Final Fantasy VII Remake Megathread - Intergrade, Rebirth, Reunion and more
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I imagine any project derived from the Remake will have the Remake's voice-actors, while anything that fuses the FINAL FANTASY brand like Dissidia and other games will use the old VAs.
I'm lost. Isn't the game going up until Midgar?
The first game is only Midgar
I'm still confuse. Will the first episode be Midgar only, or will it be up until the Cosmo CAnyon?
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I see FFVIIR as a complete reimagining of the original game, which didn’t have voice acting. All the FFVII VAs we know and love were cast here and there for different projects as needed. And many characters like Aerith have never had one consistent VA.
So from my perspective, and I believe from SE’s, this is an opportunity to voice cast the game from scratch with age appropriate voice actors who have good chemistry with each other, who can more easily adapt to changes in characterization, and who will be contracted to play the role for however many installments this project will run.
It’s nothing I have against any of the original VAs. I just think they’re making a creative choice to separate this game from the compilation and I support them in that. I’ve said this before, but as a theatre person, I have no issue with different actors playing the same role. In fact, I very much enjoy seeing new takes on a part.
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I'm confused too. That scene in the TGS trailer looked like similar to the fight scene at Cosmo Canyon. Is this a sneak peek or what?
Isn't the first fight scene with Reno and Rude at Cosmo Canyon? Or is it at Aerith's house? Perhaps I am misremembering.
In the trailer, the first fight with Reno is in the Church and the first fight with Rude is outside in the slums. The second Reno fight is still within Midgar.
The final shot in the trailer is after
in the Rude fight.Spoiler Show
Yeah, I think this is a great way to put it. Also Cody Christian sounds like a younger Steve Burton, and I think it works. Not to say Steve couldn't do a younger voice as well, but I think Steve presents a very melancholic version of Cloud perfectly.
It's like how Tobey Maguire was the first Spider-Man in the movies (we're not counting that old OLD made-for-TV one) and the current Spider-Man is Tom Holland. They bring a completely different performance and therefore a different feel, but they're both the same character in the end. Or like Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix. Some renditions will be stronger than others in certain areas, but fresh performances can be a great thing. I'd love the original cast, but I see why they went for something different here.
Also, even though they won't use the VAs that we're used to in the Remake (unless they do a VA DLC pack, which is a huge stretch...), Steve Burton still seems to be the definitive version of Cloud, and George Newbern still seems to be the definitive version of Sephiroth, so it's definitely not all bad.
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I’m really excited about Classic Mode. Even if I don’t use it, it’ll appeal to the traditionalists in the fandom. It also shows just how much this gameplay system is built off of the original game as opposed to being designed after FFXV or KH3. If anything, it’s a mix between the original and Crisis Core.
Two things:
* There are people actually complaining that they added a "Classic" mode;
* There's some small shade going on between FF fans and KH fans on Twitter, stating KH fans expected the Remake to be KH2FM 2.0 because the Tokyo team is behind FF7R, lol
* There are people actually complaining that they added a "Classic" mode;
* There's some small shade going on between FF fans and KH fans on Twitter, stating KH fans expected the Remake to be KH2FM 2.0 because the Tokyo team is behind FF7R, lol
I am having a harder time than expected, getting used to Midgar being a full-fledged game.
In my head it's still just the prologue of the game being expanded.
Seeing the characters use summons makes perfect sense for a full game, but in my head I'm just thinking "wait, what? You don't get summons until the Chocobo farm at the earliest... oh yeah, that's right, that part's not gonna happen here until the next game".
And I litteraly just had the same feeling watching the Aps fight. I saw Cloud using the Hardegde instead of the Buster, and my first thought was "You steal that from an enemy in the Shinra HQ building, how do you have that already at this point?"
I still have half a year to get used to these changes, they make perfect sense. I guess the original, even though I haven't played it in years, is just so ingrained in my head, that I notice these things that I honestly don't have anything against, but they still trigger me - if that makes sense?
In my head it's still just the prologue of the game being expanded.
Seeing the characters use summons makes perfect sense for a full game, but in my head I'm just thinking "wait, what? You don't get summons until the Chocobo farm at the earliest... oh yeah, that's right, that part's not gonna happen here until the next game".
And I litteraly just had the same feeling watching the Aps fight. I saw Cloud using the Hardegde instead of the Buster, and my first thought was "You steal that from an enemy in the Shinra HQ building, how do you have that already at this point?"
I still have half a year to get used to these changes, they make perfect sense. I guess the original, even though I haven't played it in years, is just so ingrained in my head, that I notice these things that I honestly don't have anything against, but they still trigger me - if that makes sense?
It helps to sink-in that this is an entirely new interpretation of the first game, so it won't be a loyal reenactment of the game.
I think the closed doors, exclusive hands off demo shown to press and influencers showed them the entire beginning of the game, from Cloud jumping off the train all the way through to the end of the bombing mission.
Plus whatever build they had at TGS was not the regular demo, as it showed a fight in the room before the boss as well as the timer counting down your escape afterwards (and they loaded up the Squat mini-game from that build too) and it had over an hour of game time listed already, so one may assume that they took the current finalised build, played through to that point, then brought that to TGS.
This isn’t a 1:1 remake of FF7. There are going to be several additions and changes made to the story to accommodate this new reimagining. Everything in this trailer and every trailer to come until March is from the first game (keyword: GAME, not episode, before someone says it), which expands Midgar into it’s own full fledged experience with 2-discs of content.