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Let's go. I thought that might be a pretty decent opportunity as we're getting about a month away from Final Fantasy 7 uh remake part 3 to sort of uh settle down and rein reinvigorate some of my feelings and wishes and desires and also um opinions on stuff and because a lot of people are misconstring stuff and just taking things within out of context and making their own narratives about it. the big thing that I had to chime in because I do not really engage with Final Fantasy 7 discourse on Twitter very much. It doesn't ever amount to anything. And I kind of came to this conclusion that I won't be really engaging with a lot of that at the end of FF7 Rebirth because it was really shitty at the end of FF7 Rebirth, right? Haven't talked about this at all since then. So, we're next we're close to the next game. We're at that point now, right? Where we have circled around the bend going to be upwards of like 2 years plus uh since talking about all that. Yeah, a lot of different people have a lot of different ideas of where the story can go. I think for me personally, and I have expressed this at several times, that there's a lot of stuff that the game sets up that some of it pays off in part two. There's a lot of stuff that is also set up in part two that we don't know if it's going to pay off pay off in part three. And that seems to be driving people insane. While I sort of like revel in it, like I'm at a point where I love this [ __ ] man. Like I actually in I love the fact that we are getting a remake to Final Fantasy 7 and it isn't just this one to one thing by the by the book by the numbers you know square shape into square hole sort of game that is going to play out the way you think it does cuz we've just been seeing remaking time and time again when they come out and it's like oh well that's exactly what you thought it would be and then it comes out it's exactly what you think it is and then it's the most quickly forgotten thing you know immediately after because all the people that got the thing to look pretty don't have anything really to say about it. They know exactly what's happening and all the people that jump into it, it isn't. It kind of plays like an older game. My opinion on the remake series is that we always kind of had a theory and an idea that dude, they're just going to do all the same [ __ ] right? Even this undiscovered adventure like thing they had at the end of the first game, the the message. People said they're going to go wild different directions. And it's like, no, dude, they're all going to go to the exact same places. The whole point of it is to tell a story that hits all the same cool narrative beats, but adds a bunch more context and characters and things that you would never get. Like, dude, you run into Sis and [ __ ] like that. Like, that's genuinely cool. Things that they added to it are like, wo, this is way different and genuinely cool. So, with that came the uh assumption that stuff is going to change. And potentially, it seems like characters are kind of aware of what the future events have in store for them. So with that, yeah, there's a lot of arguments and, you know, initial posting going all the way back to remake part one. It's like, is this like a pseudo sequel? If it's called Final Fantasy 7 remake and the second one's called Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, well, we know what Rebirth is, but what the hell's being remade in the first one? Like, it's not just describing the game. It's a character's intentions. And the idea was that Sephro is remaking what happened in like Final Fantasy 7. So anyway, that just seemed like what they were sort of doing with it. That seemingly has a lot of people on edge for some reason. and the idea and discussion of like what it could be to the point where people are taking points of my conversation and saying that yeah, if the next part of the game doesn't sort of like pay off in those ways and like like it has all these buildup to all these things like seven years of buildup and [ __ ] Yeah, it would be disappointing if some of that stuff didn't pay off in some way. I I I I still think that way. I think it would be disappointing if it just leads to the same tried and true right after this is FF7 Advent Children and then right after that is Durge Cberus and it's like okay I feel like that that would be like the most obvious and expected thing they could possibly do with the series and I feel like they don't want to do that. It seems like they would want to subvert expectations in some way and I'll say for me personally I don't want that either man. I don't want to be right about everything that I feel about it. I want to be surprised. Like that's that's where I'm at right now. I don't want this just to be the exact thing that follows the exact motions and is all cookie cutter. No, no, no. I want this to do things with it, you know. And the reason why people are sort of turned up is that Rebirth sort of commits to that and then kind of doesn't. And I I honestly feel that it's intentional because that happens in the narrative in several points in Rebirth story. Bugenhagen is the best example of it where you have all these expectations of a character and then you meet them and they're not that like your expectation is not what you think actually happens. So, it's like this game is doing this, especially with its ending. I felt like that was kind of intentional, you know, feels like the devs were sort of aware of that