour either.
Spunky thief ninja is the canon love interest and no one can tell me otherwise. Nothing after the original is canon after all.
>Nothing after the original is canon after all.
You need to get into theorycrafting youtube. Stop caring about the story being "good" or "bad" and watch people talk about the lore for hours.
Soon you won't actually care what is happening in the plot anymore and all that matters is what it adds to the lore.
For example Nero showing up in Remake is not good for the story, but it IS good for the lore and the theories.
Once you're a fan of FF7 theorycrafting literally everything that happens in the story, no matter what, is good - because it expands the lore. You can apply this to all the FF games and suddenly "bad writing" or "plotholes" simply disappear.
Unironically good advice. I used to hate Genesis (and I still dislike him CC) but theories have me looking forward to his possible appearance in remake.
This is like the "gorilla warfare" or the "shit was so cash" of Final Fantasy threads
very nice headline anon. Good luck explaining it to major audiences
Certainly easier to spoil. Character that shows up in the beginning actually dies is simple to understand. Plus it's easier to make jokes.
Same, it genuinely blew my mind how kino that moment was. Man, playing ff7 for the first time is one of my favorite Vidya experiences of all time.
For me it was 2008 but same. Then all the memes on the internet was about aerith dying.
Same, I played it in 2018 for the first time, and was caught off guard by this.
>cloud finds out he was just larping as Zack
>no one knows if cloud is really cloud or just some science experiment hojo made or whatever
>turns out cloud was even cooler than he realized and he kicked sephiroths ass in the reactor
Pure ludo. Watch them ruin this in the remake.
Didn't they already kick Sephiroth's ass in the remake?
No, Sephiroth let Cloud kick his ass for a bit and then said "git gud" and fricked off
>Didn't they already kick Sephiroth's ass in the remake?
No, Cloud tried to use the omnislash which he defeated Sephiroth with in the original and Sephiroph effortlessly parried it then disarmed Cloud. He was toying with them the entire time, Remake is actually a sequel, the Sephiroth we beat in the original has managed to go back in time in some alternate timeline and is working with memories of being defeated the first time. That was the entire point of the ending, Cloud should have beaten Sephiroth there but Sephiroth knew what Cloud would do and countered him accordingly.
>Cloud should have beaten Sephiroth there but Sephiroth knew what Cloud would do and countered him accordingly.
No he shouldn't have. The Cloud in remake is at a point where a giant snake in the marsh is still a huge threat to him. Same type of snake that Sephiroth put through a tree. And yet in remake cloud has already defeated the metaphysical concept of determinism. I'm not going to write remake off and I don't want this to be interpreted as me seething that they changed the story but it does make me raise an eyebrow at it
Levels are a pure mechanical function and are not representative at all of the in character journey. The characters don't level up and gain more health in the story. They merely overcome every obstacle in their path as necessary, save for the ones they don't overcome due to lore purposes. This is why Tifa can punch giant sewer monsters to death, but can barely go toe to toe with Scarlet in a slapping contest. Also why random rats you can find on the 3rd disc are stronger than Genova or said marsh snakes. You're not supposed to look THAT into it.
I'm not talking about from a mechanical perspective. Cloud and the party are in awe, narratively, that Sephiroth was able to do what he did. "Did Sephiroth do this" is basically a meme but in universe, whether the party defeated the Zolom or they ran away, Sephiroth being able to not only win but to also brutalize such a powerful animal by himself is considered unbelievable at that point in the story
And they will still be impressed by it when it happens in the Remake, if only for the sheer size of the serpent being speared as it was, same as it was in the original. There's no difference.
They do grow stronger, but the actual plot narrative for that is the party acquiring materia. The more material they acquire, the more they are capable of busting out. As far as the plot goes, Cloud was never level 30 but then he gained some experienced and went up a level to 31. Levelling systems, hit points and all that shit is just a mechanical function of the game's design completely removed from the actual plot. It quite LITERALLY doesn't matter that Cloud was a low level in the original when he ran into a Zolom, so that means in the Remake it can't capture the same feeling because Cloud's already fought someone he shouldn't have been able to fight until later in the original. Power levels don't fricking work like that. The narrative is simply that the challenges the party faces continue to grow but they always overcome them, unless the plot is that they don't. Shit like party levels don't factor in to it at all. Yeah, Cloud survived a fight with Sephiroth in Remake where Sephy was completely toying with him the entire time. That doesn't detract from the fact that Zolom's in Remake Pt 2 are still going to be intimidating when first encountered, and Sephiroth apparently impaling one with ease is still going to be impressive and awe-inspiring.
>characters don't actually get stronger throughout the plot of the game, Cloud is as strong during the reactor mission as he is when they go to the crater
You have to be joking
>and I don't want this to be interpreted as me seething that they changed the story
Honestly, I'm perfectly ok with them changing the story. Not everything from the original was going to work in the new format or with the new gameplay, plus remakes don't have to be 1:1, why bother remaking it at all? What DOES bother me though is how this didn't end up being a remake at all and is instead a meta sequel to Advent Children. I wanted something that would tell more or less the original story but in a new way, not something that's constantly winking and nodding to me about what happened in the original, then capping it off with a Kingdom Hearts final boss getting BTFO as this fresh and inexperienced party is leaving Midgar. I'm with you. I'm not ready to write it off yet. In fact, I'm in it for the long run because good or bad, I have to see where this goes now, plus I legitimately loved the gameplay and the new life they breathed into the old world and characters. I had my grievances here and there but nothing that can't be fixed in the later parts (namely fixing aerial combat to be a little better than a single slash and then falling down again, or letting you actually modify your party when more than 3 members of the party are there). I'm excited to play more because it was fun. I just wish I didn't have to deal with this wannabe Evangeleon nonsense to get it out have to worry about how they'll have to up the ante being literally killing fate.
>turns out cloud was even cooler than he realized and he kicked sephiroths ass in the reactor
Not true at all, he stabbed him in the back like a pussy. He had a sneak attack materia on his weapon.
Cloud, a rank and file grunt, got stabbed right after that, lifted up like a ragdoll and still managed to plunge Sephiroth, the strongest Soldier in all of Shinra, to the bottom of the reactor by pure rage and adrenaline. You're not giving enough credit to the absolute madman.
