A mild side rant here, this is why the Remake for me is personally so disappointing. It recreates everything in pretty graphics, but it completely missed out on the main crux of the story, which is a cool anticapitalist tale about environmental destruction from greed.
The remake instead
spoiler
put the thrust of the story into weird multiverse timeloop remake but not really remake, Kingdom Hearts style nonsensical plot this time would be different self referential nostalgia fanservice. Can you as TRUEfan notice the SUBTLE difference? Oh so subtle! Timeghost? Multidimensional ghosts? Where's waldo? Where's waldo? Tifa or Aerith? Please buy our remake of this ancap tale about greed and environmental destruction, but we chopped it into 3 full priced games and each with their own full priced DLC. Consume products get excited about next product and stay engaged.
Totally disagree both on your interpretation of their execution and even their intent.
In terms of their adherence to an anti-capitalist narrative, the remake is much more blunt about how evil Shinra is and how they are willing to murder any amount of people and abuse the planet if it makes them an extra buck. There's a point where Barret literally goes off about how the in universe Paw Patrol is copaganda.
put the thrust of the story into weird multiverse timeloop remake but not really remake, Kingdom Hearts style nonsensical plot this time would be different self referential nostalgia fanservice. Can you as TRUEfan notice the SUBTLE difference? Oh so subtle! Timeghost? Multidimensional ghosts? Where’s waldo? Where’s waldo? Tifa or Aerith?
Objectively based. They kept advertising this game as a faithful remake of the original and that would have been awful. FF7 holds up perfectly fine and the fans who were shitting their pants because there are changes just want the same slop but repackaged. Legitimately a MGS2 level bait and switch that I adore, it helps that the game itself plays very well and the characters are much more fleshed out. I think I could live my entire life without another "faithful remake but with HD graphics of a game that hasn't really aged poorly."
Tifa or Aerith?
no no no, it's Tifa and Aerith. FF7R is so based they took the two main love interests of the original and made them gay as shit. Not even in an exploitative way, they just decided to throw in these sapphic scenes while Cloud chewed on the floorboards or something. Direct upgrade from the original.
Please buy our remake of this ancap tale about greed and environmental destruction, but we chopped it into 3 full priced games and each with their own full priced DLC. Consume products get excited about next product and stay engaged.
FF7R was like a 40 hour game and the DLC was like 12 (and was fantastic).
it’s Tifa and Aerith. FF7R is so based they took the two main love interests of the original and made them gay as shit. Not even in an exploitative way, they just decided to throw in these sapphic scenes while Cloud chewed on the floorboards or something.
:hexbear-lesbian: I might actually want to play the remake now. :
Thats fair enough, I'm glad that you liked it. I'm personally a bit more cynical - I think finance wise SqEnix realized they cannot sell a faithful adaptation in piecewise 3-4 full priced game, they are afraid that zoomers and newcomers will simply finish part 1 then got curious, play the OG and never buy the 2nd 3rd 4th part and spoil themselves.
I'm fine with theme of fight and overcome destiny. But I would rather them telling a new story than adapting an existing and complete story, remixing it and changing the crux of the message from Exxon bad, to overcome destiny, do rights from wrong? (i thought FF7 ending is okay, so nothing really to undo really)
We haven't been developing FF7R2 but here buy these collectible toys that come with NFTs to tide you over
but I find that my opinion on them is basically reversed from what it was growing up. I used to say that FF7 had boring gameplay and a cool story, now FF7R has great gameplay and a disappointing story.
Great gameplay? I played the demo and couldn't stand it. I understand dumping jrpg random encounters in today's age, but I didn't like the combat at all.
I agree with you somewhat. It's really frustrating, because I wanted more questions answered about Final Fantasy, not to be given more questions. Situations that were already ambiguous are now even worse. I wish the parallel universe trend would stop, but it's really clear that society in general really wants to believe there's a better world out there. It's all escapist fantasy if you think about it. It's just getting really on the nose because we know how bad the world is going right now.
A mild side rant here, this is why the Remake for me is personally so disappointing. It recreates everything in pretty graphics, but it completely missed out on the main crux of the story, which is a cool anticapitalist tale about environmental destruction from greed.
The remake instead
spoiler
put the thrust of the story into weird multiverse timeloop remake but not really remake, Kingdom Hearts style nonsensical plot this time would be different self referential nostalgia fanservice. Can you as TRUEfan notice the SUBTLE difference? Oh so subtle! Timeghost? Multidimensional ghosts? Where's waldo? Where's waldo? Tifa or Aerith? Please buy our remake of this ancap tale about greed and environmental destruction, but we chopped it into 3 full priced games and each with their own full priced DLC. Consume products get excited about next product and stay engaged.
Totally disagree both on your interpretation of their execution and even their intent.
In terms of their adherence to an anti-capitalist narrative, the remake is much more blunt about how evil Shinra is and how they are willing to murder any amount of people and abuse the planet if it makes them an extra buck. There's a point where Barret literally goes off about how the in universe Paw Patrol is copaganda.
Objectively based. They kept advertising this game as a faithful remake of the original and that would have been awful. FF7 holds up perfectly fine and the fans who were shitting their pants because there are changes just want the same slop but repackaged. Legitimately a MGS2 level bait and switch that I adore, it helps that the game itself plays very well and the characters are much more fleshed out. I think I could live my entire life without another "faithful remake but with HD graphics of a game that hasn't really aged poorly."
no no no, it's Tifa and Aerith. FF7R is so based they took the two main love interests of the original and made them gay as shit. Not even in an exploitative way, they just decided to throw in these sapphic scenes while Cloud chewed on the floorboards or something. Direct upgrade from the original.
FF7R was like a 40 hour game and the DLC was like 12 (and was fantastic).
:hexbear-lesbian: I might actually want to play the remake now. :
Thats fair enough, I'm glad that you liked it. I'm personally a bit more cynical - I think finance wise SqEnix realized they cannot sell a faithful adaptation in piecewise 3-4 full priced game, they are afraid that zoomers and newcomers will simply finish part 1 then got curious, play the OG and never buy the 2nd 3rd 4th part and spoil themselves.
I'm fine with theme of fight and overcome destiny. But I would rather them telling a new story than adapting an existing and complete story, remixing it and changing the crux of the message from Exxon bad, to overcome destiny, do rights from wrong? (i thought FF7 ending is okay, so nothing really to undo really)
Yeah Squeenix is a trash fire
but I find that my opinion on them is basically reversed from what it was growing up. I used to say that FF7 had boring gameplay and a cool story, now FF7R has great gameplay and a disappointing story.
Great gameplay? I played the demo and couldn't stand it. I understand dumping jrpg random encounters in today's age, but I didn't like the combat at all.
I agree with you somewhat. It's really frustrating, because I wanted more questions answered about Final Fantasy, not to be given more questions. Situations that were already ambiguous are now even worse. I wish the parallel universe trend would stop, but it's really clear that society in general really wants to believe there's a better world out there. It's all escapist fantasy if you think about it. It's just getting really on the nose because we know how bad the world is going right now.