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GateOfD posted:
Yeah, the scene on the trip to Costa Del Sol where they're hiding behind some crates and gossiping was a real highlight for me. MadFriarAvelyn posted:
Yeah, I'm a little mixed on that as well but I'm willing to reserve judgment until the next part, to see what they do with it. I think it also helped that for whatever reason I interpreted the other worlds as being like, self contained pockets of other possible worlds, more than full parallel realities, so I wasn't even thinking about MCU baggage until I was talking the ending over with my wife once it was done. I think my issues with a lot of the multiverse stuff is that it still very much feels like an act break in a story, not an ending of its own, I really hope the wait for part three is short enough that I won't have completely forgotten the ending beats when I start it!
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I think ive already said this itt but it bears repeating, aerith and tifa becoming besties almost immediately is one of the best character beats in these games on par with wedge being genuinely scared of tifa
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:I think ive already said this itt but it bears repeating, aerith and tifa becoming besties almost immediately is one of the best character beats in these games on par with wedge being genuinely scared of tifa in the original a lot of their interactions are love triangle bullshit. this game executes it much better by having tifa and aerith join forces to pick on cloud instead
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I don't know what a lot of you are on about, new Cid absolutely fucks and I'm super hyped to play him and his handsome face in part 3.
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I really like this article https://www.gamesradar.com/final-fa...fas-friendship/ where Nojima talks about wanting to do more with their friendship, because he didn't feel he had executed the idea well enough in the original, and it really shows.
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goethe.cx posted:in the original a lot of their interactions are love triangle bullshit. this game executes it much better by having tifa and aerith join forces to pick on cloud instead I think it's a much more interesting and in my experience, realistic take on the love triangle stuff. Also I just got the nibelham Chocobo and both the capture minigame and the actual Chocobo ability are the funniest version of their respective types in the entire game if we are not counting the dune buggy as a type of chocobo
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Rich Uncle Chet posted:I don't know what a lot of you are on about, new Cid absolutely fucks and I'm super hyped to play him and his handsome face in part 3. Yes, Cid is a complete delight, and I love him.
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Am I supposed to be able to beat the battle square fights when you first get to gold saucer? The first fight is against 8 enemies and they just melt me.
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I think so far at chapter 11 I love a lot about this game and even the bits I don't like aren't necessary to do anyway so its a near perfect experience but holy poo poo I wish they had loadouts for characters. I'm slowly getting to a spot where I have enough materia to have everyone in the party adequately kitted out for one role at any time so I can switch out party members a bit easier but i still can't essentially change the role a character plays without rearranging at least two characters materia and one characters equipment
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Books On Tape posted:Am I supposed to be able to beat the battle square fights when you first get to gold saucer? The first fight is against 8 enemies and they just melt me. I think I did most (if not all) of the unlocked fights there as soon as I arrived. The ones with big groups of enemies tend to melt to anything that hits AoE.
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Books On Tape posted:Am I supposed to be able to beat the battle square fights when you first get to gold saucer? The first fight is against 8 enemies and they just melt me. Yeah you should be able to beat that battle, it’s hard but not impossible. I wish I could remember what strategy worked for me!
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:I think so far at chapter 11 I love a lot about this game and even the bits I don't like aren't necessary to do anyway so its a near perfect experience but holy poo poo I wish they had loadouts for characters. I'm slowly getting to a spot where I have enough materia to have everyone in the party adequately kitted out for one role at any time so I can switch out party members a bit easier but i still can't essentially change the role a character plays without rearranging at least two characters materia and one characters equipment gently caress, I had quite a few fights in the game that I stubbornly died to a couple of times before sucking it up and shuffling my materia loadouts for an easy win. I would then spend the next 30 minutes thinking "ah gently caress I should have given that materia back to Cloud" at the start of every fight.
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they absolutely need to add a way to transfer all of a character's materia to another character at once. transferring materia is clunkier than in the OG
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Yeah you should be able to beat that battle, it’s hard but not impossible. I wish I could remember what strategy worked for me! Anything that does AOE is good, I just did a Spellblade and literally one-shotted that battle lol
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Books On Tape posted:Am I supposed to be able to beat the battle square fights when you first get to gold saucer? The first fight is against 8 enemies and they just melt me. It's possible, but honestly not worth it. Just come back later.
