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The note that comes with the PLAY ARTS G-Bike model (kept at Johnny's Seaside Inn) is written by Roche!

This is so sweet!

I like how this note turns into a direct message to Cloud in the English version, since English version uses Roche's "My Friend" as direct address, while in Japanese Roche uses "My Friend" (as katakanized English in the middle of the Japanese sentence) to address Cloud in third person as well, and not just a direct address. It's like if he were to say "Mon ami" in the middle of an sentence in English, when referring to Cloud.

So the English message is a note directly for Cloud, which is cute, Roche just goes around leaving messages to him on anything that he hopes might get his attention XD

And the Japanese note is Roche thinking of Cloud when he sees a cool bike and decides to leave a review for it XD "This bike would be perfect to enjoy a passionate rendez-vous with Mon Ami" XD (Yes, the rendez-vous is passionate in Japanese)

#ff7 #final fantasy vii #roche ffvii #final fantasy vii rebirth

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I will forever be upset that for that one cutscene in remake with Tseng and young Aerith they use Tseng's normal character model when he should be much younger in that scene it drives me mad every time I play the game or watch a playthrough

#ff7 #final fantasy vii #it disappoints me so much #especially since the game files actually contain a version of Tseng with 'aged19' in the filename and shorter hair #and especially since we've seen younger Tseng with different hair in BC and CC #and ff7remake character designer made a version of the younger Tseng design #it makes such a great scene so distracting and disappointing #every time there's an update to the game I keep hoping that maybe they fix it #but they probably won't

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FFVII: Before Crisis (English subtitles)

Link to a playthrough of the original Before Crisis

FFVII Before Crisis Storyline (w/o battles)

And a link to a shorter version without the battles.

I encourage ppl to watch either of these if they’re interested in BC’s full story !

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So, I've downloaded Ever Crisis (the minimal download of 30 GB O_O It's a mobile game, why is it so huge?!!) to play the remake of BC.

And well... you can't really play it, the Ever Crisis version does not have any battles, any dialogue options, any movements or explorations. It's literally 40 minutes of cutscene digest, covering chapters 1 through 8 of Before Crisis.

So if you want Ever Crisis version, you can just watch it on Youtube. The full video is available on FazFaz's channel, same as all the other Ever Crisis story videos! I greatly recommend their channel for all Ever Crisis storylines!

Ever Crisis version has cute models (I think all the character portraits were better in BC though) and nice backgrounds and more movement in the cutscenes, but it skips over most character moments and even full character development episodes, and focuses on just the main plot points.

It has some minor differences, like Rufus is constantly away and only calls in, instead of being present on the board meetings like in BC.

Before Crisis is long. And is often goofy especially if you take it too literally when you see Shotgun bringing a shotgun to a fist fight, or constantly calling Verdot in the middle of battles, while enemies are politely waiting. All inconsistencies are very easily explainable with a little thinking and respect to the story being more symbolical and theatrical due to the constraints of the medium rather than literal cinematographic.

BC is really good. There's a lot of really interesting concepts, lots of great character moments and character development.

The quality is pretty low, but it was made for a tiny phone screen. And it's pretty long, but the Japanese player that recorded that playthrough is an absolute god of the game, not making a single move in the wrong direction, solving every puzzle without hesitation and one-shotting all the enemies, so the playthrough looks incredibly cool and it's as fast as it could get.

And the English translation is masterfully done! Both in the translation and in the editing. It's edited so well, that it's really hard to remember that the game was never available in English.

So yeah, that BC playthrough with Grimoire's translation is an absolute treasure, and I really recommend it ❤

#ff7 #final fantasy vii #the turks #ff7 before crisis #ff7 ever crisis #Youtube

The lost media is unlost but only for 3 months??

Square Enix has good news and bad news XD

Ever Crisis releases the chapters remaking BC! Yay!

And at the same time announces End Of Service this October?? Nooo T_T

That's a very confusing decision ><;

Aphromia is an interesting new name for Emma XD

And Fuhito finally gets a character sprite (^o^)/~

But it's only playable till October 6, and only the first chapter is accessible now.

This is such a weird decision ><;

#ff7 #final fantasy vii #the turks #Youtube

Cloud Strife, music appreciator

For most of the game we don’t actually see Cloud as fully himself. (Yeah, sorry, spoilers for the original game and the plot twist of the 3rd part of the Remake series, which is also heavily hinted at in the first two parts of the Remakes.)

With the Remakes being intended for both the new players and the fans of the original game, (and with Crisis Core being recommended by the devs for playing before we get to Re3), the first two parts of the Remake heavily hint clearly show that there’s something wrong with Cloud’s memory and his sense of self.

So along with Aerith who’s searching for the real Cloud, it’s very interesting to look at all the character moments and see which is a part of the Real Cloud, which is his memory of Zack, and which is his fake persona of a Cool Soldier that he probably made up back when he was 14 and he left Nibelheim to apply to Shinra.

