I still don’t understand what is jenova

An alien that travels across space using planets as her spaceship/home/food. They literally tell you this.

>made in hong kong

Ayy LMAO

How else does the novel play out or is it worth a read?

What I don't get is how in that cutscene she has a humanoid form, but then in battle she has a completely different form

An alien that ravages planets.

The whole point is that it's a shapeshifter. Even the Sephiroth form is just a mutation, since the real Sephiroth is in the Northern Crater for the whole game, save for flashbacks.
The female humanoid is just it replicating a female Cetra, which would explain why they thought it was an actual Cetra when it was first dug up.

It's almost like she's a shapeshifter.
Also I wonder what the rest of her race is like.

Jenova shapeshifts to ambush it's victims. The game states it did thisto kill the Cetra in the past.

A space cancer that pretended to be a deity before being sealed underground by the Cetra (Ancients). Then it was later dug up by Shinra, killed, ripped apart, and it body was kept in a sort of stasis while they studied it and used its cells to enhance humans and make some monsters.

>since the real Sephiroth is in the Northern Crater
Why does the remake sephiroth has a boner for cloud? am i suppose to assume thats the real sephiroth?

>Also I wonder what the rest of her race is like.
probably planet killing parasites like she is
i never liked how sephiroth is able to control her just by having her genes in him, seems stupid considering how powerful she supposedly is

Jenova in the game is described as a "calamity that fell from the sky" (that's how Northern Crater was created) and it's basically an entity that can shapeshift/change voice - that's why Jenova successfully blended with Cetra people and infected some of them turning them into monsters.

So you can say it's basically an alien whose main goal is to destroy/benefit for a little bit from the planet, then move onto another one.

I have no fucking clue, it's some kind of meta-aware Sephiroth or Sephiroth going through some timeloop/alternative timeline shit or whatever. I don't know what Nomura is doing and I doubt he does either.

Some extraterrestrial biological threat. The image represents a Cetra infected by the said lifeform which Humans named it Jenova

Pure kino, that’s what.

>i never liked how sephiroth is able to control her just by having her genes in him, seems stupid considering how powerful she supposedly is
We never really see that Jenova has real willpower of its own outside of very basic instinct, much like The Thing the only time it shows any level of intelligence is when it's replicating something that already had intelligence. Sephiroth being in control makes as much sense as anything as he could simply be considered the new "core" Jenova around which the rest tends towards Reunion.

>i never liked how sephiroth is able to control her just by having her genes in him
Well that wasn't all it was. He couldn't control her until he died. That is, until his consciousness was able to cause its cells to coalesce into a new form in the lifestream. He didn't exactly just have its cells either. That wierdo Hojo managed to find a way to make a human woman's womb serve as Jenova's womb so he's effectively a reborn (though substantially weaker) version of it.

The world of FF7 was inhabited by a group of people called Cetra. The game's script is shaky on whether or the Cetra were aliens who traveled from one planet, infusing it with the prospects of a Lifestream, then move on to another planet. Glorified terraforming people. At least that's one interpretation but I don't know what the original FF7 non-butchered Japanese script said about this.

Enter Jenova, a space creature, who crashed on the northernmost part of the planet leaving behind a crater. An obvious allegory to the dinosaurs in our world getting destroyed by a meteor. The creature Jenova killed Cetra people, made them its clones, and continue ravaging the population with clones of itself. Once people wised up to what was happening they were able to fend off Jenova and locked it up in its own crater, frozen.

Many years later, after the 99% of the Cetra died out or breeded with the regular humans, two scientists from Shinra uncovered the remains of Jenova in its crater and initially thought it was one of those Ancient Cetra people. For the sake of brevity let's called them good and bad scientists. Good scientist realizes that Jenova isn't a Cetra but an alien creature. Bad scientist doesn't care and murders the good one, rewriting all the current known books about the discovery of Jenova being a Cetra. The bad scientist is the reason everyone at Shinra is convinced this frozen freaky lab creature will help find them a "promised land" of unlimited power sources that will make them rich forevermore.

What Jenova wants and where it's from are unknown. Jenova only has one speaking line in all of FF7 and that's calling Cloud a puppet, but it only makes the thing more confusing. Jenova not speaking the entire game then throwing that out there despite it itself being a puppet of Sephiroth is just a gigantic question mark. I don't get WHY it had to talk then, it was better off not talking once because it draws more questions about its inactivity.

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Basically Lavos. A space parasite with powers.

shapeshifting alien

This is probably the first time I've seen that used correctly on Yas Forums. Well done.

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>good and bad scientists.
Ghast and Hojo, respectively, or was there someone before Ghast?

good points, i've always thought FFVII had a great plot. Aliens are so much more interesting and believable than ''Gods''

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Hit the text limit, here's why it bothers me.

>Why was Jenova not going on a murderous rampage at Shinra HQ the moment it was dug ?
>Why doesn't Jenova say it's being used as a puppet? What are its feelings in its body being controlled by Sephiroth?
>What does it eat? Does it piss? What does it fucking want?
>How is Jenova able to remain "alive" for so long? People die once their cells give out at some point, Jenova's cells CAN be killed because each time you fight it as a boss fight you are killing parts of its cells that can't just magically reattach themselves
>Why did it wait until that point in the game to say something?

"You are a puppet" is a sick line to throw at Cloud before fighting it but opens a can of worms about Jenova.

post the yuffie with all the materia spilling out pls

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Tranny Lavos.

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Did you play Chrono Trigger? Do you understand what Lavos was? Jenova is basically that, except people actually wanted to fuck it.

the novel is a metaphor for communist infiltration during the cold war

>I still don’t understand what is jenova
Watch The Thing

>cold war
>novel released in 1938
Hmmmmmmmm

alright I'm playing the OG on switch and need some advice ( or not ) on what I possibly missed so far
I'm playing with barret and tifa
after Kalm I went for the cave, to Junon, saved priscilla there ( tough fight with that flying fish or whatever it is )
cargo ship, then Costa del sol where I didnt do anything except talk to people?
then directly to Mt Corel, where I had a choice to go back to the world map on the other side but instead went to the gold saucer, after Barret told his story about Corel. Had a choice there to not take the tram but I did anyway.
Now I'm in the GS and just got captured and thrown into that prison. I know I missed Yuffie somewhere?

It's an italian city

You can get Yuffie before the military parade/Junon. Yuffie spawns outside of Kalm in the heavy forest areas on the world map. Very, very low odds of her appearing. I always pick up Yuffie on every playthrough before hitting Junon, desu.

Wrong, the correct term would be 'flick'.