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dang aeris's mom told us to slip out in the middle of the night, what a butthole

Aeris is waiting ahead for us anyway and for some reason. Cloud is like "oh no you are too weak to fight these bad guys" even though nothing can hurt us.

I fought some giant hell house and only used 1 cure spell, and I could've just used a potion instead. It took forever to find the path through because the backgrounds are hard to read.

Playground scene is cute. I like Aeris's insistence on joining us. I think she's currently my favorite character. Her or Barrett.

Now I'm rescuing Tifa from Don Corneo. Making a dress that's soft and shiny. Love how Cloud tells the guy "make me a dress bitch" and Aeris is like "uh, Cloud, why don't you go wait over there for a little bit so I can talk to him."

Now we need to go get a wig. "Go to the gym and you'll find lots of people there like you." Someone who made this game did their research lolol

The squatting minigame was frustrating because the opponent's sound effects are identical to yours which makes it hard to get in a rhythm, but I still won on the first try. Now I've got my fabulous dress and wig so I'm going to Don Corneo's.

pjbasis posted...

Oh yeah. FF7 was probably the game that convinced the industry that RPGs deserve a budget to localize.

Nice :D

redrocket posted...

If youre waiting for the game to get challenging, Ive got bad news for you.

Luckily this is game is carried by the story and character interactions!

Yeah that's how it sounds to me. I'm liking the writing a lot though, even with the translation. I love how assertive Aeris is without being a jerk about it. She reminds me of Peach from SMRPG.

man i keep bringing up that game but it's really interesting how much ff7 and smrpg have in common compared to ff7 and ffx

I dunno if "challenging" is necessary but as soon as I hear the battle music I just mash circle as fast as I can until it stops. This game has a million little things in it and none of them have mattered yet. I've been poisoned, but I don't actually care because mashing circle to end the encounter faster saves me more health than hunting for the item in the menu. The most effort I'll put in is making sure Cloud doesn't attack an enemy when Aeris can finish it off.

Also I know the materia system has more stuff coming but the stat changes feel completely unimportant. For instance, both the Lightning and Ice materia have:
Strength -1
Magic +1
HP -2%
MP +2%

These are identical. Wouldn't you expect a lightning specialist to have different stats from an ice specialist? And they are negligible. I get that these are early game materia but these stat changes may as well not even be there.

Also you know how levelups are super easy to get? If materia changed your levelup stats, rather than applying an imperceptible modifier to your stat total, you would actually feel how ice specialist Cloud and lightning specialist Cloud are different, which would give the elements meaningful identities.

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