In both the original and the remake the beginning up until they leave Midgar is so good
Don’t get me wrong, the rest of the game is good too, but the game shines the brightest when it’s about ecoterrorists fighting Shinra
The whole dirty 90s neoTokyo cyberpunk aesthetic is a vibe too
Wall Market aged poorly though.
I love, love, love the beautiful hand drawn backgrounds in the original game, and I am still genuinely shocked that a game as successful and mainstream as FFVII has ecoterrorists as heroes and that the game opens with them literally bombing a power plant. I also really enjoyed remake, if only because it looks amazing. Sure, not everything in it has aged well, but we could do with more art that says “actually these corporate mofos are the problem”.
The game tries to subsume Barrett about it with his lines to the effect of ‘I was just mad when I blew up the sector it was wrong! people died!’ but it falls flat imo. Hard to deny that blowing up a mako reactor was the right move, plus the music bopped
pre-9/11 media was allowed to be nuanced about terrorism. Star Trek has a bunch of that even in TNG season 3.
The immense backgrounds when climbing the debris back to the top side floored me as a kid. As an adult, the remake’s backgrounds floored me again. They did such a good job of modernizing the scene without losing the character of the originals.
The combat in the remakes is really good too.
I mean, the first disc is for sure the part of Final Fantasy VII. Can’t deny that. :)
Wall Market is a lot and some of it can deal lethal psychic damage but the forcefemme and yaoi undertones (overtones, really) I gotta support. I wouldn’t change it even for its faults.
I don’t end up missing Aerith when she gets borderline-fridged though. The game has not done enough to earn my sadness and she kinda feels like a weight on the plot when Cloud and the gang could be doing other things. So I mean, yeah, disc 1, pretty chill.
Me am good with typing full words and definitely didn’t just fix the title
I don’t understand your question but I find it disappointing that the ecorevolution kinda gets pushed aside because there is a cosmic level threat that transcends class politics. I haven’t played the original, only the remakes. I found it hard to follow what was going on because half of the second game is cutscenes where Cloud hallucinates Sephiroth.
Yeah my biggest gripe with the remake is the increased focus on Sephiroth and the alternate worlds really bloats and confuses the story for anyone who hasn’t played the original.
My bad for phrasing the question in a way people who haven’t played the original won’t understand. In the original everything up until they leave Midgar was called the first disc because the game came on three discs and that part was on the first disc. So basically I liked the part of the story before Rebith starts the best, in new version terms.
I think you forgot a word in the title
Didn’t the second disc start after temple of the ancients?
Yeah end of disc 1 is after Aerith gets got
I thought disc one ended after the escape from midgard? It’s been a looooong time.
Yeha disc 3 is maybe 10-15% of the game
Ah, maybe. It’s been a loooong time since I played the original
alternate worlds
I don’t understand your question
I think they wanted to write “the best part of FF7”, confused me at first as well.
God damn my typing
A lot of fans feel this way. Midgar is very fleshed out and believable while the rest of the world is just like meh. And speaking of the wall market, the english translation really kind of hamstrings parts of it, like the honeybee inn and it’s like
what the hell is going on?!It’s been literally decades since I played it, all I really remember is being terribly confused about pretty much everything. Now it makes sense if the translation itself was the problem.
The !&@#$ Room
And the easter egg where you can see Cait Sith in the corner of the room.
Wall Market is supposed to be pretty gross and offensive though? I thought that was kind of the point? Like the whole thing is a reference to Harijuku and Las Vegas, which are areas that have some things of pretty poor taste.
That said, yeah, not exactly a huge fan of when the Kaijus show up, but considering what happens in other FF games, the story is practically straightforward.
I mean, the cosmic conflict directly generates out of the actions of the evil corporation, you are basically fighting climate change as embodied by a seven foot tall man with beautiful gray hair.
Good point
i agree, but i near-universally prefer the first part of every jrpg
something about the endless possibilities or something
yes; disc 1 misses all the fun of ff7 like the chocobo breeding and cool materia (mime my beloved…)
Good point, how could I forget the cool birds?