That part of the story has been OFFICIALLY retconned by Nomura:
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>retconned by Nomura
Whatever this goofball says isnt true and people need to stop listening to him
If you don't appreciate the addition of Genesis to the series, you have no taste.
there is not a single piece of ff7 spinoff media that isn't a moronic fujo cashgrab dragging the original game down
I like the remake
It's actually kind of a relief in a weird way that it's Rebuild of Evangelion shit and not really a remake, that means the original doesn't get tarnished by retcons that it inevitably would have gotten if it was a straight remake
It is a relief in hindsight yeah, since the remake actively raped literally everything about FF7 already and looks to be primed to do worse in the future. Shame that we got this tripe instead of its interesting gameplay without an offensively bad story
>its interesting gameplay
at the end of the day there's far worse things than a game that's entirely carried by its core gameplay being really, really good. I was shocked the materia system wasn't just there but actually as fleshed out as it was, especially for an action game. pretty much everything in between battles can go frick itself but the combat's on point, played the game to completion twice (normal and hard), did almost every side combat mission (beat Weiss but never did beat all the summons).
>game that's entirely carried by its core gameplay being really, really good.
It's not that good. It's worth playing but the story really ruins it if youactually enjoye FF7 and aren't just a famboy that clapped when he saw the thing he knew. The customization is great for an action game but the core combat system is pretty simplistic and too easy.
Say that again when they pull a rebuild 4 and ruin everything.
4.0 is literally the best of the rebuilds though
don't tell me you actually cared about the plot...
I hate modern fans and modern SE. Frick the Remake.
the remake is fine despite its issues
the combat is great and the character writing is also great
i have high hopes for the sequel
The combat is fricking awful like every other post RPG FF. Hell, the RPG ones weren't even that good, just ok.
>The combat is fricking awful
care to articulate why
It's not even good visually. The farmer Rei stuff was fine but good god did the 3d crap ruin everything else. And I don't mean the giant cgi Rei either.
Crisis Core was after Last Order
The only good thing they've done after the game isn't canon? That's hilarious
Actually officially no. An interview clarifies that Before Crisis and Last Order are a faulty Turk report and that the events of VII are canon whenever they conflict. A Turk, probably Martial Arts Female, arrives after the scene and writes in her report that Sephiroth must've jumped into the Mako, because she finds it inconceivable that he could've possibly lost the fight.
Anything after the original game is pure fanfiction.
This, CC was embarrassing when it came out and it's embarrassing now.
from wikipedia:
"Hideki Imaizumi, the producer of Crisis Core, stated that they had received "considerable negative feedback" from fans, who were displeased with changes made to the Nibelheim event in Last Order. Due to this, the scene was redone for Crisis Core, and the production crew was careful to avoid making the same decisions."
God that fricking swan dive lmao who would have ever thought for even a second that this fundamental change to the story was a good idea
>survives getting stabbed after thinking his best bro got killed
>hojo takes advantage of their weakened states to put them in a materia vat for 5 years
Hojo is and always will be the true villain of FFVII
Definitely.
Sephiroth just went into a rage. He was still evil for it, killing Cloud's mom and a bunch of other innocents. But at least there was motivation. And he got fricking killed right after.
Jenova is just simply existing and doing what she naturally does. Basically another Lavos.
Shinra has done a lot of evil, but really dropping the plate is just an extreme means to solve a problem. AVALANCHE willingly killed innocent people too (until FF7R retconned that)
Hojo is just fricking insane. Evil doer for the sake of being evil and generally a sick frick. He basically caused all the problems in FF7 and didn't even care.
>rape
>genocide
>testing on animals
>testing on humans
>warcrimes
>sexual assault
Hojo is just typical japanese man honestly.
Hojo is an avatar of everything modern Japan fears re: science and it's habit of literally spilling-over onto the proles, a bunch of Japanese kids in the 80's and 90's got a fresh supply of horror exposes on how cool LCD watches lead to widespread mercury poisoning and eternal groundwater contamination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Big_Pollution_Diseases_of_Japan
The main question is: "Would a Red x Aerith pregnancy actually work?"
>Would a Red x Aerith pregnancy actually work?
You should ask Tifa considering all the time she spends in the chocobo stalls.
Well Nanaki had 2 cubs despite being described as the last of his kind so maybe Aeris got him pregnant
Bugenhagen, on his death bed, tells Red XIII to search the Planet for a mate after the conflict is over, because maybe they're wrong and he isn't the last of his species.
This is contradicted in Before Crisis, because they both know Dinah will thaw a few years later, so the conversation doesn't make sense, but please ignore BC concerning Red XIII.
I find it's just best to ignore any compilation shit and other side material for FF7
Of course. VII standalone is a masterpiece. But when I want to add a fun side dish, a thriller noir entry spice addition, I consider VII + BC + LO + the interview an exciting alternate compartmentalized canon (ranked for me as "Notably good" 8/10). BC is actually loyal to VII's setting and characterizations except for Cloud and Red XIII. The rest of the Compilation, with or without Remake, is abysmal with no positive value.
Isn’t bugenhagen the grandfather? Maybe he fricked the tiger dog in the first place and their species does reproduce with humans.
Plausibly. Everything is just cycling Lifestream energy, so them procreating more freely is theoretically not too out there. That's why Hojo needs to test it.
I doubt it. Otherwise the Cetra would spontaneously return
Risk is everything, and for all we know, we could be sitting on the return of our common ancestor by not having sex with bonobos
>"Would a Red x Aerith pregnancy actually work?"
I'd assumed before extended universe crap that he knocked up some poor woman who had a you just know fetish and the babies came out looking like him
He yeeted him into the bottom of the reactor. Nomura decided to be a homosexual and retcon it to Sephiroth willingly wanting to die even though that doesn't make any fricking sense.
They already did, the first thing Cloud does when he sees Sephiroth after the #1 reactor bombing is exclaim I KILLED YOU
Square should lose custody of all of their IPs immediately for their own protection.
i got dibs on mana
Crisis Core Reunion out in a month and a half, so... Yeah, man.
>Watch them ruin this in the remake.
They did that years ago with the OVA where Sephiroth just jumps into the lifestream when Cloud confronts him
They already did in Crisis Core. You know the 100% factual prequel which proves Clouds brain wasn't broken?
Nah Crisis Core never happened because I didn't finish it
So what was Cloud just high on crack when Tifa found him at the train station?
So did sephiroth go crazy because the reactor and Dr Gast's research confirm suspicions that he already had or did Genesis just make him crazy?
>So did sephiroth go crazy because the reactor and Dr Gast's research confirm suspicions that he already had
Yes
>did Genesis just make him crazy?
Who? Not a real character
The scene in the reactor is the best scene of the game. I'm always baffled how much people are bandwagonning.
Level 1 side character manages to slap the final boss is one of my favorite things in all media. I hate emo Cloud, the shy real Cloud is so much better and nearly no one ever talk about it.
>I hate emo Cloud, the shy real Cloud is so much better and nearly no one ever talk about it.
It's literally the largest complaint with everything that came post FFVII
That they shit all over Cloud's character and made him a brooding emo instead of his goofy weird self
Yajirobe cutting vegeta's tail was kino
Childhood is thinking that Vincent is cool.
Adulthood is realizing that Vincent is an absolute cuckold moron.
