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Final Fantasy 7....by a non gamer
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Once you get the knights of the round materia it's basically an 'I win' move and the last boss hasn't a hope
I liked Yuffie as well. Removing your materia for the subquest was a pain but as a character she injected a bit of fun into the game and I liked her subquest of taking on the pagoda, it had some boss fights that you actually had to think about to beat even if they were pretty much the leviathan and asura fights from FF4.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Once you get the knights of the round materia it's basically an 'I win' move and the last boss hasn't a hope
I liked Yuffie as well. Removing your materia for the subquest was a pain but as a character she injected a bit of fun into the game and I liked her subquest of taking on the pagoda, it had some boss fights that you actually had to think about to beat even if they were pretty much the leviathan and asura fights from FF4.
I actually held back on using KOTR, I knew from trying to beat the first time (I wasn't asked to split my party, I just played with the three I used all along: cloud, Cid and Barret) that you got a different last boss experience so I saved it until the end because I was afraid of getting my ass whupped again. But yeah it's a brilliant summon. Even better with mime materia. I def wouldn't have best him otherwise.
As for yuffie, I def didn't see her full potential. I wasn't too fond of her or vincent so didn't use them for fighting at all (may have uaed yuffie once or twice pre stealing) so didn't open new limits. I'll play again and use both characters and possibly get a different experience?0 -
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As for yuffie, I def didn't see her full potential. I wasn't too fond of her or vincent so didn't use them for fighting at all (may have uaed yuffie once or twice pre stealing) so didn't open new limits. I'll play again and use both characters and possibly get a different experience?
Well you won't really get a different experience. One of the flaws of FFVII is that every character is a blank slate. Other than their limit breaks, all each character is are empty slots for materia. Whether they are long range or not really doesn't make a difference very early in the game. It's made worse by Yuffie and Vincent being optional characters since in the story they have very few lines outside of their subquests.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Well you won't really get a different experience. One of the flaws of FFVII is that every character is a blank slate. Other than their limit breaks, all each character is are empty slots for materia. Whether they are long range or not really doesn't make a difference very early in the game. It's made worse by Yuffie and Vincent being optional characters since in the story they have very few lines outside of their subquests.
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It's funny but I think the best moments in FFVII are the really linear bits at the start. I'm playing on PC atm and when I reached the Shinra HQ I just decided to run up the stairs for a change, something I never did before. The exchanges between the characters were great, Barret got really f*cking irate about running up 60 floors of stairs. Later on they just give the characters one or two unique lines for each scenario so they lose some of their individuality.
I think I mentioned it early but FFVII started out as a detective story set solely in Midgar. That probably explains why Midgar is so fleshed out and has the most detail in the story. After you leave Midgar I fins the game gets a lot weaker and turns into your common or garden linear globe trotting RPG.Vincent is rubbish, so you missed nothing. Yuffie is good for morphing, not much else. It's not up to me but a good next title to play would be IX or X. VIII has a lot of depth but it's pretty broken. XII is a very acquired taste. XIII is just boring. VI is ok but it's a lot like VII.
VI, IX or X would be a good next step. VI is the closest to VII and in my opinion it's a far superior game.Sorry, I should have said fighting experience, with the different limits
Well I was talking about fighting as well. Other than Limit breaks there's no much to differentiate the characters and limit breaks aren't really that important. There's a few endgame differences like Yuffies morph ability but they only serve a purpose if you are going after the optional bosses.
I myself just used everyone in the game equally. The game auto levels up characters not in your party anyway.
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If you only played the PS1 port then I can understand if you didn't enjoy it. The PS1 port is horrendous with terrible loading times that slow the game down and that's made even worse by the European version being even slower again. The SNES version or even the GBA version and much better and are much faster paced games.
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chopperbyrne wrote: »Don't bother playing VII again for a long while.
Make him get you a GC or Wii (if you don't have one) and a copy of Skies of Arcadia: Legends.
It's a really fun JRPG.
I fully endorse this post except for one small fact. Have you seen the price that that game goes for on Ebay :O
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Grandia might be a better alternative. It's got the same fun free spirited story and atmosphere and probably the best JRPG battle system ever devised all at a cheap PSN price (cheaper again on the US PSN and also doesn't run in crappy 50 Hz mode).
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I thought FFVI was better in every way. The story is a lot better, FFVII's is a messand not particularly good. The esper system while not idea is a lot better than the materia system and the characters have unique abilities while FFVII characters are just materia holders. The soundtrack is on of the series best and it still looks amazing while FFVII is looking very ropey. The game changer that changes how the game is approached in the second half of the game is the series high point for me.
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