What's the point of this weird robot torso thing that Sephiroth rips aside to get to Jenova? Was it supposed to be a decoy or something? This has bugged me for almost 30 years, and I've never thought to ask until now.
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Ok i never thought about this but now that you said it it's bugging the shit out of me
because it looks cool
Rule of cool.
FF7 had a lot of it. Purely a "I think this would look cool" thing.
Can't tell.
I've always wondered the same thing. I assume someone made it and they decided to stick it in the game somewhere because it looked cool.
I haven't played the Nibelheim demo, so I don't know how far it goes, but I'm kind of hoping that it fleshes that scene out a bit.
The Nibelheim part of the demo stops after the Sephiroth walking into the fire scene.
Hiding the real Jenova. Sepiroth is the only one able to see trough the deception thanks to his cells who react to the real thing.
What do you mean it's not even completely blocking Jenova you can just look around it.
I mean it's gotta do something if its got power and fluids running through it.
Doll to fool uninitiated scientists and staff who accidentally might enter the room. So they would think that this is jenova specimen and then leave without really seeing the specimen.
I'd guess it's Hojo's idea of what Jenova is to him, and Sephiroth is rejecting it to embrace her real form.
Probably a cybernetic body prototype that jenova could have ended up using to move out of its formol tube.
What ia jenova? Is it controling sephiroth?
Supposedly, but the devs confirmed in some ultimania itw back then Sephiroth was in control the entire time, despite having zero motivation of his own.
It's been ages since I've played OG FFVII, so I really only remember the main beats at this point, but Jenova is kind of like a cross between Lavos from Chrono Trigger, Adam/Lilith from Evangelion, and maybe a little bit of "The Thing", and a pinch of the T-Virus in there too. In short: an extraterrestrial organism that parasitizes a planet's life force, and then converts it into a vessel to travel to another planet, and repeat the process.
It crashlands the FFVII planet, creating the Great Northern Crater, and feeding on the planet's Lifestream, and also devastating the planet's Cetra population. The Cetra, along with the WEAPONs (essentially kaiju acting antibodies created by the planet to fight off major threats) seal up Jenova in the crater. Shinra later discovers the dormant Jenova, and bring it to Nibelheim for research, and its genetic material sort of acts as the main ingredient for all their genetic experiments like Soldier.
One thing I like about Shinra is that they're like a combination of the Galactic Empire and Umbrella.
But then who made the Weapons
As I recall, they're just sort of spawned by the planet itself in its time of need. They're like white blood cells to fight off the planet's "infections".
It’s a life support system
Someone just needed to tell sephiroth that his mom wasn't actually that alien thing and he'd be fine
What Sephiroth and the player sees in the FMV isn't what Jenova looks like. It's what it wanted Sephiroth to see.
a termianl by which jenova communicates out of the jar with visitors, see the combination of wires and fluid for transmission of messages to and from the terminal, it has a microphone and a speaker
Jenova getting fleshed out is probably what I'm most curious about with this whole update project.
There's nothing to flesh out. We learned its entire lifecycle in the original and Advent Children stated it again. It's literally just "The Thing". It lands on a planet, assimilates and consumes all life until there's nothing left, then crashes the now barren rock onto the next planet, rinse and repeat. I guess you could reveal what made Sephiroth special, since everything else that is infected with Jenovas cells is assimilated, but for some reason he wasn't. Maybe that's how Jenovas species reproduces? They use the "strongest" local lifeform to construct a new super-being to continue the cycle? Sephiroth in Advent Children said he was going to restart Jenova's lifecycle with himself after all...
I think it's all some kind of elaborate life support system. Same with the weird artificial heart thing she's attached to and all the tubes and stuff in her room.
Being Jenova looks like constant pain
b***h came to the wrong planet
Jenova pussy any good
But isn't that one of the ancients that the Jenova virus infected?
>Sephiroth's plan was to have meteor slam into the planet and kill all life, so he and his alien mommy gf could drink up all the lifestream and then leave the planet for dead
I swear this is the same plot of Lost Planet 2. Replace Jenova with that humongous Over G Akrid
Seems like a common trope in Japanese games
Wonder if it's a metaphor for America crashing into Japan
Sephiroth is dead.
Picrel is the same as the "Jenova" ancient woman the Jenova parasite attached to.
Sephiroth in Remake is the dead/real Sephiroth.
Was Jenova originally supposed to be Parasite Eve? Like maybe they couldn't secure the rights to adapt it in 1995 and made their own take on the same rough concept. Jenova and Hojo are a lot like Eve and Klamp in PE right down to collaborating to make an Ultimate Being and I always thought it was weird they reused the same basic character archetypes all over again so soon.
VII, Xenogears, Parasite Eve, Chrono Cross and Vagrant Story are probably all connected in terms of development and staffing in some way or another.
I fricking love PARASITE EVE