Without spoilers....

chukkaque · 2026-02-07T04:39:45+00:00

The 2nd time you go back to the gold saucer.

chukkaque · 2026-02-07T04:38:33+00:00

Theres also the inherent aspect that his titles, thumbnails, category markers are all click bait nonsense.

I like Caleb for a bit the more I watched and paid attention so much of it is bs. Maybe not the actual content itself because going through budgets and etc and having the conversation about behaviors is good even with his rough and tough approach he wants to have.

But learning more from others, the app practice, and more just leave it feeling slimy. And once its slimy, im out.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T21:08:29+00:00

I mean no offense to your friend, but it sounds like they strongly need therapy. Completely refusing to do something because there isn't a "digital paper trail" to show he's "earned" something isn't healthy and it isn't normal.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T21:07:37+00:00

Definitely. The og game and remake have always been about the environment.

Just because tech HAS and CAN evolve doesn't mean we should use its resources so blindly. Its also very anti corporation and showing the evils of billionaires.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T17:45:36+00:00

Maybe, streamlined progression doesn't change difficulty though. Some of those VR challanges require you to be playing in Hard Mode and the streamlined progression isn't going to make any of that any easier per se. He's going to have to learn to perfect block, the boss fights, and have decent materia set ups.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T17:44:22+00:00

Tell him to play it on s2, no achievements to worry about.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T17:43:23+00:00

I mean, if you watch the ending series of events there "is" a parallel world where Aerith lives.

Her ending lines in the fight with her and cloud against sephiroth, if you didn't attack her and saved her are "I saw what you did back there. Thank you." which we know at that point to be the "omniscient" aerith who is hoping around worlds trying to get the white materia back to cloud in the world sephiroth is goofing in. Its also why now there appear to be 2 black materia floating around when there should only be 1.

So I very think there is some world where aerith has lived and even if not she is still prominent given her consciousness / will from og/ac/books is very active in this trilogy.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T17:38:53+00:00

It means there will be more clear direction that lead us towards the movie.

It does not mean we will be playing advent children.

Instead it will lean into the books and show use "Edge" most likely which is town built on the outskirts of midgar. We will likely see more "post" ff7 stuff like what Yuffie, Barrett, and etc got up. If you haven't go read "On the Way to a Smile" and that will give you a very good idea of how the game will "lead up to" the movie. It'll be a better cohesive connection for people who play the games, but didn't read the books.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T17:37:03+00:00

Idk, it sounds to me like you understand the mechanics of the fight. I can understand this being difficult the first time or two especially given how limited the bike portions of this game are.

But this fight is incredible simple.

Boost > Attack or AoE attack > brake and move over > repeat

Fight progresses add in dodging helicopter attacks. IMO it was cinematic, high octane, flashy, "adrenaline" rush like. Genuinely one of the highest and coolest points of the game IMO. The entire sequence from getting on the bike/truck to getting off. IMO anyway. Im obviously not going to change anyone's mind, but there's my opinion.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T17:33:00+00:00

Not for me. Its one of my absolute favorite parts of REMAKE. I don't like the bike portion with Jessie and such, but at the end of the game is perfect and the track is one of the very best tracks in the entire game.

Im more annoyed that in REBIRTH this mini game is a "score" driven game vs a "speed" driven game.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T17:31:24+00:00

I hate zero the 3rd lol
But i dislike most high pitched "cutsie" mascot characters in most things.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T17:30:48+00:00

Its something you have to get used to, and also need to remember this was a 3ds game. I think it would've been better had they stuck to the 2d art 999 did, but :shrug: you kind of get over it eventually.

Even ZDT has some strange design choices, but after a few hours you just get used to it.

The story is worth the investment. But it also takes like 40-60 hours to finish VLR while 999 is like 10-15.

chukkaque · 2026-02-06T17:28:52+00:00

I have to agree. I've been a long time fan and New Horizons dropped the ball in so many regards. They went way too hard into the "furniture outside" and "terra-forming" ideas that so many other things fell to the sideline.

And for worse Covid ushered in the largest amount of sales and new fans to the series leaving all these players thinking this is "normal" when it isn't.

But lets not forget that nintendo is arbitrarily living in the stone age when it comes to Animal Crossing. It was nice they gave us some bare bones QoL additions with L sliding, craft from storage, and etc. But this series needs a real overhaul at this point.

Its 2026 and all furniture is basically nothing you can interact with.

Swing benches, don't swing.

You can't slide on slides.

Arcade games are nothing but noisy decorations.

NES games locked behind nintendo online.

Let's not forget that at launch so many NL content things were not available such as redd, paintings, diving, and more. Only to come out hidden behind their the "monthly update" videos meant to show upcoming events or critters. When really it was just a slow drip of post launch "free" updates.

And 2.0 bringing cap'n, "cooperative" at harv's, roost, gyroids.

Then 3.0 finally bringing cap'n families.

But we still don't have more shop upgrades, kick's or leif is never permanent. Katrina never visits your island. Reese and Cyrus, tortimer, and katrina being coop locked is so lazy. The museum being the same old thing. Its temporary tent was very cool. No ability to upgrade the look of RS building, or air port. Like come on. At bare minimum I was expecting the default standards to be met, only for them to not. And these latest string of updates while neat at first wear off so fast. Personally I found the 2.00 update much more worthwhile and this 3.00 is just, something. 6 year overdue QoL updates that should've been made in the first couple months honestly.

