this crane arm puzzle is stupid as hell
having finished it now, I can’t say I mind the ending, I think it’s fine if they want to go further off the rails with the rest of this project. it just depends on where they take it I guess.
is it worth catching up on all the crisis core stuff to make sense of all that? I just kind of don’t care lol
in a weird way it seems like this is a tacit admission that the midgar section of ffvii is the only one worth “preserving” and the more I think about it I’m like ehh I guess so, it definitely has the most iconic scenes, fights, moments, etc., with the obvious exception of aerith’s death or whatever. but like when I think about them changing anything post midgar I just don’t really care that much.
part of me is unsure if this game is so good because it had an incredibly solid foundation to build off of, and if that’s the case then by discarding the script of the original the rest of this project is probably gonna be bad? but on the other hand, the writing is otherwise so consistently smarter than the original that I am maybe a little hopeful that the rest won’t just be a bunch of dumbass advent children style stuff. I don’t know.
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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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