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Final Fantasy VII Demo Playthrough Leak [Update: Full game spoilers datamined]

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Tornak

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Eylos said:
besides monster design, most character designs are closer to the original than the compilation nomura designs in the original are good, the summons that are probably closer to what vincent limit break is look really great in the remake, i dont think there's anything to worry about it, my bet is they will change the design but keep the overall look (maybe they will change the texas chain saw massacre one)
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Always loved how the Galian Beast was essentially a bipedal Behemoth, aka one of FF's best monster designs.
 
Mahonay

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Mediking said:
Fun fact about Maxi Dood... I actually remember him sending me a PM on NeoGaf or whatever saying sorry for what happened.
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Terraforce said:
Calling someone a shithead based on what you thought you remembered. Some of y'all really try to get bold bold when you're behind the computer screen, huh? smh
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Water said:
Okay you can apologize now. Hopefully you've learned from this.
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Already clarified that I mistook him for Asmongold. Apparently I'm brain dead.
 
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Beth Cyra

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Samawati said:
Lash me and take my blood, but I low key prefer ACC's art style.

Either that, or have them be even more deformed. This in-between ground makes them feel a little uncanny.
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You're not alone on this one, I actually prefer AC/C'a art and character designs more than the Remakes.

I enjoy the Remake for sure but it's not my fav of the main three we've seen.
 
Maximilian

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Can report to you all that there's already differences from the E3 Behind The Scenes demo present in this.

I'm not sure how much we want to talk about spoilers of the video in here...but some of the musical nods were not present as well as the actions of Aerith. How do I feel about them injecting these story elements in the first cutscene of the game...?

I fucking love it.
 
Kholdy

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Gaia Lanzer said:
Even if they never reference DoC, I sure as HELL hope Vincent's transformations don't look like his Galian Beast and Chaos redesigns. That was my absolute WORST era regarding Nomura's character designs. He wanted to make everything pointy and pronged and wanted to work in tribal tattoo-aesthetics into EVERYTHING.

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That's "Worst Nomura" IMO. 2004-2007 Nomura made some cringy shit, IMO (I know a lot of people will disagree). I think he's gotten over that style lately (or at least toned it down). That's why I'm wondering what we're gonna get regarding Vincent.
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Yeah, I'd prefer if they flesh out the original transformations.
In DoC, they tried too hard to maintain some humanity in Vincent's transformations.

Look at Galian Beast, why the hell it's wearing clothes? Wtf is this cloth tail?
And Chaos is just wrong, if anything I'd hope it looked more demonic like the Original Chaos from I.
 
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Maximilian said:
Can report to you all that there's already differences from the E3 Behind The Scenes demo present in this.

I'm not sure how much we want to talk about spoilers of the video in here...but some of the musical nods were not present as well as the actions of Aerith. How do I feel about them injecting these story elements in the first cutscene of the game...?

I fucking love it.
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Really good to have confirmation that the demo we're getting is a more recent build then.
 
Masagiwa

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Maximilian said:
Can report to you all that there's already differences from the E3 Behind The Scenes demo present in this.

I'm not sure how much we want to talk about spoilers of the video in here...but some of the musical nods were not present as well as the actions of Aerith. How do I feel about them injecting these story elements in the first cutscene of the game...?

I fucking love it.
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Nice! Are you covering this on stream/YT video?
 
Isayas

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Beth Cyra said:
You're not alone on this one, I actually prefer AC/C'a art and character designs more than the Remakes.

I enjoy the Remake for sure but it's not my fav of the main three we've seen.
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Both of you have terrible taste. Compilation of FFVII artstyle are oscar the grouch trash. These remake art designs league's above the try hard and disgusting Compilation design.
 
LowParry

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Maximilian said:
Can report to you all that there's already differences from the E3 Behind The Scenes demo present in this.

I'm not sure how much we want to talk about spoilers of the video in here...but some of the musical nods were not present as well as the actions of Aerith. How do I feel about them injecting these story elements in the first cutscene of the game...?

I fucking love it.
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Can you say this was the beginning of the demo you saw at E3 with the devs? Or is this entirely new to you?
 
Maximilian

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BluePhoneBox said:
I'm amazed that the video's been up for at least seven hours, and hasn't been pulled down by Square-Enix yet.
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Not a lot of people will be in office at Square USA or even Japan. I think most JP companies are on holiday until the first week of January and it's probably going to be a couple of days off for the USA crew until later this week. Some poor person's gonna get an angry email and have to head to the office to reconcile the situation during their holiday break...would usually be how this works.

Can you say this was the beginning of the demo you saw at E3 with the devs? Or is this entirely new to you?
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The E3 demo with the devs is already slightly different than the video. It's more like 90% familiar, 10% new.
 
