Final Fantasy VII Remake · 7:22pm Apr 29th, 2020
Final Fantasy VII-X are key games in my childhood... Well okay, my teenagerhood. And they're very close to my heart. So the remake understandably had to be very, very high quality. I mean, I'd been hurt before by Star Wars. Star Trek. Doctor Who. Hell, even Final Fantasy has been fucked up lately.
All those great franchises, cast down into flames by incompetent, uncreative, idiotic, malicious, foolish HACKS who don't deserve to pen jokes for fucking Popsicle sticks!
... But thankfully, this remake was handled by people who were skilled, creative, loved the series, and hard working. It's a love letter to the game!
... Well the first disk of the game... Well the first half of the first disk... With no guarantee of another part any time soon...
And I got the art book and soundtrack too... Still worth it.
Glad to hear some of it at least doesn't suck. I'm with you on the atrocities performed upon Trek, Wars, and the Doctor.
Guess creatives will just have to make new franchises that will stand anew.
People really need to stop thinking it of a true 'remake' of FF7, it's an entirely split AU. If anything, it's making oblique references to FF7, as if some of the agents (Sephiroth) are attempting to change the timeline. Events are happening differently in some subtle ways at the moment, but it may be more extreme in sequel installments.
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Twilight: "Hey, Shepherd? Sunset told me some gamers have issues with Aerith dying. Are you sure you're okay?"
Shepherd: "Twilight, it's just a game. Sure, it's one of my favorites but I've been through way scarier stuff and-"
*Cut to Fluttershy dressed as Aerith sitting beneath a tree, and Shining Armor dressed as Sephiroth dropping on her from above*
Shepherd: *GONE* "NOT THIS TIME, MOTHERFUCKER!"
Shining: "N-No, wait, we were rehears-GAH!"
*Tackles Shining and starts beating the shit out of him!*
From what I understand, the ending of the current release is something that was not part of the original. If they're changing things... well, I still remember Kingdom Hearts 2. Does it go far enough to be able to tell whether Aerith still gains power significantly more quickly than the rest of the party?
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Well, yes, it's a remake in the sense of a movie remake, where not everything is the same because that'd be boring. But if it turns out there are actual in-universe characters who know how it originally went and are trying to make it go differently... Well, Soul Calibur 6 did it first (Mortal Kombat doesn't count because it was explicit about what was going on from the start).
I love how the theme of the game seems to have been turned to fighting against fate. Which could make for interesting situations as it's in Sepheroth's best interest if things don't go the way they did in the original. Then again, that's just my take on it.
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Granted, most of what I know of the game is from watching various people play it, but yes... some things know what happened in the original. Sephiroth plays a much stronger role early on and some of his actions/comments are very much along the lines of trying to twist 'fate'... IE, the original game.
Play it as if it's an entirely new story with some similar plot points.
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Who the hell is "Aerith?"
Her name is Earisu.
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Freaking weeaboos...
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We have yet to even begin to weeb!
エアリス IS transliterated as Earisu, yes, but the english phonemes Eh Ri Su are a better fit for the pronunciation, therefore Aerisu, as in Aether, Aeon, Aero and Aery.
Furthermore, later additions to the canon stress the ス is meant to be pronounced as a th in English, so Aerith is the official translation
I am the Fun Police facetiously pretending to be superior despite not really caring on the Aeris/Aerith divide, but still caring quite a lot about the Ae/Ea thing because that's actually based on other english words rather than dogmatically following a "transliterate and then stop there and screw anyone who doesn't look up the original japanese" mindset..I DO prefer Aerith as it is an anagram of I Earth, which is kind of neat given her role in the game.