SPOILERS Final Fantasy 7 Remake SPOILER THREAD - CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT

[brozy]

Just done the first "secret" fight and god it felt easy, the behemoth before it was harder (And definitely longer, that boy has a fuck ton of hp) but was fun none the less, not looking forward to the gauntlet though that just feels like its gonna be a slough.

[Appie]

The next fights are a blast with some materia setups.
Ifrit as freeby healer for your squad and the fire puddles on boss 5 as free heal zones were quite fun.

[Fhloston]

Just finished it. Not happy with a lot of the changes, and I'm sure it's b/c I loved the Midgar portion of the original so much. Nostalgia goggles or whatever. I enjoyed the further fleshed out character development, and none of the new characters were annoying.

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I honestly wish I could Men in Black memory wipe the original game from my brain. This entire game is wanting to see how memorable scenes play out in PS4 graphics, but drudging thru so much goddamn padding to get there. Then when you get to one of those scenes, the changes they make are so unnecessary or just straight up odd that it just kinda kept deflating my excitement for the rest of the game as I went on. The Wall Market really felt like a let down. New terrible theme, and some super cringe Broadway show in a sleazy bordello.

Jessie and Biggs (except not Biggs) getting overly long, super cliche death scenes in the tower that took forever to get to due to Nomura dragging out the train yard segment for hours. Plus the Whispers just felt so out of place and annoying. Their purpose, now that I've read about them, is interesting. It's just that from seeing how they changed things in this installment, I'm really nervous for the rest of the project. I really, really hope they don't have as much padding for the next installment.

The game's saving grace was the combat system and soundtrack for sure. Plus the visuals, in most places. But yeah, Nomura is gonna Kingdom Hearts the fuck out of the rest of this project.



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[Takiwaki]

I dunno, watch some of Maxamillian videos. The fact that 2017 concept art straight up shows AC Sepiroth, they already knew it was going to be a sequel and not a full on remake. I honestly am more excited for the game now. When you start to realize AC Seph is doing a back to the future, and they didnt just make changes to the og game, its that this is not the og game at all.

[Anoat]

I watched the Max video and I appreciate his fandom and excitement for the series some of the stuff he mentions I picked up on when I was playing and some I didn’t think about. Having avoided promo material, and only having seen AC only one time 15 years ago, I didn’t pick up at all that it was AC Sephiroth until the ending boss fight when the one black wing popped out.

I share his thoughts that sequel games are going to make you think you can save Aerith but ultimately she dies anyway. I think that is FF7’s defining moment. And it cannot be changed.

[Takiwaki]

The fact that we don't know is what makes it exciting. If this was just a straight up remake it would have been just boring.

Also yes I agree, her death is FF7's defining moment and cannot be changed but.. we arnt playing FF7 .

Potential for new defining moments? Her death defined that game, lets see what defines this game. I honestly don't care which way it goes I am going to enjoy the ride. If they keep it the same cool, if they change it? cool also.

[Fhloston]

I mean it's not just her death that's such a memorable moment, it's what happens as a result. The impact on the party for one. Watching those clunky polygon characters react to her death before Cloud carries her off still hits me in the feels today. I'm just worried that when it happens, they'll turn it in to a ten minute death scene like they did with Biggs and Jessie. I know it's not a 1:1 remake, but that's a scene that shouldn't be messed with too much. But yeah, Nomura.

Also how it's necessary for the ending of the game. Holy alone didn't stop meteor, Aerith rejoining the life stream had to happen for her and the planet to save the day. Like y'all I think they'll give the illusion that she can be saved, but they'll just kick us in the feels all over again.

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[Heavencloud]

I dunno, watch some of Maxamillian videos. The fact that 2017 concept art straight up shows AC Sepiroth, they already knew it was going to be a sequel and not a full on remake. I honestly am more excited for the game now. When you start to realize AC Seph is doing a back to the future, and they didnt just make changes to the og game, its that this is not the og game at all.

Honestly if Nomura didn't put the heartless ghost things everywhere I believe the reception would be 10x better. Hopefully they ditch that concept.

[Gokulo]

Well, we got rid of them, I don't think we'll be seeing them again, they served the purpose they were introduced for

[Prothescar]

Honestly if Nomura didn't put the heartless ghost things everywhere I believe the reception would be 10x better. Hopefully they ditch that concept.

Would absolutely improve the game for me by several magnitudes

[Takiwaki]

Honestly if Nomura didn't put the heartless ghost things everywhere I believe the reception would be 10x better. Hopefully they ditch that concept.

I have to agree, they were overused. They could have done the fate intervention with much better flair imo, Also design wise they were shitty. They could have use anything else but something that resembles kingdom hearts shit.

[Tyrath]

Well we killed the Arbiter of Fate so they might be gone now..

[Cantih]

I'm kinda hoping modders go nuts for the PC version, and basically cut the whispers and chapter 18.5 from the game.

Like, I'm gonna be taking notes on my next play through, and tallying up what needs to be cut, what can be changed, etc.

[Roundelk]

I would say chapter 17 was really bad too. The fact that they completely removed the group being captured and waking up to a horrific scene was disappointing in of itself but to replace that by the complete bullshit of Hojo's lab was really wtf. It was one of the points of the story that I was really looking forward to. Exiting the cell and seeing everyone dead with blood all over the place and creepy ass music playing was a major holy shit wtf is going on here point in the game and to find out it was Sephiroth really built up that fear you start to have for him.

[Draylo]

Yeah I would have liked to have seen that too. Maybe it was for censoring but they have so many cuss words so whats a little bloody violence. I wonder if they will remove the snake impalement scene in the next game.

[chazzyphizzle]

i really struggled finishing the hojo part, i hated it. only thing that kept me going was honestly knowing the game was almost over

[Prothescar]

i really struggled finishing the hojo part, i hated it. only thing that kept me going was honestly knowing the game was almost over

You mean you don't like endless repetitive rooms and battles?

[AoE]

Playing through hardmode slowly and realizing I'm getting to that exact point in the game where fights just start feeling tedious.

[Salodin]

Yeah the hojo lab part sucked

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[Tyrath]

Hojo's lab was a terrible final dungeon. Even as I was playing it I couldn't believe we kept having to do dumbass switching back and forth between parties of two and stupid ass "puzzles" that involved opening doors.

I played FF7 OG after finishing the game. The impact of the party opening the cell door and finding blood trails everywhere is so much better.