My brother and I played the holy trinity of FF in backwards order in 2001. IX, then VIII and then VII. I was a little too young to play, so I watched him play. We did different voices for each character. Seriously some of my best memories ever.
This is adorable. I love hearing about everyone's anecdotes around the first playthrough. My little cousin watched me play it many times and I brainwashed him into loving Tifa so much that he wouldn't shut up about her to my other cousins, which drove them nuts.
And it is frustrated. About All things SE can marketing around Aerith on the last day CM before relase, they choose to fuel the LTD with misleading lines and scenes
I wouldn’t worry too much about this. Holding hands is a normal friend thing. They have a deep bond but I don’t think that it’s meant to be romantic. The LTD will continue on but you can just remove yourself from it after Rebirth. That’s what I plan to do.
This is adorable. I love hearing about everyone's anecdotes around the first playthrough. My little cousin watched me play it many times and I brainwashed him into loving Tifa so much that he wouldn't shut up about her to my other cousins, which drove them nuts.
That’s awesome haha. This is why nothing will ever replace the OG for me. Those memories are untouchable.
And yeah the Lifestream Sequence left a serious impression on me. It was confusing when I was little but when I went back and played it myself a few years later my mind was blown.
I gotta say Clotis are the first fandom I’ve seen who get a confession, a kiss, an almost kiss, miscommunication/make up trope, and a whole other game that’s going to be focused on them still worried about stuff like this
I gotta say Clotis are the first fandom I’ve seen who get a confession, a kiss, an almost kiss, miscommunication/make up trope, and a whole other game that’s going to be focused on them still worried about stuff like this
That’s awesome haha. This is why nothing will ever replace the OG for me. Those memories are untouchable.
And yeah the Lifestream Sequence left a serious impression on me. It was confusing when I was little but when I went back and played it myself a few years later my mind was blown.
You get me wrong, that was my old perception on her before Rebirth leak ending that I have to reconstruct it and accepting that she can't move on as a flaw I thought it didn't exist. I thought I've detailed it on that post
Noooo I'm just trying to connect the sentence to the spoiler and of course if there's anyone who would like to say otherwise - I respect them and up for debate but that's my personal opinion based on how I see Aerith.
I don't want to use the word 'pity' but yeaah somehow well she did try to step forward but two steps back.
I gotta say Clotis are the first fandom I’ve seen who get a confession, a kiss, an almost kiss, miscommunication/make up trope, and a whole other game that’s going to be focused on them still worried about stuff like this
I've been watching that stream that's going around and so far i find cloud and aerith's interactions very jarring. they'll be buddy buddy, absolutely zero romantic undertones at all, sibling-like energy and then suddenly you'll get a weird moment that could be interpreted as romantic. by weird i don't mean the moment itself is weird, it's just weird because it feels out of place
I gotta say Clotis are the first fandom I’ve seen who get a confession, a kiss, an almost kiss, miscommunication/make up trope, and a whole other game that’s going to be focused on them still worried about stuff like this
I'm watching probably the same stream as the others here and what was interesting is how Aerith talks and feels about Zack. Cloud straight forward asks here, if she still got feelings for him and she answered with yes and he didn't gave her any reason not to. Guess the leaks were right so far.
Oh ok, I see. You interpreted what they said as getting equal romantic treatment. How come? Aerith gets much more than Tifa outside of the romantic stuff
I'm watching probably the same stream as the others here and what was interesting is how Aerith talks and feels about Zack. Cloud straight forward asks here, if she still got feelings for him and she answered with yes and he didn't gave her any reason not to. Guess the leaks were right so far.
I'm not really one to talk either because I still have Vietnam War flashbacks from my ACF days, but imho, the LTD only exists if you take as a given that: 1) a love triangle exists; 2) it still hasn't been resolved after 27 years.
I'm not gonna pretend that I read through all hundred or so professional reviews for Rebirth, but I think it's quite telling that while a lot of them mention the GS Date mechanic, the takeaway that "Wow, they're really teasing out the love triangle in this installment!" hasn't been a major theme of said reviews.
Marketing is always telling a completely different story. But again...if marketing was telling the real story then
Aerith would have lived this time around.
...and maybe my favs would have won their season of Survivor for once!
Just based on my personal experience, viewing everything via the lens of "Are they going to resolve the LTD?" is such a narrow and self-defeating way to consume these games. You can't help but see Cloud's interactions as a zero-sum game, but trust me, Cloud breathing in Aerith's direction is not a threat to his relationship with Tifa.
There's also this weird second-order thing going on, where you can't even enjoy your own interpretation of the game because you're worried that some random strangers on the internet are going to interpret it in a different way. But why should you let them (obviously including myself here, so feel free to totally ignore me, lol) determine your own interpretation/enjoyment of the game?
Veil of ignorance, if you go into Rebirth like a newborn babe without any knowledge of this 27 year old "debate" but a basic set of motor functions and media literacy, I'd imagine you'd be able to take these interactions for what they are, not SE endlessly perpetuating the LTD, but....character development.
tl;dr -- the LTD can only hurt you if you believe it's real. And since I don't, I really shouldn't be posting here anymore because I wouldn't be arguing in good faith (no pun intended)...so take this as my very long-winded way of tellling all the Clotis in this thread to come to Faith so I won't just be rambling to myself after the 29th!
