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Aerith is just literally the best in this game.
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Weeble posted:Aerith is just literally the best in this game. 
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Jul 23, 2020 21:33
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My choice for "best female lead" in this generally went to whoever happened to be present at the time. I know I've said it before but they did a great job with the characterization of everyone in this.
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Jul 23, 2020 21:39
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:Getting some real Raccoon City vibes from Midgar in this update
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Jul 23, 2020 21:46
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Hojo is literally What If Wesker Didn't Even Lift
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Jul 23, 2020 21:49
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But what about
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Jul 23, 2020 22:05
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Elentor posted:But what about In that case, if he didn't bathe 
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Jul 23, 2020 22:57
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Weeble posted:Aerith is just literally the best in this game. They did a great job recreating her original personality. Same with Tifa (though that's for later)
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Jul 23, 2020 23:26
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Cloacamazing! posted:Does this means FFVIIR will end with the reveal that Marlene is telling the story to her therapist Dr S. Ephirot who will psychoanalyze Cloud based on how many porno mags he picked up? I'd play that game
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Jul 24, 2020 02:37
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Elentor posted:But what about Ah I see you've decided to LP Dirge of Cerberus instead  anakha posted:So I mentioned previously about the BGM that plays right after that first confrontation between Sephiroth and Cloud. When I first heard it, I thought it sounded familiar, so I tried searching for the title of that track, which I only discovered once the full OST was out. To my surprise, it was actually a remix of this track from Advent Children. Another reason why "The Promised Land" shows up in Remake is because Advent Children makes it the de facto Lifestream theme and Remake doubles down on that by very pointedly calling its version "The Promised Land - Cycle of Souls", so it very pointed has the theme show up after a fuckton of people have just died after Reactor 1 went kablooey, ie: returned to the Lifestream. Also yes, it shows up in Advent Children over a montage of Marlene explaining to the audience about what huge rear end in a top hat Sephiroth was in the original Final Fantasy VII.
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Jul 24, 2020 04:17
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KeiraWalker posted:I love how Aerith just nopes the gently caress out, there. I had a good laugh the first time I saw it in-game. "No one's going to attack you. I promise." "Oh, wait, you're getting attacked? I DON'T KNOW HIM!" 
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Jul 24, 2020 16:04
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Aeris running away legit got a chuckle out of me.
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Jul 24, 2020 19:20
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Hot take o'clock: I really can't stand Aerith's English voice! I know the VA pretty much sounds like that IRL and seems like a nice youtuber who was super enthusiastic about the part, but she just sounds like generic cloying high pitched unnatural anime little girl and it really grates on me. The mocap being very cutesy anime pose is also not helping. We're pretty early on here so there's not much to go off, but I seem to be the only one who doesn't think she was a good fit, and I wonder what I'm missing. I think Jessie's voice would fit her better? But there's also the battle between the confident badass "Are you done?" Aeris of the OG that I remember and am probably overcorrecting for the submissive "staff chick" stereotype the EU made her into. The truth is probably in the middle. 
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Jul 25, 2020 00:58
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The aegyo energy is quite strong in Aerith.
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Jul 25, 2020 01:13
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Aeris is lotsa fun in the remake and her barbed cutesy snark helped alleviate a lot of worry about her character in this.
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Jul 25, 2020 19:48
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Zeikier posted:Aeris is lotsa fun in the remake and her barbed cutesy snark helped alleviate a lot of worry about her character in this. edit: removed huge spoiler text block, my bad - I was just browsing bookmarks and thought I was in the regular discussion thread. postmodifier fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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Jul 25, 2020 23:37
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Next chapter is love it or hate it but gently caress it I had soooooooo muuuuuuuuuch fun writing it.
