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Leonhart4 posted...

Wait, I can post on CE? Must've accidentally clicked on something in the last year.

just visited Gamefaqs in the past year, not visited CE specifically

WhiteLens posted...

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LiquidOshawott posted...

Haikyuu

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Haruhi

Am I going to catch a NKL for Spongebobbing at some point

what is Fandom's definition of hornyposting

...asking for a friend

disagree, I think it's great as a hiking track (the battle edit, while also good, not so much). Maybe biased from first experiencing it in-game but when I hear it now it makes me think of nature, coniferous trees, sunny days with clear blue skies. It makes me think of the promotional image with the party members overlooking the vast landscape of forests and mountains.

also the reason I'm popping back in here is I just got there on the OST and I'm pretty annoyed! Every so often on Remake OST they had a tendency to include cutscene (or whatever) buildup/denouement as part of a song. Beginning of Hell House and ending of Valkyrie were the worst travesties of that for me & my battle theme playlist, which I still listened to occasionally for the years afterwards even right up to Rebirth's release.

Now maybe Rebirth is doing that "unrelated music at beginning/end of a track" thing too but I haven't noticed until now, because I was waiting to hear this song in particular as arguably a top 5 song in the game for me. The official track is 4:35 in length but the first 54 seconds are crap buildup, I assume from the cutscene when you first reach the mountain. Unfuckingbelievable.

The crap buildup runs so long that you don't even hear the actual song on the official OST preview which ends after 45 seconds, feel free to compare it to the actual song embedded at post 261: https://www.jp.square-enix.com/music/sem/page/FF7rebirth/ost/assets/audio/Disc3-10.mp3

When I make my Rebirth battle theme playlist I am going to edit and cut out those first 54 seconds, damn. Super annoying.

Stunned that wasn't 3D Brawler, a minigame that sounds great in theory and is for the first few rounds, but by the end...

and:

colliding posted...

26 . Kyrie

Before you complain about her being too high on the list

MacArrowny posted...

Kyrie too low.

colliding posted...

let it be known that her original music did a LOT of heavy lifting here.

....ok fair enough

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Hint for minigame 18: Our first gold saucer minigame!

3D Pauser incoming

It's interesting what they did with Cait, obviously the big differences are knowing he's a Shinra employee up front (whereas you didn't in the original), but writing out the Marlene & Elmyra kidnapping to force him to stick around, instead having him leave the party. Not letting your playable characters be monsters are probably good changes (and basically guarantees a much mellower Cid/Shera relationship in part 3)

I'd like to know how Rebirth sales are comparing to FF16 sales tbh. Probably still lower cuz sequel factor, but still.

Xenosaga

LiquidOshawott posted...

Uhhhhhhhhhh

pick Odd Taxi or Gurren

Gurren 4sure

Kaiji

phew, thanks

Stan please disregard me and take the trade w/ duck if you don't mind - didn't realize that was still open

MysteriousStan posted...

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Haikyuu

LiquidOshawott posted...

Haikyuu

auto

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Haruhi

yyh

@GranzonEx kaguya was safe when you made your save so you're still free to save.

colliding posted...

Hint for minigame 20: "Up shouldn't make you go up! GODDAMMIT" - me, playing this minigame

Think that's crossing the threshold between "hint" and "fact", lol

Haunter12O posted...

Rank the regions!

Going to be debated for years to come, so many variables to weigh - sidequests, chocobos, music, atmosphere. Types of enemies too, I guess.

Junon and Grasslands for sheer consistency in all aspects I think, even though Nibel best chocobo, Gongaga best music, Corel best locations within region.

Beastars

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

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Haikyuu

LiquidOshawott posted...

Haikyuu

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Haruhi

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colliding posted...

First of all, let's play taps and say farewell to the youtube link that had the Salmon fight song. Square Enix is coming for it now that the soundtrack's officially out there.

no kidding, the Rebirth playlist where I would throw any song I'd come across - literally all put together before i went on vacation so mid to late March, unofficial in-game rips - 100 songs in total and 64 of them are nuked, lol.

The extended loop is still intact at least!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlTkJ8V63F8

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Haruhi

Chapter 14? like... the final boss sequence of songs? I'd take this game's ones over Remake's trio of Arbiter of Fate tracks, if anything they don't give me nearly as much of the final Sephiroth Reborn track as I'd like!

If you mean other stuff well, I'll see when I get there (currently paused somewhere in the gajillion QB tracks on the boat, lol).

Queen

spend 4 hours trying to get through Cait Sith solo challenge, try 2 different strategies I googled and none worked out. Give up, have supper, do youtube search, watch 1 video with a different strat. Try that strat, win it first try easily... almost enraging how that works out but just glad that's over with, at least. not going to dick around with last two legendary fights, ideally...

You know, it just speaks to the strength of the NPCs in the game, lol. He's a one-note character played to the maximum of that note! (also I am inflating his value too much due to his theme song)

in o.g. Mt. Corel there were various points where you could fall down the tracks and scooch over to one side or another to pick up prizes but that was about it special for that. other than that you went a screen over to hit the button to lower the drawbridge before doubling back but that's about it... you got totally mandela'd I think, lol.

