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Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
So how right or wrong was my prediction that Jessie lives?

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Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

I can't believe I lived enough to see this rendered in real-time with more details than the original pre-renders could ever dream to have.

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I took the past 3 days to finally beat this game.
Live notes:

Ch3
Cloud going to his miserable home is amazing, the contrast between this anime-rear end character and his apartment smaller than a cheap motel bathroom is perfect.
Good lord, the padding. And the trash mobs die so fast I don't even get to practice.
lol @ the darts minigame
Man this chapter sure is taking its sweet everloving time

Ch4
What the hell
I love the walk simulator. I love everything about it. I love the fleshing out of Jessie and co's backstories
Cloud is hot
Wow, ch4 is like an entire game. Or a DLC, idk
lol at Jessie "pay in full"
Badass cloud is so hot
I changed the language to English. I really wish I could have JP Cloud but as funny as Roche is, his JP Dub is a little bit too much for me

Ch5
This was really boring. Nice boss fight though.

Ch6
This was extremely exhausting. I like this area in the original a lot but this was just too much. I thought the fan puzzle was solved with equipping elemental-wind in the armor.

Ch7
Oookay. Again, I didn't like the floor climbing keycard sidequest in the slightest.
I like when they look at the camera and tell us to our faces, "we are all totally coming back safe", lol.
I loved the Air Buster fight.

Ch8
I just skipped all the sidequests I don't have time for this
thank you game for making my life easier after failing so much at not waking aeris up
I love cloud's face palm when he fails at being quiet.
Aeriths mom is the hottest character in this game so far unironically, also the only woman who looks like a human being

Ch9
Wall market music sounds like it's the BG for a 2d sonic circus level
Chadley throws me off the game so much lol. "Oh hi Cloud. I expect more videogamey results". Like he doesn't even pretend to be surprised at seeing me. Oh hey there's VR. I'm disappointed Shiva didn't say "They have Ifrit?!".
Holy lmao at madam m's deluxe course. Haaaahahaha.
Okay I thought the two sweepers would be hard
Wait hahahahh there's a hell house here, this is too much. "Marry me Aerith" haha. "A...house?" I swear what the hell is this game

What the gently caress will this boss ever die.
I'm glad I didn't wipe here because that was 24 min of me sucking and I was not looking forward to an encore.
Did I just make madam M one million gil, like give me 10k or something
"Your friend fought a house? A house?" ahahhahahahahhahah

I'm in honey bee inn
Completely unrelated to the game, this place gives me bad flashbacks

What am I seeing


what did I just see

lol at chadley
"NAILED IT. THANK YOU. I KNOW. MOVING ON." haha

Ch10
The panoramic view of the puzzle area gave me ch6 vibes but this chapter is actually short

Ch11
This place is gorgeous. The lighting, the fog, everything here is absolutely gorgeous.
Ok do I really need to go into this factory
Following this game's logic the final boss here is Eligor
Wait no I hate this ghoul fight so much, the pathfinding is terrible. This is the worst.
Are you loving kidding me that there's a third biome to this place.
Haaaaaaaaaaahahaha it was Eligor. I bet next chapter bosses will be the two turks because we've already been introduced to fighting them individually

Ch12
Oh my god I do not need to go find marlene
Yup it's the two turks instead of just Reno.

Ch13
What the actual gently caress. Is this out of Dirge of Cerberus?
This chapter made no sense

Ch 14
Are you loving kidding me that I have to do the sewers again
Holy poo poo the sahagins are the hardest boss in the game
Lmao I took the final 1/3 of Aps as solo tifa
tifa owns

Ch 15
Yup skipping all the sidequests. This whole game is a bit too much. These robot trash mobs take so long.
Not as impressive as before but also took the last 10% of the boss' hp as solo Tifa, bless her heart.

Ch 16
This jumping minigame is silly.
I like that this chapter doesn't have trash mobs so far
I climbed up the stairs.
I'm happy to see they kept H5012 as easy in the remake as it is in the original

Ch17
Tifa's reaction to Red XIII's explanation about fate being immediate existential crisis is great.
This dungeon goes on for way too loving long.
Jenova Dreamweaver, what the gently caress kind of name is that (Edit: I saw that her name in JP is Jenova Beat and that makes a lot more sense)
Sick musical plot twist
How does one fight Rufus properly he blocks everything, I just rolled to max range and spammed Firagas

Ch18
I'm profoundly disappointed not to see Roche here, what the actual hell.
What the gently caress
This is too... wow this kinda took me out of the game. I was digging the changes but this seems so out of place and random. It's like someone trained a neural network to produce an FF final dungeon/boss.
Why am I killing Dormammu and why do I have to beat power ranger villains to do that
Oh of course the final fight is vs. Sephiroth how did I not see that one coming
Ok I'm done, 31 hours 42 minutes.

Total Game Overs:
One to Aps #2, One to Eligor, and a bunch to 3x Sahagins.

Elentor fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Aug 17, 2020

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Thanks. It's a good thing that the ranged boss with two guns, lasers and what else can't actually do ranged damage.

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Should have been a gigantic Sakaguchi face, with Kitase adds floating around. Occasionally Nomura shows up and draws a zip line for you to move around the arena.

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Gologle posted:

I'm kind of surprised that Elentor, biggest stan of FF7 on these forums, was put off by parts of FF7r. I expected it to be a huge success with him personally.

I think it's a great game. Considering all I really wanted was a clean remake and not a FF7 rebuild/reboot/sequel, I got way more pleased than I expected. I liked the changes, the new elements. It gave me the feeling of weirdness that the original FF7 gave me and I realize that's only possible by trying new things.

With that said it took me a while to get adjusted to the langoliers, I would have enjoyed the game a lot more if it had less padding and was like, half the size (but I understand why they did it like they did. I don't think it can be reasonable to say that FF7R isn't a full game and it being just Midgar probably made them want to really nail down how complete an experience it could be), and as much as I was digging the new things the ending completely threw me off. Bad endings don't typically ruin an experience for me (not even ME3 did that) so eh, I'm fine.

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
My calls are that Zack will show up at the end of Part 2 and save Aeris and then Aerith and Zack will be party members in Part 3 and either Zack or Cloud will die at the end, if it's Zack he will say generic stuff like "I was... on borrowed time anyway... this life...it is a gift... don't cry for me, I'm happy that we had this time together...."

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I thought that was too gross. I had a hard time going with some parts of the game. The sleeping agents in the Don Corneo's place crossed a threshold for me.

From a third person, I'm glad that they decided to stick true to the gritty aspects of the original and did not tone down the villains, but on a personal level I no longer find easy to watch those scenes.

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Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
One of my predictions before the game was out was that Jessie would survive. I can still be right.

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