Nah, he's still cool. Not even a cuck, just a simp who needs to move on already.
I'll be fricking livid if 7R retcons him into being Sephiroth's father.
He's 28 or something, no way they could make him Sephiroth's father
You do know Vincent's 57, right? Or do you mean that 28 is less than Vincent's 30 year sleep? If so Sephiroth's age is for the flashback.
I still think he's cool even though he lost the love of his life to fricking Hojo of all people, it fits well with the gothic monster theme he had
That 7 or so part NTR manga about him and his backstory was pretty good.
Why didn't he just let go on the sword?
Yeah I hope they make that scene physically believable, it only worked in PS1 FF7 because it was so low res you basically had to imagine how it worked yourself
>cloud get stabbed
Bloodsprays
>long drawn out 3 sentence dialog
Blood in corner of mouth
>cloud gets angry
Aura of light surrounds Cloud
>they engage in a fight
30 foot jump in the air followed by conveniently placed QTEs
>Sephiroth falls into the reactor
Time jannies drag him down
>cloud hanging on edge of pipe, losing consciousness
Cloud is carried out by Gackt
Yeah bro. Totally can’t wait
>Cloud is carried out by Gackt
I laugh but it probably fricking will.
It was his dad's, he would've gotten yelled at if he lost it
Bad case of deathgrip from wanking too much
maybe the handle got hooked on his homosexual clothing
Pretty sure he wasn't in any shape for quick reactions. By the time he realized the tables were turned, he was already hanging onto it for dear life.
Probably his ego. He refused to believe he was getting overpowered by this literal who grunt
It should go like this.
>Sephiroth stabs Cloud.
>Cloud grabs the sword.
>Power struggle. Cloud tries to pull it back/away from Sephiroth. Seph keeps a firm grip on it maybe with both hands to keep it his.
>Cloud suddenly gets a burst of adrennaline, quickly lifts and twists Sephiroth who goes flying into the reactor too quickly to react.
Still better than Last Order where there's not even an attempt and Sephiroth just jumps willingly because lulz.
This game is ugly as frick holy kek
it probably released before you were born
mods fix that, play it or you are missing out
>*Record scratch*
I like how it doesn't nullify the theory about Cloud getting the jump on Sephiroth, since Cloud picks up the buster sword and it's safe to assume Pre-Emptive Attack was still the materia Zack was excited about using. Explains how a literal nobody like Cloud could stab Sephiroth in the back.
I don't think that Zack had Preemptive. I think preemptive was the only materia that Cloud could get. For the same reason why Cloud was at lv1 in the flashback which is weaker than the lv5 he starts the game with. Despite the things he's saying and the information he's giving, Cloud doesn't know what it physically feels like to be that strong so he can't emulate it in his head. He's larping as Zack but he didn't know what materia he had or how to use it so he couldn't fill in that blank. Therefore flashback Cloud just hides behind Sephiroth the entire time.
I think Cloud was disassociating and it's safe to say that everything he thought he said and did in the flashback actually applied to Zack. His excitement about the new materia even matches Zack's energy.
Cloud's experiments involved him taking an indefinite sauna bath in pure undistilled soul juice, that's probably how he maintained a connection to his prior self back in the lifestream. He visits it physically with Tifa when he encounters all those shades of himself and finally reconverges with them. That's where Cloud really was, which is the afterlife. Cloud died.
Cloud's soul/true self remained trapped in the Lifestream up until the point that he revisits it and you discover all of this, so it's probably safe to say he fricking died and was reanimated with Jenova cells in the experiments in the Shinra mansion. Like, he still walked the earth, sure, but his literal soul was still removed from his body.
Not true, his true self was talking to him throughout the game, long before he ended up in the lifestream with Tifa.
The more you look back at the older Final Fantasy games, the sillier things get. They're still great, but you can see why they were never going to do a straight remake. On the other hand, the FFX Remake will be just fine being 1:1.
Leave it to a X gay to have the dumbest take imaginable, this series has only gotten sillier as it went on.
for all its 2deep4u themes about spirituality FFVII is just a game about masculine pride when you think about it
Cloud wanted to be billy badass to impress a girl so hard that he larped as one but ultimately had to accept the he wasn't (but he still got to hit that)
meanwhile sephiroth over there like "hey nice cheap shot Black person come 1v1 me in the Void you won't" and gets btfo because of power creep
Everyone talks about the environmental/ capitalism message but a recurring theme in the game that I don't really see people talking about is the importance of history. The obvious one is Cloud. Yes I know any the Jenova brainwashing but Sephiroth was only able to get as far as he did because Cloud voluntarily forgot his own history to RP as a man he saw as better than him. Once Cloud accepted his own personality Sephiroth couldn't prey on his insecurities anymore. But that idea is kind of everywhere. There are no named nations in the world, it's all Shinra. The last one is Wutai and I bet in 2 generations no one will remember it's name either. Icicle Area used to be called the Knowlespole. Barret mentions that Midgar used to be a series of villages but no one remembers their names anymore because it all belongs to Shinra now. Hell the LifeStream lost its name. LifeStream explains what the purpose of the river of life is but now no one knows what that is. It's Mako now, the energy source that belongs to Shinra. And I think that's cool.
Still I like your contrast between Cloud pretending to be strong and Cloud actually being strong
>those in power will make you abandon your own heritage in their bid for more power
scary
The thing about Cloud's arc is that it concludes in his own eyes by arriving at "I'm not actually strong" but it isn't true. Stuff like that lends to there being real potential for sequel material for the character to continue to grow but Goddamn do they flanderize the shit out of all of those characters in everything since. I do like him alright in the Remake though, he's still kind of a dork sometimes and I appreciate that
Don't forget that no one remembers what happened in Nibelheim. Shinra reset it all as if it never happened. Makes you wonder how many times they've done that
There is another case of it in the Compilation.
A long time ago when the remake was announced I argued that Barret still had relevance in the modern day because he epitomized the kind of person left behind when technology made broad swathes of the labor pool obsolete: a coal miner, already a fossil in his own time, forced to build the very thing that killed his dreams just to survive, forced to watch his wife die of a probably preventable illness, tragically triggered the events that cause his town to get wiped out in reprisal for sabotage. I really hope they lean on him in Part 2; in a lot of ways he was the heart of the group despite being extremely dumb. He deserves to be remembered as more than a Mr. T knockoff (this was entirely the translation team's fault)
I wouldn't call Barret dumb, just impulsive. He knew what he was doing the whole time. He knew he was just making it up to himself how he sold out his own hometown to the Shinra and dragging other innocent lives down in the process. But it's all he knew how to do to make it right, and he had to make it right.
