Playjournal: Final Fantasy VII

[sincere]

I watched a Youtube video recently about why we don't finish video games, and one of their solutions was journaling about the game. It can be as simple as "stuff I accomplished today, stuff I want to accomplish next time." The key is that you can re-read that and get re-inspired PLUS re-oriented with where you are in the game, so that if you end up on a long break for whatever reason, when you pick it up again you don't feel lost and confused and end up like, what was I doing? what's going on?

So today I thought, "I'd better finish FFVII Remake soon, since FFVII Rebirth will be out in a few weeks." But it's been a few months since I last played it.

If I'd had a liveblog, I would have re-read my liveblog, and I'm like 95% confident I would have hopped right back in where I left off.

But I didn't liveblog it. And instead of picking up where I left off, more than halfway through the game, I was like, "I should start a new game and do actually journal it this time!"

And here I am.


PROGRESS: Heading into Upper Junon
Remake - Pages 1-5; Intermission - Pages 5-6; Rebirth - Pages 6+

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[sincere]

At the reactor core, Barret tries and fails again to engage Cloud's actual feelings about anything, but as Cloud starts to set the bomb, he flinches. Cloud's Trauma causes him to hallucinate a black feather floating to the ground --

Barret snaps him out of it, but before he can start the timer, a tutorial boss attacks. The Sentinel Scorpion blows up, triggering the timer.

Avalanche races to escape the reactor in time, which is unnecessary because it's much longer than we need, and extra unnecessary because after we escape the bomb is broken before it can go explode.

So the Shinra president decides to destroy the reactor himself...