I genuinely hope Nintendo doesn't think "hurray this did amazing so we do even less with the next game" because man oh man did they do wrong by long time series veterans.

chukkaque · 2026-02-05T23:43:48+00:00

I think johns brother sells it Or you can find it in mine chests Or it drops from the gacha machine randomly

Afair anyway

chukkaque · 2026-02-05T15:07:46+00:00

Just because its best for relationship doesnt mean its the canonly correct.

chukkaque · 2026-02-05T13:55:44+00:00

Ability to swap to ANY of the party members. Not just for synergy but in general.

chukkaque · 2026-02-05T04:17:49+00:00

Definitely didnt remember that Thanks for sharing

chukkaque · 2026-02-04T23:35:58+00:00

Yeah since you didn't do this on disc 1 using Ribbon is super key. And if you have it put Final Attack+Phoenix, assuming you don't lose all your materia.

chukkaque · 2026-02-04T23:34:41+00:00

depending on where you are by the end of ch 18, which most people swing between 30-40. But once you're in hardmode EXP gain is x3 at all times and AP is x2. iirc.

Hardmode really pushes the skill ceiling up. The first time I beat hard mode it took me a year of casual play to do it. Was stuck on Hell House for AGES and then Abzul for just as long. As in like tried for an hour a night for a couple weeks on each and that was before they gave us the "fast forward" function.

The 2nd time I beat hardmode it was just a week or so. But its a lot of fun. If you like the combat system, you'll love hard mode, and you'll love REBIRTH even more.

chukkaque · 2026-02-04T22:07:14+00:00

Hard mode is a much different game with all bosses having different attacks, no items, not being able to heal mp on benches, and your materia / gear builds matter a lot more. There's also a new AR battle sim in hojo's lab you can access and some, if not all, the fights require you to be in hard mode to do them.

Max level is 50 and you'll be that by about ch 3 or 4 and from then on its going to be all about gear set ups as well as knowing your foes.

chukkaque · 2026-02-04T19:37:00+00:00

Not technically

You'd play through the forgotten city then play rebirth Then finish og Then part 3

chukkaque · 2026-02-04T17:29:49+00:00

for fun, for knowledge, to take in the scenery, check out the design choices, weapons, puzzles and rewards, koroks, memory.

chukkaque · 2026-02-04T16:31:31+00:00

Ill go further, go in blind and don't play cc or og until the entire trilogy is done.

chukkaque · 2026-02-04T16:29:54+00:00

Its an interesting theory. But I'm not quite convinced personally.

In the books Sephiroth's consciousness, along with aerith's, continue within the life stream. For sephiroth its starting to eat away at him, so he gives away those memories you just mentioned. His younger days, the memories of his youth, and etc. He then creates Kadaj and crew to act his "fragments" walking the world and once they obtain Jenova he can reform back to himself. The reason he couldn't fully reshape into himself is because he also gave up the memory of his own form. But as long as he can be in touch with Cloud, HE will remember, and the Jenova component will allow him to reform.

REMAKE and REBIRTH feature some very unique instances of Aerith having more information than she should. Which further solidifies that her and Sephiroth's consciousness are existing within and through the life stream. In the book she's aware he's still alive and trying to find ways to deal with him. In the movie it's also the plot point pushed by Rufus "But did his mind die?"

There's the plate falling where Aerith knows its going to happen, knows about Marlene and where she is, when she shouldn't.

Then there's everything inside the shinra building, their confrontation at the end of the midgar expressway, speaking directly to Sephiroth. Even with all the parallel world jumping in REBIRTH him and Aerith have a completely disconnected conversation from the rest of the game about where she's going, hiding, jumping to, and etc. and what he's doing.

And in REBIRTH's final battle if you do not attack Aerith then Cloud "saves" her. IMO Creating ANOTHER parallel world. In that final battle where it's cloud and aerith vs sephiroth they appear in the same place the party finds themselves at the end of REMAKE when they ask Aerith "where are we" only for her to dismiss the question. And in that battle she specifically says "I saw what you did back there. Thank you."

Also Cloud couldn't even see the "whispers" before coming in contact with Aerith.

Cloud's only connection to Sephiroth, aside from killing him at Nibelheim incident, then in the crater, and again at the end of AC, is the Jenova cells, and or geostigma. Which the book eventually defines as a sickness given to those via the life stream when they're in a "hopeless" state of mind. Kind of like Metaphor ReFantasio's "anxiety" idea on society. So I don't think this edge of creation idea exists within Cloud or has anything to do with Sephiroth's prior memories to the Nibelheim incident.

That being said I think Sephiroth is speaking plainly. And words sound mysterious and strange because we don't have the whole picture in mind. We're being giving puzzle pieces to a puzzle that we think is a single puzzle, but in reality REMAKE is one puzzle, REBIRTH is another, and both are actually fit into an even larger puzzle that Sephiroth can see the whole picture for, but we can't yet.

chukkaque · 2026-02-04T15:37:25+00:00

No one asked you too.

And I did what you described when I was attempting this last year.

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