Haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but I really liked the range of expression you see on Cloud's face after he says "I'm fine" to Aeirth. You can see a whole thought process go through his mind before she gets in front of him again. It really stood out as impressive to me.
Totally agree with what you both say. That bit made me think of the intensity of Aerith's line "I want to know the real you," later on - just from that first interaction between them, you know that she's going to be hunting for the real him for that first third to half of the game. Gah, this is all going to be ... so ... so emotional and epic in so many ways. Not just these two of course, but all over the goddamn park.Thank you for reminding me of this. That really stood out to me as well. The emotion coming across is not just in your face, but layered. This is going to be so fantastic for a variety of scenes.
Haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but I really liked the range of expression you see on Cloud's face after he says "I'm fine" to Aeirth. You can see a whole thought process go through his mind before she gets in front of him again. It really stood out as impressive to me.
Why is Sephiroth appearing at the reactor explosion? Is Cloud hallucinating? Did they intercut footage from Nibelheim?
So I found a few images that clearly weren't taken from the YouTube'd trailer on an article for IGN Spain (haven't found a counterpart on IGN US).
Direct link to the gallery: https://es.ign.com/final-fantasy-vi...make-imagenes-del-primer-trailer-con-gameplay (it should go without saying that images without "screenshot" in the filename are those that SE must've given out for article purposes)
Comparing them more, especially the one of Aerith (note the hair, shadowing, etc) these are either pre-rendered to look the best they can, or perhaps from a more advanced, more polished version from however long after the yesterday's teaser was made (hoping for the latter)?
Trailer:
IGN:
I'm pretty sure Sephiroth is just Cloud hallucinating. After an explosion and surrounded by flames it puts him in mind of Nibelheim. A manifestation of times when he hears his voice in the original. They could still hide Sephiroth's face in this moments. Also also, it's not like there's anyone who doesn't know what he looks like at this point
I don't really see why Sephiroth's "Can you bear to see the Planet suffer, Cloud?" precludes it being an hallucination from an early part of the game? Given Cloud's reluctance to give a shit at this stage, it could just be Sephiroth messing with his mind and asking the question sarcastically (if not a projection of Cloud's own oscillation at this point).Yeah, no doubt - it's the taunting about the Planet that makes no sense from the POV of the original narrative.
I don't really see why Sephiroth's "Can you bear to see the Planet suffer, Cloud?" precludes it being an hallucination from an early part of the game? Given Cloud's reluctance to give a shit at this stage, it could just be Sephiroth messing with his mind and asking the question sarcastically (if not a projection of Cloud's own oscillation at this point).
I don't really see why Sephiroth's "Can you bear to see the Planet suffer, Cloud?" precludes it being an hallucination from an early part of the game? Given Cloud's reluctance to give a shit at this stage, it could just be Sephiroth messing with his mind and asking the question sarcastically (if not a projection of Cloud's own oscillation at this point).
Indeed, and also if they keep that mental glitch he suffers from PSX 15, when confronted by the Shinra soldiers just before jumping on the train. Which is extremely shortly after meeting Aerith here. So we could see a hell of a lot of this in the very first part of the game, perhaps until he falls into the Church and maybe then it calms down a bit for a while.If my theory is correct, this takes place right after Cloud has his first mental recall in the game about Sephiroth. The setting's weirdly broken pavement is very reminiscent of the road leading to Sector 5 park (Which oh my god, they missed an opportunity to show that here, whyyyy?), and that's where that scene happens.
So I predict that Cloud has a hallucination that melds the reality of where he is with the burning Nibelhiem that he associates so strongly with Sephiroth in the first place.
I'm very curious how prevalent these "Mental Glitches" are going to be, since now he's getting them even at times when he did't in the original game, what with his behavior when meeting Aerith for the first time.
I wonder if the differences are related to just the quality of the video file itself. Especially when it comes to video compression and the max YouTube trailer resolution being 1080p vs. the game itself almost certainly running at 4k, if you're screen capturing anything from the raw game output vs. pulling out those frames that were rendered in the trailer's resolution after whatever you get from the video conversion. That seems most apparent in the Cross Slash image, since you can see the motion blur effect just being a part of the swing of the attack, and other things like the little light blooms from the sparks.
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