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Final Fantasy VII: Remake |OT| C'mon newcomer. Follow me.
- Thread starter Eleriu
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Barret and Red looked amazing.
Aerith and Cloud looked weird.
Tifa looked weird at different shot and great in other shots.
The only thing that stood out to me was suddenly everybody became Asian in the CG scenes.
Exactly this.
But the one that bothers me the most is Tifa's appearance in the main menu. Equipment screen Tifa is fine, though.
I went for the safe route with Cloud/Aerith/Barret and aggressive casting. Works for all the fights but I'll explain the Bahamut one since it's the hardest. Use Cloud and Aerith as offensive casters, with Barret for support. For Cloud I used the Mythril sword for magic attack, but you can use Twin Stinger too if you want Reprieve. Have First Strike on Cloud and use it to give Aerith haste. Then cast Arcane Ward asap. Get on that twister mat with both Cloud and Aerith and cast firaga. Each spell will hit twice, so you do a 4x Firaga combo which will do some serious damage. You can use Barret to cast Pray (no mp spent) and cast manawall + magnify (the reason you want to save that mp). You can run around with Barret as bait for Bahamut while Cloud and Aerith do their casting. Make sure you have a manawall + heal once Bahamut is down to '1' on his Megaflare counter. With enough health you can tank Megaflare if you have Manawall up.
High level mp and hp ups are recommended for everyone you're using. Aerith was at 7900 for me and both Cloud and Barret 8-9k ish.You can put magic ups on Aerith so she does even more damage. One or two characters need lightning for Levi as well. What's also really useful is to put a fire + max. elemental on your armor, which will make ifrit heal you instead of doing damage! I only had one for Cloud, if you have 2 it's even better. That way, you can ignore Ifrit and continue wailing on Bahamut. I used to think magnify+cure wasn't worth sacrificing but with Bahamut it's a lifesaver. Just use pray and individual cures/chakra for mid battle healing.
Or you can try to replicate the setup in this video which goes even harder on pure offense. Fury rings on all characters, ATB boosting materia and no hp ups at all.
If you're not gonna use that strategy it's at least worth a watch because he destroys the gauntlet with ease.
Chapter 9 and the visuals are crazy. When this game hits its stride graphically it is a sight to behold! The difference between significant character models and random npcs is very big though. Looking forward to in the next game where the consistency increases greately. This game already has a vibrant feel to it which I think will transfer very well to the improvements made in next gen.
Yeah, I have all of them apart from the butterfinger/JP only Tifa theme (the video on the twitter post is the one that I use, I also have it as my lock screen on the PC). I think you needed to have downloaded the demos for both FF7R and FFXIV to unlock it as the theme alternates images from both.
Only the FFVIIR demo was necessary for the theme in that tweet. The VIIR/XIV theme is something else entirely. As it mentions, the cutoff point was May 11th.
Ok, my understanding was that the FF7/FFXIV was the one for the demo. The others apart from the pre-order theme I was able to just freely download from PSN.
Yeah there's a lot of avoidable mechanics in the game that you don't need to have super tanky characters. Also with normal HP you can fully heal people with Curas.
I'm wondering when we see this on PC will materia modding be a thing. Like a more fleshed out version of enemy skill for instance. Or a provoke materia that's actually useful (maybe by making it a yellow)
Aerith looked the most "off" imo, especially during the last CGI cut scene in the game. Her face there compared to her in-game face is totally different.
It's during the camera movement setting that you can do it
Am I playing this game wrong? I am in chapter 12, and the past few chapters, i've felt like combat mostly consisted of healing every 30 seconds. Get a couple attacks in, oh shit gotta heal the whole team, get an attack in, oh shit Aerith is KOd. I just feel like I'm CONSTANTLY having to heal and revive people, and it makes the combat a huge bummer for me. I keep hearing people saying how much they love the combat but I feel like we're playing different games. I don't think I'm underleveled or anything, I did all the side quests.
Have you been upgrading your weapons?
Chapter 12 has some difficult parts, for sure. I died more than once in normal fights. Camera is hampering in some parts.
yeah I've been upgrading each time I level. Idk, I haven't found the game too hard, I don't die a lot, but I also feel like I spend most of my time just trying to fill ATB so I can heal, and I'm starting to not find it very fun. I dropped the game for like 2 weeks when I got to the horse boss. I played up to the chapter 12 boss yesterday and am just really underwhelmed right now. Just a lot of spongey enemies that aren't fun to fight, and completely focusing on having enough attack points to heal and use items. I don't get how people are finding this fun l feel like I must be playing wrong.
Most common mistake is to stay on 1 character too long, you want to keep switching every 3-10sec, always abuse skills and magic that pressure enemies.
Generally humans will be weak to fire and robots to lightning, as soon as they get pressured use focused attacks to build the stagger gauge.
No need to overuse blocking, you can dodge a lot of attacks by simply running around.
