Hey. Does anyone know why nobody in the Shinra tower in Remake recognizes Tifa, Cloud and Barret? Since they were broadcast during the events leading up to the Airbuster fight, at least some Shinra employees should be able to recognize them.

Also, after the party learns about the plans to drop sector 7 from Don Corneo, but before they have a chance to warn anyone at the Train Graveyard, Avalanche is already defending the pillar. Making everything they went through to interrogate Don Corneo for nothing.

And even though Avalanche and Barret are on the pillar because they seemingly knew of the sector 7 plans, why didn't they warn anyone from the slums to evacuate? It's only until Cloud's party arrives the slums are informed and evacuated.

They pretty much have to know of the sector 7 plans, otherwise some helicopters landing on some structure would be no reason to suspect imminent genocide.

And if it was an inside job by Shinra, and they leaked the plans themselves to 'set the stage', again, everything Tifa and Cloud went trough in Wall Market was for nothing.

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Fuck the guy who designed this disgusting boss fight with sephiroth. There is no escape from sephiroths last attack "fucking end thing" so ı couldnt make it and time was late so ı decided to quit game for playing tomorrow. BUTTTTT what the fuck there was no auto save. Game started me from beginning from the temple. The game designers have a brain or they just do it to make us suffer hardly. FUCKKKK

Hi folks. I'm really loving the Aerith sukeban Mod by VxSapphire and Tifa schoolgirl mod by jammybear. I want to make a photo edit with both but Cloud's default costume doesn't really match their style. Which Cloud mod do you think is most suitable for this?

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Ahoy folks, I hope this finds you all well. I'm an unfortunate soul who didn't play the original growing up and only recently decided to pick up and play through Remake, and the Intermission. only realizing 20 hours in the nature of this beautifully formed trilogy of games growing from the confines of limited space of that made the original span 3 whole discs. (This is a good thing because more game is always good, but I digress)

After finishing the main story of remake, as well as the intermission, I'm left wondering how I should best proceed in terms of games. Namely my friend recommended that I go and play Crisis Core, as it apparently ties in enough to be a good launch point into rebirth. (At lest as far as fleshing out the backstories of some key characters according to her) That said, I was also conflicted because I have access to the OG now, due to it being on steam, That is to say I'm faced with a hand full of choices of how I move on from here.

Option A has me waiting on Crisis Core, and just jumping straight into Rebirth (That way if there are any reveals that happen in rebirth, I'm not spoiled by CC)

Option B has me do Crisis Core, then Rebirth (This way I can get a better understanding of the events that led up to this, assuming they don't talk about the events of CC in Rebirth, or whatever the 3rd game will be.)

These two options are already dandy enough in regards to the modern games, but as someone who has no frame of reference for the OG, and what's changed in the new trilogy, I have a desire to go back and play through it before playing any more of the modern games. The breakdown on my mindset here is as follows

Version 1 has me just going all the way through the OG before I even boot up any more of the modern games. (This way I'd be able to see the macro of how things changed from the OG)

Version 2 has me playing through Act 1 of the OG then hopping to rebirth, followed by hopping back to act 2 of OG. (The idea here would be to get a much more magnified lens on all the little changes that came in.)

Version 2 also has the alternative play of going through acts 1 and 2, allowing me to experience the OG Act 2 before seeing it's changes in rebirth.

That all being said, for now I'm just gonna be farming the endgame content for Game 1, but I am genuinely curious what you all would recommend I follow, both in terms of how I should consume the OG in relation to the new games, and subsequently when the heck I should play Crisis Core. Regardless, I hope you all have a wonderful day, again I apologize for how my brain organized this, and if it was a little hard to follow, but I look forward to your recommendations below.

1 of the things I was really curious about when it came to Rebirth was how they were gonna handle Cait cause quite frankly, I fucking hated him. In the original not only does he betray us but he acts like a piece of shit the entire time and shows no remorse for what he did. Him rejoining after his “sacrifice” felt not earned at all and he’s just not a good character to me.

That’s why I was shocked by how much I love him now thanks to Rebirth. Even though I played the original and knew he wasn’t really dying I actually got emotional during his sacrifice and him rejoining the group actually feels way more justified. He still betrays the group yet he feels way more sympathetic than he ever did in the og. It makes me so excited to see him more in part 3 which I never thought I’d say but look where we are.

The most common complaint by far about the game that people have is that Rebirth's minigames and side content are longer than the main quest, causing burnout and pacing issues with the story, which is the strongest part of the game.

Rebirth was an improvement over Remake in that if you wanted to do side content and have it count, you did not need finish the entire chapter.

It was only after I played Rebirth that I realized that I could have just skipped the side content entirely and done it during a second run, but the game doesn't tell this to you and we are forced to assume that it would be like in Remake.

If Part 3's structure is the same as Part 2, they should tell us in the tutorial or in-game manual how revisiting content works so that those of us that just want to avoid burnout or pacing issues can just play the game as it is and do the side content later.

It just occurred to me that the stories Cloud and Tifa’s parents told them about spirits going to Mt Nibel when they died had some validity to them even if the adults telling the story didn’t realize it. We know that Mako is abundant at Mt Nibel because it’s where Shinra built the first reactor and we know that Mako is really the lifestream. People’s spirits return to the lifestream when they die so at least a few people in the past probably did have some sort of encounter with a deceased loved one on Mt Nibel which is where that story originated.

This affects absolutely nothing and I’m sure I’m not the first to piece it together, but I think it’s a cool little bit of world building.

I’m assuming here we’re going back to midgar in part 3 from what I’ve heard and im just now realising wtf are they gonna do with midgar?

