#i'm so fucking compilation-of-brained that i played the demo and was like

[dreams-and-honor]

ADVENT CHILDREN IN THEATERS TOMORROW RIPPING APART MY COUCH CUSHIONS WITH MY TEETH IN ANTICIPATION

[sapphire-weapon]

just finished the rebirth demo

i don't understand why they cut it where they did. it's literally the second to last scene of the flashback. in OG it's maybe 60 seconds left worth of scene. what the fuck did they do to it that they felt the need to cut it from the demo???

this was the most loyal revisit of the nibelheim incident ever made. there's some BAD versions of this scene in the compilation. so glad they followed OG almost shot for shot (though not line for line, but that's okay)

if we're fighting the materia keeper in the flashback, does that mean we WON'T fight him when we go back to nibelheim to recruit vincent?

it's a REALLY WEIRD CHOICE to have tifa co-tell parts of this story. in OG she doesn't say a damn word because her brain is full of fuck just listening to it. but if she's going to be an active member of the conversation, why the FUCK is she just helping tell this story like it's totally normal and not jumping in like HEY CLOUD WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT EVEN

pre-madness sephiroth continues to be peak boyfriend material

NO GENESIS NO GENESIS NO GENESIS NO GENESIS NO GENESIS NO GENESIS NO GENESIS NO GENESIS

adding in more detail as to what sephiroth was reading was a really good addition, good on u nojima

mako vacuums can get fucked and i hope whoever thought of that has a really bad day today

i don't understand how this game, native to the PS5, has way, way, way, WAY shittier climbing mechanics than uncharted, native to the PS3. what the fuck are you doing, squenix

i don't feel like this version captured the same feeling of controlling sephiroth that you got from the OG. like, the point of doing it in OG was to show how insanely terrifyingly powerful sephiroth was. and in this version, yeah, sephiroth's stats were high, and his materia was maxed, but... it's not the same as opening the menu and seeing he has 9999 HP and 999 MP and then getting into a fight and he cast+all's thundaga and kills everything on the screen in one turn. i actually had to put effort into fighting the materia keeper. it shouldn't have lasted more than a minute.

the slow hobble and the slow crawl through the fire was a bad design choice, sorry. it added nothing and made the whole experience feel shittier

if they released a spinoff game of just the piano playing, i'd buy it

combat feels way better in this game than it did in remake, which is good, because i was like the only person on the planet apparently who criticized the gameplay in remake but FUCK THE GAMEPLAY IN REMAKE fuckin damage sponge ass enemies and boss phases fucking up your stagger meter and shitty party AI fuck that. rebirth is better. i enjoyed it more.

but overall idk i'm not as wowed by and enamored with the demo as some of my contemporaries who are already calling this for GOTY. it was fine, and i'm gonna take time off work to play the game when it comes out, but like

idk let's not put the cart before the horse here, people

[ptb-composer]

1. Bedroom or cafe's if I know I need to focus and hit a deadline. The human noise helps.

2. When the plan comes together and the ideas just slot together properly.

3. Starting a new song and having no inspiration for what it should be.

4. I usually have PM Seymore binge compilations on in the background.

5. Composer, Steven Sondheim and Joe Hisaishi

6. I don't usually create characters, but fav character I've written for was Chloe Price in Life is Strange musical demos.

7. Terry Pratchet/Rick Riordan.

8. Five man band.

9. Romantic or ballad scenes

10. Ana's Mitchel

11. Listen to songs in the style I want it to be, go ajzijejzdisj this doesn't work, listen to different songs until something sounds right, copy down the sheet music, fuck with it, delete it then try to re create the fucked with version from memory.

12. Alcohol, partying, gaming, general forced socialising.

13. Listen to new music and broaden my stylistic knowledge.

14. For Gideon The Ninth the musical demos, I reaserched Gregorian chant music for the first tike since I dropped out of university due to stress of not understanding shit.

15. Listening to new music

16. Spotify

17. 3-5 hours on a good day. When starting a new project I always spend like 8 hours making the first song taking little to no breaks in a writing frenzy then regretting it the next day.