Honestly this game plays a lot like CRPG, and on games like this offense is your best defensive, but you gotta make sure you are using the right attacks.
Blocking is a good thing to do, and if you feel that you just can't find openings reliably, it might be worth trying to block a bit more and use steadfast block materia for building atb instead. Much like player characters, enemies have big abilities they throw out once in awhile. Properly minimize damage from those by movement or blocking, understand exact weaknesses of enemies by assess (for your example, you should immediately be aware that if you dodge a single melee attack from helitroopers they are basically dead), and go after correct targets (if there are 2 riot and 1 grenadier, dive for the grenadier after drawing the riots away from him, stuff like that). In normal mode where MP is not an issue and basic attacks from enemies do not stun, you should always use everything available. There is no need for reservation, and positioning is not as critical.
If this is enough for you to cringe you gotta have a hard time watching anything on youtube.
I'm in chapter 14 right now. While I enjoyed the main story so far, the many side quests in this chapter somehow kill the pacing for me.
Is there anything essential I would miss if i just skipped them? All my characters are Level 24 at the moment ...
Is there anything essential I would miss if i just skipped them? All my characters are Level 24 at the moment ...
Weapons for Barret and a few materias. I can't recall anything else.
You get a second Elemental materia for beating all of the Chapter 14 sidequests, which is a pretty big reward IMO
Most of those quests have nice rewards, like manuscripts that give characters 10SP, etc. The Corneo stashes have huge amounts of treasure. Doing all of them will get you an extra Elemental materia (but remember to pick it up off the ground before using your grappling guns to ascend the wall).
If you're not already, make sure you're blocking in punisher mode with Cloud for the counterattack and if you have counterstance, learn to use that. Use assess to learn enemy weaknesses because it usually staggers them really quickly. If they're staggered they can't attack you.
I'm only at Chapter 8 but I love the battle system. Only thing I don't like is that most battles end too fast IMO (I'm playing on Normal), so when you have 3 characters in the party it becomes a bit of a waste because you never have the time to really switch characters and experiment with them.
Actually, no - I got manuscripts for my various characters from the Ch. 14 quests on Normal
Ah, never noticed. But it is only 3 of them. All the others are hard only.
I just double checked and there are 6 manuscripts and 2 limit breaks available on chapter 14 normal. Plus the second elemental materia.
It's a girl in cosplay playing music from the game she's cosplaying. Did she miss a note or something?
Oh my god the Trypapolis are BY FARRRRRRRRRRR the worst enemies in the game!!!
Even when you use the correct method and use an ability on them when they're dancing they still take for-fucking-ever to kill
99% of the time you have to wait for them to Screech, then use Aeroga, then they Dance. Then you have to kill their doppelgänger. And then you have to do that 2 more times!!!
Even when you use the correct method and use an ability on them when they're dancing they still take for-fucking-ever to kill
99% of the time you have to wait for them to Screech, then use Aeroga, then they Dance. Then you have to kill their doppelgänger. And then you have to do that 2 more times!!!
Most of Ch.12 is Cloud fighting alone. Yeah I remembered having to heal a lot in this particular chapter too. You're not the only one, and the Helitroopers are no pushovers. If you want quick battles: First Strike Materia and Magnify+Fire. I had a self-imposed challenge of using as little items as necessary, but if you don't have tha,t go ham on the Ethers.
Dude, Why haven't you been able to play it earlier? As far as I am concerned, you look like a big FF7 fan.
HAHAHAHA....TAKE THAT. (I know what you mean, but I enjoyed it in a sadistic way.)
Yep, not to mention the games that do render their cutscenes in-engine tend to age a lot better too. I always find it jarring when there's a huge disparity between the two.
It seems a lifetime ago, that the CGI cutscenes were the actual 'reward'.
I can quibble all I want about small inconsistencies in the presentation, textures, etc, but I genuinely did have to gather myself on more than a couple of occasions whilst playing this - I'm so damn appreciative that we actually got to play this thing!
Im also confused about those comments. Seems like a miserable thing to say lmao.
I think a lot of people misappropriate the use of the word 'cringe' nowadays, basically using it as a catch-all term. If they don't like something, or it doesn't fit into their view of what is expected, then it's 'cringe'. It's fine to dislike something, but I really doubt it's making you feel that strongly.
Not to single out the OP of the comment, but it's just something I noticed happening more regularly, especially around these parts.
It's just weird to see how ironic it is to dunk on people doing geeky things when you made an account on a video game forum to talk to other video game enthusiasts.
Therein lies in the problem, because if they like it, odds are that they don't consider it 'geeky'.
Anyway, I'm just going to enjoy some good music!
New interview with Kitase and Hamaguchi on the remake:
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Interview: Final Fantasy VII Remake Producer and Co-Director on Development, Launch, and Being Grateful for the Fans
Returning to Midgar
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