also this game has already made me cry and idk if it’s just because of existing outside circumstances or what but I’m not complaining
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every single trailer for this game has made me cry, even before I played through midgar for the first time last summer. I think it’s the music’s fault
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Disappointed this turned out to be a cover, frankly.
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I still think both this and doom look terrible, and I’ll never play half life. the 90s are dead
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I haven’t played because I’m pleased enough to just watch it. I also have this aversion to games that try to hard to make me look cool with out actually asking me to learn how to play cool. It looks like I would prefer it to BatCreed combat but its still in a neighboring design zone.
I like the idea this is kinda like the Eva Rebuild movies in that this might be like some kind of recycled world and the ghosts are the old nerds going “THAT’S NOT HOW THAT GOES!” but isn’t as hateful of the audience that the Rebuilds are.
I also like the idea this might all be a dream for cloud as he’s stuck in the lifestream and the whole game is going to be framed like this until it gets to the part where he wakes up and Rejects Instrumentality
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The ending was more convoluted than I would’ve liked but I get the need to have a true Final Boss even if it’s just Part 1. Overall though I thought it was great, very pleasantly surprised.
Yup it’s faithful to the original
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I just got it. I’m enjoying it a lot despite the really weird decision to make it a Megaman Legends remake instead
been thinking about the soundtrack. it’s definitely not as good as the original insofar as instrumentation, but in some ways, the upgrade in actual technology, visually, kind of makes up for the lack of synthesizers in the actual music (which i think conveyed “techno” in a way the original game couldn’t entirely on its own).
some tracks sound fine, but others have lost their punch. i do kind of enjoy when the arrangement of a song is different enough so that when the main melody kicks in, i’m like "oohhhh it’s that song.
just left the church with Aerith and taking a break for the night.
the soundtrack is definitely up and down (a few of the alternate versions have made me giggle a bit) but the music in wall market really won me over. i thought the way they mix different versions of the same song together like you’re hearing a clash of music blaring out from every stall was really clever
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Shiva will not stop kicking my ass!!
On a more serious note, I can’t tell which attacks I can dodge, which I should guard, and which ones I should just power through. This was mentioned here before in the thread I think, but it seems like a game that you’re gonna take damage no matter what, which is OK for RPGs, but feels weird on an action game, which mostly operates on the premise that any damage is punishment, and a skilled enough player can avoid any damage altogether. This being a weird mix of RPG and Action, and by having so many options with regards to damage (powering through by out-damaging your opponent, trying to stagger them before they can attack, guarding, dodging), I can’t properly understand when I should be using each option. I tried figuring out the right timing to dodge the Guard Dogs’ attacks but it seems like they bite me anyway regardless of how much I try getting in that Sick Dark Souls Dodge Roll timing right. I just wanna feel that action game satisfaction of feeling like I’m understanding and working towards totally nailing a game’s mechanics right and this game won’t give it to me!!
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that fight is actually really good! I beat it my first try but it took everything I had.
as long as you have fira + ifrit + enough ethers and max potions and you interrupt her at the right times it’s very doable
don’t take her on alone, also equip armlets that boost magic defense
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Yeah it was a really great fight. I was defeated a bunch, but it made me learn a lot of stuff I didn’t understand before. By the end of it I was really pushing Shiva around, but she still managed to nearly defeat me with her finisher move. Ifrit did her in first 
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using assess helps a lot with this, but on some level you just have to read enemy tells. you take damage even while blocking but the advantage is that it doesn’t interrupt your combos you get ATB much faster. I still struggle with blocking against certain enemies but I believe this is entirely deliberate
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the steadfast block materia when maxed out makes a massive difference and you can just guard when in doubt
also recommend magnify + barrier for boss fights
my main issue with the combat right now is how frequently i see the ai standing around doing nothing
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Barrier helped a ton. I haven’t quite figured out the use of the like utility materia. Guarding, for reasons that were mentioned just a couple postsbove, is mysterious to me so maybe something that makes it feel a little more protective would help me out a lot.
folks, this game is good. it is like incredibly extremely good. far better than it really has any right to be. I honestly already feel that it is better than the original in almost every meaningful way and for the sheer amount of content that they added it rarely feels bloated. in fact, it feels like a revelation on how to build a next-gen JRPG. like this has me feeling like I’m playing final fantasy VI or something, except it also feels amazingly new and unlike anything I’ve played before. there are so many smart decisions regarding pacing, level design, combat design, and scenario writing. I’m really amazed.
I also kind of feel like it was an extremely good call to have this game take place entirely in midgar. midgar never really felt as huge as it was supposed to in the original game and my biggest issues with that portion of the game is that it breezes by so quickly and you never really get a chance to absorb it as a location, like it feels like they intended to do it with more detail and with more content and just weren’t able to. the rest of the portions of the original don’t feel quite so spread thin, so part of me is hoping that the rest of the remake will only take one or two more releases.
but who knows? I remember joking that we will be playing this remake for the rest of our lives but honestly if they can keep delivering like this I’m totally okay with that reality.
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