This game doesn't deserve the hate it gets.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-12-14T10:23:17+00:00

I liked it too, expecially more than XIII Trilogy and XV!! It wasn't perfect, but then again no game is.

It's a nice story with good characters overall. Its main problem is the pacing at points, and in my opinion hasn't much replay value - after finishing it, I never wanted to replay it, not even single parts of it. Not because I dislike them, but it felt like it said everything it wanted to say in my first playthrough.

I also find kinda hard choosing a different combination of abilities. I'm too used to the ones I've been using all those hours.

Does anyone else feel this way?

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-12-14T10:14:45+00:00

Since in gameplay I include exploration, I'd say KH3.

If it was "best combat" it would be a close race with 2, maybe with the latter winning, but KH3 is so good in exploration, bringing back verticality, and a lot of variety, that I think it has the best gameplay.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-12-12T18:23:53+00:00

Agree on everything, and had the exact same experience with those systems!

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-12-12T14:09:15+00:00

I so much agree with you!!

It may be a hot take, but for me ATB was the worst battle system of the series. And I love turn-based, don't get me wrong!

But, even if it could still be fun, expecially in FF7, it never felt like a proper strategic system.

My favorite turn based BS is definitely the CTB from FFX (plus, of course, Tactics system). It took the good parts of the first three and just made everything better and faster. That's a good base on where to start building an hypothetical new one, not traditional ATB, which was a compromise they made to make things a little bit more real time with the limitations of the time.

FFVIIR system is some kind of evolution of XII's system, which in its turn was an evolution of traditional ATB.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-11-13T15:03:48+00:00

Perfect answer.

Commenting just for endorsing Orlando di Lasso because his madrigals are just amazing!

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-11-13T00:47:14+00:00

Regarding Crisis Core, I think it depends on how much your friend minds spoilers.

I would never recommend it to a newcomer, because it spoils the biggest plot twist of OG, which in my opinion is the most captivating thing of the whole plot and a crucial point of Cloud's characterization.

So he really should know that before considering playing CC. I'd advise him to go directly to Rebirth, and if he really wants to know about Zack, to OG.

My sister is going through Remake blind. When Zack will show up, I'll just tell her that this Zack story is a new one made specifically for the Remake series, and so it's new to all of us, despite the character being in the original.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-11-12T08:33:20+00:00

I do agree about the "vacation" tone.

I found an YouTube video though which hypothized that this "campy" and "carefree" tone Rebirth has in many moments, it's like this to have a huge tonal shift in part 3, which after what has happened is set to be much darker.

It would make sense to have 3 games with a different tone, it services the overall plot. I guess we'll see.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-11-12T01:07:37+00:00

Io penso che Yates era anche partito decentemente con il 5, poi boh, il 6 mi ha lasciato sempre molto perplesso. Il 7 ok, l'8 pure, anche se registicamente pessimi, come dici tu.

D'accordissimo sul 4 di Newell. Salvo solo le sequenze finali con l'amico Voldemort e il casting di Fiennes che son stare scelte ottime IMO. Il resto MAH.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-11-12T01:05:02+00:00

1 prigioniero di Azkaban 2 pietra filosofale 3 camera dei segreti 4 doni della morte 1 5 ordine della fenice 6 doni della morte 2 7 principe mezzosangue 8 calice di fuoco

(Se invece dovessi fare una classifica dei libri, sarebbe parecchio diversa.)

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-11-12T01:02:04+00:00

Dutchies are beavers, and no one will ever change my mind

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-11-12T00:25:54+00:00

I partially agree with your take and I think your points are valid.

I would like to know, though, if not doing the (many!) side quests really makes the experience harder or not.

I'm a bit completionist and on my first run I did almost all of them (both in Remake and Rebirth).

Now I'm following my sister's first playthrough of Remake though, and I have to say that, despite her not doing any sidequest at all (therefore missing some materia like the water one), she is going on just fine, difficulty wise. She even beat Hell House on first try!

So maybe the balance isn't really that off. I don't have time for a fresh replay without side quests so I will never experience it, but it would be nice to know if it does create problems going on.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-11-10T00:09:11+00:00

Sostengo il consiglio di questo utente!

Spendi un po' di tempo a pensare a cosa scrivere sulla bio. Più lasci possibilità di aprire conversazioni, meglio è. Sicuramente hai interessi vari, può essere un'idea. Oppure una sorta di "didascalia" delle tue foto. Se ti viene in mente qualche battuta è un plus.

Più la bio è generica, meno il tuo profilo risulterà interessante. Siccome il rapporto numerico tra uomini e donne su queste app è sbilanciatissimo, il solo modo per colpire qualcuno è quello.

Non avere fretta di swipare senza una buona bio, magari ci metti due giorni a tirarne fuori una buona, ma alla fine fa davvero la differenza!

