230: Get the Hell Out Of Dodge

[twaddle]

I know i am very late reading this article. This article has reminded me of what hope looks like. I really needed it. The writing was superb and it reminds me how much i need to get back to work on my writing.

 

[Infernai]

FF7's a great game with an absurdly weak opening. To be fair, once you've played any game through to completion, never mind doing all the side-quests and defeating the psychotically overpowered enemies they put in the american release (apparently as punishment for hiroshima), the starting areas always seem a but unecessary and tedious.

As far as starting areas go, however, Midgar ranks just behind Peragus in my book as the most boring, drawn-out, and overall tedious opening tutorial. I suppose that makes the rest of the world seem beautiful by comparisson, but there must be better way to do that than trapping the player in a junkyard for the first seven hours.

And as a tangent, I wish they would stop releasing other FF7-based games which royally suck ass (And god help me, Advent Children is non-canon.) and just do a remake like essentially everyone was hoping for when they showed that trailer a few years back.

Hey! I thought Advent Children was Pretty good! Ok, it's not perfect but it atleast gave us a look at how things worked out (Or in some ways didn't) for the main cast and the world after all it went through in the original. Crisis core was also good, but for different reasons: It added a bit more depth to what happened before.

Dirge of Cerberus though....yeah, i'll agree there that game is horrid and should be considered non-canon. Ok, it was nice they didn't re-use sephiroth for the big bad this time but...the whole game literally had no reason to exist. What more was there to go on after advent children? I think they should have just left it at advent children and crisis core. If we get anymore FF7 stuff, just let it be a remake.

 

[flare100]

I remember playing FFVII when I was quite young with the sole intention of getting out of midgar. Funny seeing an article on it years later.