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The problem I have with all this is that it further complicates what was already a twisty-turny story, and it remains to be seen if it was really all that necessary - especially since Kitase wants this game to help make FFVII a game for future generations. At a certain point of convolution, you...

I think you might have to realize that for most people, the disparity doesn't register because Jessie is already getting promoted more than anyone would have expected. This is a character who has had zero mainstream attention since the game launched - even within her own franchise, which is...

There are some negative impressions floating around out there - entirely from people watching streams rather than playing, mind, but they exist. Like you, though, I'm glad the people actually playing are largely positive, and 9 days can't come soon enough. It'll be very interesting to see how...

I preordered regular through EB, but didn’t put money down, so I was all prepared to go digital. Now I hear about these shops tossing it out in shelves early, though... Most dedicated game stores near where I live (North Vancouver) are closed, mind, so I’d have to get super lucky and either...

In the Remake, it happens just after 9 PM, according to in-game clocks. Obviously not 100% applicable to the original, but it does seem that the same team decided at some point that it took place in the early-mid evening.

The guy who had the copies apparently decided against publicly posting anything because he got ripped into for being a thief by another Redditor through public posts and private messages. Anyways, the dedicated Reddit thread hasn’t been used to post any actual spoilers. I’m a little skeptical...

Something I noticed on subsequent viewings - this is the first time we've heard the full Shinra Inc. theme! The datamined track doesn't include the...I dunno what you'd call it, the second part? The main melody? The bit that starts here. (I think the first part of the the tune is arranged a...

Depending on how quickly Shinra gained an authoritarian stranglehold on the city, that may have played a role as well. Regimes like that tend to be efficient, if nothing else.

I think it depends on the specific EB. While the employees themselves didn’t know at mine either, I was able to check the hours of the mall that it’s located in (they’re open!). See if you can find out that way. This is in BC, but I’ve seen people on Reddit saying theirs in Ontario are closed.

Mako, that stuff you posted is definitely some interesting meta-textual context, and is definitely worth taking into consideration. But I still do agree with Twilight that Sephiroth's pontificating isn't the whole of the puzzle. Nor is Red XIII's dialog, to be honest - his statement and the...

I actually agree the timing is weird - I prefer the glitch-effect-only version from the demo. The final scene would work better during downtime, like right after returning to 7th Heaven. Maybe after greeting Tifa at the entrance but before the bar conversation.

And that being the case? Totally fine. No issues. The information that I saw, though, gave me cause to worry. You've seen a more complete set of data than I have, which provides a clear picture that makes it obvious the less-desirable use of the Whispers aren't the case - the stuff I saw left...

Whoa, hey, I didn't say that - I just said that the implications surrounding them concern me enough to be worried about their inclusion. As it stands, and as I see it, the Whispers are the biggest question mark of this whole project. Not only are they new, they occupy a space that was...

My biggest concern right now - really, my only active concern that isn't in "well let's wait and see" mode - is the the Whispers. I'm putting together a big post about it, but the long and the short is that there are almost no contexts in which I can see them working.

I'm cracking. I was reading through the damn spoiler thread on Reddit earlier. The spoiler thread! I'm a danger to myself.

Square has yet to address how, or even if, progress will transfer between parts. Summon materia is similarly a bit of an unknown, at least in terms of official information (I think some stuff regarding them has been datamined, though). We've been told how summon gameplay works, but that's about it.

On the other hand, that ambiguity plays directly into the (now-apocryphal) read of the ending where the Lifestream cleanses the world of humans, which is one interpretation I've always liked, so I'd be down with the Remake being similarly ambiguous. It won't be, obviously; I'd be shocked if...

The tricky thing about foreshadowing is that it often seems bludgingly obvious when you know the story, and...well, we all know the story. Most of those little things that Aerith does can only be interpreted as foreshadowing in hindsight - none of them are what might be traditionally considered...

It is a good question as to whether anything in this can be considered a retcon. A retcon (retroactive continuity, remember) involves an explicit change to details after the fact that re-contextualizes the original story; as such, the term really only applies when considering several connected...

I didn't know we were discussing this here too, but I'll put what I posted in the Chapter 2 Spoiler Thread here: