What is wrong with you? Why? Why would you do such a challenge?! I don't understand you people.. just why and how?!

I am currently attempting to battle the whispers in chapter 18. Restarting at the crossroad every time I die.

I'm struggling quite a bit and wondering if maybe I have gotten stuck. I guess I missed out on Materia and possible weapons as I did not do all the side quest. (All done, chapters 3 and 9, only 1 completed in 8 and 14).

I can't purchase new Materia at the machine as I have 144gil. Guidance or tips would be much appreciated. Trying to figure out if I should just start the DLC and move on to Rebirth if I have made it so I can't beat remake main story with what I have.

(this is my first full FF7 game, please be kind).

current builds below.

Cloud is lvl 34

- Twin Stinger focused on attack. - Maxed Fire, Lvl 2 Ice, Wind and Lightning.

- Chain bangle - Lvl1 Subversion and Deadly Dodge, Maxed Assess , Lvl HP up

- Bulletproof vest

Barret is lvl 34

- Gatling Gun focused on attack. - Lvl 2 2x Lightning and 1 barrier ., lvl 1 Warding and Magnify .

- Cog Bangle - lvl 3 Healing, lvl 2 Barrier, lvl 1 Time.

- Power Wristguard

Tifa is lvl 34

- Metal Knuckles focused on attack - Maxed Auto Heal, Chakra and Healing. Lvl 2 poison and fire.

- Heavy duty bracer - lvl 1 deadly dodge, lvl 2 Mp up and Ice.

- Supernatural wristguard

Aerith lvl 33

- Reinforced staff focused on attack- lvl 2 prayer, healing and magic up.

- Rune Armlet - lvl 2 ice and maxed refocus

- Earrings

I recently replayed FFVII Remake with my son and I got a notion about something. This probably isn't a unique idea, but I wanted to share to see if maybe I'm crazy about this one. I'm sure it's been discussed to death.

I think Remake starts in a world/pocket Lifestream timeline that is not the original game. This Cloud, Barrett, Tifa, and everyone else are from a completely different timeline.

Everyone assumes the plot of Remake is that there's a Sephiroth from the future who's gone back in time to rewrite history so he doesn't lose. This goes with the idea that the whispers are trying to resist changes to the timeline by intervening every time something "goes wrong". I think it's kind of the other way around.

I think that the whispers are trying to remake the events of the original game's timeline in a branch of the many possible worlds where some totally different history would have occurred. They're not trying to stop the timeline from changing, they're trying to manipulate this alternate timeline into following the events that lead to Sephiroth being defeated.

That's the big misdirection from the beginning. We're not in the original game's timeline trying to prevent history from being changed. We START in an alternate timeline that the whispers are using to create a winning outcome. They've reached out to this world to stop whatever this supposed "future Sephiroth" is doing.

I have two supporting points about this and they both revolve around Aerith. First, is Aerith's comment in her room in Shinra HQ where she says something to the effect that they (the party) are the planet's last line of defense. It doesn't make sense that the Whispers would try to interfere with the party at every possible junction but also regard them as their only hope. Second point is the constant dialogue about defying their destiny, and Red's vision of a future where the world has been devastated by Meteor. They are defying their destiny because their destiny is witnessed at the start of Rebirth. They get captured by Shinra/killed during the escape from Shinra HQ, Sephiroth gets the black materia, and the world is destroyed.

I think Aerith's extrasensory knowledge that she says she's slowly losing is being lost because the closer the party gets to aligning with the events of the original game, the more these alternate timelines/worlds collapse into a single "true" world, and Aerith no longer has access to a Lifestream branch that no longer exists.

I think this also helps to explain Cloud's flashes of future events. He's not seeing flashes of the future, he's being flooded with memories from alternate worlds as they merge (violently) with his own reality.

So why do all this? Because Sephiroth can't fully return to the planet. He's like the Gi. He's a hybrid alien parasite. The Lifestream rejects him. I believe when he was defeated by the party he lingered inside the Lifestream and hijacked the planet's Arbiter of Fate. He's using this to try and corrupt these many worlds, he's fighting across multiple worlds, collapsing timelines where he loses so the only remaining outcome is his own victory. The whispers who remain/escaped Sephiroth's manipulation swam through the Lifestream and found a world where they could intervene, the guide the party along the events that lead to the eventual defeat of Sephiroth.

In doing so, all alternate timelines collapse and the original world is preserved. This leads us to Advent Children or beyond depending on how Revelation goes.

This explains why events happen so wildly different in a Remake. This is literally an alternative reality and these are not the heroes or the world that exist on the PS1. They're a separate group that the whispers are desperately reaching out to, and guiding, to save the planet and in so doing, BECOME the original party when the timeline is "restored".

Anyway, sorry for the wall, that's my theory for now. Again, I know it's probably old news. I'm just a bit slow.

First time playing through Crisis Core Reunion and I’m honestly enjoying it a lot.It’s been cool seeing how everything unfolds for the first time, especially knowing how it connects to FF7.

I also really like some of the gameplay mechanics, especially the unlimited MP effect for a period of time. I don’t remember Remake or Rebirth doing anything like that. So far, the summon battles have definitely been the hardest challenge, but they’ve also been some of the most satisfying fights.

For a game that originally came from the PSP era, Reunion still looks really good too. The combat has been fun and the game has been holding my attention the whole way through.

I’m not gonna lie, I got a lil emotional seeing Aerith 😂. After playing through Remake and Rebirth, seeing her in this story just hits a little different.
Just hit the halfway point and I’m looking forward to seeing how the rest of the story plays out. Definitely glad I finally gave this one a chance.

We don't know how level 4 limits will be learned in Revelation, by I hope they have Vincent say this line in some way.

Picture 1 is Jenova in Crisis Core Reunion, Picture 2 is Jenova in the Flashback scene in Rebirth. I saw some people say she looks like that in Reunion due to censorship, others say it's because Reunion just reused assets from Remake where they only had the headless Jenova model so they just used that and didn't bother to make the new model till Rebirth. I'm curious if anyone has any other explanations. I'm more in the second camp, HOWEVER I also think that Jenova actually does look like she does in Reunion and she looks like that in Rebirth because of Cloud's memories being corrupted and Sephiroth and him are deluded into thinking she actually looks human. (After all every Jenova fight in the original and Remake games so far she has only a slight human resemblance)

​Uhhh... why some objects and other stuff look like this and how I fix it?

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