#ff7r spec

[submarinedog]

Ok so this is almost completely illegible but that surname is way too long to be Wallace and I’m 80% sure I see an “m” and an “n” in that first name, so, new theory: his wife was a trooper and either retired before marrying him or was on leave at the time of her death.

[submarinedog]

There’s a lot of different ways that they could handle the whole “Cloud punching Aerith while under Sephiroth’s control in the pit” moment in the remake, 

I think probably the best meet-in-the-middle way they could do it, that would neither totally get rid of the moment nor make people TOO uncomfortable, is that it becomes a fight. 

Not a real fight where you can die, mind. You control Aerith, you avoid Cloud and try to knock him out. He is poorly coordinated and moves badly and is easy to avoid, but if you don’t avoid him (and get hurt) someone else jumps in and the sequence ends. Maybe have it on an invisible timer where someone will jump in after a couple minutes if you haven’t beaten him yet. Ghost Cloud running around in a panic could still be visible- Aerith’s special, why not. 

It would not feel the same, but transplanting a scene like that, from teeny tiny little pixels where what’s actually happening beyond the broad strokes is difficult to parse, to HD graphics, would do that anyway. 

It could also be kept more or less the same by all that applying, but you still control ghost Cloud while Aerith fights. Depends on how long they feel like dragging it out I suppose- if Aerith has more agency in defending herself it’ll be fine being longer than 30 seconds, but if you’re running around as a helpless ghost then unless the sequence changes a lot (like, idk, smooth transition from shit that’s happening in reality to Playable Dreamland as opposed to Cutscene Dreamland) it’d be best kept short. 

[barbariccia]

more things i want from the 7remake that i was thinking about today:

an explanation as to why cid highwind is proficient in using a goddamn spear as a weapon in a world where he lusts after space travel

confirmation that aerith’s staves are kind of just. junk from her church that she grabbed when the turks came for her

i want to explore all of midgar. i originally also typed “explode” whoops guess i’m avalanche trash fo’ lyfe

love....less........

for the love of god why were there three different fucking incarnations of bahamut and why does one descend from SPACE

seriously is space-bahamut a thing that exists or does that too just... spirit energy summoned and manifests in a particular way bc couldn’t you then argue that either meteor is “just a manifestation it’s nbd” OR bahamut ZERO is “actually a real thing that’s been drawn to the planet”

i want ANSWERS

better... enemy skills.....

at least some indication of Jade WEAPON. i was gonna say “and the remnants of zirconaide” but that was drawn into a pocket dimension, wasn’t it.

if i have to go into a pocket fucking dimension in the ff7 universe i will shit the bed and not in a good way

please name red xiii’s species

[barbariccia]

things i’m looking forward to from the ffvii remake, part 2:

chocobo breeding

please introduce more chocobo colours!!!!

can i get some lore on the materia caves please

please let me find the bombed-out ruins of banora? i want to at least see a shinra operation in media res of fixing it up because that’d be the third time they’d tried to cover something like that up and gotten away with it

ALTERNATIVE COSTUMES

“bear in a marshmallow” notwithstanding, of course, can we get disguise costumes for everyone that actually have a FUNCTION? i’d love a stealth section where you have to dress up to get through it all.

... i want an explanation how emerald weapon migrated from underneath the mideel area to buried in the northern cave with the rest of the WEAPONs but i also kind of want all the WEAPONs to come out of different places, not burst out of the crater all at once

yo “the cetra were a migrant race” what does that mean, did they, too, come from other planets, or were they just nomadic

better dialect from reno than just tacking “yo” onto some sentences

BEFORE CRISIS TURKS, PLEASE (AT THE VERY LEAST A CISSNEI)

more throwbacks to the original AVALANCHE would be cool as well! notes in icicle inn where they originated, or reading through jessie’s/shears’ notes

having said all that, if i have to watch the crisis core ending again on the return to shinra mansion after cloud’s stint in the lifestream i am going to sue someone. enough tears have left my body that i’m permanently dehydrated thanks to that scene.