#nuts plays ff7r

[imustbenuts]

ff7r thoughts so far on the narrative between it and og (am also slightly drunk plus at wall market before the crossdressing scene so make of this what you will. also typos and all that lol this suntory STRONG ZERO is no joke)

im. super vibing with this so far

tifa's motivation in R makes sense and is less ambiguous than her PSX version. theres def restrictions in animation holding certain aspects of story telling back but she was always meant to be this supporting almost waifu like character to her. but in remake this is fucking chef kiss bc of how much they focused on how cloud is essentially a dumbass chuuni with a very uwu core that it makes every chemistry flow better

cloud is the mother fuckin otome protag and he doesnt even know it lmao

aerith too!! her cuckoo tendencies of being cute yet somewhat violent has always been there but here its just buffed and pushed forward. and i cannot stress enough that aerith is legitimately naturally cute AND airheaded enough shes so good ooogh people who like her have excellent taste. mad respect

and the turks get extra screen time that now suddenly makes sense why they were big in FF7AC. before that they've always looked like the random assassin class characters who pop up for no reason so im actually super happy for Reno and Rude.

too bad about what will happen in the temple bc HAHAHAHAAA lets see theres some fuckery going on with the ghostly owos that its hard to tell.

but most importantly

they're all funny and entertaining. they know despite the seriousness its important to laugh at shit and celebrate the flair of artistic fun and bursts and thats reflected in Wall Market. just amazed. so happy for the team for creating this. so much respect. wowe. i think in a way ff7 came from a very personal place to the og team who made this and thats just helping this remake team in fleshing things out. fuck capitalism, and yeah slums are still ultimately populated by people who also want to have fun. good.

anyway uh its kinda giving me gintama vibes. the whole underdog uprising and red light district disenfranchisement, plus the extra peppering of how capitalism and patriotism takes advantage of those passionate to serve the whims of the ultra rich to gain ever more profit

(the word patriot was surprisingly used and dropped in that one segment in sector 5 and heidegger. despite midgar being ultra capitalistic lol. and the upper plate going down to enjoy Wall Market reminded me of the real life place known as Piss Alley. the staples of alcohol and street food are in both too, except with waaay more yakitoris and less shumais + xiao long baos. good shit.)

i wish jp devs have more space to openly criticize their systems, their politicians and capitalism bc japan's politics and history are a goldmine of wild shit, and is far removed enough to many anglo speaking audiences that it can be introspective

11/10 so far choo choo

[pagerunner-j]

On the eve (almost) of FF7 Rebirth's release, I suddenly felt compelled to bring back the best thing about the remakes thus far:

The Happy Turtle songs from INTERmission.

To explain, because you really need to understand what's going on here: the music team wrote a series of songs that function as commercial jingles (but which are too substantial to write off as merely jingles) for a bar called the Happy Turtle. Every song has a wildly different style. Every one of them will get stuck in your head forever. One's a perky pop song; one sounds like classic doo-wop; one's flat out heavy metal. And there's more. There's much more.

But let's be explicitly clear: although this does factor into a minor sidequest where you collect advertising fliers, the songs themselves are purely there for flavor. It's a massive in-universe advertising campaign for a bar that YOU NEVER EVEN GO TO.

Nobody needed to go this hard.

I'm still glad they did.

[delllamortes]

ok listen i love both aerith and tifa’s theme’s dearly, they’re both gorgeous pieces of music in their own different ways and i’m literally trying to learn aerith’s theme on the piano rn

but idk man, tifa’s theme just feels like coming home, as corny as that sounds. aerith’s has that beautiful, gut-wrenching, bittersweet tone to it, but tifa’s is so warm. i literally can’t think of a better word to describe it—it just immediately makes me feel calm when i hear it

that’s just my random two cents jdkddkfnjd don’t mind me

[silver-wield]

honestly ff7r was the first game i played since i never got the original or any compilation games. so from the perspective of a new player aerith's "you can't fall in love with me" line just perplexed me. i was sitting there like: lmao we've known you for like 2 days or smth, but okay?

That's the reaction Nojima wanted from people. Cloud’s known Aerith for like 12hrs at that point and she's acting like that? If that was a real situation the people involved would be all "Are you nuts?" because that's the normal reaction to a total stranger telling you not to fall in love with her and that if you already have then it's not real.

Stalker alert.

I always thought Aerith was pretty creepy with Cloud tbf. She barely knows him, hangs off him like he's a coat hook and never listens to a single word he says and the fandom is all "hE lOvEs HeR fOrEvEr" and I was always like okay...*backs away slowly*. The fandom is what made me not want to engage more with FF7 cause the story as I understand it is Cloud loves Tifa, so hearing all this very loud, obnoxious contradiction just made me not care much about the game. Which is a shame cause it's a great game and a great story with fun characters. All these hateful shippers do is put people off it.

