Should I Love Final Fantasy VII REMAKE?

[@Kodiie]

The most frustrating thing about all of this is that they could have made a faithful remake of FF7, but they choose not to. Instead they would rather follow modern trends in story telling (multiverse/time travel) instead of being loyal to the promise they made decades ago.

[@idiotsmonthly3969]

What's even MORE frustrating is that the Faithful Remake is still there - it just has to live beside this multiverse-ghost thing that doesn't seem to serve a purpose outside of some kind of marketing stint...

[@intalek305]

I think you may want to watch Sleepezi's "Structure of 5" Series on youtube before making these comments. You may come away with s different perspective. Everything they are doing is extremely consistent with the compilation.

[@Kodiie]

@@intalek305 I have, honestly Sleepezi is just an apologist for SE. His only talent is forming a coherent argument for any madness SE produces. If we were in an alternate reality where SE made the next installment of FF7R into a broadway musical I’m sure he would do the same.

[@intalek305]

@@Kodiie yeah.....you're not at all jaded....

[@Kodiie]

@@intalek305 well that’s your opinion which I’ve heard are a lot like buttholes… fyi

[@yanc3879]

Remake and rebirth shifts the hierarchy of story from love and loss in the og to a b-rated suspense of timeline and multiverse. It dilutes down the story into a dull puzzle solving dreadfulness. The forcefully added content kills the flavour and they screams for justification, which is sign of bad writing from someone whose taste and ability is lower than the ambition. This leads to a counter argument: is the idea that are wrong or the execution of them is off? Something is off.

[@idiotsmonthly3969]

I feel you - the fact that they’re so tacked-on-feeling is the genesis of why I suspect they’re a late-edition add on. And the love and loss stuff is still in there, it’s just gotta be roommates with the multiverse stuff - which feels more like a marketing gimmick to me than any kind of creative decision. I dunno - I’d love to be a fly on the wall behind those scenes. We’ll see! Honestly, it’s the ambivalence that eats at me the most. I’d love to know if REMAKE TRILOGY is worth it now before I’ve sunk so much time and $$$ into it! :p

[@mushfiquechowdhury2581]

I think you have finally perfected your voice level and the background music editing.

[@idiotsmonthly3969]

Y’know, a copy more videos and maybe I’ll start to figure this thing out! :D

[@DezorianGuy]

Great take on this game. But you should check your audio, it has some interference going on.

[@quintenchen8252]

I like the whispers bro. I was 14 when this game came out and have been a hardcore fan since. The original still exists and I feel this is more of a sequel than a 1 to 1 remake . I like it I already know the old story and I’m interested in what the developers have reimagined.

[@idiotsmonthly3969]

I'm curious - what do you like about them? I don't think there's anything redeemable about them :p A 1-to-1 Remake was never what this was going to be and wasn't what people really wanted anyway. The irony of the Whispers is that they irrevocably tether Remake to the original - now Remake can't stand on its own. Were you not confused as to the origin of Sephiroth's villainy or who that black-haired guy at the end was and looked to the original for clarification? IDK man - the Whispers do nothing for me except call attention to the fact that this is an adaptation and thus must exist in the shadow of the original. The Whispers ARE the chains, man!

[@skidmc]

Reminds me of twin peaks part 3, lot of similarities really. That dark Cloud. The way you can't go back. The zeitgeist has changed. Trying to emulate past events always leaves a taste of failure. But the way they dance around the script amplifies and creates new moments that I truly enjoy. Overall I think this will remain, as an epic saga, with those characters we love, up there in the sky.

[@idiotsmonthly3969]

Alas that I am ignorant of all things Twin Peaks - but if it's anything like this poetic prose, then my heart yearns for it indeed.

[@skidmc]

@@idiotsmonthly3969 twin peaks had a huge impact in japan, and on PS1 games at the time, like silent hill. To me FF7 music are clearly inspired from twin peaks themes. You should give it a try if you can

[@rubyknights5885]

personally, I feel that you’re wrong about the ending of remake in the sense of they should’ve ended in the flashback well for one. It’s a very underwhelming moment for the gamers because there’s no tension in ending a game in a flashback with a boss fight, because we already know what happened to the main character. also it’s pretty long like as you went through all the things they have to do and all for an exposition dump for a possible logical final Bossfight that has no tension because literally everybody knows what the outcome is and finally to just be an introduction. I feel like this is only in service of a fan because they already know exactly what all this means as opposed to a new player who’s jumping into these games. Also, the evidence that they may have thought of using that as the ending originally is very faulty and very unnecessary too because probably they did think about that and they probably did wrote it down that way first and then someone was like NAH I feel that it doesn’t really work that way. Like again, you’re only real evidence is a line which is not very hard because Final Fantasy is literally the king of referencing itself almost all the time even the most obscure ones that people might not know heck the kingdom heart series constantly references, lines and phrases that other characters say in between games so many times that it kind of hurts

[@EasyTargetLP]

Great video! I really liked your mix of passion, intellect and humor here! I agree with most of what you've said about the remake, but I think you're slightly off with your takes on the inclusion of the timeline ghosts and the decision to not have part 1 end at the flashback. I think the point of them isn't a last minute throw in, but rather to show divergence in the timeline. I take it that their intentions for their inclusion was to showcase the developers are going to be making changes, but the original FF7 is still going to be preserved. I think it's more the plans to keep all the versions of FF7 intact and consistent rather than just completely rewriting the legacy of the original. It's not meant to replace, in other words. Is this a good decision? Uhhh, I don't think so! But I don't think it is solely being done to for greedy purposes, and is instead meant to be showing that this is it's own, separate game that's set within the FF7 universe, regardless of how dumb, stupid, and pointless that is. You will still always have and forever cherish the original game, at the very least! With this benefit of the doubt on my part, it's easy to see why I would think they wanted to end where it ended. It's under the impression you already know what FF7 is, have played it, and are familiar with it. It's stretching itself as a kind of sequel, kind of reboot, with the purposd to subvert your expectations as it's own original game instead of what the title reads. Does that make Sephrioh's exposure less impactful for people new coming in? Yes! Because they expect you to play the "first game". Is all of this kind of dumb and convoluted for no reason? Yes! But that's what my impression of what the developers were going for with the game.

[@idiotsmonthly3969]

Thanks for watching! I'm glad you got a kick out of it. Well, in any event, we agree that the ghosts are a blunder! And I don't think the ghosts were there for a greedy reason (and you don't need them there to have REMAKE be it's own thing - you can just do that! It's its own thing by the nature of its existence - no in-universe justification needed!), but rather as a last-minute climax replacement. I get the justifications - but none of those justifications are IN-UNIVERSE justifications... because they don't work in-universe. They only work out-universe. At the end of the day, I don't think the plot-ghosts are there for a purely creative reason - I think they're a band-aid over something. FF7Remake ran out of time or money or energy and plastered the ghosts over whatever was missing. But let's say I'm wrong and the ghosts were always planned to be there and the game was always planned to end on the Midgar Highway. Sure... but even in that scenario the ghosts are an expression of an extreme lack of confidence. The makers weren't confident in the adaptational changes they intended to make (which to reiterate, I liked pretty much everything they added besides the ghosts :p) and felt like they needed to have the ghosts to ease the transition. But fan backlash always dies down and the ghosts are stuck in there forever... it's just... ugh... they gotta go. They gotta go! They nearly ruin the game! The big irony of the Plot-Ghosts is that they're present to keep the changes from ruining the game - but the changes are fine! It's the PLOT-GHOSTS that are ruining the game! One strike! Catastrophic Error!

[@mushfiquechowdhury2581]

I have waited so long