Kinda? There's a special scene in the lull between the second and third acts where Cloud has a Moment with one of his party members. Barret's is the hardest to get and honestly also pretty great. It's not romantic tho. I can link it/them if you want to see it/them
Moreso than in the original IMO. Barret's honestly the standout character of the remake, he's so good. And I say this as a trans girl whose egg was partially cracked by sheer envy aimed at Aerith's look
Moreso the boots and her jacket, I've since discovered that dresses do nothing for me. I'm a jumpsuit gal honestly. I have a pair of coveralls which I'm pretty sure are actually intended for doing manual labor in, and I wear it with a heeled boot and I feel so fucking queer
The whole time Aerith is hatching the plan for Cloud to sneak into Corneo's mansion, he's acting like he doesn't want to do it but then he goes out of his way to get the best lingerie and makeup and tiara and ends up the prettiest girl.
He did have his gender confirmed by medical means. He never felt like he was the man he wanted to be and and after an underground treatment society saw him that way. There is something there
I'm actually super concerned that they are only doing 1 more game. I do not think the rest can fit in one game. Needs two in my opinion or they need to completely change the pacing. I felt like one very fair criticism of the remake is that the original has much better pacing. I got annoyed with the pacing in the remake multiple times just feeling like it was taking way too long to get through some sections that should have been quick. Some parts were expanded well and some should not have been.
Barret had a daughter with another man and the only important emotial depth they give to him is his relationship with that other man and their daughter. Barret can only be a power bottom. This is the 90s and they give him a weapon that works best in the rear. He is pretty Bara in some of his concept art as well.
He just wants to be a publican and a doting father but there's a maniacal corporation that needs exploding and a whole planet that needs healing and a whole jenova that needs... idk what jenova calls for tbh
I think that jenova plot was mishandled but short of writing a 10k page fanfiction that accidentally perfectly describes my mental illness there isn't much to do about it.
I like the whole underlying shared consciousness vibes, I dislike/misunderstand the fragmented genetic clones thing. Was jenova an embodiment of mako/lifestream? Or was it just doctor whatsisface in (niblheim?) that created mako soldiers (and Vincent?) and it went awry?
Idfk its been years since I revisited it and this is pushing the bounds of my latent memories of it all
Jenova was an alien from space that crashed into Gia, earth whatever it's called, and killed off the cetra. Soldiers like Sephiroth and Cloud have Jenova cells in them which is why Sephiroth can control Cloud sometimes. There's a whole big debate on if Jenova was controlling Sephiroth or not. I think anyway, from what my memory remembers of VII
Wait so jenova is meteor? Also cetra, thank you, could only remember ancients (fuck that temple holy shit). Also just me or does that wall boss look like one of the jenovas (birth? Idk have to check)
Yeah Jenova was the "calamity from the sky" the first like impact that hit gia and made the northern crater. Yeah the wall boss kind of does look like Jenova but it's actually a callback to an older FF boss called the wall monster, iirc
That's right. Ive toyed with the idea of the cover art as a tattoo but 1) it's very 'thick'/would just be a dark circle mostly and 2) idk about putting commercial bullshit on my body
I didnt know that about the wall monster! vii was my first, which is why moogles will forever be mogs in my mind
I also just started it and yeah it actually has pretty good class politics for a dating simulator
Can you date Barrett in the remake
Kinda? There's a special scene in the lull between the second and third acts where Cloud has a Moment with one of his party members. Barret's is the hardest to get and honestly also pretty great. It's not romantic tho. I can link it/them if you want to see it/them
Is he still head over heels for Marlene though, this is important
Moreso than in the original IMO. Barret's honestly the standout character of the remake, he's so good. And I say this as a trans girl whose egg was partially cracked by sheer envy aimed at Aerith's look
Stompy boots, pretty dress, and a hittin' stick‽
Moreso the boots and her jacket, I've since discovered that dresses do nothing for me. I'm a jumpsuit gal honestly. I have a pair of coveralls which I'm pretty sure are actually intended for doing manual labor in, and I wear it with a heeled boot and I feel so fucking queer
The vibes are there and they are strong.
Tifa egg, myself lmao. Or Cloud tbh there's no way he's cishet
Weird thing is, I've since disovered that I prefer to present more masc. I think I was envious mainly of Aerith's combat boots and her attitude lmao
The whole time Aerith is hatching the plan for Cloud to sneak into Corneo's mansion, he's acting like he doesn't want to do it but then he goes out of his way to get the best lingerie and makeup and tiara and ends up the prettiest girl.
He did have his gender confirmed by medical means. He never felt like he was the man he wanted to be and and after an underground treatment society saw him that way. There is something there
That's left open to Interpretation
That's disappointing
The remake doesn't reach the part where the date happens, so we won't know until then.
Ohhh that makes more sense. I've only played the og, 'please insert disc 2' lol
Remake only gets to the end of Midgar.
I'm actually super concerned that they are only doing 1 more game. I do not think the rest can fit in one game. Needs two in my opinion or they need to completely change the pacing. I felt like one very fair criticism of the remake is that the original has much better pacing. I got annoyed with the pacing in the remake multiple times just feeling like it was taking way too long to get through some sections that should have been quick. Some parts were expanded well and some should not have been.
Barret had a daughter with another man and the only important emotial depth they give to him is his relationship with that other man and their daughter. Barret can only be a power bottom. This is the 90s and they give him a weapon that works best in the rear. He is pretty Bara in some of his concept art as well.
He just wants to be a publican and a doting father but there's a maniacal corporation that needs exploding and a whole planet that needs healing and a whole jenova that needs... idk what jenova calls for tbh
I think that jenova plot was mishandled but short of writing a 10k page fanfiction that accidentally perfectly describes my mental illness there isn't much to do about it.
I like the whole underlying shared consciousness vibes, I dislike/misunderstand the fragmented genetic clones thing. Was jenova an embodiment of mako/lifestream? Or was it just doctor whatsisface in (niblheim?) that created mako soldiers (and Vincent?) and it went awry?
Idfk its been years since I revisited it and this is pushing the bounds of my latent memories of it all
Jenova was an alien from space that crashed into Gia, earth whatever it's called, and killed off the cetra. Soldiers like Sephiroth and Cloud have Jenova cells in them which is why Sephiroth can control Cloud sometimes. There's a whole big debate on if Jenova was controlling Sephiroth or not. I think anyway, from what my memory remembers of VII
Wait so jenova is meteor? Also cetra, thank you, could only remember ancients (fuck that temple holy shit). Also just me or does that wall boss look like one of the jenovas (birth? Idk have to check)
Yeah Jenova was the "calamity from the sky" the first like impact that hit gia and made the northern crater. Yeah the wall boss kind of does look like Jenova but it's actually a callback to an older FF boss called the wall monster, iirc
That's right. Ive toyed with the idea of the cover art as a tattoo but 1) it's very 'thick'/would just be a dark circle mostly and 2) idk about putting commercial bullshit on my body
I didnt know that about the wall monster! vii was my first, which is why moogles will forever be mogs in my mind
you could do that in the PS1 game too. you can ride the ferris wheel with him.
Yeah that's what I was referring to