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For part 3, how do you think they will handle the remaining locations?

Here's what I think:

Wutai - I think it will be huge and will take place near the end of the game. Perhaps just before the return to midgar

Rocket Town - I think it seems best as the opening location, also having it's own region. Some people think that it will come much later when the party revisits it in the OG for space, but I'd rather it came sooner because Cid needs more time to develop from his backstory

Space - I suspect it will just be confined to the rocket and escape pod, but will be very heavy for cutscenes

Mideel - Probably be it's own region. Though it's another jungle like gongaga is, so they will have to differentiate it from that somehow. Perhaps use different kinds of trees or make it more beach-like. I think Dr Sheeran will move here from Corel

Fort Condor - I predict it will be epic, because there has been so much build up to it with the board game. It is probably an ancient place not visited by outsiders for years. A huge battle will take place here

Bone Village - Some people think it's lost it's chance to appear now, but I don't want them to cut any locations. I think it will be where we dig up the key to the city of the ancients altar thing (the key that was underwater in OG)

Icicle Inn - Will be part of the wider snowy region, and the main settlement of said region

Great Glacier - Maybe an "open-air" style dungeon (like what Mt Corel was in Rebirth)

Holzofs house and Gae cliffs - The house will be small but I expect Holzoff to have more character development. The cliffs and caves within I expect to be a huge dungeon

Coral Valley Cave - I can see it being more like an overworld section in either the icicle region or the Northwood region

Forgotten Capital - I know it appeared in Rebirth but we didn't get to explore it - this time we will, and I think it will be part of the Northwood, upgraded to full region status, which will also include the ruins of the temple of the ancients

Sleeping Forest - Again, too brief in Rebirth. Hopefully this time it will be much larger and more explorable. Perhaps an overworld location

Ancient Forest - Not actually sure about this one. Maybe moved to Northwood region. Maybe even moved to mideel region. Either way, I'm sure it will be in the game, whether it's optional or not

Banora and Modoheim - crisis core locations, so they need to be included on the map really, for it to make sense. Both in ruins obviously. One in mideel region, the other in snowy region

Whirlwind Maze/Crater Summit - I'd actually like this to be it's own region, because it just feels too different to the snowy areas to be part of the same region

Crater Cave - Final dungeon so will be super long. I predict, and hope, that the party will split up into 3 separate teams, so that we use all of them in the final dungeon

Underwater Reactor - Will be a big extension to Junon, but a dungeon in its own right

Underwater sections - Will be huge

Crashed Gelinka - Maybe make it compulsory rather than optional, directly after the underwater Reactor

Underwater cave of ancients - Not sure if this will be included because of what I said about Bone Village, but either way it's just a cave, and underwater overworld will have plenty of those

Lucrecias Cave - Tough one to call. Could literally be anywhere

Ocean surface region - will contain isolated islands/islets, such as the materia caves

Return to midgar - maybe I'm asking for too much but I'd hope to be able to explore every sector. Or if not, at least be able to see them by flying over them

The entire section with Cait Sith in particular is an exercise in futility. I’ve had more game over screens in this stupid segment than the rest of the game combined. Take one of the worst, most forgettable, throw away characters in the game a force a section where you have to control it’s wonky moogle to throw boxes and fight enemies it’s not suited for fighting and it’s just infuriatingly bad. I forgot just how much I hate this part of the game.

There are other sections as well, broken mechanics, beating your head against a wall frustrating bullshit, that I just can’t help wondering how they made it in to the game. Gongaga in particular has some of the most clunky and tedious nonsense to deal with.

There’s so many awesome aspects of this game, and then you run in to the most frustrating nonsense ever and it sucks the life right out of it.

So…has anyone been able to get theirs to work with Rebirth? It’s like the game just refuses to recognize the controller at all. My Dualsense works just fine though. Any thoughts?

I kept my exp. But lost all map cover. All items. All missions completed. Actual what the fuck.

I'm continuing to see a pattern among Japanese written stories.

*SPOILERS FOR THE FOLLOWING SERIES*
*DO NOT READ ON IF YOU PLAN TO WATCH OR PLAY THE FOLLOWING*:

Solo Camping for Two (anime)
Shenmue
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

CONTINUING:
Where the girl seemingly runs out of time and ends up confessing her feelings to the leading man.

Shenmue: Nozomi, before leaving for Canada, confesses her feeling for Ryo.

Solo Camping For Two: at the climactic last episode, she inadvertently blurts out her love for Gen San earlier than she had planned.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Though indirectly, nothing would have happened in the SkyWheel I think had Tifa not indirectly suggested that she had waited and hoped in vain more than once for Cloud to like her. In which case Cloud just simply had to reciprocate with a simple affirmation, “not one bit”.

Is it Japanese culture or just an anime trope that the leading man has to be too late to confess first to the girl?

