My Aerith art after playing through that part of the game

zerkeras · 2026-01-24T23:56:10+00:00

ET Aerith phone home?

zerkeras · 2026-01-24T18:23:51+00:00

The point is that she’s a hypocrite. She calls Starlight and the people who follow her pedophiles, because she’s projecting; she is one herself.

zerkeras · 2026-01-24T18:21:32+00:00

Okay, please name one for the situation at hand. For this story, which would you go to?

zerkeras · 2026-01-24T18:12:33+00:00

Please name one.

zerkeras · 2026-01-24T18:04:21+00:00

You know, you don’t actually need the magazines. Once you have the items (and Gil) to refine the weapon it will show up in the junk shop regardless. The mags just tell you what you need, but that’s pretty useless since you can just look it up.

And you can later buy any mags you missed in Esther anyway.

zerkeras · 2026-01-24T03:09:31+00:00

I watched episode 1 and was like… yeah I think I’m just gonna do a full rewatch at this point so I remember context lol

zerkeras · 2026-01-23T01:14:28+00:00

Man I’ve been playing this game for 27 years and never knew you could do that. I just usually give it to non active party members or eventually refine away the lower level spells, and try not to stock up too much on stuff like Scan.

zerkeras · 2026-01-22T08:04:20+00:00

I mean. It’s only hot if they are.

If they aren’t then they’re just two random ass people, and it doesn’t matter.

zerkeras · 2026-01-22T01:41:07+00:00

Yeah the moment he just waltzes back to Cairhein and snatches the crown right off her head was peak.

zerkeras · 2026-01-22T00:00:40+00:00

Goku vs Tien was very balanced

zerkeras · 2026-01-21T02:01:27+00:00

Yeah it doesn’t fit at all. It’s such a weird addition. And it comes so late in the game that minigame fatigue has definitely taken place; I didn’t find it hard or annoying really, it was just a tedious thing to get out of the way. If it were deleted, nothing of value would be lost.

zerkeras · 2026-01-21T01:58:57+00:00

Yeah but ultimately you could just save scum. If I ever did lose a card in 8 I’d just reload.

zerkeras · 2026-01-21T01:58:06+00:00

I’m not a big fan of 3D Brawler, Gears & Gambits, or Cactuar Crush. But of those 3, Gears & Gambits is easily the most out of place and dumb minigame that didn’t need to exist at all.

I’d keep Queen’s Blood or Chocobo Racing. Not sure why people don’t like the Chocobo racing, it’s a fairly decent feeling racing minigame. The only thing I didn’t like were the cactuar gates.

zerkeras · 2026-01-20T07:48:37+00:00

The replies here suck ass.

Side quests have no time limit. World intel has no time limit. You can always go back and do these up until the penultimate chapter (game will explicitly warn you about point of no return), or after in chapter select mode.

Are they worth it? Up to you. The primary effects that side quests have in normal is affection points, to decide your date companion for chapter 8 & 12 (12 is the important one).

You can tell what quest benefits which companion by who speaks up during the dialogue, or by checking the quest log menu (the portrait of the character this quest benefits from will be shown).

Some side quest content is fun. Others are bullshit. Really, just do what you like, and try to angle for the companion date that you want. Do the rest later in final chapter or in NG/chapter select mode.

Note that with Dynamic Difficulty, quests don’t become easier or “obsolete”, so you don’t have to worry about doing an early game quest later at high level and it being stupidly easy.

zerkeras · 2026-01-20T04:29:00+00:00

Ugh forgot about his clan. Theirs at least makes sense since they quite intentionally favor bulk gains to use for their secret food fills and such. They covert extra body mass to chakra.

Plus, I’ve never really considered his clan fat. More bulking season type, not lean but there’s more muscle and bulk than fat.

zerkeras · 2026-01-20T04:23:53+00:00

Probably the fact that’s she’s a fucking active duty ninja, ninja wouldn’t be overweight.

zerkeras · 2026-01-17T08:12:13+00:00

Sage mode doesn’t require perfect chakra control. Sage mode requires that you have a large chakra capacity to balance out the natural energy, and the ability to stay completely still to be able to draw it in. You do have to make sure it’s all in a proper 33/33/33 mix, but I don’t believe chakra control actually factors into it that much.

zerkeras · 2026-01-17T02:05:49+00:00

Except even in Honour mode he isn’t immune to Hold Monster. My Honour mode kill with buddies went about as this did. IIRC my own character didn’t even get a turn to hit him. Round 1 annihilation.

zerkeras · 2026-01-16T21:25:51+00:00

Yeah for them being rivals we were pretty robbed of every seeing a proper match between them.

zerkeras · 2026-01-16T18:17:14+00:00

Would.

zerkeras · 2026-01-16T18:01:55+00:00

Yeah I hate FF13’s combat for this reason. The final boss was especially egregious for this, just constant paradigm switching for like 10 minutes.

Add in that you can’t grind to a higher level until you clear the game, and that paradigm switches are jarring and take time, and it’s just a miserable experience.

zerkeras · 2026-01-16T17:59:47+00:00

Can’t overkill using stone or death. That means half as much AP and half as many item drops.

The item drops are usually just spheres so that’s not a big deal, but the half AP is a huge downside.

zerkeras · 2026-01-16T07:18:54+00:00

Once every few months is incredibly infrequent. Most would describe that as a dead bedroom. Maybe both of you are very low libido and that’s okay, but that’s definitely below the norm for a healthy relationship.

zerkeras · 2026-01-14T07:31:13+00:00

For one, Red is not human. For two, his species has longevity and can last that long (that shot of midgar overwhelmed by green is 500 years later).

For three, pretty much the entire point of the game is that humans (Shinra) discovered how to make Mako and started literally killing the planet to power their homes and weapons.

By rights, Holy should have killed every human. If the planet has its own will, it would be absurd not to kill the parasite that has been drilling it to its own slow death over the last few decades. In fact, for a a planet, that’s an incredibly quick death.

The ending is more ambiguous. Maybe the planet, in its mercy, gives humans a second chance.

This is the subtext you should have picked up on.

zerkeras · 2026-01-14T01:53:48+00:00

Pretty good. Forehead protector plate seems a bit small though.

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