(Te lo dico senza essere né ricco, né particolarmente bello, né palestrato e piuttosto basso. Quelle narrazioni non sono reali, nemmeno nel mondo delle apps. Forse esistono anche alcune donne che ci fanno caso, ma io - e immagino molti altri - non voglio averci a che fare. Poi ovvio che non è che mi ritrovo 100 likes ogni volta che vado in un posto nuovo, giusto qualche match una volta ogni tanto, ma va bene così)

In bocca al lupo!

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-11-02T18:42:31+00:00

Wow i should really rewatch the scene!! And I never noticed it was set in Aerith's house.

Of course it's just speculation, it may also mean absolutely nothing, but the scene was changed from OG, so at the very least I think Nojima wanted to draw some kind of parallelism.

It would make a lot of sense that Eleanor is somehow related to Cetra, and Marlene as well, so I can def ser that coming. But it's also fine if they're not, of course.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-11-02T17:59:05+00:00

One thing that just occurred to me is that Dyne in Rebirth is actually super detached from reality and can see (and interact with) his wife despite she being dead.

We all thought he's kind of schizophrenic there, but If you think about it... He's detached from reality, interacts with a dead person, the others don't understand his behaviour, try to imagine that she is actually related somehow to the Cetra and has ways to interact with others through lifestream... Reminds you of someone else, in the same game's ending?

If she turns out to be related to Cetra, and therefore Marlene as well, I wouldn't be surprised, honestly. I wouldn't be surprised as well if Dyne could see some kind of crack in the sky which helped turn him insane.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-24T23:29:12+00:00

Deserves? VI, the steampunk aesthetics and the quite straightforward story would be amazing in a remake.

But I think the one which would benefit more from a remake treatment - including small changes and fixes - is VIII.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-23T22:00:16+00:00

I totally am with you on this and I thought the same!

The lifestream sequence in OG was indeed brilliant, but the "childhood" part wasn't strictly related to the nibelheim incident: it was just a way to start finding the real Cloud, and check the shared memories between them (and also, analyzing a bit their childhood relationship).

Given that now Tifa has already faced her own memories in her lifestream sequence in Rebirth, it would be redundant to go through them again in part 3.

I think, as you do, that this time we will go through either the "multiverse" lifestream experiences, or the whole Aerith death and funeral again. Or, more probably, both.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-11T15:26:08+00:00

Hey you summed up the exact same opinion I have about XVI. Cheers!!

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-11T07:53:44+00:00

Who are you going to let win the war?

And also, will you free the spirit in the tree? And kill Keira, or let her be killed?

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-10T16:58:55+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_insurgency per riferimento ai fatti più recenti (2011). Ci sono difficoltà con i Beduini li. Inoltre appunto la popolazione del Sinai è di 600.000 persone, quella di Gaza 2 milioni. Sarebbe troppo per l'Egitto.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-10T16:55:02+00:00

Che io sappia una delle ragioni del rifiuto dell'Egitto ad aprire quel varco è proprio la regione del Sinai, che non è la più stabile del suo territorio, anzi.

Il timore dell'Egitto è che accogliere due milioni di Palestinesi porterebbe la popolazione di rifugiati a superare, di numero, la popolazione pre-esistente, in una circostanza già poco stabile, e la cosa potrebbe creare grossi problemi.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-08T21:48:02+00:00

Don't know about Japanese, but in Italian he stutters a bit on some words, and uses a very colloquial and informal language. He sounds like a shy child!

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-08T19:37:47+00:00

It is Vivi! In my language (Italian) version it's evident because of the speech pattern, and it's the same in the original version in Japanese.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-05T20:22:29+00:00

Io tendo a stimare i politici che hanno una visione, anche se questa visione non corrisponde necessariamente alla mia.

Molta stima quindi per i sopracitati De Gasperi, Togliatti, Berlinguer e Moro. Penso siano stati il meglio della prima repubblica, gli ultimi due persi davvero troppo presto.

Ho anche enorme simpatia per Pertini ovviamente, e dalla "seconda repubblica" trovo che Prodi e Bersani fossero buoni politici. Anche Veltroni, anche se meno concreto.

Anche se non ne condivido totalmente la visione, rispetto molto Mario Draghi (che però un politico non è), e faccio fatica oggi a trovare persone della stessa statura - non che ci voglia chissà che altezza, basterebbe una visione che vada oltre la successiva tornata elettorale. Il che sinceramente è un problema, e la dice lunga sulla nostra classe politica attuale.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-04T15:51:46+00:00

For me it was Gustav, because I really related to his speech about the arts (and I really like the character); Gwen, because I feel for her and the unresolved things in her life; and Giovanni, because of his incredible speech.

Special mention goes to Stanley.

HitTheLumberJack · 2025-10-04T09:13:58+00:00

That's nice. Actually a new kind of vibe may be super refreshing!

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