There’s a lot of details that are clearly very intentionally shown, like real Cloud being shy and awkward, and him always helping out everyone, and his love for motorcycles (we’ll get more on that in On the Way to a Smile book too).

And then there are some details that are probably only there for the gameplay, but their presence ends up actually characterising Cloud as well.

And my favourite example of the latter is music. The OG Cloud could play the piano in Tifa’s room (and also the grand piano on Nibelheim Mansion, which was missing two notes, so not fully playable), but there were no other pianos in the original game. Re2 has upped the playable pianos by a lot. And yeah, it all depends on the player, you can ignore them all or you can spend hours playing each, but the fact is that the option is there. When Cloud sees a piano in the room, he can go and play it, and he will immediately take new sheet music with him if you only click on that piano.

And then there’s the music CD collection in Re1. Yeah, this is also an achievement, a collectable item for the player to find, and yes, you can ignore those and never buy a single disc. But it’s still there. The CDs are not just for sale at the vendors and vending machines, Cloud can talk to random people and get CDs from them. By nature of video games, we don’t hear his lines when he initiates a conversation with an NPC, but they obviously read him as interested enough to give him a CD.

So what I get from this is that Cloud really likes music and he wants to learn piano and collect all the discs. Yeah, these are both gameplay details, one is a collection, another one is a rhythm game, but well, the whole thing is a game, and it’s also a story. So what I’m getting from this, is that Cloud, who’s still in his “I’m a cool Soldier who’s super cool and strong and doesn’t give a damn about anything” persona, really gives a lot of damns about helping people, and riding motorcycles, and also collecting music, listening to it and learning to play it.

#ff7 #final fantasy vii #cloud strife #ff7 remake #is it headcanon or character analysis?#probably both #I actually LOVED the piano minigame in FF7R2

Where are BC Turks in FF7Remakes?

So, FF7R trilogy is a remake of the original game, but it’s also bringing in details from the compilation, right? Square Enix remastered Crisis Core and recommends it for playing, and we already met Cissnei in the Re2, so that games canon for the Remake-verse, and they said the remakes will all go into the world of Advent Children, and they’re bringing in elements from Dirge of Cerberus (I could have done without that one, but we’ll see what they’re doing with it), and then they brought in Glenn from Ever Crisis and you actually have to play it (or watch it) to figure out what’s going on with him and Rufus in Re2, so that story is also canon.

But there’s been no mention of details from BC (except for the parts that are the same as CC).

And a lot of details from Re1 and Re2 and the new story from Ever Crisis actually contradict BC.

So did the events of BC not happen in the Remake-verse?

Re1 introduces the main Avalanche, and Integrade elaborates on it, explaining that Barret’s cell is too violent for the main one, which means that Remake-main-Avalanche has no connection to the Fuhito’s Avalanche1.0 which was waaaay more violent than Barret’s Avalanche (why are they all called that, it’s so confusing ><; )

Ever Crisis tells about Glenn and his Shinra Resistance committee, which is sponsored and directed by Rufus, which ends up with Rufus basically becoming the leader of Wutai under the name of ‘Viceroy Sarruf’, and that goes completely against the BC storyline, as the timeline completely overlaps with the original story and both can’t be happening at the same time. So the existence of Viceroy Sarruf and Shinra Resistance Committee means that Fuhito’s Avalanche does not exist, and Rufus never gets caught and he does not spend 4 years under arrest in Turks headquarters.

But if Fuhito’s Avalanche does not exist, then where are the other Turks? No Avalanche1.0 means no conflict between the Turks and Shinra, and the Turk team is not leaving en masse right before the start of the game. Then why are there only 3 of them at the start of the Remake?

Well, Re3 is still ahead, so we might know more. Since something definitely has happened in Kalm before, the bombing of Kalm might still be canon, and Elfe might still exist, just be unrelated to Fuhito and Avalanche, and Veld’s desertion might still have the same reason, and the rest of the Turks might have followed him. But I don’t think we got any mentions of any of that, and I don’t remember any mentions of prequel Turks in Re1/2 other than Cissnei.

(The Gongaga Protorelic quest was such a great moment to include BC Turks, especially if they couldn’t use Reno for real-world reasons, but they went with the weirdest idea of including Elena in that training video, which makes absolutely no sense. You don’t go and rerecord all training videos with your newest employee the second you hired them, especially when you’re extra busy with a million projects at once. Yeah, we can explain it with the training being a VR script, which is the fixed script of the dialogue but which pulls in data of any random current Turk for visual representation. But it would have been so much better to see a recording with Cissnei or other pre-game Turks, which would make it feel like stumbling on an old facility)

I don’t really have any answers. I’m just wondering if Veld and BC Turks even exist in Remake-verse, and will we ever see them? I just really wanna see them XD