I would've been happier if they weren't swooping in and ruining some of the good OG moments like when you first meet Aeris or are at the church with her, or the rest of the times they got in the way.
I think I just wanted the ending to be better executed. They got something right: I am throughly and completely discussing every single thing, and working out all my predictions and stuff. And that's what they wanted. For oldcomers and newcomers. Except, there is a bad taste in it. And it's the ending.I agree in the sense that I've more or less made my peace with it, and that the shitty ending isn't enough to overpower how much I adored the rest of it.
BUT, just to put a point on it, my problem is not just it not being a pure recreation - but that it was SO CLOSE to exactly what I wanted, lol. As you said:
That's the part that still gnaws at me. If you finished the bike chase, and everyone stated their reason for continuing the journey, said goodbye to Midgar, gave us this shot, and then rolled credits? I would have been over the moon. 10/10. Even if the stupid dementor stuff was still there because I wouldn't have an answer about them and could just put them out of my mind as just a silly attempt at metacommentary.
I think it's a bit 50/50. I am curious to see their connection to the Planet, if that's going to be more explained. But I also think that when I didnt know what they were, I was more engaged.
Pretty much this. Even though I dig the concept of "hood with no face", it looks terribly quirky in the Remake.
That's the part that still gnaws at me. If you finished the bike chase, and everyone stated their reason for continuing the journey, said goodbye to Midgar, gave us this shot, and then rolled credits? I would have been over the moon. 10/10. Even if the stupid dementor stuff was still there because I wouldn't have an answer about them and could just put them out of my mind as just a silly attempt at metacommentary.
I guess one could say...
That ending shot there is from an alternate timeline too...
The Ultimania confirms that the whisper sub-bosses are related/are a reference/have a connection to the Remnants, it doesn't confirm them as being literally the exact same entities/individuals, which may or may not be a significant detail difference to different people.
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Totally with ya. I enjoyed the MOTOR fight and the whole highway sequence more than just about any other fight in the game. All the 'QA miss blah-blah' is being way overblown. Some people are so infatuated with it they're writing full-blown short stories out of it.Hey folks, just finished my second playthrough in Normal. I just had 2 things to note about this chapter:
- First, I'm not sure why everybody seems to loathe the motorbike chase and the fight vs. MOTOR. Got it done again on my first try with ~20% life to spare. I've seen so many raging comments about how this fight is broken, how this fight is a clear miss on Q&A for how much it sucked, etc... I'm just puzzled. IMO there are many more sequences in the game that are more difficult or frustrating to deal with (like how I got wiped out in a random fight vs. zenenes because I got interrupted 5 times in a row when trying to heal
Let me keep me motorbike sequences. I had fun...
It surely helps one's ego when you frame other opinions as just wanting to feel important.
Realizing now I may not have seen the forest for looking at the trees.
My first thought was that the nebula Sephiroth and Cloud look at, while they stand on the Edge of Creation, was connected with the ultimate fate of planetary lifestreams. Like maybe lifestreams that have undergone the Omega scenario all congregate in one place. I also figured that the name "Edge of Creation" held some obscure meaning in new lore yet to be revealed.
But I think now I over-complicated matters. What can cause such a giant cloud of gas to appear? A supernova. What happens after a supernova? New stars form. Cloud and Sephiroth are standing at the edge of where new stars are formed. The location name thus becomes overly straightforward. They are standing next to the nursery of new stars and planets.
Will the final Remake game change it so that Sephiroth's Supernova attack is a window into the inevitable future of the FFVII world? Supernova will thus be discretely woven into the plot, as it is now the very thing that Sephiroth wants to transcend.
Feel free to laugh at me for taking so long to associate the Edge of Creation nebula with actual supernovae and indeed Sephiroth's Supernova.
To add to that, I pointed our in another thread that the cluster of nebulae in the background oddly had a silhouette resembling Safer Sephiroth.Feel free to laugh at me for taking so long to associate the Edge of Creation nebula with actual supernovae and indeed Sephiroth's Supernova.
Even having an obligatory Sephiroth battle where he beats the shit out of your party effortlessly (no you shouldn't be staggering that guy in MIDGAR) woulda been fine. If you need to pump up the ending of Midgar, you throw a teaser of the main antagonist there. Easy, done. All they've really done is blown their load on spectacle and completely shattered my grasp of how powerful anyone is. Cloud is already flying through the air and slicing buildings in half. How is anything supposed to be imposing at this point?I agree in the sense that I've more or less made my peace with it, and that the shitty ending isn't enough to overpower how much I adored the rest of it.
BUT, just to put a point on it, my problem is not just it not being a pure recreation - but that it was SO CLOSE to exactly what I wanted, lol. As you said:
That's the part that still gnaws at me. If you finished the bike chase, and everyone stated their reason for continuing the journey, said goodbye to Midgar, gave us this shot, and then rolled credits? I would have been over the moon. 10/10. Even if the stupid dementor stuff was still there because I wouldn't have an answer about them and could just put them out of my mind as just a silly attempt at metacommentary.
