Crisis Core is a better game and tells a better story than FF7
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imo this almost functions as a sequel to crisis core than a tru mako murder monsters remake of ff7. the end sequences even reference cloud knowimg a minor guy from CC!
not entirely sure why but i’ve been really tickled by barret responding to red dropping lore with “i don’t care about this shit”
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There’s a revised version of the Beacause retranslation patch for PSX that brings back the official names – this link will get you the patch files:
https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=21697.msg391958#msg391958
It’s a few steps behind the translation patch but the author is hinting they will be updating it soon.
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red xiii talks like orson welles and idk how to feel about that
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i was hoping there’d be like, one joke reference to censoring in this game since the original had so much of it and i think this is it and i love it. takes place during new wall market content so be wary of plot stuff.
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man i wanted to see hell house but i REALLY ended up seeing hell house
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So despite disliking the demo, I found myself glued to this thread and devoting unexpected mind space to this game so I said fuck it and bought it. Gotta say, that intro Shinra mission was probably the least attractive way this game could have opened! I’ve gotten used to the battle system a little more though, and now that I’m doing idiotic missions in the slum and feeling class solidarity with my neighborhood watch bumpkin friends I’m having a good time.
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the wall market segment is very very good
they gave aeris a lot more personality and the set dressing is really faithful to the Kowloon thing they’re going for (which is far more interesting than I remember it being positioned originally, it’s a lot more confidently pan-Asian than final fantasy ever was)
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I bought this because I kept thinking about it. I wonder if I will like Final Fantasy Seven.
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I love my husky cartoon city slicker cowboy boyfriend. I walked in on Chocobo Sam standing alone in a room, nothin but him and his side-holstered lasso, and all he has to say to me is “Well, then. You sure fixed my wagon.” 
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everything except the English VA and the dungeon pacing is pretty terrific
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I almost never play JRPGs with english voice acting unless there’s no option to change it
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there is a bunch of like post-battle incidental chatter that you lose, and there was at least one point near the end where there was a bit i wished was subtitled but wasn’t, but all in all it’s hard not to recommend switching off english yeah
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I was extremely high when I started playing this morning and forgot to switch it to Japanese so I’ll live with the consequences
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I started playing this today as well. I’ve been playing it for about four hours now. Currently in chapter 3 on the last merc side job. I really like it and hope the next game is basically a big open world road game like FFXV only with the FFVII characters/locations.
And an airship! I swear if they don’t eventually give us an honest to god real airship to fly around in then I just don’t know. JRPGs will be dead to me I guess.
But this is pretty enjoyable until then.
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My favourite one is when Cloud goes “Keep your gloves up” without a trace of irony and Tifa scoffs at him and says “Sure thing, coach”.
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i’m at the pillar (chapter 12) and here are my thoughts so far:
i might have been a bit too excited to get into the crossdressing stuff and there was this weird feeling of as soon as i saw cloud like that i was just like “hell yea everybody in the game likes this and i’m glad it’s still here!” so i was happy it was there and handled even better than the original but i think i’m yaoi-poisoned so the moment wasn’t like… what it was in 1997 lol. this isn’t a complaint, it’s just an observation
btw that dance mini-game was weird. i kinda wish the prompts were static but i respect it. also i need to watch a video of it later because i w a s n o t paying attention to the actual dancing.
i thought the sewers were fine but i loved the train graveyard. it must have been a big revelation when s-e were planning this out that going thru a big haunted graveyard with sad ghosts would work in really well going into the pillar scene.
tbh i didn’t wanna think about this scene this time around cuz avalanche got such a huge boost in actual personality rather than implied personality. that scene is always intense and well-done but i keep crying and i love the hints that the turks are sort of done with this shit and like
i dunno
i need to take a walk, i’m not even at the top of the pillar
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