But judging from how part 1 went, the rest of Remake is gonna be hella fun and so cloti we'll need a trip to the dentist from sweetness overload lol

[imustbenuts]

Laughing at this bc that price is kinda... cheap in 2023. And the arial font print out on the right, that's so on point for a small business owner and yet Im kinda shocked it got approved for final game

Also Midgar is totally bilingual aren't they? The chances of Cloud being fluent in JP isn't 0 considering he got into the company as a grunt. Shinra's adverts are written in JP too.

Wutai is a mix of old Japan and Chinese. The word isn't exactly (modern) Japanese, it sounds TOO much like 舞台 in Chinese, often referring to a theatre stage. JP will render that as butai instead. Lmao

[imustbenuts]

THIS SWORD HAS 一刀两断 CARVED INTO THE FUCKING THING. ONE CUT TWO SEGMENTS

CLOUD IS SO FUNNY DEAR LORD HES A CHUUNI HAHAHAHA

[imustbenuts]

It looks like Cloud is picking up both Barret and Tifa's tics the more he interacts with them

And

Uh did cloud die bruh what is this cutscene after fighting Metal Gear number 3

[imustbenuts]

Cloud just read this

The idea that cloud is billingual and fluent in JP tickles my brain good

[imustbenuts]

????? What's the whispers' deal. Did they cap Jessie in her feet to prevent her from going into the mission? ???? And to force Cloud into the mission he was dropped out of?

Also the whole planet lifestream being the planet's memory and how it's a living thing is an extension of the original idea.... are these whispers some NG+ echoes of people? Are they jenova clones?

Tell me your secrets I'll trade u boba

[imustbenuts]

WEDGE 🥹🥹🥹 I LIKE WEDGE THANK U REMAKE HES SUCH A GOOD GOOBER

[imustbenuts]

this isn't the same sephiroth I know either what's your deal remakeroth tell me your secrets have you embraced the hippe eco terrorism aesthetics too? will you be besties with barret for the bit?

Got my hands on FF7R and playing it properly and uh

was sephi supposed to appear this early, and was Cloud this strong at the start? ^q^...

[silver-wield]

I'm not sure if SE and the devs gonna end LTD in the remake. They should just end it for a long time if they really want to. but sadly they didn't do that. instead of make everything clear they just bait and give hope for both sides for a very long time. It make me feels like they're playing with people's emotion. that's why I lost my respect for SE and the devs every time when I think about the LTD in FF7.

There is no LTD in the game, it's just salty dumdums propagating their headcanon as fact and being loud and gaslighting the fandom for decades that make people think there ever was one.

The concept of wavering was part of the illusion vs reality of Cloud's arc and idiots fell for the illusion and never got over it so they had to force everyone else to believe they were right. FF7R is FF7 and in that we see Cloud isn't wavering and never did. It was Jenova forcing him to go after Aerith because of his memories of Zack. FF7R has further killed this confusing concept since people didn't understand it. They have Aerith outright telling Cloud his feelings are fake, not to mention it's obvious she's only interested in him because he reminds her of Zack. And that's not even including all the cloti goodness thrown at us. Cloud is so into Tifa it's really only idiots who still deny it.

But salty dumdums can't be wrong. How embarrassing for them to not even understand a basic concept in the game. Not to mention how dare SquareEnix, a Japanese company, so obviously favour an Asian styled character as the heroine and have her get the blond haired, white guy. How dare they show a mixed race couple over their preference for a white girl and guy? 🤦‍♀️🙄🤦‍♀️🙄

So yeah, racism and the desperate need to be right are the only things driving the LTD because most of the dumdums haven't even played the game and even their own side thinks their queen is idiotic, but because she's so forceful with her opinions they follow her. Honestly, sounds like the biggest nut in the house is in control instead of orderlies.

[imustbenuts]

wait, huh

If Midgar = modern Japan, wutai = old Japan.... was the og story of ff7 subjugating them through force some metaphor? woah.

Laughing at this bc that price is kinda... cheap in 2023. And the arial font print out on the right, that's so on point for a small business owner and yet Im kinda shocked it got approved for final game

Also Midgar is totally bilingual aren't they? The chances of Cloud being fluent in JP isn't 0 considering he got into the company as a grunt. Shinra's adverts are written in JP too.

Wutai is a mix of old Japan and Chinese. The word isn't exactly (modern) Japanese, it sounds TOO much like 舞台 in Chinese, often referring to a theatre stage. JP will render that as butai instead. Lmao