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genjishimemeda · 7 months

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@liberifatalis

oh god I have a lot of feelings about it, too much for a simple reply, so let's go. I'm gonna start with the bad and then rise to the good, along with some mixed feelings stuff in the middle, so we end on a high note.

on an objectively bad level, my sweet Jesus this game's combat is a mess. when it's good it's great. the jumps and fluidity bring the advent children stuff to life. but it is painfully hampered by the ATB system being complete molasses. I have to waste time doing jack shit to get it to charge, and often waste my charges because an enemy stunlocked me, dodged, or changed forms before I could get the hit off. I have died mid limit break (you should be invincible IMHO), I have died seconds after a rez, and the canyon between easy and normal difficulty is the mariana trench. I am not a great gamer by any means, and I'm especially not great at ARPGs, but my boyfriend has been watching me play and even he noticed the blatant unfairness.

on a subjective level i'm one of the people who felt misled by the promise of a remake and then it was like haha yeah we REMADE the story! like bruh don't call it a remake then, sheesh. the plot ghosts are really fucking stupid, but to the games credit I can at least ignore them enough to not let it ruin the experience. and then deepground's inclusion in intergrade – let it die please, dirge was a mistake, the designs are ugly, the characters are worse, and the hammer it took to the game's lore is a death knell. if galian and chaos are their ugly redesigns in rebirth imma be mad. finally haha uhh i didn't care for Jessie's further character dev. I wanted to like her and be excited for it but her clinginess and inability to take cloud's clear discomfort seriously made me genuinely uncomfortable.

BUT. the game has some fantastic elements I can't get enough of. it feels alive. it breathes and flows, these are real people with real lives I see wandering the streets, both plateside and beneath it. the extended cast of npcs you interact with, and how you become close to them, makes the awful fallout of the reactor explosions and the plate drop so visceral. I cried when Marlene broke down in front of aerith. I felt that pain so keenly. the characters are so expressive and fully realized, and even though some of the voices suck shit (Zack's and Sephiroth's are awful), I actually have come to quite like Cody Christian's performance as cloud, and I don't know her name but the girl who replaced Tifa does a much better job than Rachel Leigh Cook (which don't get me wrong, I like her, but she phoned in her advent children role so hard).

I spent wayyy too much time wandering the streets, soaking in the sights and sounds, taking in all the little details. I added so much to my writing lore as a result. this is what I came to the game for, and it solidly delivered. my hype for rebirth is almost entirely to see more character interaction and worldbuilding. I'm gonna eat it like fuckin cake.

as long as Nomura doesn't Nomura super hard all over the plot and shove characters and things into places they don't belong, I'll be more content. from what I heard he actually wanted to do a more accurate 1:1 remake but got overruled (maybe my ire should be directed at nojima?) so I guess we'll see. there are many opportunities to do things right, and they've at least shown that character depth is one of their strong suits.

8/10 experience overall so far, but I've been here so long I'm capable of shoving my fingers in my ears and ignoring the stuff I don't like. after all, that's what fandom is for!

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autopotion · 3 years

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FF7!

ok i wasn't sure whether i was going to keep this to just the original game or the entire universe of ffvii, including the remake, and decided i'm just going to answer the questions as i see fit

the character i least understand: remake jessie. i know why they made her, i know why she's like this, but the concept of a character that's just "yeah i'm an ecoterrorist but i come from an extremely suburban background and yeah i like making bombs but i don't want to kill people though )': also i'm incredibly spunky, have you seen my lovingly crafted boob armor" is sooo...... she (and biggs and wedge, though to a lesser extent) epitomize everything i didn't care for about the remake, including the defanging and caricature-izing of avalanche. "we're scrappy underdogs who would neeever actually hurt anyone, unlike the other, scarier avalanche" was the absolute Worst way to remake the original crew, and as a result i am so completely emotionally removed from jessie and what she cares about. she's a cartoon to me. which is hilarious because arguably the trio in the original game are more visibly cartoonish than she is

