Watched the story on Youtube. It's really neat it expands on characters like Tseng really well.
Do not play the RPGMaker remake, worst mistake of my life, just watch the cutscenes of the mobile version, it's unironically a way better experience
infelizmente é impossível jogar o original
so obviously this game is literally impossible to play in its entirety in its original form nowadays so i just wanted to write a little smth on this one based on videos and other shit ive researched.
its interesting how much effort was put into this story and its essentially the precursor to crisis core and remake on the basis of the innerworkings of shinra. i think the best part of the compilation is how they handled this, invoking the feelings and thoughts of people who work in shinra aka the turks (this game) and SOLDIER (crisis core). they even somehow connected dirge to this shit seeing how azul was originally captured and whatever. you can see the obvious anti-governmental overtones of "SHINRA BAD" continued from the first game but they delve deeper into how the employees pay this no mind. yeah we got our hoe SHOTGUN and our bro ZACK GONGAGA to reflect on what they're really doing as shinra but most of everyone else just does whatever they're told. turks just want the moners and soldiers just wanna fuck up some bad dudes. im getting a bit off track here which i'll save for my crisis core review but you get my point.
anyways BEFORE CRISIS: FFVII is like twewy but not really with the art having the bombastic and sharp thickass nomura mid 2000s style. the combat and sprites and shit look kind twewyish but idk how it actually plays cuz youtube lol. the art is really fuckin good INCLUDING the soundtrack done by the THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU composer. legendary TAKEHARU ISHIMOTO does some really fuckin amazing guitar and drumbeats here that you can defo tell are the precursor to twewy. the vocalist on one of the songs is the same lol. hell one of the songs flat out sounds like it could be in twewy.
to put things into perspective you're basically the turkish turkey turk bitches and you go on an adventure doing shinra mission shit. its p stylized and intriguing as ive said with seeing INSIDE SHIN-RA. turks gonna be turks. you got some cool writting from what i've seen with natural character interactions (TWEWY lol.). you go through junon and kalm and shit and its like wow i remember those places now they are on my panasonic foldable 6000 flip phone phone or something idk. this game is real cool for being a simple flip phone game and i hope we can get an actual rom of it someday (the remake is very cool from what i've seen tho so getting a rom of the og probably isnt that important nowadays). okay what the fuck is with the turk names the man with a knife is literally called KNIFE what is this shit. nomura gave up on these turkey ocs i swear. also yes this "review" is very ramble-y and somewhat incoherent im aware, just wanted to share my thoughts on this game since no one else really has on the site.
its interesting how much effort was put into this story and its essentially the precursor to crisis core and remake on the basis of the innerworkings of shinra. i think the best part of the compilation is how they handled this, invoking the feelings and thoughts of people who work in shinra aka the turks (this game) and SOLDIER (crisis core). they even somehow connected dirge to this shit seeing how azul was originally captured and whatever. you can see the obvious anti-governmental overtones of "SHINRA BAD" continued from the first game but they delve deeper into how the employees pay this no mind. yeah we got our hoe SHOTGUN and our bro ZACK GONGAGA to reflect on what they're really doing as shinra but most of everyone else just does whatever they're told. turks just want the moners and soldiers just wanna fuck up some bad dudes. im getting a bit off track here which i'll save for my crisis core review but you get my point.
anyways BEFORE CRISIS: FFVII is like twewy but not really with the art having the bombastic and sharp thickass nomura mid 2000s style. the combat and sprites and shit look kind twewyish but idk how it actually plays cuz youtube lol. the art is really fuckin good INCLUDING the soundtrack done by the THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU composer. legendary TAKEHARU ISHIMOTO does some really fuckin amazing guitar and drumbeats here that you can defo tell are the precursor to twewy. the vocalist on one of the songs is the same lol. hell one of the songs flat out sounds like it could be in twewy.