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Disorder regenerates ATB based on number of enemies hit. You can very easily get unlimited ATB spamming Disorder in the center of all the enemies. Aero spells to pull the enemies together also help. If Yuffie is available, Windstorm does a crazy amount of work.
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So does anyone know why synergy skills sometimes change their shortcut position between triangle and square? It keeps happening to me and when I notice it the only thing I've changed on any character is at most some materia, no party or combat settings changes
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:So does anyone know why synergy skills sometimes change their shortcut position between triangle and square? It keeps happening to me and when I notice it the only thing I've changed on any character is at most some materia, no party or combat settings changes I’ve noticed that too. I wonder if the game sometimes changes the order of your active party members after cut scenes or something. I’m through most Nibelheim open world stuff and just starting on the plot segment of that chapter, but now I’m legitimately worried that I won’t have time to finish the game in the next 10 days or so, after which I’m going on a trip that will take me away from my PS5 for a few weeks. What’s sort of the minimum and maximum time it would take to finish from mid chapter 11? I’m trying to do all side quests and open world stuff, but I can start skipping things if necessary.
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Lmao red is such a dweeb I just ran past the moogles shroom and he says "we gotta go party with the moogles!!"
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:So does anyone know why synergy skills sometimes change their shortcut position between triangle and square? It keeps happening to me and when I notice it the only thing I've changed on any character is at most some materia, no party or combat settings changes That's weird. It does change depending on who is in the 1,2 and 3 position but I've never noticed it change at random.
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Heithinn Grasida posted:I’ve noticed that too. I wonder if the game sometimes changes the order of your active party members after cut scenes or something. I mostly skipped most side stuff until I hit the point of no return in chapter 13, but between going back and clearing as much side content as I could stomach (10-15 hours according to play time) and then finishing the game after the point of no return (another 8-10 hours according to play time), plus everything between chapter 11 until then...there's a lot. It's a lot.
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Huge shoutout to turner the shinra grunt queens blood player in nibelhem who has a whole spiel about how he's the best at slacking off to play cards and calls you comrade
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Huge shoutout to turner the shinra grunt queens blood player in nibelhem who has a whole spiel about how he's the best at slacking off to play cards and calls you comrade we stan a reverse wage theft king
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Huge shoutout to turner the shinra grunt queens blood player in nibelhem who has a whole spiel about how he's the best at slacking off to play cards and calls you comrade During the Junon segment you run into a grunt gleefully taking about how he's aaaaaaall about slacking on duty. I wonder if it's the same guy, or if Shinra's got a club of dedicated slackers. Made it through Chapter 12. My date was Barret, and I liked the bit of backstory you get in the sky wheel scene with him. (I'm also firmly in the 'holy poo poo nobody try to date this man' camp given Cloud's goings on in this game, so I was happy for bro time) Send in the Clowns in the Battle Square is kicking my rear end though.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:I think ive already said this itt but it bears repeating, aerith and tifa becoming besties almost immediately is one of the best character beats in these games on par with wedge being genuinely scared of tifa Tifa and Aerith being BFFs is super cute and I'm glad it never devolves into weird love triangle jealousy stuff. Like it's such a simple little interaction but in Nibel when Tifa is checking out her house, if you go up the water tower with Aerith, you can see Tifa through the window. She spots you guys and waves and while Cloud just kind of sits there awkwardly, Aerith waves back with both hands enthusiastically. Or Tifa grabbing Aerith's hand to pull her through the crowd at the Gold Saucer, or Tifa going "come my child" and Aerith replying "guide me o Tifa" if you switch to Tifa during their Costa Del Sol part
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:I think ive already said this itt but it bears repeating, aerith and tifa becoming besties almost immediately is one of the best character beats in these games on par with wedge being genuinely scared of tifa Yeah I love this. It's great that they occasionally reference conversations they've had that the player/Cloud isn't privy to. Like they have an actual life and friendship outside of cutscenes.
