Oh, God, that music... I wander around Icicle, stop at Holzoff's House, because he never bothered to return after twenty years. Spend a night at the Inn (why does the bar have its own music?)
"What's with you? You make me sick!" Who says this and why? Ifalna gets namedropped in the bar. Can't break into the Rest Room here like in most places.
Gast's House is called Gast's House in the menu. Spoilers.
Ooh, tapes.
The Crater area used to be called Knowlespole. Apparently, the Cetra have no special power to heal the Planet...so, were they killing themselves?
Refers to a 'he' that approached as a friend before infecting them with a virus. So, either JENOVA is intelligent, or there was a Cetra equivalent of Sephiroth.
The Planet can never fully heal while Jenova exists. Hmm. The Planet is watching the situation closely.
10 days after the birth, Gast still doesn't know whether Aeris is a boy or a girl? Did Ifalna lay an egg?
"I will protect you" I wonder if Hojo was waiting outside for something like this, so he he could ruin the moment.
Gast was hard to find, but does Hojo imply he found them sooner and was waiting for Aeris to be born so she's have an extra specimen?
"I'll take care of this!" (shot) Oh well, good thought.
Back outside, Elena shows up. I always let her hit me because I like her and it makes no difference. Did nobody even tell her Tseng was alive? Classic Turk professionalism rises again.
Random Shinra guard is nice, doesn't want to fight because there's kids around, and gives me info to keep the peace. Thanks.
"Don't be angry, I'm just doing my job."
So I go snowboarding, and crash into a number of Masochist moogles , snowmen, pine trees and rocks. But I get there, and accidentally find my way back out of the glacier instantly. Wander around until I collapse, because I've never been good at navigating the place, getting attacked by floating lizards and Marlboro, who still pack a punch although less than usual. Also stumble across somebody in a cave that tells me to leave them alone.
Remake could really make the glacier something special. Like being lost in the desert in Uncharted 3, have them camp out to weather a snowstorm and have character moments. Something similar can be used for the cliff. And winter outfits please, Tifa barely has a shirt, there's a big cutout at the back under her hair. Although she does have good spirit.
Died again to Schizo, essentially on purpose. Equip properly for the next run and still lose 2 of 3. In another playthrough I beat the boss and then went back to the hotspring but got KOd by a Blue Dragon before I got to save. Random encounters starting to get harder, Stilva are dangerous.
This is actually a pretty long stretch of the game, it would be tough for first timers. Easy to get lost cutting down the icicles, and your last shopping trip was in the not very well stocked Icicle, you have to go through the Glacier, the Cliff, and the Cave before you get to the next one, it would be easy to tear through your items.
Crater. Another place remake could shine, make the Whirlwind maze confusing, drive home how dangerous it is.
Nice little segment on the Highwind.
Scarlet stops laughing when no one joins in. Hojo openly laughing at his boss.
Capes dying.
We meet a dragon rider, is there a civilisation in the Cave?
Enter Sephiroth. Again, doing things instead of monologueing, casually cutting down capes, two lines of dialogue, messes with Cloud's head and straight for the attack.
I'm equipped against fire, Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah.
I still think Sephy might have been legitimately trying to kill us all here.
Tifa sensibly asks him to leave the materia behind. It makes sense that Red and Barret are the choices, they've been with the gang the longest. Vincent even suggests holding on to it.
Cid: "Let me catch some shuteye." Really? Now?
It's a setup for a big bossfight, but there actually isnt one here. Interesting choice.
"Sephiroth is near. Anything could happen."
Is there any actual reason to believe this?
"Are you high on Mako or something?" He can see it, right? Barret's practical, though "How are we going to get our of here?"
Cloud's initial response. "I wasn't paying attention."
"It's your (Tifa's) attitude that counts" Well, about that...
Her outfit in the photo is better than CC'S version.
The devs did a great job of making sure everything in Nibelheim was important. Even the photo guy.
"Didn't have to worry about it, because I was..." How does this sentence end?
Execs are pretty brave, I'll give them that.
"There's no such thing as the promised Land"
"Second Rate Scientist"
No, Rufus, he's actually right.
Hojo is interesting. He doesn't believe in things until they're proved, but as soon as he sees the proof he grasps the implications quicker than anyone else. We see this again in Dirge, he has faults, but he is very quick on the uptake.
Really, Red, no suspicions at all. Like how OOC Illusion Tifa is even in this brief segment.
Scarlet has good instincts. And Rufus stands by her 'bad feeling'
"Come on. The Black Materia" Sephiroth's real body's one line.
"Whatever I say now is too little, too late." Maybe so, but Cloud hasn't given up the materia yet, you could still shoot him, right?
Another scene to be reworked is the stumbling around on the Highwind.
Flashback to dog and guard. Is this precedent for the wolf in AC?
Grabs head.
And we wake up in Junon. Hey, that's the Turks music with no Turks.
"People are ignorant. They'll feel better as long as someone is punished."
Heidegger seems to be acting as Rufus' bodyguard here. Still, you'd think Barret and Tifa would put up a fight here, their execution has just been announced and neither can really be disarmed. Anyway, I go as far as the savepoint and save. Might replay this segment, lots of fun things happen in it.
Ahh, the shirtless final "battle". They damn well better keep that in the remake, or there are going to be a lot of pissed off fangirls.
*ahem* Sorry, leaving thread.
I made a certain character shirtless during some moments of the game...............
