FF7 Remake
1st October 2025, 1:40 PM
No notes honestly, I see exactly where you're coming from on all points!
Everyone's got different tastes, and I'm not about to say someone's personal preferences are right or wrong. So, I get if someone prefers more real time action, and I get when someone prefers more methodical strategy, and I also get if someone doesn't want to engage with combat at all and prefers puzzle solving, like how my mother prefers point and click adventure games as her favorite genre.
My tastes are very wide, so I'm one of the few who played, say, Doom Eternal and loved it's platforming elements, because I love platformers AND boomy shooties. That said, I totally get why someone who likes shooters but isn't big on platformers found those elements unwelcome.
Anyway, yes that meta-commentary is interesting and it remains to be seen just what they intend to do. It's not a major factor in "part 2", now that the threads of fate are well and truly severed thanks to the crew's actions at the end of part 1, so while those whispers won't be saving anyone's lives going forward, it doesn't seem like they'll be going out of their way to ensure anyone's death either. We may get an Aerith that survives this, or we may get a Sephiroth who joins the team for that matter. It's very open going forward. Also, without spoiling anything in the new game, they seem to have some new plans regarding what happened back with Cloud and Zack as well.
Everyone's got different tastes, and I'm not about to say someone's personal preferences are right or wrong. So, I get if someone prefers more real time action, and I get when someone prefers more methodical strategy, and I also get if someone doesn't want to engage with combat at all and prefers puzzle solving, like how my mother prefers point and click adventure games as her favorite genre.
My tastes are very wide, so I'm one of the few who played, say, Doom Eternal and loved it's platforming elements, because I love platformers AND boomy shooties. That said, I totally get why someone who likes shooters but isn't big on platformers found those elements unwelcome.
Anyway, yes that meta-commentary is interesting and it remains to be seen just what they intend to do. It's not a major factor in "part 2", now that the threads of fate are well and truly severed thanks to the crew's actions at the end of part 1, so while those whispers won't be saving anyone's lives going forward, it doesn't seem like they'll be going out of their way to ensure anyone's death either. We may get an Aerith that survives this, or we may get a Sephiroth who joins the team for that matter. It's very open going forward. Also, without spoiling anything in the new game, they seem to have some new plans regarding what happened back with Cloud and Zack as well.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)