The great thing about Barret is that despite his flaws, despite his real reasons for doing shit, he was essentially right in the end. Radical acts were the only way to prevent Shinra from killing the planet. There wasn't any kind of democratic solution, Shinra were a corporation not a government.
and sephiroth is the badguy so he would totally say that
I like how in the original Cloud telling of Nibeheim, Sephiroth is still looking at the Shinra guard when he asks about his hometown even though Cloud is entering from the center in SOLDIER attire.
I like FF7R but the other two parts are going to go so far off the rails that there's no way this plot twist will remain in-tact.
Never played FF7.
Probably never will.
I have no clue what you people are talking about.
If I ever do play FF7, I will have forgotten all about this thread.
It's an odd reference
I don't get it, what's between her legs? Or is it a he?
Just because she has a penis doesn't mean she's a he. It's very brave of her to open up to her boyfriend like that.
Post yfw FF7R's twist is that Cloud died in the shootout and you've been Zack the whole time this time around.
kino
then why flower bimbo does not recognize her old boyfriend
Hojo did plastic surgery to him.
what do people usually mean when they say he was larping as zack? wasn't he larping as the idealized version of himself, cloud, the hero he set out to be when he left home at 14? with his own weakness and desire/will to not be seen by tifa in the state he was in at the train-station, he managed to trigger the scells/sephiroth's will that triggered the jcells to use mimic on tifa to read her memories and reshape what happened 5 years ago to where it was him, cloud who returned standing next to his idol sephiroth at the gates, parading around town taking pictures.
in reality it was zack who did all of those things, sure, but all memories of zack were suppressed so his fantasy of returning to nibelheim as the hero he set out to be would be believable. i guess it was like a self insert, but i wouldn't say he was larping as zack, that gives people weird ideas. i don't think the ego would allow for that anyway, ultimately we may imagine our selves in someone else's role and we might fake confidence, but we're still us. cloud isn't a victim, everything that happened to him is his own doing, his own desire. jenova's cells were just a tool to make it happen.
Cloud knows things that only Zack knows.
For example Sephiroth knocked Cloud off during Nibelheim's incident but Cloud still knew what happened inside the reactor after that (before he got there)
Cloud was the guard that survived the bridge collapse.
Second time he did that too
And he spent loads of time talking with Zack who was more than willing to tell him what happened inside the reactor with Sephiroth.
haven't played, can someone tl;dr whats happening here?
Is this when Cloud, or at least the player, realizes cloud is not Zack?
Yes.
what i want to know is why did barret/red13 unquestioningly give cloud back the black materia when he asked for it? cloud already demonstrated that he couldn't be trusted with the black materia when he had a meltdown and just handed it to the sephiroth clone in the temple of the ancients.
both barret and red13 knew full well that cloud's mental state is dubious at best, but all it took was a "hey could i see that black materia for a second?" for them to hand it over no questions asked.
They gave it to "Tifa."
*due to
Sorry about that.
It's still pretty shaky justification, but ignorable if you consider them freaked out enough.
The whole game would have been over if you had the option to give it to Yuffie. You'd turn around and she'd just be fricking gone, never to be seen again. Problem solved.
>cloud is just some random guy who looked at sephiroth, decided to pick up a sword, and take his best shot and it worked
pure ludo
this part made the game go from "pretty good" to one of the best games ever made for me.
fricking kino
Sephiroth's making the exact kind of face I make every time I wake up in this OP.
the memory absorption doesn't make much sense unless you see the hidden cutscene on disc 3
My wife…
We're starting see people now defend the PSP release of Crisis Core. How long until Dirge is seen as a good game?
Crisis Core is abysmal. Dirge of Cerberus is extremely bad, so it's better. However I will also say that at least it was respectable Dirge of Cerberus had the decency to create and go after new lore rather than revolve around Sephiroth or Jenova Cells like VII and the rest of the Compilation besides Before Crisis.
Can I go on an autistic rant about the dick sucking that goes on with Sephiroth and Gackt, especially in the mid 2000s?
Kingdom Hearts 1 featured both Cloud and Sephiroth. Originally Cloud was supposed to be Vincent but some shades of his design was given to Cloud like the Red Cloak and the demonic wing. Sephiroth was given a black raven wing not only to contrast Cloud but also as a reference to the one-wing angel. It was just a silly little redesign to make them fit into the Kingdom Hearts world.
But for some fricking reason Crisis Core decided to canonize the black wing. Now the Black Wing is an indicator that a person is carrying cells related to Jenova. Even though that was never a thing in the original game. The one-wing angel in the original game was meant to show that Sephiroth was approaching godhood. So we can think Kingdom Hearts for the stupid fricking Wing appearing in every Final Fantasy 7 related instance since. And more amusing than any of this is that because Genesis is now a canonical character in The Final Fantasy 7 universe, that means he beat Sephiroth to the black wing by 5 years. That shitty Gackt fan fiction character who was motivated by frustration at being a Sephiroth knock off just turned Sephiroth into a knock off of himself.
Thank you anon, couldn't have said it better. I don't know why everyone is sucking SE and Nomuras dick now for this bullshit
You articulated and unpacked exactly why the iconography in nu-FF7 is scrambled dogshit. I never really bothered to deconstruct it but there you go.
It completely ruins the aesthetic of the original game. When SE released that render of Sephiroth with his homosexual wing I knew remake was going to suck. Pic related. That shit is ok for KH or I guess Dissidia but actually linking black wings to Jenova cells is just so dumb. And then there is also the feline eyes...mixed with wings. it makes no sense.
>show that Sephiroth was approaching godhood
It's a JRPG cliche but I think the way that FFVII does it is interesting. It's like he's the game's Messiah except its version of God is an evil space alien that parasitically latched onto the life force, assumed influence over it, and retroactively made itself a Godlike influence over the world with the ability to make Sephiroth into a deity. It's like it's purely incidental at the end of the day, not of any grand design, just a John Carpenter monster that sucks up and controls so much soul juice that it can imbue its chosen son with God powers. Scifi meets mythology. Frickin' rad.
I look at Sephiroth as the bastard child of Shinra and Jenova. Unlike most people, Shinra knows what they're doing. The know that Mako is the lifeblood of the planet. They know and believe all the Cetra legends including the Promised Land. And rather than be Enlightened by that knowledge they bastardized Cetra lore to try and create a Cetra child for no other reason than to exploit more money out of a world they already owned. Even Jenova is more noble. Jenova was just an organism looking to feed. And Sephiroth is the "best" of both worlds. A complete monster that would've taken the lives of everyone who ever had or will live to use for himself. I don't think anything could embody Shinra or Jenova more.
well I liked that in the final zone of FF7 there was a lot of harrowing imagery about life and biology, wombs, embroyos. It really felt like when Sephiroth changed forms it was because he absorbed some forbidden genetic truth via all of the mako absorption.
and the black wing shit reduced him to "muh dark angel"
I'm so fricking mad that they gave him a literal black wing when the "angel wing" that Safer Sephiroth has is a big goopy meat flesh growth jutting out of his arm
FF7 was true kino.
