Final Fantasy VII: Remake (III) | Rebirth | Revelation (PC/PS5/XSX/NSW2) - 2027

[Drai]

Nice, grats man. I've been watching Maximilian_dood playing the game and he's just before the final fight at 127 hours. He's done everything except hard mode (chapter and mini games) and some of the combat sim stuff.

Personally, I'm not sure if I want to go for it all. I would like party level 10 and I didn't mind the minigames in the playthrough but man I am not at all hyped to do the hard modes of them. I got all the dark matter stuff, just need the party exp stuff.

Got a question though, watching Max he did spell blade once and then Cloud got hasted from it. I rewatched and he did not cast haste from anyone, is that a special effect of spellblade, getting a random buff or some such thing...?

yeah was probably Synergy materia on someone in the party paired with Time, the biggest hurdles I think there are to platinum in this game are a couple of the simulator fights and a couple of the minigames, depending on how coordinated you are beating Jules in situps can be a pain, it only took ME a couple of tries but my friend who's also going for platinum spent 3 hours on it and gave up for now cause he just can't get it, I'll go do it for him eventually most likely lol.

There were only 2 simulator fights that, in MY opinion were a pain in the ass, but now there's all sorts of broken builds people are using that is basically instant win if you aren't TRYING to lose lol, the one I used for one of the fights basically ended up with Cloud spamming Swiftcasted Aeroga's that did between 12k-60k damage depending on if they were staggered or not or weak or not, while also fully healing HP and MP while ALSO being hasted and with Faith on him so he basically cast, built 2 ATB in a few hits, then recast over and over until everything died.

[Kanriel]

Synergy materia lets whatever spell/ability you link to it get cast automatically for free (both ATB and MP) whenever you use a Synergy Skill with that character. He will have had Haste linked to that on Aerith.

I didn't know synergy worked with buffs, I thought it was only nukes. That's super interesting. If I put synergy-time together would it go around and haste everyone, or only spam it on the character they did synergy with? If everyone is hasted would it then slow/stop an enemy?

Also is there an extra difficulty for Jules and situps? Cause I got top reward when I first got there, so wondering if I managed to win the game there already or if I'm missing an added difficulty.

[Drai]

Jules is the final challenge, even if you play Hard mode the minigames don't get any new difficulties, if you want all the manuscripts though you WILL have to complete all the side quests again though

[Kanriel]

It's neat to see which minigames some struggle on and others don't. I have a buddy that kept going for an hour or so to get max in Pirate's Rampage, and just about threw in the towel for situps early on. Meanwhile I beat situps after a little effort, and gave up on Pirate's Rampage pretty early cause I was total dogshit at it.

[Obsidian]

The Crunch-off minigame is the only one I haven't cleared yet. I sucked at the pull-ups in part 1, and I suck at the Crunches in part 2. Also the trigger bullshit they put in it this time is infuriating.

The pirate shooting gallery took a little time to get oriented since it didn't respect your Camera control settings, I imagine I would have finished it a lot easier if this recent patch had happened sooner. Also, fuck the frog hopping one.

[Celeras]

It only took me like a half hour or so, but I still disliked the sit-up minigame because the order of the triggers randomly changed in between attempts w/ Jules. Evil.

[Kanriel]

The sit-ups was really a matter of RNG for which thing I had to do. The hold halfway was a lot smoother for me than the rapid fire one. So if I got a run that was more the hold I was golden.

[bori]

The sit-ups was really a matter of RNG for which thing I had to do. The hold halfway was a lot smoother for me than the rapid fire one. So if I got a run that was more the hold I was golden.

The problem for the rapid fire one was the adaptive triggering was more and more resistant as you went further in. I felt I was getting instantaneous carpal tunnel after a few tries.The halfway one remained consistent since the beginning.

[Anoat]

Isn’t there a setting to turn off adaptive triggers? Thought I saw that on reddit

[bori]

Isn’t there a setting to turn off adaptive triggers? Thought I saw that on reddit

I may have not noticed for that one. I did notice you can turn it off for the other games, like the mini shooter, so maybe I missed it.

[Vaspinne]

Isn’t there a setting to turn off adaptive triggers? Thought I saw that on reddit

There is, and it made a huge difference for me in the sit-up minigame

[Anoat]

Found it. In the main menu go —>System—>Options—>Gameplay—>Trigger Effect Function, if you set it to 0 then adaptive triggers will be disabled

[Anoat]

Watched Max’s VOD from the finale and it’s hilarious, he does the final chapter and ending in like an hour and a half and spends like seven hours of his stream theory crafting. He’s so excited lol

[Kanriel]

Watched Max’s VOD from the finale and it’s hilarious, he does the final chapter and ending in like an hour and a half and spends like seven hours of his stream theory crafting. He’s so excited lol

Yeah, I disagree with some parts of his analysis, too.

Spoiler: show

Mostly the "omnipotent Aerith" idea. She has some ability to influence the lifestream but I don't think she has anything resembling "control". Sephiroth can beat her in a 1v1 and has better control over those "extra powers", the major difference is Seph is going AGAINST the lifestream, and Aerith occasionally can get the lifestream to go the same way as her. The lifestream is super powerful but it's shown multiple times to not necessarily follow what Aerith says. She will likely obtain more control over this for part 3 but I don't think she's going to approach even majority ability to control things.

Though I also disagree with "Aerith in final scene is Jenova". I'm not saying he's wrong, he could be right, but I don't think I can 100% say it is Jenova. That said, I do suspect Cloud will continue to see Aerith between the start of part 3 and him handing off the black materia and THAT will be Jenova, just I think the final cutscene is force ghost Aerith, heavily because of Red XIII sensing her.

But he was a big fan of the ending and I'm pretty much right there with him. I enjoyed it, I think it was extremely good for what it needed to be. My opinion might change in a long term scenario like once Part 3 is out and I go "Let me replay FF7!" and the endings could be "skipped over" to allow one coherent story but...oh well.

[Mertron]

just got into chapter 12

date with tifa first playthrough accomplished

was very worried i was gonna get red xiii since he was maxed out also

[Kanriel]

I'm pretty confident Tifa is the "default", I skipped the extra stuff that unlocked at that chapter, but when I finished the game there was only a 2% difference between Tifa and Aerith in my play log, and Tifa had the date checked off. So pretty sure they were basically same % and I got Tifa. I'm curious how my girlfriends run is going to go, she's an Aerith fangirl so she's intentionally avoiding Tifa stuff for Aerith, I imagine she'll succeed in her goal.

[Gredival]

Default was Aerith in the original right? Like a lot of it was who you had in your party more, but there were just more opportunities for Aerith dialogue iirc

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[Mertron]

aerith was the default in the original yes, you had to work to get anyone else

[Tyrath]

Aerith started with 50 points, Tifas 30, Yuffie 10 and Barett 0 in the OG

[Obsidian]

Fuck the Mind Blast fight in the simulator, goddamn. It was next to impossible not to kill the fucking minions before I could get enough synergy points to pressure the Mindflayer. I ended up just having to abuse Magnify + Sleep and hoping the flayer wouldn't teleport next to the minions.