I mean with the news coming from MS this past week, who is really their competition? Nintendo can't run it, SE mostly passes the dregs onto Microsoft. Hell, even with FFXIV hitting, it's reportedly still required you have at least a Xbox Live or whatever the equivalent is to play online.
All that said, I'm on full blackout mode using spoiler protection on Firefox and won't be downloading the demo. I can wait.
wonder what crazy bs will get datamined from this demo since it’s so large, nearly a third of the full games file size
Edit - Confirmed demo lets you skip flashback section in the main game if you complete it here.
Game looks ridiculously good. So much fuller then Remake.
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The music at Nibelheim got me like
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debating picking up the demo to see what the apparent sphere grid looks like
It’s been a long time since I playex rythm games, so if one of the trophies is perfect every piano song I’ma cry
Um maybe I'm not musically talented (I'm not) but I feel like that was the hardest musical mini game I've ever played
Unless I fundamentally missed something about how to do that one
i have decided i do not care about spoilers for a 30 year old game and will play the demo
So just gonna say, changes to the combat system feel fantastic so far.
Cloud is lvl 40 in the flashback, which feels weird. Wasn't he like lvl 1 in the main game? Are the characters all starting at level 40? I hadn't paid attention to what they have said about that, but it's gonna be interesting to see how they do the transition from the previous game.
Also didn't expect the flashback to be the very opening of the game. Guess the party made it to Kalm off screen
I wonder if Performance mode running at 60 FPS vs Graphics mode makes any difference at all for the minigame, I had mine on Graphics mode during it when I got the star rank and then ended up swapping to Performance mode after that for smoother combat.
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TBH I totally forgot about that lol