Board 8 > SaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in New Houses: Rebirth Edition [SELF]

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I don't know how they did it, but Midgar 7th Infantry are now like the most beloved new characters from the remakes xD

Midgar 7th is Rebirth's best original content.

I enjoyed Roche a surprising amount in Rebirth. I didn't particularly care for him in Remake, but I feel like he's handled better here. Maybe because of no stupid bike race.

Roche is a bit of a try too hard character for me. I don't mind him per say but I don't think he adds anything of value.

Random observation: It's interesting that everyone so far who meets Red XIII thinks he's a dog, not a cat. I've felt like he looked more feline or maybe a blend of both, but they're rolling with dog here!

Lab rat dog

Queen's Blood champ right here aw yeah

didn't expect the last second Red XIII entry, I'm glad we didn't get deprived of him pretending to be human in this game

Got a similar feeling there as with the Hell House inclusion in Remake. Loved it.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Chapter 5 complete!

I was curious to see how they handled the Jenova/Sephiroth portion here. It's interesting how they're using the black robed guys to conjure Sephiroth, although it's still not clear if only Cloud actually sees him. There's no doubt we all saw Jenova, so at least there's that. I'm also always down for a J-E-N-O-V-A remix.

This game's OST has been great so far, like the first game's.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Chapter 6 complete!

Costa Del Sol was pretty fun! I enjoyed getting to cruise around town on a Segway. I dominated at the Fall Guys soccer game with Red XIII. I had to turn off the adaptive trigger during the rifle shooting game because it was straining my fingers trying to rapid fire. The Queen's Blood variant here was pretty neat, and I think it helped me understand the game some more.

All the stuff on the beach was great. Even Johnny got to have his one shining moment when Yuffie uses him to kinda sorta save the day. The Hojo conversation was pretty good, and then the follow-ups with everyone on the beach afterward were great, too, especially Aerith's. I wonder if she's being literal when she's talking about her future self because she definitely knows something about the Whispers and the alternate timeline that the rest of the party doesn't. I do think it's neat that she and Red XIII can confide in each other. She can talk through her problems, and he can use his real teenage voice instead of the gruff voice he uses around everyone else to make himself seem more mature. Also I thought it was cool that they did a version of the Yuffie recruitment scene from the original, although I imagine she doesn't steal from you and run off if you pick the wrong option this time!

I think I may have just experienced my first earthquake. That was weird.

Nothing super major. At first I thought maybe a huge truck was passing by from the noise but then there was shaking and I was like "uhhhhh"

Yeah, I got a little shake in upstate NY as well

I love the way Hojo just says to Cloud "So you heard the call too"

BK_Sheikah00 posted...

I love the way Hojo just says to Cloud "So you heard the call too"

I feel like they're beating you over the head with some of the Cloud foreshadowing, but I say that as someone who's already played FFVII. I wonder how that line comes across to someone who's only played the remake.

There's a solar eclipse coming up on the 8th, and I think we're in the total coverage zone (or at least the zone is very close by to us). I'm not sure what time it's supposed to happen, but I might be out on my mail route during the eclipse, which would be kinda neat.

Oh man, when I saw Jules and there was a related sidequest, I was worried the game was bringing back squats and pull-ups, but at least from perusing the details of the quest, my fears have been assuaged...for now.

Leonhart4 posted...

Oh man, when I saw Jules and there was a related sidequest, I was worried the game was bringing back squats and pull-ups, but at least from perusing the details of the quest, my fears have been assuaged...for now.

I got some bad news

Nobody asked for this, Square

LeonhartFour posted...

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Chapter 6 complete!

Costa Del Sol was pretty fun! I enjoyed getting to cruise around town on a Segway. I dominated at the Fall Guys soccer game with Red XIII. I had to turn off the adaptive trigger during the rifle shooting game because it was straining my fingers trying to rapid fire. The Queen's Blood variant here was pretty neat, and I think it helped me understand the game some more.

All the stuff on the beach was great. Even Johnny got to have his one shining moment when Yuffie uses him to kinda sorta save the day. The Hojo conversation was pretty good, and then the follow-ups with everyone on the beach afterward were great, too, especially Aerith's. I wonder if she's being literal when she's talking about her future self because she definitely knows something about the Whispers and the alternate timeline that the rest of the party doesn't. I do think it's neat that she and Red XIII can confide in each other. She can talk through her problems, and he can use his real teenage voice instead of the gruff voice he uses around everyone else to make himself seem more mature. Also I thought it was cool that they did a version of the Yuffie recruitment scene from the original, although I imagine she doesn't steal from you and run off if you pick the wrong option this time!

