Let's cast aside the time jannies, Sephiroth throwing buildings at you, destiny and all that stuff. What are the small changes that were meant to improve the game and ruined it?
>NPCs copy pasted from FFXV that don't belong to a FF universe >the boring and poorly written NPCs that you have to actually interact with: Chadley, Marle, Whyle, the Shinra executives in the train, the orphans, and all that bullshit only introduced to waste time >sidequests are some of the worst in the history of gaming >crystarium basically replacing equipment and materia slots >"all" materia for multiple targets is gone/linking materia is almost always pointless beside elemental >anything summon related: Chadley, too many summons, no summoning outside boss battles >all enemies are hp sponges specifically to make you waste time >cutscene after cutscene after cutscene >little soulful details removed without a reason: pinball room, wall market sidequest >music tracks out of place: world map theme in sector 7 slums and Corel theme in the church >MERC MERC MERC MERC DO THIS DO THAT
I agree with most of that but the cutscenes one are a stretch it's literally a JRPG what do you expect?
Colton Jones
>NPCs copy pasted from FFXV who gives a shit? now they get to be in an actual good game instead of a dumpster fire. i didn't bother reading the rest of your list since you started off with such a pointless nitpick. cope with the fact that nomura made another masterpiece.
Caleb Morris
9 to 15 hours of cutscenes in a game of 30 hours (tops) is beyond ridiculous
>caring about metashit scores ever do you even play videogames?
Joseph Phillips
>Marle oh you mean the old bad ass woman whos basically a granny to tifa, taught her a lot of what she knows and helped her set up in sector 7?
fuck that. always liked the idea that tifa carved out a nice life with a decent bar dispite how terrible things were. but nope, i guess she couldnt do anything on her own and apparnetly everyone in the clean, lovely, sunny slums helped.
Benjamin Thomas
Jessie turned into a manipulative tinder whore
Hudson Reed
Tifa acting like a Japanese idol.
Ryan Clark
The npcs are so fucking ugly and badly dressed. In the slums I feel like im in the faggiest part of San Francisco.
Landon Bennett
I just noticed Both RE2r and FFVIIr sort of betrayed themselves by going action, and both had to go for damage sponges because action would make the game too easy. RE2r had retarded headshot tanking, FFVIIr just turns everybody into sponges so you can't just combo them quickly and move on like in any normal action game Too much of a stretch?
Mason Jenkins
>"all" materia for multiple targets is gone It's not. Magnify materia does exactly that. >no summoning outside boss battles Wrong. You can use summons on some regular battles as well, the ones that have stronger enemies. >the Shinra executives in the train You're pretty fucking stupid if you thought this somehow doesnt fit because it was an iconic moment in the original and it was pretty well redone here with an almost identical dialogue
Daniel Myers
What the fuck is "time jannies"? That is such a retarded phrase.
Christian King
they put the real fans of the game in the game as entities who want the devs to follow the actual plot of the original
Jaxson Clark
The history niggas
Alexander Clark
most people that work for don corneo are all nice people really and even the main guy in his mansion is a cool guy with a standard nomura design who helps you out because hes sooo cool.
Jacob Cox
They're ghost niggers that manipulate time and they do it for free
Nicholas Robinson
its a different timeline fellas. its why theres different music and why the va's changed. im really hoping that negro barret dies for real next game. if that shinra scene with the ancients is to be believed aeris and someone else in the party will die
Ryan Diaz
You're right. I prefer Chrononiggers
Thomas Cooper
>no summoning outside boss battles NO FUCKING WAY
Please tell me this is not true. Summoning already sucked in FF15. Why would they repeat this mistake again?
WHY?! WHY DO ASIANS LOVE RUINING GAMES?!
Ethan Long
>Barret doesnt rush in and shoot everybody out 7th Heaven >The orchestral approach to the music, while sounding nice and refined, also makes it more generic than the original ost. the one immediate outlier is the air buster fight. >Cloud's hair being his AC cut despite this being a ""faithful"" extraction of the source material and the fact that NT Dissidia has proven that the original design works in HD. >English voice cast being changed, but the Japanese ones were allowed reprisal >Classic mode not even feeling an honest attempt at the original's ATB system >Watchmen of Fate this early, regardless of everything >Tifa actually needing muscle to help her with collecting money from people >Damage being strict before staggering, but enemy damage being generous, and the weapon upgrade system feeling like the forcibly grindy ghost of FFXIII has come to haunt niggas once more >The fact that I know they are going to fuck up J-E-N-O-V-A considering the game's ver. of Juno Reactor
Chase Cruz
I never played XV and i really like this nu-VII.
