FFVIIR at TGS 2019 (NEW TRAILER!)

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Anyway their hair is perfect so there's that.

 

[Keveh Kins]

Anyway their hair is perfect so there's that.

Especially Rude's

 

[Cannon_Fodder]

Haven't had a chance to post here in forever, but damn did that trailer have a lot going on. Hyped, and can't wait to see more.

 

[Shademp]

You know what the Aerith red-dress-plus-fireworks scene needs? A remix of "Interrupted by Fireworks".

 

[Lex]

Fuck me! This is amazing!

The new SOLDIER guy they showed in the trailer his facial features look very similar to Angeal, thats the first person I thought of when I saw him, is that just me?

Speculation is that it's Kunsel. I could see that, tbh

 

[pxp]

You know what the Aerith red-dress-plus-fireworks scene needs? A remix of "Interrupted by Fireworks".

Can I just say the fireworks behind Aerith remind me of “Interrupted by Fireworks” - wonder if this becomes a leitmotif for later ...

https://thelifestream.net/forums/threads/ffviir-at-tgs-2019.21974/page-8#post-827251

 

[Shademp]

Looks like pxp's comment got drowned among the fireworks of comments

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

I mean the only other named SOLDIER we know is Luxiere. So it's either Kunsel or Luxiere or some completely new dude. It's kind of a shame they missed the opportunity to give us a female SOLDIER tbh.

 

[Lex]

Done
Thanks for telling me! I had completely forgotten that I created this thread.

I hope you don't mind, but I also went ahead and updated the thread title <3

 

[Shademp]

I hope multiple, new SOLDIER characters will appear in this and other parts of FFVIIR. A neat contrast would be if SOLDIER appear more as the enemy in FFVIIR Part 1, then the occasional aid in later parts. I could also easily see a weak-willed SOLDIER 3rd Class succumbing to the Reunion whenever we get to that part. Seeing familiar faces, apart from Cloud, get sacrificed during the Reunion would give an easier emotional investment in the "black capes".

I also hope that even SOLDIER 2nd Class and 3rd Class are allowed to dress flamboyantly, rather than the Crisis Core lore where only SOLDIER 1st could decide their costume.

I am both amused and annoyed by how this new biker-SOLDIER looks like such a combo of stereotypical Square/Nomura designs. When I see biker-SOLDIER I see Demyx+Angeal+Gladios (and to a lesser extent Prompto).

Speaking of FFXV, I love how Rude looks like he stepped right out of an early FFXIII:Versus trailer. I think the remake does right in enhancing certain aspects of its cast. Rude was always the more smart/suave/tidy of the Rude-Reno duo and now they've enhanced that with Rude's wonderful suit.

 

[Pizzachu]

Like you said, he does look a lot like Angeal too. What if he came back to life to get his Buster Sword? lol

Rude's outfit is very modern looking. I'm glad SE didn't make his pants too short like some suits.

 

[Jairus]

Aerith's VA reacts & talks about the TSG trailer:

And here's Max Dood's reaction:

So excited for this game! All we need now is to see Red XIII and Rufus, and possibly the other Shinra execs. And Wall Market Tifa! Now we get to see why the Don had such a hard time choosing which girl he wanted, lol.

Oh, forgot to mention, I was thinking about what Prez said about Wutai being Shinra's enemy and I wonder if in the remake they're still at war. Animosity is clearly there given how vehemently Barret denies any involvement with them, which should make Yuffie's inclusion in the group in (presumably) Part 2 and her interactions and backstory much more involved and complex and give greater depth for her reasons for materia hunting and doing all that she does.

 

[Theozilla]

Also interesting is that it looks like Tifa will be putting on her Wall Market dress later in the scenario, rather than arriving in Don Corneos mansion already wearing one? And it also looks like she’ll be helping out Cloud with his cross dressing quest too?

 

[Claymore]

I can't even breathe right now. That was so intense! So much was thrown in there that it's hard to even process it all!

And I'm absolutely loving all the new additions thrown in there for even veterans to be surprised with. This game is going to be amazing!

 

[Random Nobody]

He's always been skinny, even in the original FF7 artwork.

i think it's more a function of the bobblehead spaghetti monster art style. they're slightly deformed, so the skinniness along with the exaggerated head/shoulder width proportion and lack of chin makes them sort of look like children.

The voice acting worries me.

...barret....