to put things into perspective you're basically the turkish turkey turk bitches and you go on an adventure doing shinra mission shit. its p stylized and intriguing as ive said with seeing INSIDE SHIN-RA. turks gonna be turks. you got some cool writting from what i've seen with natural character interactions (TWEWY lol.). you go through junon and kalm and shit and its like wow i remember those places now they are on my panasonic foldable 6000 flip phone phone or something idk. this game is real cool for being a simple flip phone game and i hope we can get an actual rom of it someday (the remake is very cool from what i've seen tho so getting a rom of the og probably isnt that important nowadays). okay what the fuck is with the turk names the man with a knife is literally called KNIFE what is this shit. nomura gave up on these turkey ocs i swear. also yes this "review" is very ramble-y and somewhat incoherent im aware, just wanted to share my thoughts on this game since no one else really has on the site.
Better and more involved than it ever had any right to be. Before Crisis is, fore the most part, a long parade of fanservice, but it's a pretty good one. Grimoire Valentine on Youtube has a full playthrough with english subtitles, and I'd recommend that as your way to experience it. The RPG Maker "remake" looks absolutely hideous and doesn't retain any of the original's actual gameplay anyway. You'd might as well just look at the original.
it's cool like seriously cool with the turks being the main cast it does allow more for the story to took a turn that seems not really possible with cloud and even zack but this time it was pretty cool i got nothing to say more than that has its moments for sure tho.
Only Final Fantasy VII could have a visually and audibly impressive phone game such as this. What a ride this one was, and the story is no joke!
The story in this is way better then it has any right to be, it's by far the best thing to come out of the compellation
This review contains spoilers
Secretly really cool. Presentationally lacking, but further fleshes out the history of many major players in significant ways while not being as offensive in design as many of the later works. Some of the other FFVII sequel content have their problems with making the conflict a bit too black-and-white in morality, but Before Crisis follows the Turks and is thus underpinned with the sense that, no matter how charismatic they may be, the protagonists here certainly aren't heroes. Nobody is right in this story - Shotgun may protect Aerith and protect mankind from Zirconiade, but she'll also kidnap civilians for the SOLDIER program without so much as a second thought. Though she does develop a moral conflict over the course of the game like Zack, she ultimately never rejects the company.
Before Crisis covers the largest span of time out of any entry in the Final Fantasy VII series. As a fan it's fascinating to be taken along to see events such as the rocket launch, razing of Corel or how Nanaki ended up in Hojo's lab. However, I'm split on the decision to transform AVALANCHE into such a huge organisation. They're debatably as intrusive to the plot as Remake's Whispers. It has storytelling issues with overfixating on its own narrative to make them have a hand in the backstory of every single character, and really, every single major narrative event pre-FFVII. The world is portrayed as revolving around Shotgun, it's still fanfictiony in that regard. But it's probably still a net positive, since the three leaders make for really cool antagonists that further populate Gaia. Elfe is a cool icon for this chapter, even if she doesn't actually do all that much, and Fuhito serves as an absolutely stellar villain for FFVII's setting. The moment in the finale where he's finally so far gone in his glorification of the Lifestream that he echoes Sephiroth in calling the protagonist "traitor" was chilling.
Before Crisis covers the largest span of time out of any entry in the Final Fantasy VII series. As a fan it's fascinating to be taken along to see events such as the rocket launch, razing of Corel or how Nanaki ended up in Hojo's lab. However, I'm split on the decision to transform AVALANCHE into such a huge organisation. They're debatably as intrusive to the plot as Remake's Whispers. It has storytelling issues with overfixating on its own narrative to make them have a hand in the backstory of every single character, and really, every single major narrative event pre-FFVII. The world is portrayed as revolving around Shotgun, it's still fanfictiony in that regard. But it's probably still a net positive, since the three leaders make for really cool antagonists that further populate Gaia. Elfe is a cool icon for this chapter, even if she doesn't actually do all that much, and Fuhito serves as an absolutely stellar villain for FFVII's setting. The moment in the finale where he's finally so far gone in his glorification of the Lifestream that he echoes Sephiroth in calling the protagonist "traitor" was chilling.
cloud strife and donkey kong