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Yes, there is an MP Absorb materia which gives you back some MP each time you use the paired Magic materia. For example, MP Absorb+Fire coupled with Magnify+Fire will you back MP! Cost is that you 'waste' 4 Materia slots for that.
Also if you're running short on MP take a look at which of your weapons have an MP Recover ability in the Weapon Upgrade screen and spend your MP to acquire that. From what I remember there is one weapon with 10% recovery rate and another with 50% recovery rate which is a lifesaver in Hard mode.
I should've utilized it much more than I did but to be fair I actually like freezing the game in slo mo to pan around before settling on a command.
This is a really lame complaint for me to have but I wish the battle menu would let me see what spells a character has equipped even if I don't have ATB to use them. I just constantly forget who I gave what, expecially after each time I switch a bunch of materia around.
How to get that materia? It is said that i have to reach maximum level of 12 materia or something
You have to max level all the Green Materia. The hardest one to do that is Revival I think so I'd stick an AP Up next to it in a linked slot.
It's a Chadley mission.
Even when there's backstory for him in the original, we don't find out much about his species. In this remake, you find out pretty quickly that he's something Hojo was trying to experiment on, which is pretty much all that's relevant (at that point): he's another species and is one of Hojo's victims.
Welp I completed hard mode.
I thought chapter 18 was kinda frustrating, It was a frustrating chapter to die in though because you can lose a lot of progress.
Overall, I think Hellhouse took the most tries out of all the bosses though for me.
I enjoyed hard mode overall, except for chapter 18.
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Edit: whoops I'm sorry I forgot to add spoilers! I've been posting in this thread and the spoiler thread and forgot where I was. Hope I didn't spoil anything for anyone
both the whispers and sephiroth were so aggressive it was hard to do anything.
The whisper Bohamut whiped me once because it megaflared right at the beginning and my party was low on hp. Sephiroth took me 3 tries and I barely won in the end, only because I had a limit break with Tifa otherwise we probably would have wiped.
The whisper Bohamut whiped me once because it megaflared right at the beginning and my party was low on hp. Sephiroth took me 3 tries and I barely won in the end, only because I had a limit break with Tifa otherwise we probably would have wiped.
Overall, I think Hellhouse took the most tries out of all the bosses though for me.
I enjoyed hard mode overall, except for chapter 18.
Mod Edit: Added spoiler tags
Edit: whoops I'm sorry I forgot to add spoilers! I've been posting in this thread and the spoiler thread and forgot where I was. Hope I didn't spoil anything for anyone
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Play the OG then the Remake.
You can do Remake first and then the OG (and then Hard Mode run of Remake) but you'll understand the Remake way more if you play the OG.
Plus the ending of the Remake doesn't make much sense to you if you haven't played the OG.
The Remake builds off of the OG.
You could play the first 5 hours of the OG and then jump into Remake if you want to keep the other parts that will come out a mystery.
Just finished it. Damn I can't wait for Part 2!
Never played the original but the internet has told me everything about it so I was still able to notice the differences here and there. I also watched Advent Children a million years ago lol
But my god the last chapter! I called what was going on with
early on but my mind was still blown at how they decided to end this game off.
Super excited for Part 2 and I hope they give it the same level of production as they did with Part 1.
Never played the original but the internet has told me everything about it so I was still able to notice the differences here and there. I also watched Advent Children a million years ago lol
But my god the last chapter! I called what was going on with
the Harry Potter ghosts
Super excited for Part 2 and I hope they give it the same level of production as they did with Part 1.
Im playing the game again in easy mode. But wow it is just too easy, like i dont have time to use Asses and magic or ability. Just attack and voila
Someone should be slapped for these mandatory stupid fucking move the robot arms sections.
Classic Final Fantasy balance in action.
Unfortunately, you can't really "beat" the AI, per se. You just have to hope for a round where the AI only does like 41 or 43, and you aim for 44.
Hell House melts like it's nothing on hard mode, but I swear to god these frigging Helitroopers in ch12 are the real Dark Souls lol. Maybe I just need to stop playing this while drinking
also apropos of nothing i really dig this cover
also apropos of nothing i really dig this cover
I was shocked at how easy hell house was on hard. I even managed to get out of the way of a hospitality attack and it couldn't even summon the second series of opponents it's mean to.
Helitroopers gave me issues on normal so I was more prepped and more willing to spend some MP on fire lol.
They're easy but they're sure as hell not fun. They take way too long for something you have to do multiple times for different dresses. The whole thing is asinine padding that could've been made into its own micro chapter to avoid the monotony.
Square Enix Is Pleased With Final Fantasy VII Remake Sales, Has Initiatives To Grow It Further
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Square Enix Is Pleased With Final Fantasy VII Remake Sales
Square Enix has commented on the sales of Final Fantasy VII Remake in a recent financial result briefing saying they are pleased with it.
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Same. Feels like forever since FF has had interactive little dungeon gimmicks like that.
Having more than 3 makes life easier if you don't want to swap materia all the time in parts where the active party changes a lot
You should keep it. Money isn't that big of a problem and having 4 allows you to not swap out.
I finally beat the game.
I think it did a good job overall of making this part feel like a full game with its own narrative (even without being the full FFVII story of tracking down Sephiroth). The side quests were lackluster but at least had some nice character dialogue, and I honestly liked a lot of the additions (Marle, the new stuff in Wall Market), but Kyrie, Roche, and that final dungeon area felt out of place imo.
I'm not sure how I feel about that ending, though. Considering Kitase wanted to make bigger changes to Midgar, I would be surprised if it was all Nomura, but it didn't feel totally or thematically in line with the rest of Remake Part 1, and I have some major reservations about what it meant.
