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| Topic | Playing through FF7 for the first time (spoilers duh lol) |
| NeatoAnAccount 03/17/21 3:04:44 AM #29: | Met Red XIII in the thing with Aeris. Renamed him Red. I don't like the way he talks, he's my least favorite character so far. Like Gundham Tanaka, but serious. Species-personality mismatch. Would work better as a cat imo, maybe a big cat. Got caught and sent to jail and recapped the story. Shinra kidnapped Aeris because she's supposed to literally lead them to the Promised Land, which seems to be an actual geographic location with tons of Mako. She can do this because she's the last Ancient, which is a special kind of human. Went to sleep and woke up and my door is unlocked for some reason. Cloud doesn't wake Tifa up right away and investigates alone. Outside absolutely everyone is dead. We follow trail of blood upstairs and find President Shinra dead. Cool. But now his son is president. All the combat stuff was lame because your party members take no damage. Boss fight against President Shinra's son is narratively interesting but I literally just traded Fire spells for shotgun blasts, except I used high potions when my HP was yellow. Combat encounters on the elevator should've been interesting but in practice you just pick your character's most damaging option and mash circle. Motorcycle cutscene was cool though :D Especially the way it transitioned from gameplay to cutscene. In Kalm. Cloud is telling the party about a mission where Tifa led him and Sephiroth (did Tifa mention that she knows Sephiroth?) to a nearby Mako source. In the flashback Cloud is a bright-eyed kid and Sephiroth is an over-all-this-shit daddy. They lay it on a little thick but it works. Like that Sephiroth's in your party. Don't like that he says "we don't have time to go back for our comrade who fell" and then "here is a 10-minute explanation of where Materia comes from." Also it'd be cool if Tifa could fight too (her master is an NPC you can talk to) but oh well. At least we learn that Cloud's benevolent sexism is a persistent character trait! We discover that Shinra is creating monsters by exposing humans to Mako. Sephiroth freaks out because he thinks this is how he was created. We get back to town and he locks himself in the library and reads all night. He discovers that the Ancients would travel from planet to planet and the humans... stopped them? They used their energy for selfish purposes. And that his mother Jenova was the being they found in a 2000-year-old layer of rock. "Out of my way, I'm going to see my mother." He went crazy and burned the town down and killed a bunch of people including Tifa's dad. Cloud confronts him and draws his sword and the cutscene just ends? Officially, Sephiroth is dead, but Speaking of figuring out what happened, I like the random flashbacks that Cloud gets. One of them (Tifa talking about how she hates Shinra etc) got shown in its proper context in this little interlude, so I'm hoping we see more of those get paid off. --- Neato, an account ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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