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The minecart is inspired by the original game, which did feature a minecart ride on Corel mountain.

uh.... no it didn't? unless I missed something for 26 years, lol. Or maybe you're referring to the train in disc 2.

that did remind me of another great attention to detail point, original game had a rising path on the tracks with a gap (with a treasure chest on one end and Transform materia on the other iirc) and that was replicated perfectly with the Barret path, nice. And the Gigatrice fight filling in for the optional "I'm taking the treasure" where all the characters say really weird lines, especially Barret, lol.

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Hint for NPC 37: Crime does pay

thought this was Gus and almost went apoplectic, lol. surely enough other criminals to fit the bill...

Track listing goes from the Roche battle theme to queens blood (boat) tracks so, not looking good for your song being on OST. Ideally it's a repeat from Remake or Intermission? Otherwise would need to wait for Plus soundtrack.

Ok just pulled up someone's stream and I dont recall this song pre-Rebirth so yeah, unless it's out of place on OST, going to need to wait. Whenever I listen through soundtrack I'll keep an ear out for it.

oh yeah, no Disc 8 on digital release makes sense... someone will rip it off their CD eventually (ideally sooner than later). The Stamp themes will be there and make their way online in due time!! I mean, I have some pretty good sounding 30 minute loops of both regular and battle edits of it already so I'm set, lol.

I guess they have to hold on to some good tracks for the Plus soundtrack, literally the only two I remember from Remake's were the "Under the Rotting Pizza - Battle Edit" (which was a travesty to not be on the original OST of course), and "Ghoulish Symphony" which included the little musical building at the start of the Ghoul fight before the theme kicks in proper. And Specimen H0512 I guess but it really felt like an extended Crab Warden.

Between the missing Yuffie theme (thanks for linking - I do remember that in-game!), and Vincent and Cait Sith themes i mentioned, Aerith/Tifa on the beach, probably more Aerith Theme motif tracks missing, Cosmo Canyon piano one you mentioned. didn't include Cissnei's "Under the Apple Tree" either and I'm pretty sure it wasn't a 100% copy of the CC version. So yeah, definitely seems like they are holding back on a good chunk of character themes specifically (beyond just generic cutscene music & some other tracks) to fill out and entice eventual purchases of Plus.

Kotetsu534 posted...

Where's Salmon's theme? The piano/strings version of the Cosmo Canyon theme? The version of Yuffie's theme when climbing Corel? Gah.

Salmon's theme is on Disc 8, it's the "Stamp - Rebirth" & Battle Edit ones at the end (I assume, I don't have it/haven't listened yet but Disc 8 is designated the bonus "minigame/sidequest" CD). As are all the Kyrie songs I really like, damn... The Yuffie theme in Mt. Corel was "Descendant of Shinobi" off the Intergrade soundtrack I believe, not something new? And that version of the Cosmo Canyon theme, don't recall that one/when it plays in the game but sounds like more "Rebirth Plus OST" fare.

Thanks for those playlists, I will check them out! Even with the OST out these unofficial listings are still great in some ways, like one thing for me is Anuran Suppressor, love that song, found a channel where a guy had 4 minutes for each phase; in the OST it's a single 3 1/2 minute track! Which also reminds me to start saving copies of the 30 minute extended loops of some songs I've saved up, wonder if they've been dodging the copyright striking since the OST hadn't come out yet but I remember how tough it was for any songs to stay on youtube after Remake was out...

MacArrowny posted...

Is it only 175 songs? I thought the full OST was over 400 songs.

yeah the "Plus" album is going to be a full OST all on its own, seriously. Lots of little songs just didn't make the cut here, more I can think of since I made that initial post were Cait Sith's fight theme vs. Ying & Yang, the song when Tifa & Aerith enter the beach, and the beach battle song before Gastropod. They included some of the character theme variations in the Gold Saucer but I know a ton are missing there too. Probably more cutscene tracks missing, or "little song moments" missing like the Turks colosseum bench theme I mentioned before. I wonder if the "over 400 songs" also included Remake tracks making an appearance here. There's no Terror of the Deep theme so I'm assuming that was a Remake retread?

hell, for Nibelheim the OST is just overworld theme, battle edit, chocobo theme, and then Forgotten Specimen and Galian Beast. Were there original songs in the town, trip to the reactor, reactor, Diabolic Creation, and more w/ Cait Sith besides the Ying & Yang one I mentioned? Did the final Roche fight get its own theme? Shit that also means there's no "Nightmare Begins"/Vincent's theme, unless it's out of place on the OST but I don't think so. We definitely heard that when they first met Vincent didn't we?

So yeah... lots missing. Wonder if the piano renditions will also count towards the 400. I'd need to listen to the full OST a few times (and the Disc 8 that I'm missing) and then play the game again w/o skipping any cutscenes, and I could probably pick up on more of what's lacking at that point.

Epyo posted...

Revival materia is in this game?? Wow I never found a single one, and I thought I did basically everything on my normal playthrough, besides endgame stuff.

It's sold in vending machines, where I'm pretty sure I picked up all mine (7 for the hard mode run just in case, lol). Can't recall if it could be found in the field, pretty certain it wasn't ever a quest, enemy or boss reward.

Kaiji

Dudunsparce posted...

didnt haibane use to be in this contest

yes but only the top 20 (last year - still TBD for this year???) are guaranteed a spot next go-around. Haibane missed out on getting back in to RNG in the nominations this year.

damn almost got the VI special

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DBZ is safe (29, 31)

unknown_duck posted...

Baccano!

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