Xavier Murphy
>with an almost identical dialogue my ass, it used to be 2-3 lines of dialogoue but now its a 5 minute scene with comically undertones from the way the 3 shinra execs act despite it not being funny.
Parker Thomas
It's official.
Benjamin Martinez
Seems appropriate. There isn't really another remark for that particular situation she is in there.
Jacob Miller
Kinda liked Roche. Expected him to come back a little bit later but never did. Thought for sure he'd be back during the speeding escape at the end...
Jose Jenkins
Don't be ashamed to stand by your masterful reviews, GIANTMONKEYBUTT.
Oliver Watson
Nah, you can summon in any battle that has enemies that last longer than 10 seconds. But you're not a noob that relies on summons, right?
Hudson Lewis
it appears is some very specific fights apart from bosses but still super rare and honestly there not that good. they come in as an extra part member but you have to use your atb to make them use their better moves and the better ones cost a lot. usually if its a boss or tougher fight youll want that atb for healing or buffing too so it doesnt help much.
Liam Harris
REmake 2 is a very good game user.
Eli Cooper
>Jessie being THIS (read: UNABASHEDLY) wet for Cloud at all fucking times when at most she probably was just developing a small crush for him in the original >FUCKING DAYTIME IN MY MIDGAR Shit take incoming i guess, but i think even AC did it better by it only being sunny during the end events of the movie. Midgar was never fucking made to be see in anything other than perpetual nighttime. >Pop-in textures ahoy
Christian Barnes
Aerith was originally playful and flirtatious, if you think she mustn't say 'shit' you've played too much KH and the compilation games
Jaxon Rogers
The nitpicking threads like this will always be hilarious because people like you are the ones that make them and inhabit them.
Henry Diaz
I just remembered in the original Tifa stops Barrett from tearing the guy a new asshole, then apologizes to him with a little apology bow, Japanese style. It was such a little tiny cute thing, perfectly in theme with the Japanese corporate atmosphere they were building. Why did they change it?
Nathaniel Edwards
Summoning would just trivialize the normal fights, it doesn't make sense gameplay wise. Then when they do happen they come in clutch to save your ass from getting beat.
Nuh uh, it's only against strong enemies like bosses. It's not time based.
Gavin Bailey
people will tell you its fine, but considering her track record of language, it really isnt. hate how much of an uphill battle it is with stuff like that, but inconsistency somewhere else is found inexcusable.
Blake Robinson
>FUCKING DAYTIME IN MY MIDGAR yes? as ever?
Grayson Carter
Play more jrpgs 50/50 cutscene to gameplay is pretty generous
Michael Sanchez
Like I said, enemies that last longer than 10 seconds. Why would you use summons on wererats when the summon animation would take longer than just finishing them off?
Gavin Scott
This bothers me so fucking much. Who the fuck is this character? She's some teeny bopper shithead now. I liked OG Tifa for being reserved and somewhat aloof. There was nothing quirky about her.
Elijah Mitchell
my bad, i meant the slums more specifically.
Julian Diaz
>gotta beat Shiva in VR to get her summon materia >ok, nothing better to do while Aerith is fucking off somewhere >go in solo and beat her after a few attempts >later realize you can use you can bring party members into the simulation >feel like a badass for 1v1ing Shiva
It's a fun game
Daniel Powell
Can someone explain to me the time jannies? i don't understand a fucking thing after finishing the game
Anthony Turner
fuck these summon fights FUCK THEM
this game wasn't MADE for not being able to dodge shit, using fucking elements correctly and STILL GETTING WRECKED.
sorry, im getting put to sleep, a status which i can't cure on my own, since its a single battle or have any items to prevent? FUCK YOU
Jose Lewis
Wall Market is no longer a dangerous seedy shithole. there are tourists everywhere and fucking children running around
Evan Gutierrez
Wall market side quest is in the game retard. There’s two routes one of which has the original side quests with the dad etc
Jace Scott
This. Her animation is way too much. I don't mind some cute gestures from time to time but my god it's everywhere in chapter 3. I'm only in chapter 7, and she seemed to have dialed down on her Japanese idol gestures in chapter 6. Maybe because she's alot more honest in front of Cloud but not Barret?
