wherever tifa lockhart and vincent valentine go, i'll be there

shitty in a very distinctly cool way. makes me miss when i'd walk into the arcade of a movie theater or w/e in the late 90s/early 00s and chuck a few of my parents' quarters away on something barely playable that looked rad as hell to my idiot child brain. i love how easy it is to cheese the AI with spamming specific attacks, the whole experience is just a flailing mess and it rules. makes me wanna boot up power stone or something, it's been like two decades since i've even thought about games like this, but i know my life is only enhanced by their existence

tifa's design here makes her look like an action figure for pervert otakus, but w/e i like spamming triangle and juggling the bad guy when they're close and spamming tifa hadouken when they're far away and winning. girls are so cool. i like the powers dog that has a red XIII alt and the animorph girl and the guy who shoots rockets out his leg. don't like the old guy with the annoying stick or the yoyo cop tho. i'll play the minigames and quest mode someday maybe, idk just something about blasting through an arcade mode that appeals more to me in these types of games

adding this to my "games that would fucking rule at slumber parties even though i'm turning 32 in a week and all the friends i could have slumber parties with are productive adults who live halfway across the country from me and also i have crippling student debt" list! shirtless sephiroth tho

Reviewed on Apr 22, 2024


2 Comments


16 days ago

I remember learning about this game as a kid and being blown away that cloud was in it. Now I’m just sick of seeing him everywhere.

16 days ago

i probably would've related to that sentiment like 10 years ago, but these days i'm at risk of putting a framed picture of the original ff7 key art of cloud on a motorcycle in my living room and the only thing that could stop me is probably the good sense of a hypothetical future partner and/or a roommate who is even more ill than i am and could come up with something worse to put there. cloud strife makes me sick regardless tho, so maybe i can relate a little bit