usually i'm the first person to go to bat for female characters but oh my god. it's less like i hate jessie (i'm apathetic about her deal) but i despise what she represents, and therefore i think i understand her as a character the least

interactions i enjoyed the most: cloud and aerith. their material in the original was already good, and the remake built off their banter and made it absolutely impeccable. peak ffvii right there. to me, cloud and aerith are the emotional core of ffvii, and they become each others' motivations for doing almost everything they do

the character who scares me the most: hojo. greasy boy scientist whose laboratory is definitely not OSHA compliant. i really like him as a villain though, much more than sephiroth

the character who is mostly like me: i know aerith is my favorite but tifa. thoughtful, sensitive, principled girl from a rural town who projected heroic fantasies onto her childhood friend (and with huge boobs that get in the way of everything =_=)... like this is one of the reasons why i interpret her as a lesbian, in part it's kind of projection lol. but it's also like. her story is more meaningful to me if she reckons with her fantasy of men / of cloud and realizes she needs someone who will meet her where she is

i had a friend from high school as well say i was a lot like cissnei, and while i have nothing in common with her backstory i can kind of see where she was coming from. i also had a different friend in high school really want to name aeris after me when he was playing through ffvii, but decided against it because she dies and didn't want any of his friends to die (all of the characters were named after his irl friends, tifa was named after his boyfriend), and i can kind of see that too. bossy and a little passive aggressive? i'm definitely that and so is aeris

hottest looks character: tifa was like kind of intentionally created to be this and that puts me off her a bit, so i'm gonna say reno cuz he's got his tiddies out. not attracted to the man but it's #gay rights

one thing i dislike about my fave character: that she dies?? (even though for ages i defended her death lol.) but uhh there's a bit at the gold saucer where barret's miserable after going through the remains of north corel and aeris is like look barret let's just go have fun! and get over it! (: and he gets understandably pissed about that. it's one of her flaws and i love her flaws (i love that she's a hashtag Nice Girl but she's not actually very good at balancing other people's emotions, she's too busy trying to escape her own) but that one particular scene i was just like... aeris. not the time

one thing i like about my hated character: is there anything to like about don corneo. also i used to despise tseng (mostly due to a friend who LOVED tserith when i find that to be just horrifically creepy) but if you take out any romantic overtures i actually really like tseng and aerith's dynamic. "the only person in the world i feel like actually knows me is the head of the evil bad guy organization trying to kidnap me since childhood" is such a fun one. (catiua and dark lans fall into this too lol.)

a quote or scene that haunts me: normie pull but: "then, i'll be going now. i'll come back when it's all over."

a death that left me indifferent: pretty much all the non-aeris ones across the compilation? (except for dyne, that one was actually rough. also i don't care for zack but his death does legitimately make me bawl.) everyone dying of jenova disease in crisis core i guess

a character i wish died but didn’t: do you actually kill don corneo in the wutai quest cuz if you don't then him. but if not then rufus & reeve

my ship that never sailed: as in, "ships that could legitimately happen but don't"? uhh i mean. aeris dies in the original so. i guess clerith. ): even though he's definitely in love with her i'm taking to mean "sailed" as in "they see their love through and have a happy ending." OH alternate answer to this question: cloud/barret! i wish the date option with barret was actually taken seriously, and he could be a legitimate romantic interest for cloud. as much as i love clerith, it's really shitty that cloud/barret amounts to homophobic jokes in the original. i hope the remake will address it and actually make barret a complete romance option. it's my second favorite cloud ship lol

#catiuapavel #quiznaibus #thank u!! finally getting to these lol

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angetoile · 5 years

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Shipping Info Meme

Answer the following for your muse so people know how shipping works on your blog.

WHAT IS YOUR OTP FOR YOUR CHARACTER?:

Okay. (cracks knuckles) I have a couple answers for this.