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Update 11 - Filler Previous Bonus Next  Ahoooooooooooooooooooooooo  AhooooooooOOoOooo   They're out to get you There's Shinra closing in on every side   They will auto-attack you Unless you run away from the combat   Now is the time For you and I to skip close quarters together   All through the night I'll save you from the padding on the screen I'll make you skip  'Cause this is filler Filler fight    And no menu can save you While the enemy's about to strike  You know it's filler Filler fight You're fighting for your playtime Inside a killer filler tonight, yeah  'Cause this is filler Filler fight Game, I can pad you more Than any gacha would ever dare try   So let me hold [Share] tight And save a killer, filler Video of this fight    Stretching falls across content The Third Chapter hour is close at hand Shinras crawl in search of Cloud To terrorize y'all's first playthrough    And whomsoever shall be found Without a save to skip it all Must stand and face the hours of hell And sort-of-empathize with Cybershell   The foulest stench is in the air The funk of 40 Monster Drinks  And tanky grunts in red costume Are coming in to seal your doom  And though you fight to stay awake Your body starts to sleep For no mere mortal can resist The ennui of the filler!  Alright, so this is a long sequence. I mean, it can be short, but the first time I went through this gauntlet I went through every single corner, opened every box, fought every grunt aaand... well that can take quite a while. There's a lot to unpack here.  So at the end you fight that red guy, the Huntsman, which is sort of a mini-boss. The first time I engaged him I had some trouble - the Riot Troopers and him all wear shields, and if you hit the shield you get stunned. You can either wait for an opening, or, as I learned in my second playthrough, just spam Fire. The Riot Troops die to a single Fire.  I think now's a good time to reminisce this sequence in the original   Good stuff.  Anyway, the first time I played through this I uhh forgot to hit the Record button. Because I'm dumb. So that's why I went through it again. It's long but as I imagined not super long if you're speedrunning. It's obvious padding but I'm fine with it, everything looks so neat and -    Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhh.  So uh. Uhhm. What was that?   I mean, that's sort of rhetorical, but I'm assuming that guard knew Cloud, and I'm assuming that it was the other guard who accompanied him during the Nifelheim Reactor mission.  I wonder if we'll see more of him. Also, goddamn at how detailed everything in this game is. Oh, and before I forget.  Previous Bonus Next Elentor fucked around with this message at 12:28 on Aug 10, 2020 |
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Jul 30, 2020 11:25
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Elentor posted:
I mean, how long was Cloud a Shinra trooper? Makes sense that if you run through enough of them, you'd find one or two that knew him.
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Jul 30, 2020 11:36
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Yeah I loving love that change.
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Jul 30, 2020 11:38
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Wait, so in the midst of all that did you grab the purple materia?
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Jul 30, 2020 11:38
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Onmi posted:Wait, so in the midst of all that did you grab the purple materia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlbARlVyRAc
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Jul 30, 2020 11:39
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The one on the ground, right there. Like you said you got all the chests and stuff so I figured you did but you also did like... nothing to highlight "Hey, new kind of materia"
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Jul 30, 2020 11:42
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I probably did. It'll be hilarious if I played this part twice and somehow missed the huge purple glow on the ground twice.
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Jul 30, 2020 11:48
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It's a little unclear in English (both Dub and Sub), but in Japanese the guard says "Oi, sono ken wa", meaning "Hey, that sword". The implication here seems to be that the guard recognizes the Buster Sword, and presumably he was saying "Hey, I know that sword. Isn't that NOPENOPEYOUHEARDNOTHINGISTHATMYTRAINGOTTAGO."
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OK, that scene where the jeep cuts you off and starts the fight with the Huntsman. That is the first time in this game the classic Final Fantasy VII battle music plays. This entire sequence has a tense, low-key version of it playing in the background, and it's just slowly building up. Then, the instant you get control of Cloud after the jeep cutscene, the battle music kicks into high gear, and in the words of a close friend of mine, it sounds like the original felt. Final Fantasy VII Remake: Let The Battles Begin! Regardless of whether this sequence is just filler or padding, or whatever you want to call it--that moment was goddamn powerful for me, to the point I had to pause the game and curl up on my couch for a couple minutes because I couldn't stop shaking and crying. Hell, listening to the battle music two months later still gives me goosebumps. Most of what I know about the original game is through osmosis--listening to other people talk about it, hearing the music through filesharing and YouTube, reading Elentor's original LP. I couldn't play the original game. I just bounced off of it, disappointed that I couldn't bring myself to enjoy it because I have a difficult time with old-school JRPGs. As a result I have more nostalgia for what my imagination told me FFVII was than the actual game itself... nostalgia for the concept of FFVII, which has been built up in my head for the last 20 years. When the battle music hit its crescendo here, I couldn't hold it back any more, and I wept. I know things are different, and everybody has their quibbles with the presentation and the battle system and whatever else. None of that really matters to me. After 20 years, I finally get to experience Final Fantasy VII. Buckle the gently caress up.
