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These two images have more in common than you may think…

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I made this reference sheet as a commission for platinum2900 (Discord) of his new fursona, Massero Tonin. This handsome wolf-otter hybrid was a pleasure to bring to life!

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"Care for a drink sugar?"

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There is no way im the only one simping for this guy

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WOAH just saw spiderman eating pizza on a roof

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HUGE FFVII REBIRTH SPOILERS BELOW!!!

I’m still so mad at how the game handled this boss.

Putting aside that you’re still coming off the bizarre, disorienting framing of the previous scene (yes I know why they did it but the execution just doesn’t land), this JENOVA fight is especially frustrating because at first it seems like it’s going to be great. Barret furiously yelling “I’ll kill you!”, Cloud murmuring and rambling to himself as he fails to process what just happened, a heartbreakingly beautiful remix of Aerith’s theme playing in the background. So many of the components here are strong. It seems like it’s going to set the stage for a emotion-driven fight where the party unleash their grief and rage on this monster before them. They know it won’t bring their friend back but they don’t care. They just need this thing to die. And once it’s gone, the horrifying reality of what’s just happened sets in. Just like it did in the original. If the boss ended at just this first phase, it would be fantastic.

Unfortunately, after Remake’s finale, that would evidently be an anticlimax so we need to stretch out the final boss and…fine, I guess. But as long as they can maintain that atmosphere I don’t see why this shouldn’t w-

…Aaaand then Aerith’s theme is phased out for another JENOVA remix. So already you know this gonna be a shitshow. But then the party starts…inexplicably quipping at each other? Cloud and Barret start trading banter about the monster they’re fighting? Excuse me? What happened to the tone? These characters just watched their dear friend get brutally stabbed. Where’s the grief? Where’s the anger? Never mind that, have all the characters get flown up into the air to fight the boss while trading more fucking banter. Why is Yuffie teasing Cloud at being glad he brought her along now? Why are Barret and Red XIII glibly cheering each other on now? Why is Tifa showing no emotion for the death of her best friend (the whole ending does such a disservice to Aerith and Tifa’s friendship after giving them the best developed relationship across two whole games but discussion for another day). Why is Cait Sith making bad puns about ‘dropping in’ and ‘swinging by’?

And on top of all of this, Square-Enix decided that the most fitting way to end this would be a cinematic over the top anime team up attack where Yuffie, Barret and Cait spout dumb one liners. Tonal consistency? What’s that? It’s exactly the same bullshit they pulled when adapting Corel Prison. The remake project has spent the length of two massive RPGs bringing these characters to life as vividly and lovingly as possible. But its insistence on making every moment the biggest, most eye catching spectacle, betrays a total lack of subtlety that does those characters a disservice at multiple pivotal moments. Quiet, melancholy intimacy does not exist in this game. Everything is loud, everything is maximalist. Everything is cool and flashy. And a lot of the time that works exceptionally well. But this game has no off switch. And it really hurts the story at times.

This is without even getting into the rest of the final boss, the whole baffling affair with Sephiroth, and Zack and the fucking multiverse. Because you know what? At least that was done specifically because of Rebirth’s new story. It was done with a purpose, even though I don’t think it was a good purpose. The JENOVA fight is just shallow, tonally borked spectacle. And, much like the ending as a whole, the emotional pathos of Aerith’s death is lost amidst the style, ambiguity and overwhelming presentation.

Aerith and this game as a whole, deserved a better send off than this.

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Crimson knows that when he's tired after a long day, he can always count on friends like Xander to keep him company... This was a commission piece made for my friend, Crimson. Go check him out at: https://twitter.com/CrimsonFoxxo

I'm very grateful you asked me to make this, buddy.

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the Will of the people

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Axel and Cyrus chilling ❤️❤️

This guys are from Remember The Flowers

I have to thank all the VN team from been doing a wonderful work

Since Adastra, I didnt find a VN that hooked me this hard

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"Dusk Hound takes off to protect the streets of Schippersburg once more!"

I've fallen in love with Glory Hounds so far. Already another worthy gem in Echo Project's lineup. And a big part of that is down to its loveable lead Alex de Rooij.

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routes (spoiler warning)

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"Will, what in the hell are you doing in Mr. Hendricks car--"

"Get in, Sam. We've got a town to save."

(Characters are from the Echo Project VN, The Smoke Room.)

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Do you think any of the compilation of FF7 enhances the original game?

With full disclosure: I've never played any of them. I've only heard about them.

Dirge of Cerberus came out before I had a PS2, and by the time I had a PS2, it already had a pretty dire reputation. I've never had a PSP, so Crisis Core was right out (until the recent HD remaster, I suppose).

The only Compilation material I have first-hand experience with is Advent Children, and I hate Advent Children.

There's nothing stopping me from looking at the games now, I suppose. I've had ISOs downloaded for Dirge and Crisis Core for literal years now, it's just a case of the "never got around to it"s. Came closer to starting Crisis Core more than a couple times over the years, though.

Generally, I think these materials are to be feared, and hearing they might be incorporating elements from them into episodes of Final Fantasy VII Remake has me scared to death. I don't want Angeal or Gackt Genesis to be canonical.

Much like going back to Shadow the Hedgehog and injecting this Alien Blood Pact into his origin after the fact, going back and injecting all this new lore about SOLDIERs being winged Angeals angels muddies so much of the water around why Sephiroth is iconic. At best, it's going back to the well and saying "You like Sephiroth? We have more Sephiroths! We have a Sephiroth played by Japan's ultimate real-life bishonen hot guy!"

Don't explain things that don't need to be explained. It's a top ten rule of storytelling. It's okay. You don't have to shine a light on every single corner and crevice of a world. You're not a deep sea explorer, you're just trying to tell one really good story. And even if you somehow manage to pull that off, future stories can and will ruin your One Good Story if you tell them badly enough.

That being said I know more about why to be afraid of Crisis Core's prequel lore expansion than I do about Dirge of Cerberus. I basically have no idea what Dirge of Cerberus is about outside of the fact it might involve the Turks? And the controls are bad? No idea.

But generally I do not like or want them. Maybe if I actually play Crisis Core I'd warm up to it more, but from the outside it looks like it also contributes to the general feeling that after Final Fantasy VII came out, nobody really understood what those characters were and everybody got flanderized in some really weird, annoying directions.

Like, the common one is that in the supplemental material around Advent Children, Barret wants to use mako energy from the Shinra power plants to solve that movie's toothless pandemic, and when he's told he can't do that, he invests in becoming an oil baron instead. Can you believe that? The leader of an eco-terrorism sleeper cell, whose primary goal is saving the planet, wants to use the very tools that harmed the planet and others that will further harm the planet.

There's comic irony, and then there's just character assassination.

They are bad additions.

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commission work for

@Itreyu

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Vivi baby....

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Lyre.