I am convinced Sakaguchi moron checked Nomura and Nojima since every FF7 piece after the OG game has been a disgrace. FF7 would have had a much better reputation had it remained a single game, shrouded in ambiguity and mystery.
what, you don't like genesis copies having literal single angel wings?
I think Advent Children and Final Fantasy X-2 were Pandora's Box for SE. Prior to X every entry had to be its own self-contained thing. The story had to set up its premise, move that premise to its logical end, and then close the book. But now each entry has to leave the potential to be its own Universe open. Final Fantasy 13 being a clumsy attempt, Final Fantasy 15 being clumsy as frick, and Final Fantasy 7 being the apotheosis to the stupid extended Universe bullshit. We all point and laugh at Final Fantasy 15 for being unfinished and for having character arcs being chopped out of the actual game to be sold as DLC, but with Final Fantasy 7 nobody can even agree on what the frick even happened because of the entries all contradicting each other. Until we get to present day where the concept of narrative integrity is the fricking antagonist of the story.
>present day where the concept of narrative integrity is the fricking antagonist of the story.
I fricking lol'd and then was sad.
>Until we get to present day where the concept of narrative integrity is the fricking antagonist of the story
God damnit, you're right
>Until we get to present day where the concept of narrative integrity is the fricking antagonist of the story.
kek and also true. Nomura and Nojima are incredibly talented and creative, their body of work speaks for itself and they've come up with ideas that I couldn't even if I was high on peyote, but either there used to be someone wrangling them, maybe Sakaguchi, or their talent is just a series of accidental moments of genius which even they don't understand why they worked.
Regardless of WHO can be thanked for FF7's great successes. It's clear with hindsight that the game was lightning in a bottle, and Square has a quarter of a century foolishly trying to capture it again.
Why does FF7 try to make the Turks likeable when they are ruthless scumbags?
Because they're likeable ruthless scumbags. What kind of dumbass question is this?
Why not? Everybody loves a likeable bad-guy.
Whether it is in game, film, TV or books.
Why do people get so autistic about Aeris vs Aerith? Is it just nostalgia? The only other example I can think of is Butz vs Bartz and that's only because Butz is funnier
I'm drawing Tifa and Yuffie 🙂
I never played CC is there and in world explanation for the slots shit?
No, but there's a singular in-universe effect it has on the story.
So, there's no in-universe explanation, but we can speculate Digital Mind Wave (the slots), is probably just a depiction of Zack's state of mind and how hyped he is.
What's gonna happen with Zack now alive? Will he put a dent in Tseng/Turk's plans in the next game?
qrd for someone who's never played a FF title
In the beginning of the game the MC Cloud is introduced as an ex-elite soldier of Shinra. Turns out he never was elite soldier but simply a low grunt of the Shinra.
huh
Through out the game there were hints Cloud not being who said he was, like none of the Shinra exec recognizing him. Then he finally breaks down when the main villain said he is not real but a puppet and Cloud's childhood friend confirms Super Soldier Cloud never came to their hometown. Yet Cloud knew events from the destruction of their hometown he couldn't have known unless he really were there. It was then revelead Cloud was there as a grunt soldier wearing his mask/helmet all the time. After the incident Cloud adapted personality of his friend Zack who was actual Super Soldier. The reveal was played out in Cloud's mind where he and his childhood friend tried to piece together the facts and it was shown Cloud taking off the helmet with the game's main theme playing
Of Final Fantasy 7?
Super megacorp Shinra has functionally taken over to world with their weapons and their unique reactors that sucks The Souls of the Dead out of the earth and turns them into electricity. Main character Cloud is a mercenary hired by a terrorist organization to blow up the reactors and allegedly save the planet. A couple of missions later and Cloud bumps into a street girl named Aeris who can hear the cries of the planet. They fight in the party discovers that Shinra created an Unstoppable super soldier named sephiroth that everyone thought was dead but apparently is still alive. See Aeris is an Ancient, a race of people thought to be extinct. Shinra wanted to create a person with the abilities of the Cetra so they could use that to find the promised land, a hidden place with Infinite spiritual energy that that could slap a reactor on and make infinite money. What they didn't understand was that the Cetra corpse they took DNA from wasn't actually a Cetra. It was an alien monster, basically The Thing, that tried to feed on the planets spirit energy and was responsible for wiping out the Cetra in the first place. Cloud chases Sephiroth around the world realizing as bad as Shinra is, Sephiroth is worse. Sephiroth reveals his plan of attracting a giant meteor towards the planet, cracking it open to get at all the spiritual energy locked inside. Meaning Sephiroth is as much a parasite as his "mother." Sephiroth continuously gaslights Cloud until he has a mental breakdown, kills Aeris, and successfully calls Meteor. His other waifu helps him recover only to realize that the whole world is in chaos now at the literal end of the world is visible in the sky. The planet is trying to destroy all threats to itself including Humanity since humans are responsible for just as much damage to it as sephiroth. But the twist is that before Aeris died she begged the planet to show mercy to humans and the planet heard her.
The planet can't defend itself because sephiroth is keeping it bound and so cloud and the party have to dive into the center of the world and kill him off. Holy fires but it fires too late to stop the meteor and so all of the spirits of the planet have to join in to help and then meteor is destroyed.
That is the extremely abridged version.
Am I the only one who literally shit bricks at this part
Nah JRPG's dont really have any tension for me
When I was a young kid, yeah. I had never seen a character like Sephiroth before (and no it wasn't my first game or anime).
wish square focused more on ff6's world than 7.. or even 4.
would've loved to see an after years style game set 10 years after kefka's defeat.
Are we getting this in part 2 or 3?
Probably 3 part 2 will be Aerith (probably not) dying
>part 1 was just midgar
>part 2 will have to go through kalm, chocobo ranch, ft condor, junon, costa del sol, corel, gold saucer, gongaga, nibelheim, cosmo canyon, rocket town, bone village, and the ancient village
how are they going to do it?
assuming if they want to end part 2 on aeris's death
also they'll have to include all of the dungeons relevant to the main storyline
and they also have to think about adding wutai since they spoiled yuffie already, and possibly vincent will need to make an appearance because we're headed to shinra mansion
It'll pretty much have to if they want to wrap it up in three entries like they said
They can't. Junon is the military centerpiece of Shinra. It has a lower and an upper level just like midgar. So naturally I'm very interested in whether or not it gets the same treatment as the first game. But even then we can't skip Cosmo Canyon since not only is that Red XIIIs hometown but it's also where we get the explanation for the structure of the planet and how big the stakes really are. There's also Corel where we get Barret's backstory. Unless SE decides to sell that as DLC or some shit.
