The Bridge

Nzall

06:35

Huh, apparently next Screenshot of the Week will be #100

Memor-X

06:48

must do something special for 100

also gives me an idea for 9001 but we'll never hit it

:thinking:

how many days old is Arqade?

SPArcheon

07:56

@Memor-X yeah, while I know you would be quite happy with it, I doubt they will make "Yuri" the theme.

Nzall

08:09

yaoi is probably doubtful either

and you can completely forget about yiff

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SPArcheon

08:24

@Nzall I think that the comparison is quite unfair though. The last term is pretty unequivocally tied to NSFW meaning, while yuri can just be girl romance.

Nzall

@SPArcheon Yeah, I know, I just wanted to use a third term that started with y

SPArcheon

@Nzall What I meant is that I doubt someone would pick it as a theme, don't get me wrong... but I also think that you could find plenty of perfectly fine pictures to post.

Nzall

Isn't the idea behind the screenshot of the week that you need to make the screenshot yourself?

SPArcheon

@Nzall "find" here meaning "you could think of ". I am lazy, I want to press fewer keys.

alas, Memor just need a recent Rune Factory (pegi12)

Wipqozn

11:02

@Memor-X Yeah we've already got something in mind.

SPArcheon

11:39

@Wipqozn "Hats" as a subtle bash to a certain "cost reduction because AI gets all the investment" announcement?

Memor-X

11:51

@SPArcheon which one because i have all 3 PC ones

@SPArcheon oh i don't need a yuri themed one to post a yuri image if i found one appropriate

if it wasn't for the fact it would take more than 1 image, would have posted something about Angelica from Trails of Cold Steel

nobody

oh yeah angelica :D

Memor-X

i still laugh at how she shot Rean down in getting a ride on her bike

Angelica: sorry, but i only let the girls mount me
Rean: that's a shame...wait, what?

nobody

it is been a while I played the older parts.

angelica is always good for a big smile or laugh.

Memor-X

12:08

yeh i always look out for her between story points

currently on Chapter 4 so i'm 1 month before the West Zemuria Trade Conference when shit starts hitting the fan

nobody

where are my little kitten.

it is time for me to play reverie through.

Memor-X

i havn't heard or any more patches so i think the cycle has passed now

but then again Durante keeps finding stuff even in Zero to fix up

meanwhile Nayuta comes out in ~24 hours and then we play the waiting game for NISA to announce the release date of Kuro no Kiseki's English Patch (and likely that they are selling Kuro no Kiseki 2)

nobody

this will take a while.

Memor-X

likely a year

but TGS is coming up

nobody

TGS?

Memor-X

12:21

Falcom will be focused on Ys X so wont be getting any more Kiseki news from them until after. NIS could make an announcement for NISA, more so if it's NISA selling Kuro no Kiseki 2 on Steam as if i recall only the chinese version is sold on there (by clouded leopard entertainment if i recall)

@nobody Tokyo Game Show

nobody

Oh

Memor-X

also there's going to be a gameplay reveal for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth so we'll likely see the Synergy attacks that the trailer showed off and possibly showing off Midgar from the outside

nobody

not turnbased I think so nothing for me.

SPArcheon

@Memor-X RF5 has same gender marriage. See screenshot above for the female PC and Fuuka.

Memor-X

@nobody it's not, same system as Remake with the action combat, slow down for tactical mode to use ATB to activate skills while taking the Synergy attacks attacks from the Yuffie DLC since that was well recived

nobody

12:30

That would be nice. I'm older now and not so fast with controller anymore.

Memor-X

if i remember correctly Remake had a Story Mode where it's more tailored to the plot than the combat

....or maybe that was XVI

SPArcheon

@Memor-X Start to worry when Cloud, Tifa and Aerith cast Mix Delta / Delta Force

Memor-X

@SPArcheon naaa Synergy attacks are shown to be just between 2 people so far

nobody

The last FF game I bought was FFXIII-2.

Memor-X

@nobody good time as any to get back into the series. you have the Pixel Remasters of the older games, the remake of VII, XVI and the Nividia Leaks seemingly hitting all of Square's titles that only Final Fantasy IX remake is missing

nobody

12:37

uppsieI was lying. I bought remaster for the switch. But the newer one not because of action combat system. So I discovered the trials of series for me.

What I'm really waiting for is dragon quest 12 in the moment.

Memor-X

i'd keep an eye on TGS then, like can't see it being only Final Fantasy when Square presents

nobody

I will.

SPArcheon

@Memor-X so far.

X-Omni Slash will find a way to be a thing somehow, and I don't exclude good old' Safer Sephy won't get the "Protector Cross Omni Slash", even just as a cutscene

Memor-X

@SPArcheon that wont be until Part 3

SPArcheon

12:57

@Memor-X I know, but seeing as the trailer is very carefully crafted to manly shown known parts and close to nothing about the new ones, I don't exclude triples are already a thing but hidden.

alas, like I said, I am pretty curious about how everything will be tied to "make sense"

the "red herring" changes too, like the "dead Tifa" thing.