 

[Shademp]

I squee when Barret yells "GOT YOUR LETHAL FORCE RIGHT HERE!"

Awesome

 

[Defeatable]

What's up with all the people disliking the voice acting? Are they all the "subs glow, dubs blow" people?

Oh, forgot to mention, I was thinking about what Prez said about Wutai being Shinra's enemy and I wonder if in the remake they're still at war. Animosity is clearly there given how vehemently Barret denies any involvement with them, which should make Yuffie's inclusion in the group in (presumably) Part 2 and her interactions and backstory much more involved and complex and give greater depth for her reasons for materia hunting and doing all that she does.

On the contrary, the fact that President Shinra mentions Wutai and the war out of nowhere makes me even more inclined to think Yuffie WILL show up in Part 1, maybe attempting to break into Shinra HQ to raid their Materia labs.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

No, I have really enjoyed a lot of the voice acting in the Compilation and in other FF. Tseng's English VA in Crisis Core was perfect. I don't know why they didn't get him back.

 

[Odysseus]

I had a thought after seeing that last shot of the trailer showing the collapsed plate. With the clear emphasis on Biggs, Wedge, and jessie in the trailers, they're obviously going to have much more emphasis in the Remake. So when the plate collapses and they die, it's no longer going to feel like the obvious trio of main charactes survived while the forgettable npcs died, its just going to feel like Tifa, Barret, and Cloud are the part of avalanche that happened to make it. These characters have all become real, fleshed out people. I dunno, I thought it was poignant.

 

[Random Nobody]

What's up with all the people disliking the voice acting? Are they all the "subs glow, dubs blow" people?

i don't have strong feelings beyond thinking the turks sound strange (besides rude, i suppose), it's just that it's more obvious than isual that the lines were recorded in isolation and then layered over each other where appropriate. it's kind of jarring.

but also barret's voice direction called me the n word.

 

[Pizzachu]

I'm sure there are people who dislike dubs just because they are dubs, but I'm someone who prefers the Compilation VAs. With that being said, I don't think the new people sound awful or anything (well... I'm still iffy about Sephiroth's new voice). They're actually fairly good.

 

[Kionae]

What's up with all the people disliking the voice acting? Are they all the "subs glow, dubs blow" people?

I've seldom seen 100% of people happy with a voice acting cast. Some I really like (Reno, Aerith, and Tifa), some I don't (Barret), some I'm on the fence about (Tseng's english voice seems too deep to me but I think it could grow on me if I heard more from him... the Japanese VA is damn near perfect, though).

 

[Shademp]

- Parachuting into Midgar after the Diamond Weapon scenario is going to feel ever so slightly different since now we'll have the memory of parachuting down to the Midgar slums together with Biggs, Jessie and Wedge.

- Now that we already have a fireworks scene with Aerith in this early segment, I wonder if the Gold Saucer date with Aerith will repeat that imagery.

- Wondering if they're setting up another contrast by having Cloud, Tifa and Barret look over the fallen plate at dawn. It reminds me of the escape from Midgar and the dawning horizon at that moment.



Will the remake have the scenes be visually similar but with slightly different emotional nuances as an intentional contrast?

- Cloud reaching out to Tifa, who is about to fall, feels like a reverse of the OG ending FMV where Tifa reaches out to Cloud (nvm that in said FMV their roles get reversed and Cloud ends up saving Tifa). I'm probably reading too much into it, but any new imagery that is even remotely familiar can easily make you wonder "was this an intentional reference?".

 

[pxp]

Interesting thing I picked up on: the sewer fight clip has Cloud, Barret, and Tifa... In the original, Barret was off doing AVALANCHE stuff while the Don Corneo thing was going on. I'm curious what difference in the story leads to Barret being in the sewers with the others.

In the E3 trailer sewer segments the Max HP stats are: Cloud 2457; Tifa 2010.
Conversely, in the TGS trailer sewer segments their Max HP stats are: Cloud 2681; Tifa 2413.

So it's possibly this is C, T and B traversing back through the sewers at a later point (higher levels), either after platefall to get back to Sector 6 or whatever (it's difficult to tell specifically given the substantial changes). Who knows though, by the same token?

 

[Ite]

I think the fireworks are dev footage only -- the wall market stuff has been highly obfuscated to avoid revealing Miss Cloud. I'm pretty sure that scene where the girls are holding Cloud's arms is going to happen in their Wall Market outfits.