I'll always believe that if your goal is to develop a remake then removing content that was in the original is literally the most stupidest decision you could ever make.
History niggas are literally fans trying to stop Nomura from changing the plot. They're the good guys, and you killed them.
Kayden Ward
They made Midgar slums comfy. That's the biggest fucking issue right there.
Robert Kelly
They look like my foreskin was dragged through dirt.
Easton White
It's sad that there are people making posts like this unironically.
Brody Jones
They completely removed that delightful father/daughter situation and banter between Cloud and Aeris you troon
Tyler Gomez
that's pretty hot
Chase Howard
the timeline is supposedly fixed. the whispers are there to make sure things happen that are destined to happen. you end up fighting and defeating them -- what does it mean!?!? 7 seconds...
Brandon Roberts
>what is warding materia >what are status preventing accessories
Samuel Campbell
Because I fucking want to? how is this a hard concept to grasp, yes it should be a total waste of MP but I should be allowed to waste my MP however I see fit.
Caleb Taylor
A retarded phrase for a retarded concept.
Jaxson Sanchez
Totally agree with this. The closest thing to this is when Barret storms into Elmyra's house looking for Marlene and Tifa calls him out and stops him from making a scene. Tifa in general feels kind of weird, very anxious all the time and sort of paranoid. It also feels like the chemistry she and Cloud had is not quite there, not only in the beginning ("you've changed, Cloud...") but also when they're deep into the Shinra crisis ("Cloud, you're hurting me" when they were hugging at Aerith's garden).
Jonathan Nelson
i hated the insane level of character developement for wedge. dont get me wrong i guess i dont hate the character but we get so little for vital characters. meanwhile we learn his 3 fucking cats names, he has major growth moment fighting to save sector 7 and he lives to save the day at shinra tower.
Ryan Ward
The weird thing about the out-of-place NPCs is that the original game's main characters had about that much detail as well. They over-detail the main characters, and make a problem that never existed before.
Angel Ross
So we just strayed from the original timeline for no reason
Brayden Bailey
that's just the level of autism the game wasn't built for
Evan Gray
I bet he thinks Sid is just a goofy redneck and not a bitter angry man who shits all over the woman he lives with
Grayson Cooper
>Nibelheim flashback for some reason >its playable >If you try to remove the pre-emptive materia, a TIME NIGGA keeps forcing it back into a slot
How do you react?
Ryan Sanchez
>want to play a video game? what are you? autistic? This is where gaming has ended up. I bet you defend invisible walls as well.
Matthew Jones
Personally I love the added character development, Wedge is actually memorable and likable instead of being tossed to the side immediately.
Austin Phillips
I'm on chapter 14 but I don't fucking get why he has to live. What's the god damn point, with no Jessie or Biggs. He has not much else to contribute to the story.
Lucas Morgan
>They over-detail the main characters That's just a typical Nomura problem. He would rather waste time and resources making the main characters hyper realistic but then completely ignore the quality of the remaining art.
Juan Young
Fuck you that redone boss track during airbuster was kino of the highest order. Get out of here.
Charles Diaz
Hallways and time wasting shit
Liam Myers
i used to think barret wouldn't stick out in the slums. everyone seemed just as shady and dangerous. but now theyve made every NPC look like a hipster coffee barista with the colored glasses, beard and gel'd up hair.plus all there clothes are so prim, proper and clean.
Noah Anderson
it's an act, the cheery facade she has learned to put up in day to day life.
Parker Cruz
>with no Jessie or Biggs Please finish the game and join us complainers.
Bentley Perez
no
William Gonzalez
I kinda like that. In the original cloud pretty much spends 90% of the battles with his sword on his back unless you built him a specific way. Not being able to summon every fight makes it sound better
Liam Phillips
All of avalanche ending up dead was the drive for Barrett leaving Midgar in order to continue the fight against Shinra elsewhere. It just doesn't make sense that anyone is left alive, because if this is the case, why aren't they joining him?