No slanted rocket. No damn tea. No abused wife. No sexy lady decal. No cigarette to ignite his dynamite. No dragons. Not even a spear. His personality seems to be "generic nice guy" now, he doesn't even swear. This isn't Cid Highwind, this is an Ifalna/Aerith simp.
Also the part in the OG FF7 in the scene where Cloud gives Sephiroth the black materia, Cloud beating up Aerith has been removed as well. Cloud beating up Aerith showed how brainwashed by Sephiroth he was but let's remove that . (Hey that sounds similar to Resident evil 4 remake removing the scene with the brainwashed Leon strangling Ada)
And of course the wokes are defending all this censorship, because fiction can't be fiction anymore, a character can't have personality traits they don't like anymore and we can't see anything bad happen to DA FEMALE either . In the OG game, Cid was abusive to his wife but he grew out of it and learnt to appreciate her when she saved his life, but all that character development is gone now
As always with this sort of thing, take the content they won't allow in a remake, multiply it by two, and that's how much stuff they wouldn't allow in a wholly new game where nobody would even know what content they cut. Writers at big studios are all made to be servants of "sensitivity readers", AKA the most terminally offended left-wing faggots they can find. Good characters, good writing, and good games are being strangled in their crib by these assholes. Whatever the game design equivalent of corpoate memphis is, that's where the industry is going.
The sad thing is this will be totally overshadowed by the Tifa stuff, which while an annoying change is nowhere near as damaging to the story as this. There's no narrative excuse. The only arguments the shills can fall back on are "It's just a game bro" or "you still have the original to play".
Honestly I was still planning to play the remakes when they were all done in 10 years or so but upon hearing this news they're dead to me now.
Their narrative excuse would be that the remake and rebirth games are technically sequels and there's multiple timelines bullshit and Sephiroth messing with the past.. But this shouldn't have changed Cid's core backstory or core personality (that was changed for obvious political correctness reasons) so that argument would be a stupid shill argument .And i thought we still have those whispers to stop major changes to the timeline
Only because they haven't figured out how to break in and steal my original set of discs. All the digital downloaded versions will be patched in short order. The history books were all rewritten in real time in this rendition of 1984.
The irony of this is that losing Cid isn't going to upset male fans as much as it will devastate female ones. Because his popularity was always entirely in appealing to a type of man that the game didn't otherwise offer.
The longer FF7 goes on through the years, even before this remake, the more I realize that the Devs want "emo boy" to be the only type of man women want, and will use their popular IP to force it.
kpop united
Sacrilege.
Get the pitchforks and torches, I want Square's corpse impaled on a spike by Friday.
i really dislike the whole "presentation = endorsement" mentality that was forced onto people
time really is a circle, Cid no longer smoking is just like Sanji having a fucking lollipop instead of cigs thanks to 4Kids
Cultivation theory.
What a lot of us have come to realize over time is that this shit cuts two ways. On the one hand, mentally ill people do appear to be susceptible to cultivated behavior via entertainment media. On the other hand, bad actors simply want to prescribe an acceptable range of behavior via media programming. So we’ve got authoritarian leftists telling us what we’re allowed to do, and mentally I’ll leftists following those prescriptions.
Squeeenix fucked it up, whst a complete non surprise. Remember Hironobu left for Lost Odyssey. He's been gone for a decade and since retired. Squeeenix doenst know how to make good games. They never really did, it was enix, or Hironobu. So they are fucked. Its not FF7, it's some retarded liberal remimagining.
Huh, I never noticed til just now when I read this post that that was Cid's wife. I thought she just hung around because of her guilt and Cid had no problem with that at all
But I did play it the first time when i was around 10 so probably a lot of that kind of nuance flew over me
No, you were correct originally. She's not his wife during the events of the game, though it's heavily implied that he intends to marry her near the end.
They are officially married in the Dirge of Cerberus game
ah ok gotcha
Well he's officially married to her by the time of Dirge of Cerberus
Something very ironic about this, like the new Netflix Avatar slop removing Sokka's misogyny therefore also removing his growth as a character where he learns to respect women.
I understand now why they shut down the Forspoken studio and absorbed all the employees into the main studio, they want all their franchises to get wokified. It's all water under the Bridge.
Not to mention he got turned into an Uber driver and nothing else, dude is basically a glorified minor npc now.
we can't have a male good character be too abrasive or aggressive now can we? or its supporting tOxIc mAsCuLiNiTy
Also, no reports of Jemnezmy appearing. This is the timeframe she would be expected to appear in.
Who?
Sexy seductress sort of enemy. There's three of them, but the other two wouldn't appear until locations that won't be visited until the third part.
Ah, I see. I was wondering if it was a stroke-induced typo, since the name didn't ring a bell, but the upvotes on your post made me think that I'd just completely forgotten a minor NPC.
They didn't want nerds to beat up their girlfriends but the jokes on them we don't even have girlfriends.
man.. they should just have an offshoot game with just tifa, aerith, jessie getting into all sorts of trouble and shenanigans. they can go shopping and beat up hooligans that try to molest them.
So Final Fantasy X-2? 🤔
With character/costume designs by Yoko Taro, plz.
Square Enix is not a company to be trusted. I don't know why anyone would buy their goyslop these days
This is keeping in line with the entire game being a bastardized imitation of the classic.