Considering how these guys are, they will NOT be able to help themselves from changing things. For crying out loud, Nojima STILL keeps insisting VII and X are connected despite nobody caring

It’s not meta, it’s just the usual suspects at Square being incompetent at storytelling. And clearly still sulking about the public not accepting the Compilation

This is what it means: SE is doing “it” again because apparently they didn’t learn that the Compilation didn’t go over so well.

At this point in the original game you knew Sephiroth was a wildcard, not a villain in spite of Cloud’s claims. About thirty minutes you DO get the gist...and it is TERRIFYING because even after Shinra tower you didn’t see it coming.

This is part of what has come to irritate me so much with Nomura in that he keeps trying to do all this meta stuff, but he doesn’t seem to understand what Meta entails. Meta, when you get down to it, is a form of deconstruction. It’s not just about what the game is, but what the game is saying about the state of its…

Genesis sucks so bad his actor fled Japan to get away from voicing him

Funny how every dumbass thinks they’re the first to know that and thinks it’s some kind of sick burn. Yes, I’m aware of how many people in Japan dislike (for reasons both reasonable and unreasonable) and I’ve been aware for for longer than you have. The difference: I have a sense of humor about anime. I just don’t use…

For fuck’s sake, SE, enough with the obtuse bullshit when it comes to summons.  Either simplify it or leave them out. All this unnecessary minutiae to “balance” them is asinine

Pretty much; it’s a lot closer to Kunihiko Tanaka’s style instead of that weird, muddy look the Wii models had (seriously, their expressions are completely stiff)

When in doubt use “anime” as a pejorative and pretend you’re not a closet xenophobe

No, the point still stands because one good game does not somehow change the fact that the majority of their work over the past twenty years has been lackluster, stagnant, and cowardly. Being pedantic with a time frame is not some kind of “Gotcha!” like you’re in Ace Attorney, it just shows insecurity

That was fifteen years ago

I wanna see CAPCOM do another Saturday Night Slam Masters

Another thing is I’ve seen Square (and even this creative team) try these kinds of stories again and again and...they’ve never worked.

Yeah, Nojima, Kitase, and Nomura have clearly not had anyone say “NO!” to them in a long, LONG time. These aren’t some rebellious upstarts, they’re some of the most privileged men in the entire series. It’s like making excuses for Spielberg or Lucas.

Having seen these guys’ storytelling in the past twenty years...god, they are going to fuck this up so badly. The point of VII is that it was a mass deconstruction of a TON of 90s RPG tropes. Our “plucky resistance” is a bunch eco-terrorists, the “evil empire” is a hypercapitalist megacorp, the “pure, naive maiden’ is…

And people will say “But the original creators are on it!” So what? They aren’t the same people they were twenty years ago. Nojima and Kitase have been creatively stagnant and really conservative when it comes to storytelling and theme. Nojima in particular has written some GODAWFUL sequel novels to FFX. These aren’t…

If anything, the problem is the fifty-year-old men still hanging around the franchise rehashing the same stories they’ve done before. Especially since they’re tried adding stuff to FF VII before and this is how many times it’s worked: zero.

There are a lot of reasons; for one, the Shinra building massacre is such a huge “WTF!?” because there are no signs of Sephiroth’s presence, save for Cloud having an auditory hallucination after Sector Seven is destroyed. It’s just so shocking to have him appear out of nowhere and it throws a wrench into the entire…

Hoo-boy, get ready for a lot of people saying “CHRISTOPHER REEVE!” Okay, you have one charismatic actor in a slipshod story playing a character who is also pretty shoddily written.