VII - Cloud, Sephiroth, Tifa

KH - Cloud, Squall

Dissidia - Cloud, Sephiroth, Squall, Mateus (He is my Emperor, I would gladly die for him, pls step on me)

Everything else would be under AU or crossover soooo.......

WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO WRITE WHEN IT COMES TO SHIPPING?

EVERYTHING

I mean it. Well, all except super weird fetishes like vore and otherwise. But I mean like... all the things a couple would go through, tragic lovers, one-sided romance, enemies who fall in love, lovers forced to be enemies, toxicities like abuse or rape (not for the sake of shock value, I mean only if it makes sense for it to occur between characters)/

HOW LARGE DOES THE AGE GAP HAVE TO BE TO MAKE IT UNCOMFORTABLE?

Eeeehhhhh............ I think the youngest I had with Aerith was Squall, who’s 17. Generally, I don’t like to give her over to anyone under 18. Squall is an exception, considering Aerith is 22. (generally speaking, of course, that’s how my default is) Other than that, I don’t have discomforts with age gaps. I’m actually quite fascinated with them in literature. Different story in the real world.

ARE YOU SELECTIVE WHEN SHIPPING?

I am - used to not be. I used to be a hoe and flung myself everywhere trying to fill my loneliness meter. I really like platonic relationships now, although romance is STILL my favorite to write about.

HOW FAR DO STEAMY MOMENTS HAVE TO GO BEFORE THEY ARE CONSIDERED NS/FW?

Once the clothes start coming off, it goes under the tag.

WHO ARE OTHER THE CHARACTERS YOU SHIP YOUR CHARACTER WITH?

hfodaofjds (UNFURLS LONG ASS LIST) Where do I begin? Probably a preface? Yeah... Look, Aerith goes with ANYONE. She’s feisty, sweet, kind, generous, rebellious, insightful... She is the peanut butter to your chocolate or jam. It’s INSANE how well she gets along with anyone. I dunno what it is, but I can usually tell when a ship will happen from the first meeting. Aerith is incredibly open. (I won’t force it upon you, though. I cannot stress this enough)

I’d also like to mention that I ADORE her with villains. I’m a huge HeroinexVillain type of gal.

DOES ONE HAVE TO ASK TO SHIP WITH YOU?:

Mmmmm.... this is a tough one. I generally like to see how the chemistry is between characters. If I feel it, I try to keep quiet about it until my partner mentions it. I’m really self conscious about my interests because I don’t want to come off like I’m pushing it on anyone. I’ve had a lot of hurt in the past from people yelling at me about all this.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU LIKE TO SHIP?

(VIBRATES) Define.... “often”

ARE YOU SHIP OBSESSED OR SHIP MORE-OR-LESS?:

Uh... (nervous laugh) I... I guess you can say I’m ship obsessed. Though I’ve found a love of platonic relationships so I’m not as severe. I WILL NOT SHOVE MY INTERESTS IN YOUR FACE I PROMISE.

ARE YOU MULTISHIP?

Yep!

WHAT IS/ARE YOUR FAVOURITE SHIP(S) IN YOUR CURRENT FANDOM?:

Right now??? That would be with @idno41269, @xleonhart, and... well, I don’t want to mention any other names because I feel like I’m gonna come off as pushing it. Especially since we haven’t talked about it much. But I WILL say one name because I’m interested in where things are headed, ship or not. I’m looking at YOU, @breselin.

Without names, I’ll just mention a couple. SquallxTerra, CloudxSelphie, TifaxBarret, TifaxRude, and SephirothxRinoa

FINALLY, HOW DOES ONE SHIP WITH YOU?:

Interact with me! And also message me via IM and scream at me.

Tagged by: @breselin Tagging: I have no idea who HASN’T done this already. Uhh.... @deamrigh, @triggerxhappy, @alisaie-leveilleur, @angelivelle, @aethersighted

#meme #shipping #This was fun to fill out #But also super nerve wracking #feel free to ask me things!

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