Chocobo Ranch, Bone Village and Fort Condor are not critical for the main story. Not saying they won't or shouldn't be in, just saying if they need to cut locations they'd be the first to go.
I think they soft-confirmed Fort Condor by saying that the minigame in Intergrade in no way reflected an intention of cutting it out
i don't mind if they drop ft condor. some of those battles had some incredibly absurd timing windows. like you had to visit the village of the ancients, go to sleep at the bed, and go to ft condor when it's night time all the while your team is like 1 mile away from aeris
Part 2 and 3 are most likely to follow a similar but still completely different path than the original game so they can end it on whatever point they want just like Remake did.
FF7R is a sequel and not an actual remake of the original game.
>how are they going to do it?
If FF7 Remake is any indication, with their heads up their own asses.
The same way they did FFXIII and FFXV, carting the party from place to place with no agency or drive whatsoever and incidentally running face-first into the plot on occasion.
The past twenty years of Final Fantasy has been nothing but a roller-coaster ride of setpieces strung together by "they wander aimlessly" or "they perform menial labor until something happens"
ff7 came out the year I was born, and I only played it pretty recently, yet I was still utterly enthralled with it
it really is timeless
I was 7 in 1997 when Final Fantasy 7 dropped. Yes that still is a funny coincidence
>post ends in 7
Fricking kino, I love this trope, a generic Mook becoming something greater. That's why I also enjoyed that Spanish TV series Bitter Daisies.
Any other games that do this?
Wind Waker, I guess? The whole plot is that you're not some chosen one meant to save the world, you're literally just some kid with a lot of guts and a heart of gold.
Man I really loved FF789's prerendered backgrounds.
favorite materia go
added effect is the shit
manipulate. i didn't know about hypno crown until i played it again recently.
that one's also fricking rad, I like abilities that essentially take enemies out of the fight without killing them
Enemy Skill
Blue Mage chads keep winning
double cut or deathblow materia
Deathblow rules because iirc it stacks with added effect. I love hitting with a beefy physical and inflicting poison or sleep on top of it. So weak that the remake only included the defensive capability of it in the "ward" materia.
In my case I stacked Deathblow with Added Cut on a Powersoul Tifa. I know everyone says all the characters are the same but Tifa is uniquely a fricking nuke in this game
Which weapon was Powersoul again? Was that the one that gave her a buff when she suffers a status ailment? Or was it tied to HP? I remember there being one that I kept on her where I gave her the Curse Ring and had her dumping 9999 earlier than anybody else, in like disc 1.
Powersoul gets 2x power if Tifa is a low health and 4x power of she's suffering from status. And yes they stack. So while your party is dealing 500 damage per attack, Tifa is shitting out 4000 damage before the Temple of the Ancients
That explains why inflicting poison on herself was so strong. I thought it was just the status effect.
Mime, the fact you can spam omnislash will never cease to amaze me
Well frick you for taking mine. Find then I do Enemy
Well frick you too. Blue counter materia then
I love how the materia looked in the menu and the sound effect when you equip them on your gear
Added Cut I guess, all the blue combo materias in general are cool in what you can do with them, even Final Attack.
element + hades
slash a mf and watch them turn into a frog with cancer and turboaids
... why haven't I done this yet? Don't make me start a new game please, I just started Nier
there's a ton of silly and stupid shit you can do with the materia in this game, go for it
if you equip that combination in the armor slots you bascially have a makeshift ribbon
reminder someone uploaded ff7's ost with the original sound station samples
This is awesome, I love this shit, original OSTs with the native sound font without it being downsampled by the system's sound chip
I was one of the mooks that played Remake first expecting it to be an actual remake of the OG game, and when it ended I was so confused about everything that happened at the end, I was ready to write Ganker off as being moronic again. I went back and played the OG last year and it's unironically kino. I wish I would've known going in that Remake was trying to be a sequel.
I'm not going to screech REMAKE BAD but what I will say is that where there's smoke, there's fire. I dislike the the twist in two ways. If you played FF7 then the twist is bad because it changes the story in ways that fricks up the original game. If you didn't play FF7 they the twist is still bad because it's subverting a narrative of a game you never played before.
To be fair, SE did never even try to clarify that Remake is a sequel and just rode high on the "look guys, we did what you asked and remade FF7" hype as hard as they could and it only became apparent it was a sequel if you play it or watch the last 2 hours of it on youtube or something, The subttitle "Remake" is basically a play on the words meaning and refers to the sequel remaking the future to basically be different than the OG game so they can do dumb shit like keep Zack and Aerith alive.
there is not a single more correct video about ff7 on the internet
That's quite nice, but I like this one, that eventually builds up to my main reason to despise the Remake, the meta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOnuG9Y-LOs
>bloated video essay bullshit
not watching that
Two hours really isn't that bad, but you don't need to. I was just saying that it's my favorite even if I much more heavily hate the game's content & mechanics and disagree with minutiae in the review, but its general permissiveness to change and tolerance to the product being off being counterbalanced by (potential) successes elsewhere being fine is my sentiment as well. Just to show that even with that benevolence, it's no good.
It's a fricking moronic and unnecessary plot-twist.
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This was basically what made it for me, the music swelling at this moment and then getting the real flashbacks where cloud was. Absolutely perfectly executed.
one thing that is not talked about enough is the pacing of ff7 its basically pitch perfect literally non stop progress and never lets up until its finished...one of the few things ff7r kinda fricked up and is fricked up by being split up in three parts.
Not just the story but the world building and progression too. The way you go from a buggy to a boat to a submarine to an airship. It really encourages you to try going to different parts of the world just because you can get there and is able to deliver the game to you chunks at a time without it ever feeling small.
one of the things about this is that there are basically no real sidequests (as in shitty mmorpg sidequests) its all mainquest and story full stop and it never lets go
I still think FF7 has the best intro + first 6 hours out of any JRPG in existence. Pure ludo kino with so so much happening but in a concise way that doesn't feel bloated.
That's because every hour or so you're getting new information that will be followed up on and is important to the setting. Even the silly ass shit prostitutehouse section sets up not only life in the slums and the need to save Tifa but also that everybody in sector 7 is now in danger. And the run over to sector 7 is tense because you're moving with the knowledge that all of the people that you just met are probably going to die in a few hours. All founded on a mini game where you pretend to seduce a pimp
This is why I consider FF7R to be the anti-FF7. FF7 was a rollercoaster ride from start to finish. It never bored you for a second. You were constantly in the midst of crazy shit happening. Meanwhile FF7R is the literal definition of filler and time waste design. I am repulsed by how little SE thinks of its fans, that they can just rehash UE4 corridors endlessly and hoping we'd be impressed by it. The fact that the game wasn't universally panned ET-style on release is a disgrace.
