it is great to be a ff7 fan in the year 2022

[ichthyocentaurs]

Playing FF7 with someone who doesn't know it at all is so much fun. I guess it is with a lot of games, but when you know the game is good it's like... damn. We finished Corel and went to me? Gongaga and lmao sorry ignored Aerith and Tifa (sorry I need to get the Barret date for once) and I read my sister their dialogue from that scene cause it's really important and man. she keeps asking me when the "mystery" will be solved and it's crazy to think that yeah, this game actually IS mysterious. I think this is where the joy of trying to stay spoiler-free really comes from... I love being able to be caught up in whatever's happening without having any idea what's over the horizon. It's just a fun way to live.

Anyway Cosmo Canyon is next, I am stoked.

Comments

[matrixmann]

Hm, for games like RPGs which you know about in advance by the category of game that it is, it's definitely a bigger joy to stay spoiler-free and not really read or check out anything before actually playing the game and getting into it.
Nothing can replace that experience of "having seen something for the first time" - that even stays so as an adult, when getting to know an unknown game (whether current or old).

In the case of FF7 it's a bit of ironic - since leaving Midgar, you actually have your goal that stays until the end, but yet you don't know all the details about what's truly going on. And how complicated things truly are - that you aren't just following a seemingly resurrected Sephiroth, but something totally different, and that the previously established "life story" from before actually is not what it pretended to be.

[ichthyocentaurs]

Yeah, it's really fun to play alongside someone who knows almost nothing about the story. I never thought of it as particularly mysterious (because I had been spoiled on so much for years) but playing with my sister she's like, coming up with theories of the black robed Reunion guys's number's meanings, she was surprised when it was revealed that Sephiroth has an actual (human) mother, etc. I'm enjoying it in a totally different way knowing what's going to happen when she doesn't. :)

[matrixmann]

Imma thinking... Do I remember when I got to know the game in its full story...?
There have been a couple of spoilers a long time ago as playing some parts of it with a female friend from elementary school. But, as playing the game on my own, I was physically already an adult and knew practically nothing about the game. So it's rather been like then that I recognized passages that she played with oneself back then along the way. And learned how they connected to each other.
So it was a... the game was like totally unknown in its story, but somehow basic principles weren't. (Especially how to work with the materia.)

Something that indeed surprised me was that the age rating agencies tolerated Dyne's suicide. Even if he's just a pixelated figure. This came relatively unexpected and was a tragic moment one wasn't prepared for, I have to admit.