But I digress! I must sound pretty delusional if I'm being compared to the Seventh Heaven sign debate, so I'll bow out for now haha.
I’ll once again point out that it’s pretty hard to top “the furniture next to Biggs is arranged to spell the kanji for ‘hope’ meaning that Jessie is definitely alive” so I think you’re good… (the worst part is that Jessie being alive in itself is a pretty tame theory, it’s just the logic used to get there is ridiculous lol)
Beautiful post, cold_spirit!
My main source of emotional investment when it comes to theory crafting for FF7R is the fact that I will forever dislike the existence of the Whispers and all this Destiny-nonsense (and the revival of Zack, even though it's probably temporary), but a part of me is holding onto hope that *at least* by the end of the Remake series that all this nonsense will have MEANT something. That's why I'm invested in the hope of the old post-OG continuity no longer happening and that preferably Sephiroth will be 100% defeated before Meteorfall this time around. "No resurrections this time."
If all FF7R accomplishes is that everything loops back around to old post-OG continuity happening all over again then all the insanity introduced with FF7R Part 1 will have been utterly pointless. It would confirm that the Whispers was just frivolous fluff all along and that Square could have just instead made the FF7 Remake most of us were expecting. That's my opinion and investment and it will continue to be so for years.
Is it unwise of me to be emotionally invested in a specific outcome for FF7R? Yes. My investment in a Peter Jackson-style "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy take on the FF7 Remake series is a major contributor to why the ending of FF7R Part 1 so utterly destroyed me. It would have been better if I didn't have these emotional investments at all. But I also can't help myself in feeling the way that I do. At best I can take a step away and feel the detachment of distance for a while, but when I return to FF7R all the same opinions and feelings will inevitably return.
I’m a firm believer that most remakes are redundant so it’s interesting to me that you and I are on totally opposite ends on how we responded to the direction the remake took, yet we both also come to the same conclusion of wanting the post-game to not just loop back to what we already know happens after the OG
Like I said before, if anyone starts talking about secret weddings I'm leaving.
My morbid curiosity won’t let me stop wondering what on earth this is a reference to lol
Square does not view the events of this DLC as contradictory to the original events of the game. There's nothing else too it, even if that seems wrong to you.
Either that or they just never intended to for remake’s future to include DC in the first place, the result is still the same I think but that remains to be seen
Everything in this scene is jarring with what we saw post-plate fall. People were in shock right after. But why two days after are the kids like this? Why is one seemingly hurt? Something went wrong in this timeline (may have it merged with the Remake timeline or not) and the devs stressed on it too much for me to be it plate fall-related. You have to remember that the kids really love Aerith to get the feeling nailed down to her fate.
With how many people lived in sector 7, it’ll definitely take a good few days to rescue everybody from the wreckage, without a doubt people will still be injured, traumatized, worried about their loved ones’ safety etc.
Exactly. Again, it's the way it's filmed and put together, in a dramatic fashion. Zack wouldn't be asking "Aerith..." but "what happened?" if they didn't want to stress *her* fate. Just saying.
Zack asking about Aerith still seems pretty reasonable if she really is just traveling to Kalm because even if
we know where she is,
he doesn’t know what’s happening
I have very little reason to assume otherwise, especially when a scene from Crisis core was recreated perfectly up until the whispers died.
To be fair though even though it’s a shot for shot remake of the CC version of that scene, it’s a scene that originates in the OG…I think it’s fair that even past events are subject to be different than what was established by the Compilation by virtue of just being in a separate continuity altogether
So with that in mind, Yuffie knowing about Deepground, or specifically Nero, means nothing in the grand scheme of the future since the events of DC will happen regardless of her knowledge. And she more than likely won't even remember exact specifics anyways.
Whether the events of DC were ever going to happen is still in the air I think, otherwise it’s pretty easy to explain away stuff like this the same way stuff like the Honeybee Inn being different can be explained with “just because”
As it just so happens, they ARE remaking dirge, so I guess we'll see whenever ever crisis comes around.
I don’t know if we can consider EC’s portrayal of AC and DC as an indication that the remake will still go in that direction, I feel like it’s a convenient way to get people familiar with the OG continuity to help them appreciate how the remake freely plays around with Compilation elements
). Since Sector 5 is adjacent to Sector 6, which already has a partially missing plate, then the partially open sky seen in the Zack cutscene *could* be just Sector 6.
And why would you isolate their area of concern to only the time period of the original game when VIIR told us outright they busy themselves with preserving history's proper course from the planet's birth to its death?
