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rionaleonhart) wrote2023-03-20 09:40 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2023-03-20 09:40 am
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Awesome! We're Gonna Fail!
I've finished playing Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion, the remaster of Final Fantasy VII prequel Crisis Core! I watched a cutscene compilation of the original back in 2015 and enjoyed it - it gave me a new appreciation for Final Fantasy VII, which I'd struggled to get along with up to that point - so I'm glad the game's finally available on a console I actually own.
Crisis Core is an odd beast. The battle system and soundtrack are excellent, and Reunion is a great-looking remaster. On the plot front, we've got dodgy writing and voice direction, poor characterisation of Aerith, impressively terrible additions to the Final Fantasy VII canon, but sometimes it'll reach into that mess and pull out something genuinely affecting.
Crisis Core is a bit like Kingdom Hearts, in that respect. The writing of the Kingdom Hearts series is questionable and the plot is nonsense, but it's got real heart, and its emotional moments can hit hard.
Angeal: I never use my sword. Use brings about wear, tear and rust.
Angeal: Anyway, Zack, here's your sword. (stabs Zack's sword straight through some wooden floorboards)
Sephiroth said he, Angeal and Genesis used to sneak into the training room 'for fun', and then we got an astonishingly homoerotic flashback to them having a swordfight on top of Junon's enormous phallic cannon, and I'll be honest: it was pretty great.
All the line delivery in this game is so weird. You don't have to pause in the middle of every sentence!
I'm very touched by the way Zack keeps talking to Cloud even when Cloud is barely conscious and not taking anything in.
The ending was agonising, right up until cheerful pop music kicked in at the most inappropriate possible moment and I cracked up laughing. I think that's the perfect encapsulation of Crisis Core as a whole, a game that's simultaneously genuinely emotional and absolutely ludicrous.
I'm so glad this game lets you join a fan club for yourself.
Crisis Core is an odd beast. The battle system and soundtrack are excellent, and Reunion is a great-looking remaster. On the plot front, we've got dodgy writing and voice direction, poor characterisation of Aerith, impressively terrible additions to the Final Fantasy VII canon, but sometimes it'll reach into that mess and pull out something genuinely affecting.
Crisis Core is a bit like Kingdom Hearts, in that respect. The writing of the Kingdom Hearts series is questionable and the plot is nonsense, but it's got real heart, and its emotional moments can hit hard.
Angeal: I never use my sword. Use brings about wear, tear and rust.
Angeal: Anyway, Zack, here's your sword. (stabs Zack's sword straight through some wooden floorboards)
Sephiroth said he, Angeal and Genesis used to sneak into the training room 'for fun', and then we got an astonishingly homoerotic flashback to them having a swordfight on top of Junon's enormous phallic cannon, and I'll be honest: it was pretty great.
All the line delivery in this game is so weird. You don't have to pause in the middle of every sentence!
I'm very touched by the way Zack keeps talking to Cloud even when Cloud is barely conscious and not taking anything in.
The ending was agonising, right up until cheerful pop music kicked in at the most inappropriate possible moment and I cracked up laughing. I think that's the perfect encapsulation of Crisis Core as a whole, a game that's simultaneously genuinely emotional and absolutely ludicrous.
I'm so glad this game lets you join a fan club for yourself.
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This sums it up, really. It's a flawed game in many respects, but it really enhanced Final Fantasy VII for me, which makes it a very successful prequel (and prequels are hard!).
I do like the song a fair bit; I think I just wasn't prepared for it to kick in halfway through Cloud's anguished scream!
I missed the opportunity to join Zack's fan club in my recent playthrough, which was a big disappointment!
Oh no! Sounds like you're just going to have to play it again.