I'm about to start Chapter 8. My biggest annoyance with Corel has to be starting quests or investigations and then not being able to finish them because most of the map is still quietly locked.
It’s love hate for me. The good stuff is great- but it’s separated by tons of filler and mini games. I can see where a replay of this would be 15-20 hrs. I’m starting chapter 9. Pretty sure I’m at 100% so far.
> I suck at Chocobo gliding on chapter 10. I hate the controls.
I’m not sure what happened last week, but I went to bed and the controls were not inverted, next day they were. That whole desert level is pretty rough imo.
I beat remake last night. Now I just need to acquire a copy of Rebirth.
Not only have I beaten the original and remake, but now I just wanna play rebirth. Who'd have thought I'd play 2-3 Final Fantasy games having never played one before.
After rebirth I'll take a break for a while. Then I'll give one, not related to the VII universe, a try.
I just beat the nightmare survival queens blood with 110 pts… and my power went out about two minutes later…. The save was before I did it. Yay. I get to try to do it again.
>> I only need the last 3D brawler fight to have finished up everything - then start
>> the brutal chadley stuff.
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> Every time you think you've got it all done... More comes at ya, haha.
Some of these mini games are frustratingly bad in parts. Even the Chocobo racing is awfully unfair on the last few races. One of them is a 6 minute race with 3 instances of pure luck you gotta get through. Still, the worst by far was the sit ups for me. That really messes with my senses.
Yah I took a break on the final sit up challenge after failing a dozen times. Went back a couple days ago, knocked it out my second try. Sometimes better to just leave it be for a bit.
I still have to go finish the chocobo flying fiasco to get those dark ores.
I'm so close to the end though, I debate just finishing and bailing on the handful of small things left. I really want to do the island challenges but ugh, so many other games I need to get to!
The flying chocobo is not too bad once you figure out the pattern. Learning it is the hardest part- then finally nailing a run.
Those cactus gates on the chocobo races are trash- riding up on them when they are closed on a tight corner… is just bad luck. Which is like a coming flip- It has to go right for 3 laps to realistically stay in front- 3-4 coin flips.
Similar experience with the sit up challenge. As soon as I saw it was a thing again, tried a handful of times, and said NOPE, I'll come back later. I beat the game, went back and pulled it off in 2-3 tries. I honestly think one of the hardest minigames will be beating Sephiroth in 3D brawler...that game is brutal. I also hated the cactaur horde mode in Corel....never even tried hard mode on these.
These things + hard mode all the chapters and finish all of the Chadley battles/materia were a no go for me. I should have paced myself better. That many hours in that short amount of time did start to burn me out.
I was pretty surprised at the brawler games. After a couple rounds it becomes like Tyson's punch out you just memorize the behaviors. I did them all relatively easy but I haven't gone back and done the ultimate party animal version yet.
100 hours and 34 seconds, done. Didn't do the final summon, nor the final saucer stuff. May go back later (doubtful), as I need to get moving on a few other games.
Overall, loved it. Still a bit confused on some of the story (time to go watch some YT videos), stoked we still have a lot more content to cover, mini game burnout is real, the English voice acting should have been better, but all in all, a fantastic 100 hour investment!
Switching all my Materia around whenever the game forces me into a specific party makeup is getting really tiresome. Did Remake let you copy your entire Materia loadout between characters, or am I dreaming that up?
> Switching all my Materia around whenever the game forces me into a specific party
> makeup is getting really tiresome. Did Remake let you copy your entire Materia loadout
> between characters, or am I dreaming that up?
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No don’t think so. After chapter 11? You can quickly level common ones in the golden saucer battle arena. You need a chocobo armband from the quest in Nibel. I maxed out all of my important ones when I started hard mode.
On vacation this week. Got the portal to connect pretty solidly with my phone hotspot. Just dinking around here and there I’ve managed to max every materia I have. Hopefully I can try the brutal sim for the gotterdamerung in the next few days.
Yikes. These brutal challenges are nasty. They take 10-20 minutes to finish 10 rounds and there is a gimmick / single hard round in each. Often it’s honestly which way does a monster zig or zag that kills you. Not loving these but I’m on the last one now.
I haven't gone all fanboy/excited with character introductions since landing in the church at the beginning of Remake, but I was pumped when Cid finally showed up. Dude's character model has a few more degrees of Bradley Cooper than the OG, though, for better or worse.
I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the navigation during the open world hubs. Coming off of Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom's "you can climb anything you can see" feel makes being unable to reach a tower 12 feet up really discouraging.
