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6/26/2025, 10:15:34 AM
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>So people who played the OG have new stuff to look forward to? So there's new stuff to speculate about? So Cloud is even more fucked up in the head, making the build up to crater and the following Lifestream event even better?
None of this actually makes it "better". Rebirth spells out the truth of Cloud's fuckery so completely and utterly blatantly and out in the open that the entire surprise factor of how deep the rabbit hole goes is out the window. Crisis Core existing, and being remade to hype up Rebirth, doesn't help, but shit is so fucked for no particularly good reason. You got Meteor being shown well ahead of time because Sephiroth wants to fuck with Cloud, you got the Arbiters who have the subtlety of a sledgehammer, you got Tifa being dipped into the Lifestream super early which partially undermines the Mideel fall and sets up the plot elements of what that all works towards in the first place, and the list goes on. And don't even get me started on how much is derived from an old PS2 game no one can play without emulation, or random Japan-only novellas.
There's decent new stuff, like expanding the lore around Junon and Kalm for the old republic war, cool, and the various groups holding out in resisting Shinra while others are just accepting their lot in life. I think most of the non-plot interactions between the main party are great most of the time, too. But no fan was actually asking for Kitase and Nojima to drop their autistic spaghetti all over the script and randomly fuck with everything just to fuck with it. You don't need to make things retarded just to make them interesting.
>So people who played the OG have new stuff to look forward to? So there's new stuff to speculate about? So Cloud is even more fucked up in the head, making the build up to crater and the following Lifestream event even better?
None of this actually makes it "better". Rebirth spells out the truth of Cloud's fuckery so completely and utterly blatantly and out in the open that the entire surprise factor of how deep the rabbit hole goes is out the window. Crisis Core existing, and being remade to hype up Rebirth, doesn't help, but shit is so fucked for no particularly good reason. You got Meteor being shown well ahead of time because Sephiroth wants to fuck with Cloud, you got the Arbiters who have the subtlety of a sledgehammer, you got Tifa being dipped into the Lifestream super early which partially undermines the Mideel fall and sets up the plot elements of what that all works towards in the first place, and the list goes on. And don't even get me started on how much is derived from an old PS2 game no one can play without emulation, or random Japan-only novellas.
There's decent new stuff, like expanding the lore around Junon and Kalm for the old republic war, cool, and the various groups holding out in resisting Shinra while others are just accepting their lot in life. I think most of the non-plot interactions between the main party are great most of the time, too. But no fan was actually asking for Kitase and Nojima to drop their autistic spaghetti all over the script and randomly fuck with everything just to fuck with it. You don't need to make things retarded just to make them interesting.
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