I’m actually shocked you, the evangelist of emulation, went for an old screen. In my experience old pixel games look better on my TV with CRT shaders than they do on any CRT I’ve seen save a tiny PVM.
oh I actually got this because I needed a c64 monitor for dumping old floppies
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only the best for dumping floppies
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going from classic to hard mode just so i can do the extra stuff in chapter 17
i have never seen my party members die so fast just from getting lunched at. also i kept trying to type “lunged” but i kept typing “lunched” like three times so i’m just gonna go with it.
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getting assaulted with finger sandwiches and potato salad
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my wife got mad at me for dumping floppies too 
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It took me about 3-4 hours to beat Midgar in original FF7 as expected, and I went back to FF7R after. It was worth the trouble to see the source material, and it’s so short it may as well have been bundled with it. I never really played it except in fragments on a friend’s PS1.
I found the experience dominated by the d-pad pathing through the prerendered backgrounds being fussy and confusing, and also the way too many half-baked puzzles and unclear scripted event orders (I needed to go talk to that guy to buy batteries!?). It comes across as far more ancient than Chrono Trigger. One part I did feel aged well was the flower garden in the abandoned church.
I also noticed the original plot held together better, because at this level of abstraction there’s no cause to ask why is Cloud making himself a wanted terrorist for a salary worth 3 hi-potions, why didn’t Barret retire when he became a dad, how is this technological police state failing to catch this barely hidden cell whose members don’t even wear balaclavas, etc. Such questions somehow aren’t pertinent in the original: answering them would bloat the pacing, and it doesn’t aspire to that sort of realism.
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the question of both cloud and barret’s motivation is answered in the original imo
like cloud goes along with avalanche because he feels obligation to tifa and also has a lowkey grudge against shinra
barret’s explanation doesn’t come until later in the original game but uhh spoiler alert marlene isn’t actually his daughter and he couldn’t have “retired” because his village and livelihood were destroyed by shinra, an event which left him permanently disabled so he grafted a gun to arm as a way of vowing revenge
honestly I think barret’s backstory is one of the coolest/saddest parts of the original and I’m looking forward to how they handle it in the remake.
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barret rulz ok
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barret gushing about the storybook he reads to marlene while y’all are traversing a reactor was wonderful. also i loved how when you break off to find extra stuff he’s all like OH ARE WE ON THE WAY TO TREASURE
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waiting to be told in the original japanese texts his treasure enthusiasm scans as sarcasm
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If it makes the characters less adorable it’s not canon.
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the “getting acquainted with sector 7 after your first mission” part of the remake is absolutely goofy as shit and it never really asks you to suspend your disbelief in quite that particular way again with the exception of chapter 7 going on a bit too long
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Cloud’s motivation is sticking it to Shinra because Zack told him to
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this is kinda relevant to both games, but it’s more of a spoiler if you’ve never played the original:
was anyone else kinda confused about whether tifa was marlene’s mom? i mean, at the very beginning of the game, when you’re just flying by the ass of cloud’s pants and taking it all in, and it seems like a natural thing to conclude given seventh heaven is evidently home to both barret and tifa. at least, until this is explained later on. in the remake, marlene even sort of resembles tifa? i remember thinking in '97 that maybe there was some unspoken history between barret and tifa and i sort of wonder whether folks playing the remake without ever having played the original game have the same questions. i suppose not, though, since tifa never comments on it…? but who knows, there’s kind of a running theme of people not saying very much about their painful pasts.
anyhow, i LOVE barret so much more than ever before in remake. before i met aerith he was clearly the best character. might still be. i’m only on chapter 8…
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yeah plus doing a bombing campaign for money totally fits the Badass Mercenary Loner persona that forms after spending his youth aspiring to strength & power, failing to prevent the death of his mother & destruction of his hometown, enduring years of trauma in the shinra mansion, then watching his hero die trying to save him. he’s playing the part because it’s the only thing keeping him going. he’s an extreme example of the kind of emotional disconnect & dissociation that most societies consider the only appropriate way for men to respond to trauma and loss so yeah, doing this thing his friend set up for him & being more concerned about getting paid than any of the actual consequences makes sense for him
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absolutely never crossed my mind in either version!
Yeah, I had that thought briefly when playing the original but it just seemed unlikely to me…?