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Got the platinum last night. Just shy of 237 hours on the save file, PS5 says 244 hours on the game. Definitely did a lot more dicking around than others based on their reported platinum times but enjoyed every minute of it, even the shitty retry grinding on certain simulator challenges and a few hard mode bosses (i.e. DPS check on Red Dragon, lol).

Does the PS5 have a calendar that can show you much you were playing a game each specific day because I'd love to see those stats, that first week after Rebirth came out was the hardest I ever went on a videogame.

Funny thing is playing Rebirth had made me really want to replay the original game, which come to think of it, I am overdue on, pretty sure last time was early 2023. And those experiences in the early chapters and getting 100% region intel feel like a lifetime ago, already feeling the urge to start a new run to get the dopamine hits, lol. Maybe later this year.

Waluigi1 posted...

I think you may care about the official release soundtrack more than anyone else in the world lol. Like for real though. And not hating, just making a statement.

haha yeah, well.... I basically don't listen to music outside of video game music nowadays, so the hype for the game coming out pretty well transferred to the hype for the OST coming out. And especially since I really dug Remake's soundtrack. It's still disappointing the number of tracks they're holding back for the Plus album and some of the decisions they made on included tracks like I posted about, but it is what it is, ideally Plus is out earlier than year's end.

and I acquired the bonus Disc 8 and at that point remembered Remake had the "international" (English) versions of songs in addition to the original Japanese whereas this soundtrack doesn't. So still stuck with Youtube for the Salmon, Kyrie, and (where I left off on listening) "Straight Outta Corneoland" battle tracks in English, dang. More songs for the Plus soundtrack, ideally.

(also forgot to comment on this earlier but I love how they got Grasslands and Nibel regions using the starting and ending portions of the Main Theme as their motifs, respectively, stylistically very cool and relevant)

htaeD posted...

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Morph is fucking useless

I think I tried it once or twice just to see what it was like and yeah, that was it. Especially with the ease of getting items via the transmuter, just renders it useless. Probably would've had more value in Remake than Rebirth, though that also made me think how I literally never used Steal in either game other than when I needed to, lol.

Part of my lengthy platinum time is I had a challenge for myself to master all the materia in my possession, and in hard mode picked up even more materia to master so there'd be no chance of being short a materia in any setup I had. Like I was so excited to be able to purchase Luck Up in this game (whereas Remake limited you to what, 2? Darts and one of the gym challenges?) that I had bought 14 Luck materia in case I wanted to outfit 2 on every team member. I think by the hard mode final battle sequence I only had Luck materia on Tifa, what a shame...