Oh yeah, who did you help on the beach fight? And what beachwear did you pick?

I picked Tifa and Red because I'm trying to get her for the Gold Saucer date, so I figured I should take every advantage over Aerith I can get.

Also I went with the chocobo beachwear for Cloud, naturally.

get rekt crunches

now get me out of this gym forever

I am genuinely afraid of what they will do with that mini-game in part 3. Probably mix up shoulder and face buttons in the same set.

Kotetsu534 posted...

I am genuinely afraid of what they will do with that mini-game in part 3. Probably mix up shoulder and face buttons in the same set.

Keep the inputs invisible the entire time, including when you need to press extra hard to complete an input

LeonhartFour posted...

get rekt crunches

now get me out of this gym forever

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Wild seeing the "YOSHIDA SAYS MAYBE IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER FFT!" thing from our interview go viral like this when I suggested to Gabrielle (the amazing colleague who conducted the interview for us) that she use the article about Clive in the ending as the side cut instead.

I was a fool

Still working my way through Rebirth Chapter 7, but a lot has happened (and also this Johnny sidequest will never end)!

The banter going up Mt. Corel has been great. One of my favorite exchanges in the entire game so far was Red XIII telling Aerith she'd become one with the mountain, and her thanking the mountain for taking her in. Then Cloud goes, "What the heck are you doing, Red?" And he replies, "It happens to first time climbers all the time. Don't worry. If she faints, I'll carry her." So good.

The Turks show up just to drop off some black robes and troll us with a big machine fight. It turns out afterwards that Barret, Tifa, and Yuffie were like 50 feet away the whole time. You guys didn't see or hear anything? Could've used your help! But after the boss fight, we get our second Zack scene, this time with Elmyra coming to move Aerith (who isn't dead but comatose) to her house. Zack brings Cloud (also still comatose) along. Before and after this scene, we see Aerith staring off into the distance, so was she "watching" this unfold somehow? She seems to know about stuff like that somehow, so I'm curious to see how it goes.

We also get a board meeting with Rufus and the directors talking about Magnus Materia (which I assume is the same as the Huge Materia from the original game). It turns out that the materia comes from Weapons (or it might be the other way around because they said the Weapons were born from the materia. Maybe it's a little of both), and they're already active, as opposed to becoming active only after Sephiroth summoned Meteor in the original. Hojo is obsessed with getting his hands on one, and Scarlet has apparently been trying to produce their own version of Magnus Materia.

Reeve asks Rufus about the Neo Midgar Plan and how the previous President said dropping the plate would be in service of that plan, and so he questions how he knows the Promised Land actually exists. Rufus seems to be taking a different approach in this game, where he doesn't seem particularly interested in Neo Midgar, the Promised Land, or any of it. He seems focused on Wutai more than anything else, but I wonder what his actual goals are. Rufus also asks the mic drop question of, "Why didn't any of you try to stop this insane plan to drop the plate?" Nobody has an answer, and Rufus just walks out, with Dark Nation at his side as always.

Back in the present, we make it to the ruined Corel Reactor, and whaddya know? We find the aforementioned Weapon swimming around in the mako that's spilled out of the reactor, and there's the Magnus Materia, too! Yuffie is drooling at the prospect of getting that materia. She also explains what's going on with Wutai. I guess her old man is out, and now Lodbrok and the other Ex-SOLDIERs from Ever Crisis are in charge of an interim government. I imagine we won't actually see any of this stuff until the third game, so it's just exposition for now.

We reach the point where the bridge is raised, and the black robes decide they'd rather swim for it than wait for us to find a way to lower it. Cloud has one of his weird spells, and he almost falls into the water with them. Barret demands he stay behind and recuperate for the time being, so now Yuffie is in charge of getting the bridge lowered. I'm not a big Yuffie fan, but it's kinda nice to see her get integrated into the story now that she's not an optional character anymore.

