What do you think of FF15, Kingdom hearts 3 and some of the Directors and Writers recent stuff?
I felt that all the characters were human and the narrative had a very human core. Again, the execution left a lot to be desired and I could have done without the big setpiece, but the narrative thematics are what kept me tied in.
Didn't like FFXV at all, like spots of KH3 mostly centered around the original characters.
There's nothing interesting about the creators crying that nobody likes the garbage they've been making for the past fifteen years so they had to trick people into playing a new Final Fantasy game. I am not interesting in a metatextual reading of the people that work at Square Enix.
This game isn't crying about the compilation though. It is a celebration of it, and of all of its fans. It has throwbacks and references to even the books that barely anyone has read. The game isn't crying about it, it's reflecting on it.
I am pretty sure the rest in just gonna be a pretty close remake of the original with just a few variables swapped. A new Game Plus run with slightly different variables. It will still have all the setpieces fans love, just with some changes. I don't think there will be any Xehanorts or Organization members popping up out of nowhere. Just like this one was.
I only wanted to go back because they said that's what they were doing. If Square Enix never remade FF7 in my entire lifetime I would have been perfectly content. And by garbage I don't mean just the Compilation, I mean literally everything Square Enix has been putting out for almost two decades. They're sad about having to constantly live in the shadow of FF7, but don't realize that's only because they went on to make a bunch of toothless melodramatic garbage afterwards.
The point of the ending is that these characters will not be doomed to their fates from the original, not that they will not go on a completely different journey altogether. All of the major plot points from the first game are still set up to happen -- the Gang still needs to stop Sephiroth, Go to Cosmo Canyon, stop Jenova, who is free again, etc. None of that stopped existing just because they beat the Whispers. The only thing stopped is the Whispers' constant Canon Enforcement trying to get people to die where they did in the original.
I meant specifically from the Final Fantasy side of things. Dragon Quest does quite well and they even bought Eidos so they can shift the blame to them whenever financials aren't working out.
I mean, FF11, 12, and 14 really don't exist in the shadow of 7 much if at all. And all of those are great games?
I actually first wrote this post yesterday and had already posted it in the spoiler thread. The line about Alex was not added because of you. I actually didn't realize you were the Imran, lol.
Again, it feels like you're honing in on future ramifications. I'm critical of what we see of Sephiroth in THIS game, and I feel my reasons for that are pretty solid.
I...haven't made any claims as to why you like the ending?
None of the titles the big names attached to Remake have been involved with recently have had the same kind of fan/critical/sales success 7 did. 15 managed to topple 7's sales and had better fan reception than Nomura and Toriyama's stuff, and they cancelled all the DLC and the director Tabata left. Between that and the ending my only takeaway is there's frustration at the higher creative levels at Square Enix.
I doubt it. Shit, Jessie will probably show up alive in the next game.
I mean, those two things are philosophically opposite ideas. Where a character ends up is a direct result of all the stops along the way. You don't get to go to all the same stops and end up in a different place (and vice versa - you don't get to go to different stops but end up at the same place).
I don't think they are? I think all of the steps along the way will be similar, but the outcomes of events at the stops will be different, meaning that in the end, we will have a different result. Like, I have no doubt we will be heading to the forgotten capital again, with the major difference being who is alive and how that event plays out. How the tiniest ripples can have ramifications.
The whole game is being sold on nostalgia and so I doubt they will not try to do some of the important key moments. At that point, why even have the twist if you're going to include those call backs? I have a feeling it's just going to end up being the new Star Wars trilogy. With the last part being a convoluted mess to please the fans after drastically changing everything in the second part.
Basically this.