18. I'll usually throw out the whole song and write something completely new.

19. This is a show of death and love a grizly tale we tell, of liers, lyctors, lesbians and cavaliers that fell.

20. Check my YouTube in bio for the first 5 songs.

21. She owns you.

22. Most I've had is 22, current one is only 4.

23. Multi, that's what works in musicals best. Just to give the lead actors little breaks and time for quick changes.

24. Lyrics are basically just poetry.

25. Linear, non linear plays don't do that well. Might try one, one day.

26. Stand alone. It's hard to do a series of plays. Not impossible but hard.

27. Roughs are my demos that go out as part of a pitch document.

28. Fucking everyone.

29. The gays. Aka me. I write things I want to see.

30. "Oh Rachel see you someday, upon that silver screen. I will hold you close, again, see you soon my queen." Sung by a hopeless tumblr lesbian in a story set in 2013.

31. Captain Aiglamene, she appeared in 1 scene and I couldn't get a vibe for her musical identity so I just went generic as fuck with her.

32. Surt. His music was so fun and just flowed. I wrote his song in 1 sitting.

33. Technically yes. I'm writing music though.

34. Scrawled on the walls. I'm mentally sane I swear.

35. Jesus the lesbian is a wannabee escape artist who just wants to escape Pluto and join her dad's army.

36. She dies.

37. "What's the point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes" Dan Hardcastle. Aka Nerd³.

38. Well the outline is someone else's story I'm adapting sooooo, very good, great success.

39. Not my original characters.

40. Essentially fanfiction, of what if this story was full of gay people singing.

41. Currently 3. Trying to focus on 1 but 3 are burning in the background.

42. Look at fan art and take an amalgam of popular costume parts.

43. Yes in audio book format. I'm horribly dyslexic and books hurt my eyes and brain.

44. This will be in my head all day.

45. It's impressive to make boring non classical music.

46. It would look fucking dark and need to be animated. Animated musicals are fucking pumping potion cat snake.

47. I start by reading the book that already exists and song spotting. Going through the book and going, that scene should be a song. Oh this is dramatic as shit, song. Awsw tender, song.

48. Rock.

49. The middle, it slogs.

50. The current one, lesbian necromancers solving a murder mystery in space and singing.

51. Skeletons, ginger, Catholic, goth, lesbians.

52. I started writing when I was fucking depressed and it helped me out of my mental illness. 5 years ago.

53. It means escape from the darkness.

54. If you're thinking about writing, write. If you keep putting it off you'll never write anything.

New ask game for writers

1. Favorite place to write. 2. Favorite part of writing. 3. Least favorite part of writing. 4. Do you have writing habits or rituals? 5. Books or authors that influenced your style the most. 6. Favorite character you ever created. 7. Favorite author. 8. Favorite trope to write. 9. Least favorite trope to write. 10. Pick a writer to co-write a book with and tell us what you’d write about. 11. Describe your writing process from scratch to finish. 12. How do you deal with self-doubts? 13. How do you deal with writers block? 14. What’s the most research you ever put into a book? 15. Where does your inspiration come from? 16. Where do you take your motivation from? 17. On avarage, how much writing do you get done in a day? 18. What’s your revision or rewriting process like? 19. First line of a WIP you’re working on. 20. Post a snippet of a WIP you’re working on. 21. Post the last sentence you wrote in one of your WIP’s. 22. How many drafts do you need until you’re satisfied and a project is ultimately done for you? 23. Single or multi POV, and why? 24. Poetry or prose, and why? 25. Linear or non-linear, and why? 26. Standalone or series, and why? 27. Do you share rough drafts or do you wait until it’s all polished? 28. And who do you share them with? 29. Who do you write for? 30. Favorite line you’ve ever written. 31. Hardest character to write. 32. Easiest character to write. 33. Do you listen to music when you’re writing? 34. Handwritten notes or typed notes? 35. Tell some backstory details about one of your characters in your story ________. 36. A spoiler for story _________. 37. Most inspirational quote you’ve ever read or heard that’s still important to you. 38. Have you shared your outline of your story ________ with someone? If so, what did they think of it? 39. Do you base your characters of real people or not? If so, tell us about one. 40. Original Fiction or Fanfiction, and why? 41. How many stories do you work on at one time? 42. How do you figure out your characters looks, personality, etc. 43. Are you an avid reader? 44. Best piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten. 45. Worst piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten. 46. What would your story _______ look like as a tv show or movie? 47. Do you start with characters or plot when working on a new story? 48. Favorite genre to write in. 49. What do you find the hardest to write in a story, the beginning, the middle or the end? 50. Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had. 51. Describe the aesthetic of your story _______ in 5 sentences or words. 52. How did writing change you? 53. What does writing mean to you? 54. Any writing advice you want to share?