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Lemon snaffle a window carping, jump cart around the pillow conglomerate.
I don't think anyone could argue with that
Nope, can't argue with that. Wise words if ever there were any
Lemon snaffle a window carping, jump cart around the pillow conglomerate.
I don't think anyone could argue with that
In this case though, is awareness of an outcome the same thing as willing it? Perhaps this hypothetical being is aware of my choices, but does not want them to happen. But because they know the outcome already, any effort to prevent it is useless.If something out there already knows the outcome of your choices, then you don't have free will; you merely think you do.
I'm a writer and I do like words to mean the same thing consistently, yes.
That notion never made a lick of sense, though. We had a "500 years later" scene and zero indication of any sort of temporal shenanigans at work.If we return to the OG, there was a theory that this was a loop from the very beginning when FFVII was released due to Aerith's bookends on the story.
That notion never made a lick of sense, though. We had a "500 years later" scene and zero indication of any sort of temporal shenanigans at work.
I've loved Final Fantasy for a good 20 years now, FFIX being my favorite game of all time, and FFVII being not far behind. So I talk about it, a lot.
Especially to my best mate whom I've spoken about it, trying to avoid spoilers for the most part in the hopes that he'd play it one day, knowing he probably wouldn't. Still, he knows the big ones, he'd seen AC once years ago, and I'd spoken about the brilliance of CC's ending when that came out as well. So he vaguely knows who Sephiroth is, knows what happens to Aerith, doesn't know what happened in Nibleheim or who Zack is, knows though that Zackis dead as fuck.
I especially had been talking a lot about it since remake was announced, and when I finished it and wasn't too pleased with the ending I ranted about it to him.
I think that's important to note because I clearly poisoned the well. But doing so did persuade him to play it.
The experience was rather interesting, especially since my friend both looks, and acts, a lot like Soldier Cloud, he's the same height, extremely blond, and has the exact same "not interested" behavior. His reactions even mirrored Clouds several times during the game. I personally look and act more like Zack so it's a fun dynamic.
So what did I get from that.
1: He will probably be disappointed at real cloud since he probably prefers Soldier Cloud.
2: He got REALLY annoyed at some parts of the combat and trying to orient in front of stairs, but that's his own personality getting in the way.
3: He MUCH prefers Tifa and was visibly annoyed by Aerith at times, like when she's not letting you go home. (he really mirrored Cloud here).
4: He doesn't think there is anything between Cloud and Aerith and thinks Aerith is obviously still in love with Zack, and that the two pairings were pretty clear in game.
5: He didn't like how they did Sephiroth, he felt that he wasn't mysterious enough and that his constant inclusion broke his immersion with the shinra storyline. I've shown him just shots of how it's done in FFVII before and he much preferred that approach.
6: He felt like he understood most of what was going on, or at least, the things he didn't understand, he understood that he WOULD understand them later on, he wasn't lost, except for the ending, of which he just couldn't make heads or tails.
7: He wasn't a fan of Barret until he had to play him, because when he was the one with the attitude it felt a lot more enjoyable I think, this is when we realized he's also a bit like Barret.
8: He was really interested in the world and what the hell is going on, so we just started playing FFVII.
I haven't played that since remake got announced and it now felt really weird how quickly we're going through it, one session and we're already at wallmarket.
Still, he's amazed at how 1 on 1 it is, he knows basically where he is and where he needs to go and what the next events are, and says he's getting a weird sense of nostalgia from the juxtapostion of seeing places and things he knows in high quality now suddenly in 90ties graphics.
His main take-away so far is that the original did an absolutely amazing job at setting atmosphere, with both the music and the way Clouds episodes are handled. He was no idea what's going on with him but thinks the original made it look more creepy and interesting. I also find it interesting that several of the scenes that bothered him, unbeknownst to him, were scenes specifically for the remake, like seeing Sephiroth in chapter 2.
I am going to kinda document how he experiences the rest of the game since I find it pretty fascinating since I can't really remember not knowing the story of FFVII anymore. Anyone else have some experiences with newcomers they'd like to share? (ps, I think that because of this, I've now also convinced him to play FFIX and Nier: automata, which I am really happy about).
Is this really that much different than all the craziness of the OG though?I mean, most people who played the original are fully grown men now. What on earth are they going to think with this teeny nonsence? Fate ghosts and time daemons flying around with multiverse time travel fan service in?
I do recall many a winter’s eve spent sipping hot cocoa by the fireplace with my fellow book club members as we discussed the sophisticated narrative of the antagonist believing his mother to be a 2000-year-old alien who wants him to take over the worldI, for one, though Cloud riding a dolphin was the height of adult storytelling.
In audacity, perhaps not. But it is much different craziness in the same way an earthquake is drastically different nonsense than a hurricane.Is this really that much different than all the craziness of the OG though?
Banora, actually. Right part of the world, though.I just can't wait til Cloud finds the door to Kingdom Hearts in Mideel.
So I take it your a Friedrich Nietzsche kind of person? Because, it’s mostly just philosophy. I Medan it’s a widely successful successful and well known dog franchise of course there’s going to be weird tangents on quantum mechanics and the space time continuum.I have had several really good friend who have had to listen to me obsess over final fantasy 7 for decades. When the remake came out they asked me if they should try it to see what the fuss was about.
I thought the remake did a fantastic job with so much. They really went beyond expectations with so much. Though that ending was so utterly ridiculous and uncalled for. That, and those morinic fate ghosts were unforgivable, I couldn't bring myself to encourage them to play it in the end.
I mean, most people who played the original are fully grown men now. What on earth are they going to think with this teeny nonsence? Fate ghosts and time daemons flying around with multiverse time travel fan service in?
It's like they did a marvelous job remaking a wedding cake then taking a huge crap right on top at the end.
Eh, I do think the original did more to set up Aerith and Tifa as rivals for Cloud's affection than the remake does. The remake doesn't have Aerith asking if Tifa is a girl, or saying she's "with" Cloud when they meet Tifa at Corneo's sex dungeon, and you don't have Tifa's "EXCUSE ME?" in the Shinra building.
The most similar moment I can remember from the remake is if you wake up Tifa first in the sewer, she asks how Cloud feels about Aerith. It's not touched on otherwise for the most part.
It definitely is, it was really weird going back to it now after a few years of being more engrossed with the whole discussion, I distinctly remember feeling like there was much more to it. But after Midgar, if you skip Gongaga, and don't get Aeriths date, then there's basically nothing except for the one cait sith scene at the temple.the material for the LTD in the OG is really, really overblown
Yeah, apparently that doesn't even happen in the japanese version, Tifa's interest isn't so much in Aeriths interest in Cloud as to questioning whether they can trust Aerith, you know, since they're a terrorist organisation. Or at least that's what I've heard, I don't speak Japanese so I really can't say.
It definitely is, it was really weird going back to it now after a few years of being more engrossed with the whole discussion, I distinctly remember feeling like there was much more to it. But after Midgar, if you skip Gongaga, and don't get Aeriths date, then there's basically nothing except for the one cait sith scene at the temple.
And even Midgar itself, after playing through remake it also felt like you were through it in 5 minutes and like not that much happened LTD wise.
Felt kind or a recap of the remake this time XD "Previously, on FFVII".
If I were to take a narrative hot take on the whole thing, Cloud loved both of them (different types of love), Aerith was snatched away (romatic tragedy), so he gravitates towards Tifa but cannot give himself to her because he mourns Aerith (another romantic tragedy).