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It's weird to me there are places on the internet were people will get into viciously angry arguments for tens of thousands of posts in a row, for weeks on end, about cloud x tifa VS cloud x aerith when it's pretty clear Tifa and Aerith are gonna marry each other.
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I really enjoyed the bit where Cloud proudly tells Tifa he's remembered Zack, who fell in the water, on the way up to the reactor, and she's like "oh great cool why don't I tell Aerith about that". I like to imagine their conversation later.
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I was successful at getting a date with Tifa, just like the whispers intended. That poo poo’s canon. The rest of the chapter sucked rear end though! And I don’t want to start that one side quest until a patch comes out to fix it so I’m going to run out of stuff to do soon!
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Count me in as one more vote towards "navigating Gongaga was not nearly as big of a pain as navigating Cosmo Canyon is". Managed to get all of the World Intel okay enough but the side quests are a huge pain in the rear end to get to. Edit: Also Gears and Gambits was fine... not sure what all the fuss was about
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:I was successful at getting a date with Tifa, just like the whispers intended. That poo poo’s canon. I was able to complete the sidequest last night so clearly the bug isn't a 100% thing. For the record I did things in the following order: speed, chocobo, battle, bike. And also my previous bike high score was just a touch under his goal score, which also may be what helped avoid the bugged trigger
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IcePhoenix posted:I was able to complete the sidequest last night so clearly the bug isn't a 100% thing. I’ll save before I start it and maybe that will work for me.
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Ace Transmuter posted:Count me in as one more vote towards "navigating Gongaga was not nearly as big of a pain as navigating Cosmo Canyon is". Managed to get all of the World Intel okay enough but the side quests are a huge pain in the rear end to get to. I liked Cosmo more than Gongaga but they both had the same core problem, which is that if I know where I'm trying to go, I should be able to look at the map and see how to get there. Gongaga fails because more often than not, you actually need to climb up an unmarked rope somewhere and then bounce off three unmarked mushrooms. Cosmo fails because you actually need to be jumping from a visually unrelated point halfway across the loving map, but I rate it higher because at least the jump points are marked and you can mostly work backwards from your objective by following the boost fans from jump to jump until you find one you can climb up to. Game's not great at vertical movement and the map has no way to indicate it, hope they fix this for part 3.
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Finally caught up with the thread. Still getting through this giant meaty rear end game since I was a week late to picking it up. Just got to Cosmo Canyon, doing dungeon-y things before I let myself loose on the region in full. Game fucks. Cosmo Canyon is loving gorgeous, though I'm biased as a huge fan of deserts & canyons (and also living in one). The musical vibes in Gongaga were unmatched though.
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Crystal Lake Witch posted:Yeah, the scene on the trip to Costa Del Sol where they're hiding behind some crates and gossiping was a real highlight for me. I read Traces of Two Pasts before Rebirth came out, and for you or anyone else who doesn’t know, that scene you’re describing is straight up the last two pages of Aerith’s chapter. Her chapter is her telling Tifa her backstory, the guy Tifa mentions is the one that helped Aerith and Ifalna escape Shinra. Like the only difference between how the book did that part versus how the game did it is that Cloud hadn’t changed out of his Shinra trooper disguise yet in the book. There’s so many other references to the book peppered through the game, mostly in dialogue during side quests with Tifa, Aerith, or Barret. Aside from Kyrie and Leslie first showing up in The Kids Are Alright, I don’t think there are any references to the other two books that I noticed.
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The Synergy ability where Aerith makes like a forcefield and Tifa jumps around inside of it going absolutely loving berserk all the enemies at once and then punches the ground super hard hitting everyone inside absolutely rules
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Macaluso posted:The Synergy ability where Aerith makes like a forcefield and Tifa jumps around inside of it going absolutely loving berserk all the enemies at once and then punches the ground super hard hitting everyone inside absolutely rules I like the one where Aerith and Red do their best impression of Rinoa and Angelo from FFVIII
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Barret and Cait's where they form a WoFF stack on the Mog and do donuts while Barret happily just hits the "fire everything" setting on his arm is my favorite so far.
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The loving Nibelheim chocobo wrangle is absolutely awful, I could do without this entire mechanic in the third game. Ugh
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