Lurker > Pirateking2000

I basically agree with the "Beagle Universe" reading but I don't think Cloud is "confused." It's beyond reason to think no one would've said "Hey Cloud, Aerith is actually dead" and that wouldn't have been talked through. I think Cloud is aware with what's going on. He's emotionally stunted and under the influence of Jenova/Sephiroth cells but he's not completely divorced from reality.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5668cbef.jpg

oof super compressed

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I think Aerith has to "die" so that they can actually do the rest of FF7 without major changes. But I think that we'll definitely save her at the end of part 3 somehow.

Most of the narrative for FF7 has been the same as the original so I don't think they want to completely change the outline for part 3.

So yeah be prepared for some time travel or something.

I used the Aeroga build that's going around.

Spoilers in video and text below for a method to win Bonds of Friendship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvNzI4VEkAI

I swapped out Enemy Skill for Revive which I don't think I actually used on my winning run, but did bail me out on a couple of earlier runs.

You are squishy, but with Genji Gloves and Magic Focus'd Aerogas with Faith on you blow enemies up very quickly while sustaining yourself so the runs become fast. With a bit of practice rounds 1-8 will soon become largely busywork (except occasionally 4 can get lucky bursts on you), round 9 is fairly repeatable once you figure out the right tempo to adopt (Hold ATB for the wings, then one Aerora each to blow them up, then get your licks in). I think if you get good enough at fight 5 you could probably ditch the Ele-Fire & Ice for stat boosts or w/e - didn't feel like I needed it once I got slick at handling him.

I just realized there's a walled off snowboard minigame in Gold Saucer. We so coming back in part 3 for more minigame madness.

I would prefer the Honeybee dance battle to be the final boss fight unironically.

starting to panic a little because I just spent (wasted) the past 5 hours trying to get through a brutal challenge with nothing to show for it. Only made it to the last round one time... and it's not even the toughest of the challenges!!!

Kind of panicking a little because I never had anywhere near this trouble in Remake and my team is maxed out, my materia loadout is optimal, feels like the only solution is to git gud. not great, not great at all.

Well, going to give it another dozen or two cracks tomorrow and if I can't then it'll wait until after I've completed all other platinum requirements I guess.

Start the fire

I wonder if you open up the whole Rebirth main scenario script, what the longest word count between mentions of Sephiroth is in the whole game?

By the 4th time Cloud mistook someone for Sephiroth and swung at him I was checked out. Honestly he's such a innescapable presence here that it almost feels like parody, like Sephiroth was gonna show up on the other side of a Queen's Blood table or in a Chocobo race.

Where there's a will, there's a way

Wow Fort Condor is really frustrating...

I will allow the culmination of this series to be a Queen's Blood match. 100% on board, lock it in.

Omg @ this chicken clanging bullshit

This is unquestionably, undoubtedly a deliberate attempt to make the worst possible mini game just to piss off neurotics like me.

Is Red XIII more cat or dog?

So... there's six universes now?

OG
Beagle
Terrier
Pug
Spitz
Shiba

So if I wanna finish up the final protorelic, and all minigame rewards, do I just pick Chapter 12? Do I have to progress all the way to beating Rufus to be in the state of everything unlocked?

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Nibel region. Worst part of the game without a doubt is the Cait Sith as leader section

Gaiden

I mostly think it shows how dumb Sephiroth is. It took him 30+ years to figure out who his mom was? He didn't question it at all until seeing this a sign on a door? He's never read a book before? He has the backstory of a typical 14 year old protagonist who goes on to save the world, but because he only discovered this during his mid-life crisis, he became a villain.

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