also yes this 'review' is very ramble-y and somewhat incoherent im aware, just wanted to share my thoughts on this game since no one else really has on the site.Move over Final Fantasy VII Remake. nomura gave up on these turkey ocs i swear. okay what the fuck is with the turk names the man with a knife is literally called KNIFE what is this shit. this game is real cool for being a simple flip phone game and i hope we can get an actual rom of it someday (the remake is very cool from what i've seen tho so getting a rom of the og probably isnt that important nowadays). you go through junon and kalm and shit and its like wow i remember those places now they are on my panasonic foldable 6000 flip phone phone or something idk. you got some cool writting from what i've seen with natural character interactions (TWEWY lol.). its p stylized and intriguing as ive said with seeing INSIDE SHIN-RA. To put things into perspective you're basically the turkish turkey turk bitches and you go on an adventure doing shinra mission shit. hell one of the songs flat out sounds like it could be in twewy. the vocalist on one of the songs is the same lol. legendary TAKEHARU ISHIMOTO does some really fuckin amazing guitar and drumbeats here that you can defo tell are the precursor to twewy. the art is really fuckin good INCLUDING the soundtrack done by the THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU composer. the combat and sprites and shit look kind twewyish but idk how it actually plays cuz youtube lol. im getting a bit off track here which i'll save for my crisis core review but you get my point.Īnyways BEFORE CRISIS: FFVII is like twewy but not really with the art having the bombastic and sharp thickass nomura mid 2000s style. turks just want the moners and soldiers just wanna fuck up some bad dudes. yeah we got our hoe SHOTGUN and our bro ZACK GONGAGA to reflect on what they're really doing as shinra but most of everyone else just does whatever they're told. you can see the obvious anti-governmental overtones of 'SHINRA BAD' continued from the first game but they delve deeper into how the employees pay this no mind. they even somehow connected dirge to this shit seeing how azul was originally captured and whatever. i think the best part of the compilation is how they handled this, invoking the feelings and thoughts of people who work in shinra aka the turks (this game) and SOLDIER (crisis core). Its interesting how much effort was put into this story and its essentially the precursor to crisis core and remake on the basis of the innerworkings of shinra. So obviously this game is literally impossible to play in its entirety in its original form nowadays so i just wanted to write a little smth on this one based on videos and other shit ive researched. The moment in the finale where he's finally so far gone in his glorification of the Lifestream that he echoes Sephiroth in calling the protagonist 'traitor' was chilling.

Elfe is a cool icon for this chapter, even if she doesn't actually do all that much, and Fuhito serves as an absolutely stellar villain for FFVII's setting.

But it's probably still a net positive, since the three leaders make for really cool antagonists that further populate Gaia. The world is portrayed as revolving around Shotgun, it's still fanfictiony in that regard. It has storytelling issues with overfixating on its own narrative to make them have a hand in the backstory of every single character, and really, every single major narrative event pre-FFVII. They're debatably as intrusive to the plot as Remake's Whispers.

However, I'm split on the decision to transform AVALANCHE into such a huge organisation. As a fan it's fascinating to be taken along to see events such as the rocket launch, razing of Corel or how Nanaki ended up in Hojo's lab. Before Crisis covers the largest span of time out of any entry in the Final Fantasy VII series.

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