For having played it recently, FF7 suffers from the same problems as FF6. Until the end of Midgar it's a gigantic tutorial with no fun allowed, zero customisation excepting an enemy attack materia that you can miss (and I missed it). And the rest of the CD1 is riddled with shitty mini games, boring slow parts like fort falcon. FF6 was the same, taking 12~15 hours before giving you the magicites and only really opening in the second half.
CD2 is tremendously better.
does ff7 remake have the best looking character models ever put into a game?
Pretty sure they don't use facescan models, that alone already puts it above what Capcom usually does.
Aerith yes but nuTifa a shit.
I just don't understand why people got so attached to Aeris. She's barely in the group or available most of the time.
>Only available in Midgar during the Church part, gets kidnapped after
>She's babbling during the Cosmo Canyon part, not available.
>The village under the gold Saucer is centered on Barrett
>She's once again not available during the Pyramid part (if I'm not mistaken)
>Junon is focused on Cloud infiltrating a base and kissing a e-girl
>She's leaving the party once you get close to the village of her ancestors.
She's barely there at all honestly. The only part where she can be relevant is the gold saucer date part but you need to have done specific shit to up your date-o-meter with her (got Tifa's and it was fun)
Honestly after all these years hearing about how it's sad and shocking, I never heard about the rest of the game which is honestly plain better. CD2 is where the game goes full Evangelion and goes full crazy and the plot twist of the actual memories of Cloud is one of the best parts of the game, mindbreak, Tifa actually confronting the fake memories, it's great.
I played this game last year, and I honestly feel like people have been bandwagonning for years, but never got past the CD1. I felt the same with FF6 which has an absolutely incredible part with the beginning of the world of Ruins leading to the Falcon, and yet people never talk about it.
I just don't understand.
I think part of it is just hype. It's one of the most well known twists in gaming, I knew about it before I even knew about FF7, so people jump on like it was some defining moment in their lives. That being said she is given some prominence and importance to the plot only to suddenly be cut down. It's not just a momentary injury like you'd expect in other games, she has no dying speech to make her sound more heroic, no mcguffin solution to bring her back, just poof dead. Having the party gather around to mourn her was a nice way of really driving home the point.
I only played this a few years ago already knowing every twist, thinking Sephiroth was just going to be grandaddy of anime villain trope, a look often imitated by people on early deviantart to show how edgy they were, but I was really surprised by how well the game handles it. Him being introduced as a war hero seemingly gone rogue was engaging. That scene in the library with him just pacing back and forth learning about his past was a great highlight moment.
Sephiroth is a fairly compelling character. It's a shame that one cutscene with him in the fire and KH has given most people a weird view of how he actually acted in the game
I blame his theme song. It's so over the top epic and iconic that Sephiroth stopped being a character with an arc and instead turned into a trope. Even the remake seems to fall for this with them doing the wall of fire so early on because he's just a trope. But I guess it's more of a sequel than anything.
Forgot to mention that. I loved that he wasn't just some sort of silent brute or looking down on the other man before the reveal, it would've made his turn heel a lot less meaningful.
one winged angel isn't even his theme, this is
and it fits him perfectly, it's ominous, menacing, and hair raising
it's used perfectly in the original game and elevates sephiroth's threatening presence to something truly memorable
yet for some reason the only thing people care about is le final boss theme that's supposed to be out of place compared to everything else
it's really gay how the remake abjectly dumbs down Cloud and Sephiroth's relationship to "you killed my mommy and my hometown, I h8 u." in the original Sephiroth's presence is masterfully alluded to and built up before being drip fed leading up to the climax of disc 1, and nobody, Cloud included, really have a clue what he's up to only that it can't be good. (Cloud's source: dude trust me)
Well there's also the matter that Cloud wanted to be Sephiroth. That was his motivation. Cloud thought he was weak so if he could be strong, like sephiroth, then he would be satisfied. And Sephiroth uses that to gaslight him into doing the things he does. Sephiroth is a bad role model. Everyone looks to him as a hero but he is not. And when cloud accepts himself and that he's good enough and he doesn't have to pretend, neither Sephiroth or Jenova can control him anymore. As a matter of fact Cloud outright styles on Sephiroth with a move he invented and is completely unique to him
>in the original Sephiroth's presence is masterfully alluded to and built up before being drip fed leading up to the climax of disc 1
They deliberately got rid of this buildup because they felt their audience was too familiar with Sephiroth for it to work twice. Remake in general has a lot of issues with pacing because they padded out the Midgar section with a shit ton of filler and also tried to cram in Sephiroth's backstory in between all that shit.
The part they always omit regarding Sephiroth is that you're never fighting the real Sephiroth. The real Sephiroth died in the reactor before the events of the game, you're always fighting meat puppets controled by Jenova, and Cloud's fricked up memories fill in the blanks.
I supposed SE over the years have prefered to retcon the whole mysterious menacing antagonist side as his real personality, but the Sephiroth you're encountering is closer to a crazy cultist than a mastermind.
You do fight the real Sephiroth at the end though right? Because he's awakened from his slumber in the ice fortress.
yeah that's his real body (along with jenova) and when you kill him you beat him again in a weird metaphysical world
That section is so weird and stylized that I've always held the headcanon that it's Cloud killing the memories of Sephiroth that plague his mind.
it's sephiroth trying to take control of cloud through his injected jenova cells but it doesn't work because cloud and tifa pieced together who cloud really was sometime after mideel.
the real sephiroth is the one in the north crater, the one cloud hands the black materia to
the other ones are clones, or body parts of jenova
the real sephiroth transforms into bizarro and then safer
Yes it's the real body, but is he the real Sephiroth at this point or just the mouthpiece of Jenova?
Because I don't really remember him talking much.
that's never really explained and up to your headcanon
i like to think it's sephiroth doing the controlling and not jenova. makes more sense considering the personal themes of the story
Jenova is dead.
Jenova never really dies because it can never join the lifestream.
It's never stated that joining the Lifestream is necessary in order to die?
Lifestream is the Farplane of FFX, the games take place in the same universe. The non-cetra people of FF7 are humans from FFX world who travelled to FF7 planet in the past. Sephiroth thinking he was Cetra called non-cetras usurppers. If planet rejects the soul of the dead, they are left to roam on the planet as fiends
>Lifestream is the Farplane of FFX, the games take place in the same universe.
Go home, Kitase. You're drunk again.
Resist all you want, you know it's true
FF7 is a sequel to 10 after space travel.
Jenova is a virus. As long as there's its cells left, it isn't dead
Jenova doesn't really "speak". It's a psychic space virus, the only thing it tries to do is reproduce. It's not even really sapient.
