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To be fair, Aki does have an interesting history, particularly the idea of her becoming the first "virtual actress". It's just, I saw FF: Spirits Within once around the time it came out, and hardly remember anything about her or the movie. I guess maybe others have stronger memories about FF: SW than I did. Square Enix seems to want us to forget it existed anyway.

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Yay for sideways F.

Pit
Bub

Mojo

anyone remember that game? You control a roach. Dont think I got that far as a kid.

I'm surprised Aki has done well enough in these contests to even make this bracket.

Vivi
Relm
Garnet
Tifa

Kazuya
Geralt
Spawn
Mega
Pac-Man

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Friday

Pac
Luigi

Glass Joe did better than I expected.

Terra
Minwu
Golbez
Tidus

Evil

...didn't think of Raven before entering this topic.

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Joe
Fox

Pac-Man
Banjo
Ken
Noctis

Rydia
Barret
X-Death
Reno

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Mega
Peach

...like when Peach gets a Mega Mushroom in Mario Kart.

Scorpion
Ryu
Rash
Sephiroth
Snake
Terminator

One

Yeah, Ultimate Weapon isn't really a super boss. There's also a rather involved sidequest involving chocobo breeding. You do get some powerful materia from that, though it's by no means required.

As a kid, I did all the sidequests except beating Emerald and Ruby weapon, the real superbosses. I did manage to beat them many years later. Though if I were playing FF7 for the first time now, I'm not sure I'd bother with Chocobo breeding.

Ramza
Shadow
Mage
Ardyn

I think you want Vincent in the party when visiting the waterfall too. Don't remember if he's required to view the scene at all or if you get some extra things for him if he's there.

Enlightened

Probably from some video game?

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MegaMan
Snake
Kratos
Akuma
Terminator
Simon
Sora
Terry
Heihachi

Lightning
Mog
Ashe
Sabin

Regarding Remake, I didn't play any of the other FF7 spinoffs apart from watching Advent Children once (and I think I forgot most of that one). I don't really want to play games I wasn't that excited about playing just to get to the game I did want to play anyway. Crisis Core may happen someday I guess, but I don't really want to hold off on Rebirth before that one. I played through Remake earlier this year, but it would be kinda nice to play through Rebirth soon after it comes out.

Leonhart4 posted...

It's Barret's Level 4 Limit Break you miss out on, right?

I don't remember trying this myself. I checked a guide, and it doesn't mention you can miss this, though. That would be good since it's one of the strongest limit breaks in the game. Missing it would be quite a Catastrophe.

Anyway, speaking of missables, the area you go to next has plenty of them, including ultimate weapons for some characters. If you care about getting Barret's best weapon, he has to be in your party during a specific part towards the end to get it.

Leonhart4 posted...

You can let the train crash into North Corel, too!

You miss out on Ultima if that happens though.

I knew I was forgetting one...although in this case, you don't fully miss out on Ultima. Someone offers to sell it to you for some absurdly high price. 500,000 gil or something like that.

Fun fact: you can fail at getting the huge materias (fail at the sub minigame, lose the boss fight at Ft Condor, and fail to get the rocket combination). Doesn't change anything and Shinra's plan still fails.

I'm kinda trying to remember whether anything in the game was there to inspire you to go back to the Nibelheim mansion to see that scene with Zack. Despite using a guide, my first playthrough, I somehow still missed Vincent until Disc 2 or 3 and went back to get him, and I think that's when I saw it.

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Thing

Kazuya
Hornet
-
Link
Shaq
Heihachi
RoboCop
Mega
Richter

For the final fight in the Pagoda in my first play through, I remember at one point that Yuffie got mini'ed. However, I had thought that rather than Yuffie getting smaller that the boss got bigger, and there was nothing I could do about all my attacks dealing 1 damage, so I never healed mini. I think I did end up winning with poison, but it was a long fight.

Took the survey. Being exactly 40, I wasn't sure what to say for the age range, but went with 40-50 since I'm closer to 41 than 39 now.

Anyway, I mostly don't see mobile ads these days. I have a few games I still play somewhat regularly but I paid to get rid of ads long ago, or they don't have them to begin with. There is actually one (silly) game I play occasionally that I've specifically kept ads on so that I can remember how terrible they are (and it's one that only gives an ad upon losing at least, so not in the middle of play)

Level 2:
New Orleans

Bonus:
Arizona

Looks like this year was my first recent year voting with the winners.

Spire

Remember that game for the DS? I have it but barely played it.

Pac-Man
Gon
Richter
Banjo
Iori
Ken (though shoutout to Bad Box Art Mega Man)
Noctis
Cloud
Zero

So 14 year old me was right and all attempts since then to change the pronunciation in my head since then have been misguided. Good to know.

In case you were curious, if you weren't using Tifa, she gets forced into your party around the time of that Jenova fight, so you wouldn't miss her reaction during that segment.

Vincent may well have been my least favorite party member, but it's good to at least try him out. Summons aren't essential I guess but I did use them on boss fights for some extra damage. The early ones are likely not worth it for that at this point for you. Though Choco/Mog is still nice since it adds the Stop status, so it can be worth using in some fights.

Voted Smash, though the first thing I thought of when I saw this topic was Suikoden.

Dolphins

Kinda between them, Lions, and Commanders. Though I just picked against the Commanders last week, so dunno if I trust them yet.

Of Money

Sakura
Zero
RyuSmash
Spawn
Rash
SephEhrg
SephSmash
Yoda
Terry

Oh, also, the way the relationship mechanics work, you are favored to get the date with Aerith, if you treat her and Tifa the same, but if you treat Tifa well enough better you can get her instead. I didn't know about the mechanic as a kid, and once I knew Aerith's fate, I did one playthrough where I intentionally treated Tifa better. I was shocked when I got Tifa for the date instead.

The other date options are really tough to get if you're not intentionally trying to get them.

No

Hurts a little bit to say no since I enjoy Mario and Mario Kart games in general.

MartinFF7 posted...

I also have a vague memory of just wandering the world aimlessly trying to find the keystone

I also have this memory. I was using at least a rudimentary guide, so I'm pretty sure I knew I needed to go to the Gold Saucer, but was having trouble remembering how to get there. I think it was finally figuring out that the Tiny Bronco could navigate rivers that helped.

Did you do the Pagoda sidequest with Yuffie in Wutai after you got her back? You didn't mention it, and it opens up right away. If not, you can do it later - there's no particular rush, and it would be annoying for you to go back to Wutai from where you're at anyway.

Guys

...never played it, but it came to mind.