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FF7r continues to be brilliant

Like, the first game is apparently up through Midgar, expanded to fit and I can\u2019t tell what\u2019s new or just newly done well enough to matter, but it is just full of themes of parents and children and comrades and just the spirit of loss hanging over everything

Aerith in particular is amazing, a new type that later scholars will connect to the MPDG and the yandere, and she\u2019s vocally aware that she\u2019s an impermanent thing and her time is limited

The collapse of the Sector 7 plate is set up as a foreshadowing parallel - if you have previous exposure you know what\u2019s happening, it\u2019s loss and failure, with the built-up Cloud/Jesse ship as a loss, but at this point there\u2019s been just enough divergence from the \u201creal\u201c timeline you wonder until the end whether it\u2019ll really happen

This time though Wedge survives (meanwhile obviously, in the original this sequence did not expect players to appreciate Aerith\u2019s later fate)

The remake is aware the payload of FF7 is the Cloud/Tifa/Aerith triangle, it\u2019s striking how marginal even Sephiroth is

So as it reaches a peak, this installment is whispering in your ear

Hey Aerith\u2019s so great, she\u2019s really a dream girl, but she\u2019s telling you not to fall in love with her because her time is limited, it\u2019s 2020, you know we\u2019re going to kill her\u2026
\u2026right?

And oh my God, that\u2019s the obvious-in-retrospect angle a compelling multi-game FF7 remake would have to take, and it\u2019s brilliant

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