I literally forgot how to view spoiler-tagged text for a moment that's how often I'm here these days whoops

SaveEstelle posted...

lift
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that quote made me want to put a personal gym in my house just so I could get this sign custom made and put up in it

Enjoyed the Corel section. The music that plays as you climb is an absolute banger - when they have the confidence to throw something offbeat and different in it tends to work (see also "bow wow wow" and Kyrie's theme). The version of Yuffie's theme that plays when she's the leader is great too.

Leonhart4 posted...

Keep the inputs invisible the entire time, including when you need to press extra hard to complete an input

Argh. Yup that would be a natural escalation for the last challenge - force the player to memorise the animations.

The last 3D Brawler match at the Gold Saucer is so rapid that I couldnt barely keep up with the memorized animations, so thats not far off the mark

SaveEstelle posted...

Wild seeing the "YOSHIDA SAYS MAYBE IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER FFT!" thing from our interview go viral like this when I suggested to Gabrielle (the amazing colleague who conducted the interview for us) that she use the article about Clive in the ending as the side cut instead.

I was a fool

blame yourself or god

Okay hot take time I dont hate Field Skills in Xenoblade Chronicles 2

The concept is neat but it gets annoying at times on some particular checks.

I like the concept a lot, but I think it could've been handled more elegantly. XB2 is certainly a game that could've used another 3-6 months of polish.

Thorn posted...

The concept is neat but it gets annoying at times on some particular checks.

MacArrowny posted...

I like the concept a lot, but I think it could've been handled more elegantly. XB2 is certainly a game that could've used another 3-6 months of polish.

Yeah, definitely fair. There are several reasons Id welcome a Definitive Edition.

Field skills in XB2 nearly single handedly destroyed my interest in the game and series as a whole. ("Nearly" only meaning it wasn't quite the only culprit in doing so)

I don't think the concept is bad but the execution definitely was.

Got pretty dark here for a few minutes just now. That was neat.

We're about 15 minutes from the peak here (not quite the totality zone here) but it's been darker than it should be for a good while now.

I tried to take a video, but a guy came out and started talking to me (I just parked my vehicle out on the mail route), so I didn't get a good one.

Think it peaked over here. Pretty cool. I think we were in the ~90% zone and that matches up with what I saw I think - still a thin crescent sliver of the sun up there. While it got colder and was still much dimmer than it should be given the time there was still more than enough light to see otherwise - kinda like a really cloudy day (even though in reality there weren't too many clouds.)

Yeah, it was pretty cool. It felt like early night time here.

pyresword posted...

("Nearly" only meaning it wasn't quite the only culprit in doing so)

That's kind of funny since every time I see your user name these days I damn near read it as "pyrasword."

I did like Pyra to be fair.

Nia ended up as pretty cleanly my favorite though I think I only got 70-80% through and never played the Torna DLC

One day I'll get done with all the games I really want to play and then maybe I'll give Xenoblade 2 a whirl

I prefer 1 and 3, but 2 is still neat. Its got the most content, too, and I do so love that about it. A 100% clear file takes a looooong time.

Not exactly a net positive for many players, but Im me!

It's alright I've learned to love the 70%

SaveEstelle posted...

I prefer 1 and 3, but 2 is still neat. Its got the most content, too, and I do so love that about it. A 100% clear file takes a looooong time.

Not exactly a net positive for many players, but Im me!

I think I did pretty much everything in Xenoblade 2. But, I'm still not sure if I want to grind out the 539 Gold Nopon Coins for the costumes in Xenoblade 3.

pjbasis posted...

It's alright I've learned to love the 70%

Heck I'm pretty cool with 50% as long as that 50% is all the story content

I'm often happy just doing the side content I care about. I did all but one side quest in Rebirth, and don't feel the need to do it just for completion. Though I did do all the World Intel...

Xenoblade is an on category, where I'd say for XB2 and XB3, the side content is much better than the main story. I like the side quest writing a lot more than the main story writing, so mainlining those games just means missing the best story content.

Yeah, I don't mind doing Remake and Rebirth's side content (and I didn't mind doing FFXVI's). At worst, it's inoffensive. Finding stuff on a map is cool, so I'm good with World Intel. Just keep it short and don't make me spend a lot of time grinding to do everything, and I'm generally good with it.

I really liked the gameplay in 2 but ugh Rex is like my least favorite genre of protagonist