I FINALLY got the platinum today after about 200 hours. Feels amazing but did anyone else get triggered at the end for having to redo the quests? Haha I hear a lot of people say the worst part is the Chadley stuff but I kinda liked the challenge and the dopamine hit when you finally beat it. I’ve heard some people say the Chocobo flying is the worst, or even the Hard Mode play through but I was genuinely upset to have to do it very single side quest again in hard. It would have been nice if they didn’t include “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop” at least, so you wouldn’t have to redo absolutely everything, just the folio quests. But everything? Everything!? Even the chicken lure with the tin can? The Gold cup again? Ugh, anyway rant over, still an 11/10 game and platinum experience though

EDIT: Turns out you don’t need to redo every quest, you just need to respec your folio to get all the abilities only for each character. I thought you needed to max your folio to level 9. I feel dumb but at least the grind is over lol

For the record, this is not a post criticizing the game or Square Enix. I love Rebirth even with all its odd quirks and glitches that were later patched out. I love how much they've added to build on the characters, their dynamics, their backgrounds, and the ways the world unfolded around them as they went around.

But there was always one niche of this world that the devs have historically avoided: the ancient history of the Cetra and the Summons. I loved the Shinra Theater from Remake and I loved how the Ancient Temple was reimagined. However, I found myself more confused about the brief history around the Cetra's ultimate demise. I understand that it was likely the battle against Jenova in ancient times that weakened them to the point that human factions could fight and defeat them. By the way Ifalna and Aerith were treated in modern times, it's clear their people were practically hunted to extinction over the eras, and we can't exactly fault it as entirely Jenova's doing, though she probably had much to do with it.

However, we have never gotten so much of a hint of what happened to the Summons. Maybe it was just Shinra's assumptions based on historical records that the Summons once lived in harmony with the Ancients (like in FF1). Or maybe the Summons had some ways to remove their presences from the surface of the planet and leave behind materia in their places. Maybe they were forced to leave or maybe they chose to disappear. I have plenty of my own theories and headcanons (I wrote my own worldbuilding for a fanfic, lol), but I wish we had an official answer. Best case scenario would be a FF7 prequel where we play as the Cetra, but I won't hold my breath for one.

Though I grew up with 7, my favorite FF is still 6 precisely because of Kefka that game's world is even further reaching than 7's in some ways. I loved the revelation that the Espers were once living in their own communities before, well, humans got involved. I'd like to see a similar story, or at least some kind of story, with the Summons in 7 too. At least let us know what names or titles they went by back then, other than the "Rulers of the Outer Realms". What are these Outer Realms anyway? How do they fit in with the planet's Lifestream? Are they also part of it?

Honestly, I was hoping to wait for the third game before coming to any judgment, but judging by the most recent interviews with Director Hamaguchi, I don't know if they will be touching on Cetran history all that much anymore. He talked about a lot of other fascinating things (I'm very much looking forward to the new Wutai), but otherwise we may never know. And that makes me just a little sad, but I won't die if we don't. I would like to be proven wrong, though.

I might be tripping here since I’m a casual player enjoying the game in the regular difficulty, but something I’ve noticed is that I never see people actively using or even recommending Red for the fights.

I’m currently level 50, trying to beat the last duo fight in Gilgamesh Island (Odin and Alexander) and I’m constantly having to look for guides or other discussions while I try to beat the fight but this is not the point (although helo would be appreciated XD).

The point is, and I mean for every other super hard bossfights guides I’ve seen, no one ever says “I used Red” or “try using Red” and it got me thinking, why?

Is it because his gameplay is super niche and situational or because he simply doesn’t exceed that much to be worth playing with?

And just to clarify to the Nanaki appreciators out there, I’m not claiming he’s a bad character, I like him a lot and I’m liking him even more with all the R trilogy expansions on the characters but still, what do you guys think?

Dang, what a game. Pretty proud of joining the small percentage of platinum trophy achievers here, so many times I didn’t think I would get past a particular part (mainly Chadley challenges) but what a feeling of achievement when you finally do. Definitely in my top games of all time, sad it’s done 🥲

Am I the only one who finished the game confused especially after Chapter 13 and 14 and with Zack’s interludes throughout the story? I found it difficult to understand exactly what was going on especially after leaving the temple and Sephiroth trying to get Cloud to give him the black materia. Basically starting from the point where Aerith wakes up Cloud in Elmyra’s house has me confused as to what was reality and what was a dream or what was an alternate timeline lol. Otherwise I loved mostly everything about this game its story and character development

I cannot fucking wait for this game. The complaints I've seen online, there's only a couple that I feel are warranted and even then only slightly. Certainly not enough to impact my enjoyment of the game. Some texture pop in and barely noticeable other graphical issues are all I noticed.

I put 8 hours into the demo and didn't even explore the entire available area. It feels like this game is gonna get an easy 80-100+ hours out of me, and that's coming from someone who didn't even crack 100 on TOTK.

Queens blood is going to be a large chunk of those hours I can already tell. And apparently there's an updated from the DLC version of fort condor.

Overall I can't express enough just how excited I am for this game. The most excited I've been for a game since KH3.