and you get a game now that leaves you wondering. Now, we're all questioning like, "Wow, yeah, Vincent literally says it. Vincent literally says it at the end of the game." So, with that being said, like a lot of people are labeling and not a lot, it's a this is like a few hundred people. The thing that bugs me about it is that people are trying to put words in my mouth of what I feel and saying that I feel this way and I I I exclaim this when it's not true. And the exclamation is that if this thing doesn't line up with the theories and ideas that I have that it's like objectively bad. And I feel like that is a gross misunderstanding of the word disappointment. Disappointment doesn't mean bad. Disappointment literally is that there was an expectation from myself that it could possibly go in some way. And if it doesn't do anything with the expectation, then yeah, that's disappointed. Does it make the entirety of the trilogy just that aspect of the story bad? It's like we got the craziest reimagining of the greatest video game of all time and it's being split into three parts and we got to sit here and digest and emphasize and discuss with each other all the crazy ideas that we hear across the board on purpose, right? That was literally on purpose to get everybody talking. And the issue now is that because of a person of my stature and the audience I have and I guess the weight of my words, a lot of people agree with me. And if somebody else has a conflicting opinion, they might get like the opposite feedback. Oh, but Max says this, you know, and I get it. The only reason that I feel like I'm in the spot where I'm at is that I'm able to vibe with a lot of people's feelings. I'm for some reason the community figure head of like Final Fantasy 7 and I've been the community figure head of several goddamn games. I never asked for this, but as I go back to all of them, it's like, yeah, the the things I'm saying just vibe with the majority of what the community feels. I'm able to express them in a way that feels like hopefully the message is being heard to the people that are making the game, which is honestly my goal, too. Like the goal is that I want things to get better. The goal of me criticizing a lot of aspects jokingly and seriously criticizing parts of remake part one and part two is so that things can get better. If they are listening, then I hope that they see they hear some of this so that things can get better. Is that going to change the way I personally feel about things? No. These are my feelings, bro. I love what they're doing with this [ __ ] I love it. I love the discussion. I love the conversations that we get to have. I love the fact that I don't know what's going to happen next. In the same way I've seen this happen in communities and being on the internet for long enough, dude, people lose their minds. Like people just are deeply uncomfortable and having to go to the most aggressive ends of defense to defend like opinions and things like that. And I never if I've ever given you that feeling and I said this I said this at the end of Rebirth, nobody's opinion is right. Like nobody's theory, nobody's like idea of where the story is going to go is correct. None of it's right, including mine. None of it's right until the next game. As long as you can accept that your own validation can be wrong, then we're cool. The problem is is that so many people are like aggressively against it either being a remake or being just a spicy remake or a sequel. Now people are like getting very defensive about it. You know, I don't want to give people those vibes. Like, dude, I have the wildest goddamn theory of everybody. I I still think Aith is Genova at the end of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and people deeply got on my case about that. like deeply got like I got that that was when I had to pull back and be like oo I don't want to talk about this theory stuff anymore dude I'm good and that was years ago that I had to like stop discussing this [ __ ] which we kind of did now I just say the exact same things I've always been saying I wouldn't personally be super happy if it just leads to Advent Children and Ded Cberus Adventure is one of my favorite movies to be real but it's deeply flawed movie deeply flawed film that as an FF7 fan does a lot for me but uh Durge I genuinely dislike there's not a lot of that game that I like maybe outside of the music So, um I would like to think that maybe this thing does not lead all the way to Dura Cerberus again. And I would like to think that that's the case because they're remaking it in Ever Crisis. Dude, they're already there's a reason they're doing that. They're doing that so you can be reminded that that does exist. And to me that there's a reason why that's happening there and not like, you know, in the big games. The other big thing that got me was that, and this is just a a situation that just has been happening over and over and over again going all the way back to remake part one. The thing that got me the most was when I started seeing the people that was taking what I was saying uh as like objective fact. If this doesn't take place, if it doesn't fulfill my wishes and demands, then this is bad. Like this is actually this series is [ __ ] Which is what people were trying to paint me as, which was very fascinating. An actual objective Final Fantasy 7 remake series hater if it doesn't follow what I personally want. Wild assumption. I started digging a couple layers deeper and I started to understand