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Since the weekends can be about relaxing from work and talking about fun stuff, I was really excited this week at E3 that Sony and Squeenix announced a remake of Final Fantasy 7. This is something many, many people have asked for and now we're finally seeing it. If you've seen Advent Children then you have an idea of what the characters and environment could look like. I, for one, am stoked about this. I'm a little wary, however, of whether the game can keep its charm or whether this will be a big disappointment with an overhaul of the combat system and story.
And the big question, of course.....In the remake can you revive Aeris?
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In an E3 About Nostalgia, One of the Big Announcements is a Final Fantasy 7 Remake
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(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Monday June 22 2015, @08:55PM
For Linux I've ran my FF7 via ePSXe (or Wine for the PC version). As for an updated FF7? The high(er) res model pack does it for me, along with a few other mods [qhimm.com] (there's also mods that allow you to keep Areis alive).
From a design perspective, the death of an important character is a profound part of FF7, which places great significance on the subject of mortality via removing a character that players have invested time, if not empathy, into. The desire to revive her may have you pulling hairs out wondering why Cloud won't use any of the hundred Phoenix Downs in your inventory, but the tale would be less emotional, esp. the best ending, without the loss.
Loss is an important theme in FF7 which makes it great. There's a point where you lose all your materia. There's a point in the game where you lose the main character as he loses himself. Both Aeris and Red XII are the last of their kind and lost their families. The planet itself is withering due to over use of its magical energies. Not to mention the kidnappings. The theme of loss runs through just about every element of the plot, if you didn't have to lose a party member permantently I would have been disappointed and critics would be saying it would have been more powerful if Aeris (or Tifa) had died.
Personally, I'm not excited about a FF7 reboot.. I'd have been excited if they said they'd continue or expand the story, or perhaps made a prequel. The Final Fantasy universes change nearly every game (a few elements crossover, like chocobos). Sometimes we want more of the same universe rather than less of the beloved story/game getting butchered. I hope they keep in the very complex magic system, which allows some interesting chain effects, e.g. lightning + all casted on your own party after you've casted reflect + all on yourselves to magnify the damage to opponents. It wasn't immediately apparent that one could link more than two materia together at a time by equipping duplicates, but once discovered it makes for a powerful battle system having a large degree of depth emerging from a small amount of complexity. When I first figured it out I was amazed that the game's simple logic system actually allowed the long chains of effects to be "programmed" with materia.
It won't be a FFVII game to me if the battle system is butchered rather than accentuated. I'm sure Square knows this has far too much potential to screw it up, but seeing how Square typically scraps and rebuilds the battle systems between games rather than carrying forward successful features (such as the aforementioned action chaining) I don't have my hopes up. Maybe this is just an automatic response since too many reboots have been shitting on my childhood rather than giving me more of what I loved. I blame Microsoft for so many people assuming that a reboot is the answer.
Also, here's a link to the video on youtube [youtube.com] since that embedded one on TFA didn't play nice with the Debian I run in a VM.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @09:32PM
There is at least one prequel for the PSP that mostly focuses on Zack. Crisis Core: FF7.