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I still find it crazy how the evil megacorp literally siphoning souls of the dead for electricity causing the planet to literally start dying is the B plot for the game and it’s the pretty, long-haired psycho boy with mommy issues that is the true existential threat.
I’m sorry but Vincent did nothing you leave him out of this
One of the most memorable games of all time
I’m enjoying the Remake because they’re laying out why it’s the B plot and giving Sephiroth more of a build up than just “oops I murdered your favorite character”
I feel like the remake is moving it to a C plot, with the small changes and the big new mystery that has time-travel/multiple universe implications.
Not that I am complaining; I actually like this about it instead of it being the same exact story just told differently.
Rebirth lays the groundwork for Shinra starting a world war to generate more lifestream material (anguish of war victims) and “replenish the planet” so that they can pump out more Mako, it seems to be going pretty hardcore about Shinra being pure casual evil ultra imperialist capitalist, with the side of growing religious takeover with who believes or not in the Promised Land (and I forget what they call the huge materia in Rebirth - magister? Magnus?) as a land of infinite resource to sell as electricity. Scarlet salivating at the Weapons, literal harbingers of the end of the world, for the giant materia they’re made of is pretty on point.
Also they made massive efforts on the worldbuilding with all regions each having their History dominated by their local war with Shinra. I’m eager to get Wutai and the revamp from the war in Crisis Core, and possible new mentions of the new Ever Crisis stuff like Rhadore and that recent pre-Wutai place. Shinra has been going from cartoon villains in the OG to openly pure evil of mankind.
The way you don’t ever seem to do anything with Zack, it feels like that mystery is the real C plot.
But it’s already a very dense game with a ton of little side quests and surprises. I’m having a great time.
Wonder if they’ll ever try to do a reinvention like this for six, eight, or nine?
I’d love to see an X-0 where you play as Braska, Auron, & Jecht.
If they did 6, it would end up being a 10 game series in and of itself 😵💫
Stop threatening me with a good time
Some Final Fantasy games just age so well…
Yuge thanks for the nostalgia rush OP![✓] Realised I understand nothing
[✓] Time for this planet to die
Definitely checks out.
Playing the first remake rn. Ah, such a wonderful, eye opening game.
I was fully prepared to hate the remake.
I played all the FF games I could growing up. I played the original when it came out, and I played IV and VI (as II and III in the US) on my SNES.
I got a PS1 instead of an N64 because I knew FFIV (didn’t know it was gonna be called VII yet) was gonna be on Playstation. I saved up my money for months to buy the PS1, and a few months later my mom (angel of a woman) went to Sears on the release day for FFVII while I was in 8th grade football practice and picked it up for me with my remaining savings.
I devoured the game. It was truly special. When a certain character left the party at the end of disc 1, I was devastated. I was and still am an unapologetic die-hard superfan of FFVII.
When I heard about the remake I was skeptical. When I found out they were taking away the ATB system and making it an action-RPG and bloating the opening chapter of Midgar into the entirety of the game I wrote it off.
But I still bought it, of course, and I have never been happier to eat crow.
The remake is fantastic. It’s an entry point to the story for newcomers that’s somehow both a retelling and a sequel that will keep old fans interested. The expanded Midgar section makes the events of the early game much more impactful as you really get to know the Avalanche crew, and everything about the production design is top-tier. The gameplay is a great balance between action and strategy that does its own thing instead of just copying what had already been done with the first game. It’s a love letter to the original while being an amazing game in its own right.
I still haven’t played the sequel, as I don’t have a PS5, but I understand it’s also excellent.
Its one steam now, ff7 rebirth. Don’t have it yet coz money is tight and all, but so far, im at the part where the Turks are trying to blow up the plate on sector 7 and its fantastic. Runs very well on the steam deck and man is it good. There’s alot lost in translation though, the game has an entirely different tone. Its much more upbeat that the og. Which is fine, but the depressing world ending feel of the first disk is very lost in translation.
The plate situation on Sector 7 in the OG was one of the first times a video game made me feel sad. I really felt a bit of empathy for all of those poor people.
They made a masterpiece of storytelling.
I was told ignorance would be bliss. I would like a refund.
Me irl
