the Queen's Blood sub-story veering off into cosmic horror is so funny to me bc while all the other players are reacting to the cosmic horror bits as you would expect characters in a cosmic horror story to react, Cloud's just sitting there looking unfazed but slightly concerned for the other players, bc he deals with bizarre visions and headaches on the regular, and so the Secret Forbidden Knowledge Horror of Queen's Blood isn't actually out of the norm for him, and obviously still less of a threat than Sephiroth
Do people around Shinra just see teenage Sephiroth and go 'oh, Hojo's at it again?' and assume he's a cyborg? Like is he this well known for it that a random SOLDIER P0 knows what one of his cyborgs look like or did Hojo start making the cyborg's in Sephiroth's image as he aged?
Im so fucking upset for Tifa, man. Cloud has been acting so fucked up. Like after basically killing her he seemed normal-ish (for cloud) again for a while until the temple where he's just an absolute fucking asshole and she doesn't realize it's because sephiroth is possessing him
And then her best friend fucking dies and cloud doesn't seem to care.
And God I'm frustrated at her for not TALKING to him about his memories more and hiding things from him but also I understand. And now she's lost the only person she could talk to about this stuff and she's feeling more alone than ever before and uggffh I'm so upset
And before all of this I had fucked up her date so she had this romantic evening with Cloud and then right when she thought he was going to kiss her he fucking hugged her instead
The device emits a distinct 'beep' as Tseng lowers it from his ear, signaling the call's end. His gaze was drawn over his shoulder to the man at the head of the room. "It appears the ancient has been located in Costa Del Sol. The system indicates that they are travelling and are approaching the Golden Saucer. What are your orders, sir?"
I wanted to see how long you could stay in the air if you don't get knocked back down and it turns out the answer is forever, so long as you keep dodging
When Britt said Tifa and Cloud had a lot of intimate scenes together, she wasn't kidding 🤭❤️
And this conversation is canon. Tifa appears to talk to you no matter what. It's just the part with the option that's player choice. Everything else is part of the plot ❤️
I honestly loved it. I loved the character interactions, the banter and chemistry of the main cast was off the charts good. I feel like the devs really do love the cast as much as I do. Not a single person fell flat, and the stand outs to me were yuffie, barret, and CLOUD especially. My God the way they wrote Cloud made me so happy. It was perfect. This extends to the VAs who seemed to have broken the SE curse of stilted dialogue and anime grunting. However something about Tifa and Aeriths voices seemed weaker in this game compared to Remake.
Red XIII to nanaki voice change was weird as hell and didn’t seem well-justified in the story or his character. It just kind of happens and is really jarring.
I have accepted chadley. He’s essentially a computer so it’s not like he’s really in your way.
Even though the graphics have been complained about ever since the first demo, I haven’t seen many people mention how much more expression has gone into the character models, especially their faces. I went back to watch some cutscenes from the first game and was shocked by how static the faces are. The way scenes are scripted includes so much expressive body language, it really helps to nail the emotion 100%.
Why was everyone passing around the black materia and the clear materia and holy, like sephiroth already HAD it and then gave it to Cloud who gave it back? I don’t really care…. Kind of a weak story beat. But loved watching Cloud lose his shit in the endgame.
I braced myself for a bad ending. I was fully prepared to not take the last chapter seriously. So that’s what I will do. I’m not sure how I feel about the death. My favorite theory is from discord: Cloud killed Aerith and blanked it out. Maybe a long shot but would make for a really satisfying third act reveal. I mean, nobody else saw her die.
I didn’t HATE the zack stuff…. But it definitely killed the pacing for what was basically no story. Like…. I don’t remember anything really happening in those scenes? It was just weird fanfic interludes. Kind of cute though.
It’s kind of funny how 90% of these games are a loyal-but-expanded version of the OG, yet there is that weird little 10% that feels like a tacked on side story involving zack and other timelines that just sort of…. Exists.
I loved the dream date at the end between Cloud and aerith. You’re not sure at first if they’re AU until you realize that was them at their happiest selves. The camera poses. It was kind of beautiful and actually made me really emotional. Honestly their dynamic at the end was crazy, the chasing scene was peak. Plus the way everyone is just ignoring Cloud being psycho and dangerous? Like get him tf out the party bro! He feels so much scarier in this version compared to his little block model.