It has some cunning, but it's the cunning of a predator. It doesn't hate or philosophize, it just wants to make more Jenova, then Reunite into a greater Jenova amalgam.
If all it does is try to reproduce why doesn't it just have sex? I'd frick a sexy alien virus chick.
It's not a chick. The Jenova body in the game is a Cetra female who fell victim to Jenova
That is, in fact, its most major modus operandi. It turns into your loved ones and once it has you alone and in close quarters, it infects you. This is explicitly what Jenova does.
>jenova was sentient space aids all along
Naruhodo. I always thought it was an actual space alien that just mind controlled people using ESP or some shit.
Yes it's the real Sephiroth. Shinra thought he died but he was at the northern crater puppeteering Cloud and the clones. Cloud gives him the black materia. Clones bring him his mommy.
I always assumed it’s a bit of both. Sephiroth was holding Jenova’s head when he fell into the reactor and it became a case of Sephiroth’s will keeping his wants but incorporating Jenova’s own modus operandi of being a space parasite. You see this with Sephiroth’s motivating factors prior to the reactor: he assumed Jenova was a Cetra and desired the ruination of humanity for not only creating him as a fricked up science experiment but also for destroying what he assumed was his race. When he got all the information in the Lifestream and learned he’s actually a fricked up space parasite chimera he also took in Jenova’s ideal of destroying all life on the planet and absorbing the energy to go out into space and do it again.
Functionally Sephiroth is just a smarter space parasite once they were attuned. The only real personal flickerings of himself is his conscious choice to kill President Shinra right after he gets the Jenova torso to bust out of HQ and the sadistic delight in tormenting the frick out of Cloud since he both defeated him but also brought him to the state of apotheosis as a risen planet busting space parasite 2.0. Killing Aerith is mostly done to service that Cloud torment and prevent an annoying contingency to the god parasite plan.
Speaking of Aerith though, I kind of suspect his goal in 7R is to not kill Aerith since her death and presence in the Lifestream is what saved the Planet in the end by reinforcing Holy to repel Meteor, not Holy itself.
I think it would be neat if instead Seph's motive in Remake is to keep Aerith alive specifically. He's warned Cloud about the 7 seconds and I think he's going to play it like he's helping Cloud correct history by playing on his attachment to Aerith.
I didn't even click the link but I already know you're talking about those chosen by the planet. And if you are and I want to tell you that you are absolutely correct because that Sephiroth's character. He genuinely believes that he's the heir to the entire planet. And that his mother deserved it and the people who took it from her deserve to die. I genuinely believe that Final Fantasy 7 is being written by its own fame at this point. It's not a story, it's a greatest hits highlight reel. It's the video game equivalent of a YouTube AMV except it was sponsored by Square Enix themselves
agree
so much stuff that the compilation just doesn't get
Something that's pretty good about his characterization is that heating isn't presented as a bad person just because he was standoffish. He's focused on the assignment but he takes time out and ask his subordinates about how they feel about being home and to offer them leave to see their families when he has spare time. He knows he's different but he wasn't necessarily a villain until he read that research and became disconnected from Humanity as a whole
I would've loved ff7r if I was still 16
Is there any other jrpg with a main cast as likeable as FF7's?
I prefer the X party. They fill similar personality roles but part of it is that X has stronger tech and therefore can afford to show off a lot more of them interacting and talking.
It's kind of weird for me. With the PS1 and SNES games (not just Final Fantasy but other JRPGs as well) it's very easy for me to accept the minimal emoting from the characters. My mind just kind of fills in the blanks from the combination of writing and the small gestures/movements that the characters do.
But the more advanced that the graphics get, more all the the canned animations stick out to me, like in Yakuza games or FFXV. FFX is probably the last FF game that I could play without being bothered by it.
It's honestly weird.
I can understand that. For me it does depend on the game rather than speaking more generally but there are games where the more minimal interactions end up feeling more meaningful than a highly complex, technology impressive, full motion capture performance.
6 and 9 off the top of my head.
i really liked the cast in bof2 but the dialogue options are really limited. same with bof3.
dq 11 is a newer game that has a really likeable cast.
chrono trigger you might like, but the characters in the game don't really grow like they did in ff7.
>original game builds up the twist all through the first disc and it takes until halfway of the second one for the truth to be finally revealed
>remake pretty much spells the whole thing out during Midgar
I seriously fricking dislike the Remake. Yes, you could make the argument that everybody already knows the twist, so they are putting a different spin on the story. But as is evident, plenty of people aren't/weren't aware of it, and they did actually want to play the Remake for modern take on the game that was still faithful to the story, instead of some kind of weird meta experience.
Frick the whole shit with Sephiroth in the Remake too.
FF7 is a game made for men and FF8 a game made for women. Both are good and valid, though I personally prefer 8.
are you a girl
Yes. Probably why Cloud's story doesn't resonate as much with me compared to Aerith and
FF7 was one of those games that I went into knowing full well what to expect because I bought the strategy guide years before I bought the actual game. Everyone in my school was talking about it and my parents wouldn't buy me a Playstation so I read the strategy guide cover to cover just so I could talk about it with my friends.
I didn't have the strategy guide but I did have the manual that came with the game and for just weeks and weeks I would draw the characters inside of it while in school
Cloud as a character is one identify with more than any fictional character so despite his fame I actually do hold both him and his game very near and dear to my heart
Why is cloud hanging out with sephiroth? I thought he was the bad guy.
Flashback. Cloud was there as an escort and Sephiroth was his CO
Should I play this game? Which version is the best? Also are there any mods to make the field avatars not look like lego men? I've only played FF2, 6, and 8 and enjoy all of them.
Emulator would be the best. PC version has mods to change the character models
>Should I play this game?
6, 7 and 10 are often seen as the best FF has to offer so you'll probably enjoy it.
>Which version is the best?
Emulated is probably the best.
>Also are there any mods to make the field avatars not look like lego men?
I believe the PC version has a mod community, one of which is an update to the models to make them more high-res but personally I think it clashes a bit too heavily with the rest of the game. After a while you get used to the lego proportions and the game does a decent job with showing some emotion through body movement so I don't think it's really necessary.
steam and use the high res backround mods
Reminder that Aeris is a prostitute. Haruuri is a euphemism for prostitution.
Yeah, she's great.
cute prostitute
its a tough city, gotta make ends meet somehow.
how does someone sit in a vat for 5 years without atrophy
so unrealistic
0/10
A liquid that doesn't absorb in to the skin should, in theory, exist.
The skin ain't perfectly solid, but there should be A liquid possible that wouldn't be able to enter it, either because it is so viscous that it can't, or via other means.
Jenova cells make them durable. It's the same reason why Cloud survives his fall all the way to Aerith's church. Speaking of which, the same rationale also saves another character earlier in the franchise.