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MartinFF7 posted...

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(first thing i thought of with all the eclipse talk lately, lol)

I was on vacation for a couple of weeks, resumed the quest for platinum (and 100% playlog just because) on returning home. put off trying Rulers of the Outer Worlds as long as I could and finally got around to it and did it, after many hours spent... pure cheese strats helping to breeze through the first four fights, couldn't get through 5th until seeing a video that was just showing a straightforward -aga stunlock and worked like a charm. What a relief that's over with.

....still have some painful solo challenges and the legendary challenges to go (and Chapter 14 hard mode) but the end is in sight.

Also agreed, though where I'm a little stumped is whether it's just your consciousness that can move between worlds or your whole physical body. Like, we saw Cloud and Aerith take over the comatose ones in the Zack-verse. My impression of Biggs re-telling his story sounded like a similar deal for him.

Except the Cloud in the Zack-verse has two shoulder pads, but when it's Cloud and Aerith on their "date" it's just one shoulder pad. Infuriating.

However, while I was assuming the Zack and Aerith fights w/ Cloud at "edge of creation" were fights in his mind w/ their respective consciousnesses teaming up with him, Zack's whole body and not just his consciousness was being sent to and fro in that final battle sequence & in the ending?? I also thought maybe only Cloud could see Aerith because her consciousness was still residing with him after the final battle but the fact Red XIII could sense her is like, yeah... lifestream ghost? Maybe without a body to consciousness-shift into, the other Aerith is just a ghost in our world that only Cloud can see due to the fate-breaching event?

I think we're supposed to think that all this actually happened. I thought that Remake's final battle was all in their heads/pocket universe stuff but nope, that all literally happened. Therefore I think all the party members literally traveled through dimensions. I think what happened is that the worlds did actually merge at the end of the game but only Cloud is able to be in both simultaneously.

Also means there are two different Aeriths right now, technically? "our" Aerith who died and is in the lifestream, and "other" Aerith who's in the world where she survived, popped over to help Cloud in his final battle, and goes back to her "second home" in the other world at the game's end?

Bingo, though "other" Aerith is ostensibly exactly the same as "our" Aerith, and "the other world" is our world, just like a layer on top of it. Who knows though. It's manufactured to try and keep people talking for two years.