Final Fantasy VII Remake

Merrith said:

Honestly didn't think it was a big deal. When we get it during Cloud's mind fix stuff in Part 3 probably hit even harder.

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Yes it is and no it won't.

Aerith's death is why you end part 2 there lol. If it was going to be revealed later, then end part 2 at Northern Crater.

Chris said:

Yes it is and no it won't.

Aerith's death is why you end part 2 there lol. If it was going to be revealed later, then end part 2 at Northern Crater.

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Considering they were originally thinking about ending Part 2 at the Tifa Gongaga scene, part of it was just size of the game, as well. It IS a natural stopping point. The character can die without people needing a water burial scene lol. The fact that the game leans so hard into Cloud's mind being so broken and presenting the entire deaths sequence the way they do in service to that (literally stated by devs in the Ultimania) will have a greater overall effect on the 3 games as a whole.

Not ending at Northern Crater falls under same point as where they were originally going to end Rebirth. It's one thing to go further to where they did, Northern Crater would be arguably even more content to fill for 2nd game. Also we wouldn't have as many questions over black materia/clear white materia to ponder over if we got that far in Rebirth (random, but still weird af that the Black Materia gets absorbed into the Buster Sword versus normal materia that get placed in it).

And yes, I think it will hit harder when Cloud ends up having to accept both Aerith and Zack's deaths in his memories (Zack actual fate still the wild card in all of this). Not sure if Cloud's VA will have the range to actually make everything hit as big as it should, but we'll find out.

Rajaah said:

She's got that Ellen Ripley abs look going on. Can't wait to play this again for the platinum and have her Costa Del Sol outfits available for the whole game (...I think?)

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It's funny, definitely made sure to choose same type of swimsuit as Tifa to boost romance option with her, but honestly Aerith going with the more conservative look felt cannon anyways.

Is there something I should know about chapter select after beating the game? I finished it yesterday then randomly selected like chapter 7, went back and finished Grasslands, saved... restarted today and finished Junon. When I went to reload my save it had started me again at the post-credits chapter selection main menu and all my progress was lost.
I'm assuming this is just user error or something weird, but I know there are two choices for how you want to continue playing.

When you finish the game you get a popup telling you something to the effect of you needing to pick a chapter to go to and save it to preserve your chapter 13 completion status.
If you do that then you can jump around different chapters as much as you like.

Losing your hard mode chapter completions sounds wrong, like your save got corrupted perhaps.

Personally I haven't had any issues with it and have been jumping around different chapters and difficulties and it's always preserved my progress.

I hopped into 12, did the dates and reset the chapter multiple times before the boss gauntlet and it recorded those fine. For hard mode manuscripts if you want to knock out the sidequests, classified fiends for accessories, etc I would advise going to Chapter 12 or 13 first since everything is available. You can worry about the chapter completions for the trophy after knocking all of the side content out, then do a straight shot from chapter 1 without distractions.