#ffvii compilation

[ladykf-writes]

FF7 Compilation summarized in verse, GO:

when the gloom hits your eye and there's doom in the sky that's the OG

when you seep dark goop and the Sephlings all group, that's AC

when there's bombs in the air and you're full of despair, that's BC

when everything's dire and the world is on fire, that's CC

when Chaos flies and Omega arises, that's DoC

[hedonistbyheart]

I think the reason I'm entirely unfaced by shenanigans in the ffvii compilation and love every entry in it's own way, if not to exactly the same extend, but at least accept everything as part of the canon, is that I was introduced to square enix and the final fantasy series through kingdom hearts. When KH is your baseline expectation and you already enjoy that, you are fully ready to accept some intricate nonsense.

[pretty-weird-ideas]

Fans seeing Remakes as a linear art where all changes come from going down a checklist where every plot point is a simple "yes" or "no" box is going to be the death of me. When you frame a narrative that's intentionally made to remix and fuck with the original narrative concepts and themes to say something DIFFERENT or expand on the themes as "Kept this element from the OG" vs "Removed" you typically miss out on what the story is even trying to say. You see a lot of "what they kept/cut" vs "WHY they kept/cut it". The writers/producers could literally look the audience in the face and say "This is the theme, it's not the same theme as the original but this is why we rewrote the narrative." and people would intentionally ignore what the current narrative is trying to say to replace it with the narrative of the original. Even if the two themes contradict or actively critique each other/are in conversation.

In the case of IWTV, we got an amazing story about how race connects to power imbalance and the cycle of abuse that WASN'T present in the original. To take that away from the narrative is to misunderstand WHY it exists.

To remove the Fear of the Future and Death from FF7 Remake/Rebirth is to lose a fundamental part of the narrative.

Consume media in the moment, and understand themes from both past AND present. Getting told that a story that is explicitly about a major concept is secretly about [something that isn't even present in the current adaptation] is driving me up the wall.

The constant need to disrespect emergent themes and narratives as falsehoods and abnormal structures that don't deserve analysis or critical thought floor me. The writers of adaptations and remakes are not absentminded when writing, they are not despots and lazy artists. They write just as much as the original writers, if not more. It is so bizarre seeing a narrative that turns the source material into an inside-out art piece get watered down into a list of either "fanservice" or "accidents". Any change is indulgent and useless, anything you dislike is a mistake or pandering, and so on and so forth. Because there's just no way the writers have anything to say of value, that would simply be ridiculous! /s

[finallyfantasy7]

In case someone didn't know you can get official “CRISIS CORE –FINAL FANTASY VII– REUNION” wallpaper, with Zack Fair, Sephiroth, and Cloud Strife standing in front of a Midgar on THE cliff,

in its highest resolution and best quality that hasn't been compressed on Square-Enix's site for the game:

🔗 ffvii.square-enix-games.(com/en-us/games/crisis-core/)

Don't forget to delete the brackets ( ) to make it a working link.

This is what the FFVIICCR page looks like. Scroll down to WALLPAPER DOWNLOADS, and there you go.

[buffaloborgine]

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos and the strange narrative POV of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part VI preface)

Part I: https://buffaloborgine.tumblr.com/post/650462647672766464/of-zack-fair-genesis-rhapsodos-and-the-strange

Part V conclusion: https://buffaloborgine.tumblr.com/post/663504933137563648/of-zack-fair-genesis-rhapsodos-and-the-strange 

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Warning: As always, I copy paste this warning over and over just in case you ignore it and keep reading down. “This series is very controversial, it may not fit with what you know or remember about Crisis Core. So please, read the former parts (I did put the link to Part I in case you are new reader) before putting your foot further down below.” P/s: I welcome all kind of discussion. I love discussion. But this subject is an OBJECTIVE subject, please make sure to keep your bias and prejudice out of discussion, also, I don’t welcome character dissing or using fallacies in arguments, thank you.   _______________________________________

How often do we misread the emotions of people just by the way they behave?  I would say a lot, that’s why we have a whole branch of psychological study on body language and behaviors.  Some people are very good at masking their emotions, some are bad at it.  But that’s where the problem comes from, facing a person that is so good at hiding their emotions means to be tricked to believe they are behaving one way while they aren’t. And most of the time, the masked emotions tend to be the negative ones, sadness, anger, frustration, etc.  One of the simplest method to cause deception on emotion is to make yourself look dramatic, since people will look at you and think you are fussing, exaggerating, that will nail in their perception of how your emotion seem to be. And this method was used very common in theatre plays, especially Shakespeare’s works (Hamlet, King Lear, etc) to represent the way a character hides their emotions and plans. 

In this part, I’m going to talk about that kind of writing in Crisis Core, and the deeper layer of what that writing aimed to, the Five Stages of Grief. 

1. Denial

2. Anger

3. Bargaining

4. Depression

5. Acceptance

It’s been a long while till I touch this series, but I think this is an important and very impressive writing technique used in Crisis Core so I will talk about it.  Please take a look at the exhibits above, I will work them out in the next parts.

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Part VIa: 

[catatonicengineers]

... I’d be on the 63rd floor of the Shinra building doing urban planning, but fine, don’t include Reeve in this needless fluff of a game.

[valenxiaos]

This is all of the messy pkmn art I could conjure up within a week- at some point the turks + co. will be added :)

Also I really only have a clear understanding of CC!Cloud’s team and the others are just sjdkdhdjdj permsomality and fighting style djddkdjdj

[finalfantasy--officialart]

Sephiroth in three of his appearances

Original Game

Crisis Core

Dissidia Final Fantasy