Memor-X

you mean when Sephiroth is saying how he killed Tifa?

SPArcheon

@Memor-X exact, changed lines from the original

Memor-X

@SPArcheon kinda but it still serves a purpose

SPArcheon

now, this would be minor if it wasn't for the fact that Tifa is also a central point in the victory of Cloud&co in the original game

Memor-X

1) it's used to hint at Jenova's shape shifting abilities which some might have picked up in Remake
2) further screwing with Cloud psychologically

SPArcheon

13:03

@Memor-X 2 more than 1 imho.

And the action seems deliberate from someone who knows the original plot.

Undermine the two focal points.

Aerith ability to cast holy and Tifa restoring Cloud.

Memor-X

well if the Nibilehiem events are more or less the same, we know how Tifa survived and neither Cloud, Zack or Sephiroth would know

SPArcheon

@Memor-X Again, this is were we disagree.

Memor-X

from Sephiroth's point of view, he did kill her. from Cloud's and Zack's, Tifa was heavily wounded and there was no one around to save her but them

SPArcheon

I think that both Sephiroth and Aerith are fully aware of the original events.

This is the point were we disagree. To me the remake is "after" the original, not another version. And Sephiroth/Jenova/Genesis/whateveryoucallit is using info from the original to try to get a better outcome for them

there are simply too many clues about this.

Even the new game intro is flipped to match the original game ending instead

Memor-X

@SPArcheon i say more or less because we don't know if Genesis is really going to turn up this time and provoke Sephiroth. but at the same time as we are getting Cloud's version and he is an unreliable narrator of the entire thing it's entirely possible that we don't see Genesis there but he still did turn up

SPArcheon

13:09

In the original game intro first character you see is Aerith with her eyes open.

At the end of the game you see her again in a similar position, her eyes closed and her head lowered. She then raises her head and opens her eyes, some blue sparks in front of her.

Now... go compare to the Remake intro...

Final Fantasy VII intro

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Memor-X

@SPArcheon i believe that was to show she's no longer praying to the planet.

SPArcheon

@Memor-X the next sentence was the one you should focus on.

Final Fantasy VII Ending(HD and Complete)

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Memor-X

"She then raises her head and opens her eyes, some blue sparks in front of her."?

SPArcheon

Final Fantasy VII Remake - Opening Movie | PS4

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Memor-X

yeh, i just commented on that

SPArcheon

13:16

the remake intro is made to fit Aerith position in the original game ENDING, not the one from the original game INTRO

Seems deliberate to the point someone asked in an interview... and didn't got a clear answer other than "yes, we know"

Basically, you can take the original as something Aerith saw just before the remake intro.

Memor-X

or she was doing the same thing in the original but because of the transition from the stars to mako particles isn't the same and they weren't just going to show Aerith staring at a broken pipe the entire time

my mistake they didn't shows the stars in Remake

it was just using a Mako Reactor's burst to transition time

SPArcheon

Posted this before, if you didn't read it back then this is a good time to do it.

reddit.com/r/FFVIIRemake/comments/g75lfj/…

If you are really willing to say that every single evidence here is wrong be my guest, but IMHO it is very evident she has access to info she should not have

eeek, she apparently even knows what the White Materia is .

WHILE STILL IN MIDGARD!

Memor-X

13:31

@SPArcheon maybe not wrong but more grasping. like the Steel Sky bit. that post labels it as "strong" and tries to explain that she's talking about leaving the original game behind

but much more simply, she's just gotten used to having the plate over her head

SPArcheon

@Memor-X The point is that in the original she does not show the same sentiment and actually is kinda happy not having the upper levels above her head anymore.

Basically you go from "finally out of that city" to "one disk gone, I have only one left"

I think they meant that

Memor-X

@SPArcheon expanded writing. Barret wasn't putting Cloud down so often in the original as he does in the remake

also President Shina never interacted with Barret in the H.Q, but in the Remake they expanded this part as if to set up what Rufus will say about the difference between how he and his father control people

in the original Rufus points out his father used money, if i recall in the Remake, President Shina tries to bargaining with Barret as if to hammer this

SPArcheon

13:49

@Memor-X Barret dialogues in the original were 70% censored.

Also, he is used multiple time to get focus on Stamp.

@Memor-X Also, yes, some part are "changed" for narrative requirements - the Honey Bee wasn't appropriate back then and wasn't going to be now (yet it becomes appropriate if your game name is Cyberpunk probably)

others aren't as clear.

@Memor-X Also, this is the passage I mentioned before.

Ultimania official game guide