something after after one person told me this and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if that's true." I kind of found out that like there's a larger pseudo narrative that's been going on for quite some time about the endings of Final Fantasy 7 and why people would either want it to change for an obvious reason or why people would want it to be the exact same as the original. I think some of us can come to some pretty clear conclusions without even calling out the community directly, even though I did so because Jesus Christ. You would kind of understand why you would want the game to come to a conclusion the exact same way as the old game. And then you would kind of come to a another conclusion that people would want the narrative to change drastically, including the fate of characters and things like that. I can see why they would be coming to those conclusions, but there's always like a battle that's going on there. You know what I mean? I don't think that's every part of the conversation. However, when I was started investigating this, because I get a bunch of people not adding me and there's all these arguments that are going on and it's like, so what is being said? Like, who is saying that I'm saying this [ __ ] And every single goddamn time I boiled it down, it ended up being somebody that was either pushing a ludo narrative of a character's destiny or some [ __ ] like that. I looked again and again and again and again, and every single time it's like, what is the boiling? And this has happened several times in FF7 fandom over the past seven years that I've been actively attached to this. It always boils down to this, like every single goddamn time. So, all I'm going to say is that you guys do you. All All I want you to know is that I deeply don't have any part of that conversation. Like, I don't [ __ ] with it. It's not what makes Final Fantasy 7 interesting necessarily to me at all. I am down with whatever the developers do. They haven't let me down, bro. I have criticisms of stuff. I need to remind people of this in terms of being like a fan, like liking something and like loving something and being an actual like fanboy and obsessive. When you're like a fanboy and you're obsessive about something, you just love everything. You just are absolutely over the moon about every you cannot be convinced otherwise about any single aspect. It's hard to have a conversation with you. It's like you're really into it. I will make fun of the games I love the most. I will make fun of them for the things that are clearly like [ __ ] about them that aren't good. The thing that I realized is that in every single game that I love the most from Final Fantasy 7 OG especially to Street Fighter 3 Strike to uh Bloodborne, which are like my three big games that I always hype up and [ __ ] Killer Instinct, whatever. I find the things that are deeply flawed in those games and I like making jokes about them because it doesn't matter. I love it. it doesn't matter because the other things that the game does ex in in an exemplary fashion are so good that those other elements do not take down from the overall enjoyment I have of them. And I think the exact same can be said about Final Fantasy 7 remake as well as Rebirth. Like at the end of those games, I could not be more appreciative that I get to exist while this shit's existing and get to play this and share a community that enjoys it with me. I could not believe it. I feel bad for part three because I don't know how it could be better than part two. The part two was such a wonderful game to play. I I have found criticisms that I personally have as time has gone time has passed, but the the feeling I had at the end of part two was just an absolute elation that I could not even describe. It brought me back to the '9s and playing like RPGs on a PS1. It was insane what they were able to do with it. I have criticisms like there are things that I would like to see future games acknowledge if not fix. And it was the exact same thing in part one. Dude, I love FF7 remake. Do you think my [ __ ] ass like going back to the sewer? There are several parts of that game that I have big criticisms of, but I think the things that it does well, the things that I was hoping for it to do well the most that I didn't have much confidence, it knocked it out of the park. It it dude, it grand slammed that [ __ ] And it was the same thing with part two. I have the same criticisms for Old F7. I have the same criticisms for Bloodborne, dude. Like those games are deeply personal to me. I can talk about the parts of them that kind of suck at times. And does that change my love for it? No. I love it. I can acknowledge that this stuff is not necessarily good. But that's what makes me love it is that it's not perfect. And despite its imperfections, I will always feel that this is the best [ __ ] ever. It'll be very hard to get me to change that opinion. That's just my take on things. I understand if you don't agree. I understand if you try to twist my words into some way and make it a spicy tweet for the sake of engagement if not monetization or to push a narrative that this video or whatever gets put up on YouTube in sometime in the future uh will stand as a test of time that people can always call back to this and this is how I actually feel on it. I have faith in the developers who do what they do and I'm I'm just here for the ride, dude. I'm here for the ride. It's been amazing so far and uh I hope it gets even better with the next game. Heat. Heat.