I suspect that one of Sephiroth's superpowers is spontaneously generating swords. His swords get longer when he feels more threatened.
It's really the flashback that cinches for me the quality of the writing for this game -- the reason THIS game is the Classic Final Fantasy. The complicated storytelling, the baroque politics, and the intricate (for videogames) characterizations are the things that set FF7 apart from, especially, the subsequent FFs for me. I love, love, love FF9, it's my favorite FF, but it's a very straightforward story (compared to this), though the characters are comparable to FF7's character development, which is the main reason I adore it.
(My biggest beef with FF8, FFX, and FF12 is that the main characters feel limp, lifeless, and gooby compared to the development we get with Cloud and Zidane. Either make them "blank" voiceless characters like the main characters of Persona, or give them personalities that don't irritate people. The other characters are often relatively well-developed, but the POV character is so annoying that I can't get into the story.)
I'm also very very grateful that FF7 was made before voices were added, because BOY HOWDY is there a lot of opportunity for USian voice actors to mess it up.
If I were 20-something and somewhat gothier, I would want a duplicate of the Jenova metal angel for my wall.
Maybe when you're done with the FF playthrough, we could get a bunch of people together to do Suikoden or Persona playthroughs? I'm loving reading these, and I'd love to see Suiko get more fanlove.
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Date: 2013-09-29 03:29 pm (UTC)It's really the flashback that cinches for me the quality of the writing for this game -- the reason THIS game is the Classic Final Fantasy. The complicated storytelling, the baroque politics, and the intricate (for videogames) characterizations are the things that set FF7 apart from, especially, the subsequent FFs for me. I love, love, love FF9, it's my favorite FF, but it's a very straightforward story (compared to this), though the characters are comparable to FF7's character development, which is the main reason I adore it.
(My biggest beef with FF8, FFX, and FF12 is that the main characters feel limp, lifeless, and gooby compared to the development we get with Cloud and Zidane. Either make them "blank" voiceless characters like the main characters of Persona, or give them personalities that don't irritate people. The other characters are often relatively well-developed, but the POV character is so annoying that I can't get into the story.)
I'm also very very grateful that FF7 was made before voices were added, because BOY HOWDY is there a lot of opportunity for USian voice actors to mess it up.
If I were 20-something and somewhat gothier, I would want a duplicate of the Jenova metal angel for my wall.
Maybe when you're done with the FF playthrough, we could get a bunch of people together to do Suikoden or Persona playthroughs? I'm loving reading these, and I'd love to see Suiko get more fanlove.