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Chapter 2 is one of my favorites in this game as well, due to that whole sequence of fights with the accompanying music after Aerith runs off. The way the music builds and almost but not quite hits the same notes like the original battle theme during the battle with the first group of troopers, then settles into a more restrained remix between battles that keeps the tension simmering. The way it starts building again during the battles at the fountain, then finally crests into the original battle theme during the last fight with the Huntsman, 
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Jul 30, 2020 12:26
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Yeah, Cloud was a trooper for a few years, so it makes sense that there'd be other Shinra guys who recognize him. Christ, just from the hairdo. It's a nice touch.
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Elentor posted:So at the end you fight that red guy, the Huntsman, which is sort of a mini-boss. The first time I engaged him I had some trouble - the Riot Troopers and him all wear shields, and if you hit the shield you get stunned. You can either wait for an opening, or, as I learned in my second playthrough, just spam Fire. The Riot Troops die to a single Fire. Punisher Mode also completely destroys shield dudes.
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Jul 30, 2020 17:31
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Ace Transmuter posted:Punisher Mode also completely destroys shield dudes. My experience is that their stun baton negates punisher counterattacks. Maybe that's just the elites?
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Jul 30, 2020 17:36
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You can also like walk around behind them and hit them in the back. That's pretty funny to do.
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Jul 30, 2020 18:12
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You usually need to roll behind them to get a hit or two in. They turn slowly, but not so slowly you can just walk behind them.
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Jul 30, 2020 18:22
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habeasdorkus posted:Yeah, Cloud was a trooper for a few years, so it makes sense that there'd be other Shinra guys who recognize him. Christ, just from the hairdo. I always figured the trooper guy was recognizing the Buster Sword from when Angeal and Zack wielded it more than anything about Cloud specifically, and Cloud’s brain problems kicked in right before the dude could go “the gently caress are you doing with Zack’s sword?”
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Jul 30, 2020 18:24
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Echoing all the comments about the soundtrack, it's absolutely amazing. Also, Riot Troopers get completely clowned by Fire magic.
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Jul 30, 2020 22:05
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You get props for adapting "Thriller" to this section, Elentor. Not just the lyrics, but also for making it into a wonderful pun. 
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Jul 30, 2020 22:18
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Some Numbers posted:Echoing all the comments about the soundtrack, it's absolutely amazing. Yeah, the Huntsman was the first moment of difficulty for me in the game and I actually had to use Ifrit on him, which you get right at the start of the game if you bought the limited edition instead of later on normally. Saved my rear end but it was incredibly embarrassing.
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Jul 30, 2020 22:21
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AradoBalanga posted:You get props for adapting "Thriller" to this section, Elentor. Not just the lyrics, but also for making it into a wonderful pun. As soon as I realized what was happening, I was 
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Jul 30, 2020 23:43
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Shield guys also get completely trounced by using a grenade item on them. I know, I know, item usage is cheating - but it is super funny.
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Jul 31, 2020 00:52
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I remeber getting pumped to hear the battle theme kick in for real by the end of the sequence, and after picking the controller back up after being distracted for an hour it didn't disappoint!
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Zeikier posted:I remeber getting pumped to hear the battle theme kick in for real by the end of the sequence, and after picking the controller back up after being distracted for an hour it didn't disappoint! I've never really been keen on the FF7 general battle theme so it popping up in Remake finally was just "Okay..." Now the boss theme on the other hand...  
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