RROCKMAN

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Maximilian said:
Not a lot of people will be in office at Square USA or even Japan. I think most JP companies are on holiday until the first week of January and it's probably going to be a couple of days off for the USA crew until later this week. Some poor person's gonna get an angry email and have to head to the office to reconcile the situation during their holiday break...would usually be how this works.
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It's like the perfect storm

A late Christmas Miracle lol!
 
Caiops

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The part with One Winged Angel made me think about the Watchmen of Fate, aren't they going to purse Aerith in the Remake?
 
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Isayas said:
Both of you have terrible taste. Compilation of FFVII artstyle are oscar the grouch trash. These remake art designs league's above the try hard and disgusting Compilation design.
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Okay?

like they are two pretty distinct takes on Cloud 'n company and I can totally see why one would prefer Remake's, but to say that anyone who prefers AC/C has trash taste is dumb.

Beyond that nonsense anyway, I pray that the ACC outfits are unlock able in the full game so I can at at least have a little bit of that AC flair.
 
Slaythe

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I cant stop gushing at that flawless Cloud close up to gameplay transition.

What is this thing gonna look like on ps5...?!
 
Masagiwa

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Everything looks amazing, then you have the zoom-out shot and baam!

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This logo bugged me from the day it was shown. It is not up to par. I would have rather taken a brand new Amano piece that incorporates the meteor somehow than this.
 
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Caiops said:
The part with One Winged Angel made me think about the Watchmen of Fate, aren't they going to purse Aerith in the Remake?
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Yeah imma say Sephiroth knows about the Holy materia in advance. I mean maybe he did in the original as well but it seems he could be actively after her the whole game here.
 
Maximilian

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Slaythe said:
I cant stop gushing at that flawless Cloud close up to gameplay transition.

What is this thing gonna look like on ps5...?!
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The thing I'm most curious about is the loading. The behind the scenes demo featured no visible loading outside of starting the game. All scenes of the bombing run transitioned from one area to the next seamlessly. I didn't even notice it until after the presentation was over then realized...the game never visibly loaded anything.
 
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Isayas said:
Both of you have terrible taste. Compilation of FFVII artstyle are oscar the grouch trash. These remake art designs league's above the try hard and disgusting Compilation design.
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Easy, easy. People like what they like. I don't care for the Compilation designs much either but no need for personal attacks!
 
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Masagiwa said:
Everything looks amazing, then you have the zoom-out shot and baam!

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This logo bugged me from the day it was shown. It is not up to par. I would have rather taken a brand new Amano piece that incorporates the meteor somehow than this.
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It's objectively bad. It looks horribly overdesigned, and the font blends into the meteor in the background because everything is using the same colors.

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This on the other hand is aces.
 
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Samawati

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Isayas said:
Both of you have terrible taste. Compilation of FFVII artstyle are oscar the grouch trash. These remake art designs league's above the try hard and disgusting Compilation design.
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You're free to think so, but regardless, I didn't say Compilation, I said AC/C. And I'm really talking faces and proportions, not the leather daddy aesthetic.

I just find the narrow chins, thin arms, but relatively large eyes and heads jarring paired with the hypperrealistic textures and lighting.
 
Masagiwa

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jett said:
You realize you're talking about Squeenix here, right.

It's objectively bad. It looks horribly overdesigned, and the font blends into the meteor in the background.

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This on the other hand is aces.
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The OG one works really well and they're generally really good at these since it's gonna be printed on merch etc. The remake one is one of the worst they've ever done.
 
Slaythe

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Maximilian said:
The thing I'm most curious about is the loading. The behind the scenes demo featured no visible loading outside of starting the game. All scenes of the bombing run transitioned from one area to the next seamlessly. I didn't even notice it until after the presentation was over then realized...the game never visibly loaded anything.
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I believe the level design in Midgard allows for them to streamline the loads easily.

You cant fly around at high speed or surf on ice magic like KH3. ( And even in kh3 some areas were gigantic )

All things considered it's a slower paced game with limited mobility so that probably does help a ton on that front.
I take it that the big area changes will be hidden with cutscenes.
Smart designs all around.

And luckily, when part 2 comes they'll have the next gen ssd to allow for great traversal in the world !
 
chandoog

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so like is the demo coming out for the rest of humanity or is this a big fuckin practical joke from SE ?
 
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The logo fits perfectly with the first game. Meteor isn't even a thing in it, it's focused on the Shinra conflict so the metal style fits it nicely.
 
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Masagiwa said:
Everything looks amazing, then you have the zoom-out shot and baam!

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This logo bugged me from the day it was shown. It is not up to par. I would have rather taken a brand new Amano piece that incorporates the meteor somehow than this.
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Yeah, the extruded metal negative space... thing with the comet is bizarre.
 
Arta

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It would be crazy watching Strange Rebel Gaming do a playthrough of this demo.

 
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