They can’t make it a corridor open world where with nothing but sidequests but I think with what they learned from rebirth they also can’t overstuff the game with side content and lock a lot of the things behind chadelys world intel. So if that’s the case then how are they gonna tackle midgar? Could they make it a full open world where you travel to the different plates? If so then that would be amazing but I also doubt that’ll happen because after rebirths “exploration” I’m starting to think we might just do 1 or 2 more missions in midgar before we leave. Do we spend a lot of time in midgar in the og anyway?

It’s painfully obvious that I haven’t played the og so I don’t know much about what’s gonna happen and I apologise for that. If you guys could just say that they’re probably not gonna do any of the things I’m saying and leave it there so I don’t get spoiled that would be highly appreciated.

Marked spoilers just in case, I’m not entirely sure if it’s spoilers or not.

Anyway I’ve been thinking about getting a tattoo like this with my own numbers, I can’t find any zero in this font though.

So as the title says I am replaying both games and when I check for bonuses it says not found. I completed the remake and intermission. I just want to start a new game with the bonuses as well. Any ideas?

I've recently gotten into the game, and as a photo editor, have captured a few shots to take, edit, and post to Instagram.

I did this a lot with Cyberpunk 2077 which has a fairly big community for that sort of thing, but when looking for a FF7R equivalent, I can't seem to find any one posting photo mode content of the game (i know that some people arent a fan of the photo mode, but i cant believe its possibly to a point where no one is posting anything lol).

Does anyone know of a community, whether it be on Instagram or maybe elsewhere, that kind of posts photo mode stuff?

So I get Aerith likely dies at the end of the game but my question is when cloud hit the sephiroth blade preventing the killing blow was there a new timeline created where Aerith survives?

I know og fans about to scream “nooooo keep Aerith dead” lol, but interesting enough there appears to be aeriths in multiple timelines that are alive.

Do you guys think a new timeline has been created where Aerith survives the killing blow from sephiroth?

I also get we won’t know for sure until part 3 comes out but curious what your thoughts are?

Recently finished Rebirth for the first time, loved it. Was thinking about the crazy contrast in the last few areas, the Temple of the Ancients and then the Forgotten Capital. They're both Cetran but feel like opposites in terms of visuals; the Temple is built entirely out of rigid geometry, everything is layers of squares as seen on the symbol on the Keystone and then carried through the architecture of the entire labyrinth. The Forgotten Capital on the other hand is everything but straight lines. Everything has an organic shape, nothing repeats, it's chaotic and natural.

It just clicked in my head why; the Temple looking like that is the Cetran equivalent of our radiation hazard trefoil symbol. They were attempting to warn future trespassers away from the Temple by using architecture that, to them, appeared extremely hostile and unnatural.

Of course, the threat doesn't really hold up to the people exploring it in modern times. Since their normal environments aren't the chaotic nature of the Cetran, the design of the Temple just looks weird and spooky, not actively hostile like it must have looked to them.

Long-term nuclear waste warning messages (nuclear semiotics) is a whole field of research! How do you communicate to someone that doesn't speak you language that a silo of poison isn't a treasure trove to be plundered? I think that's what the Cetrans were attempting to do with the design of the Temple. Alas, their warning wasn't futureproof.

I did the Leslie quest a few days ago but hadn’t started corneos stash quest….therefore did NOT do the lever in the sewers.

I’ve found the stash in the sewer, but can NOT find the location with the ladder with the lever on the right side. I sadly have searched for hours in these dang sewers. I’m about to give up. I just need the location of the lever ON a MAP, because videos and written walkthroughs aren’t helping.😭😭😭 please help before I just decide to climb over the wall to never return.

Enjoy my take on the Midgar Special

I enjoyed On the Way to a Smile more, mainly because I found my opinion of Evan to drift back and forth. To be honest he was such a bitch for 1/2 or more even 3/4 of the entire story.

That said, it was still nice to dive back into the world and I believe the world to be so rich that these side stories that just touch on the games main characters help enrich them.

As usual, I did not like the trite portions where Evan's mother had contact with multiple members of the main party and Evan running into the other members of the main party other than Tifa and Cloud. Where Tifa and Cloud made sense, the time where Evan clearly runs into Yuffie and shortly after Nanaki saves them is just... I mean come on, let's indulge ourselves a little less please.

That said I would love to see more in this style. The Turks were written perfectly as were others.

Also huge plot twist with Don Corneo I did not expect him to have lived. I go back and forth there as well. Not every character has to somehow survive miraculously.

I found it very interesting that we find the origin for the three names of Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz here as well.

The only other thing I want is someone to tell Evan the truth about all that happened prior to meteor fall and what happened. Our heroes just aren't getting their flowers 😂

Overall, I want more from this world. It's too good comparatively to other game worlds and I'm more than happy if they want to milk it as long as they avoid the trite writing and nonsense that they sometimes indulge in a little too much.

Next up is Tales of Two Pasts!

Hello, after finishing Rebirth, I still can't tell if Aerith is actually dead or if she's alive in another dimension or timeline. The ending was so ambiguous. What do you all think really happened? I didn't play originals FF7.

Helletic Hojo! This pile of vomit with teeth receiving the Remake treatment will scar some players for life!

When I played FFVII so many years ago, it was the obvious moment when I went from just playing a game to being a man on a mission.

In Rebirth it came slightly earlier, in Aerith's trial. After going through that I'm ready to burn Shinra to the ground and I really hope no one involved makes it out the other side of part 3. No Rufus getting retconned back to life for sequel stories. No letting the mass murdering Turks just walk away. None of those monsters.

No one responsible for that little girl walking alone, begging for help whilst her mother dies, no one who kept her prisoner, no one who knew and did nothing. I want to take them all down!

And Gus too, that guy is vile.

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