I think the game was largely successful with what it set out to do, but the ending makes me wary of what they'll do next. Most of the game indicates to me that Square can make content that honors the original and is in line with its tone and themes, but there are bits and pieces that are worrisome.
I think it did a good job overall of making this part feel like a full game with its own narrative (even without being the full FFVII story of tracking down Sephiroth). The side quests were lackluster but at least had some nice character dialogue, and I honestly liked a lot of the additions (Marle, the new stuff in Wall Market), but Kyrie, Roche, and that final dungeon area felt out of place imo.
I'm not sure how I feel about that ending, though. Considering Kitase wanted to make bigger changes to Midgar, I would be surprised if it was all Nomura, but it didn't feel totally or thematically in line with the rest of Remake Part 1, and I have some major reservations about what it meant.
I think the game was largely successful with what it set out to do, but the ending makes me wary of what they'll do next. Most of the game indicates to me that Square can make content that honors the original and is in line with its tone and themes, but there are bits and pieces that are worrisome.
That ending was actually Hamaguchi. Nomura didn't want it at first but relented.
Oh, was it? I'm only just now catching up on info released after the game, so I haven't seen that bit yet.
Exactly. I applaud FFXV for bringing some more variety to the table than XIII did, but VII Remake is old-school FF levels of successful in terms of integrating those gimmicks to keep things fresh. It's unfortunate that some folks see it as "filler." But personally, when I think "Final Fantasy gameplay" I don't just think of battling. In fact, my mind first wanders to Triple Triad, chocobo breeding, dungeon gimmicks like the robot hand, finding Al Bhed primers... you know, the whole shebang.
I know people are all over this discussion but I think there are many mistakes and a lot of wild speculation here. There are much better discussions on reddit and other places on youtube. A few of us here tried to summarize some of these questions and answers in the threadmark, and tried our best to source everything.
So I'm about 6 hours in and just started chapter 5. I have some questions. Is tifa particularly good at staggering, or is she just specifically good at increasing the stagger multiplier?
Also, I don't really understand how they expect you to effectively fight flying enemies whenever you don't have a ranged character in your party? You could use spells but you gotta build atb somehow.
I've heard barret can be your tank if you control him and he draws aggro the problem is that the other characters atb fills so slow that it's hard to want to control your tank. Will enemies continue to attack him once you switch characters?
Also, I don't really understand how they expect you to effectively fight flying enemies whenever you don't have a ranged character in your party? You could use spells but you gotta build atb somehow.
I've heard barret can be your tank if you control him and he draws aggro the problem is that the other characters atb fills so slow that it's hard to want to control your tank. Will enemies continue to attack him once you switch characters?
Tifa is effective at building up the pressure gauge when she has her unbridled strength buffs and then increases stagger damage bonus with her unique ability.
As for fighting flying enemies with melee characters, it's the weakest part of the combat and the camera likes to go haywire too so I would stick to using tracking or instant spells like fire and thunder since most flying enemies lower to the ground when hit with any kind of spell.
Barret is a good tank because of his HP, Steelskin, and a weapon ability you get at the end of chapter 6 I believe. That ability makes it so you don't have to worry about getting aggro. There is also a Materia called Provoke that does exactly what it sounds like and is very useful on Barret. I don't quite remember which one of Chadley's battle intels reward it though and you wont be able to get it until later.
Also a quick tip about Barret, focus on using magic attacks instead of Focused Shot unless the enemy is pressured since it does like no damage otherwise. Also the obvious use Barret for flying enemies or enemies out of the way.
Depends on how much of the ending you want to understand on a first playthrough.
I say watch the full OG playthrough though because the game feels like it wants you to know about the whole OG.
There's nothing you'll actually need but there are some easter eggs here and there. The ending isn't really any less confusing even if you played OG tbh outside of knowing a character or two.
Thanks this was very helpful and enlightening!
Regarding the flying enemies, it seems like an oversight of the design. The story necessitates cloud being paired with melee characters at points of the story which kind of breaks the battle design. Definitely seems like it's designed around the full 3 character party which it took me 6 hours for the game to let me have
Definitely this. I loved all the mini-games it felt like the first FF in forever that had tons of bite sized mini-games properly peppered throughout. The robot arm one was probably my least favorite just a small little diversion, but I loved the pump one in the sewers as well as the switch one in the Reactor (which was in the OG too).
It isn't like they make you do any of them for hours on end.
XIII-2 had plenty, they were infuriatingly bad though. Lol
"Filler" has become a mindless label that uncritical people slap on any content they're not interested in. It's like an envelope for shallow knee-jerk complaints, the opposite of cogent ideas about how to improve the game as a whole.
A coherent definition of filler might be "repetitive content that adds little to the gameplay, world, characters, or story." Then it would make sense to say that some of the drawn out sewer segments were filler, and maybe Chapter 6's maze of metal platforms.
The world of FF7R feels so lively and full of variety because it has diverse content beyond combat and story beats. People are conditioned to elevate combat and linear storytelling as the most worthy types of content, but that's wrong for Final Fantasy, and it's especially wrong for a remake of a game like FF7.
The remake succeeds because it didn't strip away all of the quirkiness and gimmicks of the original. Instead, it leaned into them while lavishing attention on the character interactions and world building. It was the correct approach.
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And a lot of folks don't recall that VII had a lot of these bits too where dungeons had particular stretches where you did different things to explore and get other treasures if you followed the right steps. Back then, we didn't call it filler. If there is content that one sees as filler, then the question is "Is it fun?" and if the answer is no, that's where the dev team needs to focus. Filler isn't filler if people enjoy it.
Also wondered about that. But I don't think it's anything particular beside pointing out you'e completed a training session. Any other sort of gain would be OP imo.