Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion Review and Spoilercast | Sacred Symbols+, Episode 257

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  • Опубликовано: 17 янв 2023
  • One of PlayStation Portable's very best games came in the form of a 2008 Final Fantasy VII spin-off called Crisis Core. While it wasn't the first new product spawned from FFVII, it was certainly the strongest, telling the story of Zack Fair, a character we don't know a whole lot about in the main game, but someone who's intimately involved in the early portions of VII' lore. Thankfully, the once-stranded title has migrated to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 -- basically remade from the ground-up -- in the form of Crisis Core Reunion, and we're eager to talk about it. Because it's really awesome! To help, I (Colin) enlisted the help of our EP, Dustin, but also of The Washington Post's Gene Park, who was kind enough to take some time out of his schedule to join us and chat. So sharpen that Buster Sword, friends, and prepare to prove your honor, flip phone in-hand.
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Комментарии • 36

  • @clashclay
    @clashclay Год назад +34

    We love you Gene!

  • @williambell6530
    @williambell6530 Год назад +7

    Hey Colin, when you go for the platinum you really just need the darkness and costly punch materia. Maximize your hp, spirit, and vitality stats by fusing your equipped materia with a summon materia. Then equip the accessories that breakthrough the limit of hp and attack. Good luck with Minerva.

  • @aricthered3331
    @aricthered3331 Год назад +8

    Love seeing collabs with Gene. He’s great. 🙂👍🏻

  • @KingSapphire2012
    @KingSapphire2012 Год назад +6

    Always lovely listening to the great Gene Park!

  • @DFTNSHEXGRM
    @DFTNSHEXGRM Год назад +7

    Y’all *need* Maxmillion Dood on for Rebirth

    • @ancientflames
      @ancientflames Год назад +3

      He will blow their minds with theories haha

    • @greatgoldenbaby722
      @greatgoldenbaby722 Год назад +2

      For real! Collin is SO close to understanding the timelines, they just need a Max in there to break down all the Big Brain Levels 1-3 😂

  • @jettxjordan
    @jettxjordan Год назад +2

    Love to Gene from Long Beach, CA!! 💞💗 love hearing your stories about playing FF7 in Japanese when it first came out. So much fucking respect on you man. Happy for your recovery and appreciate your voice.

  • @CJvzla
    @CJvzla Год назад +4

    Watched Maximilian dood's playthrough of reunion and he ended up with crazy stats something like 20k vitality and always no MP and no SP cost, also 90k crits, also really recommend his FFVII content, great discussions and remake/rebirth theories

    • @abeardedhoboTV
      @abeardedhoboTV Год назад

      To platinum I have 99,999 hp 999 mp with costly punch hell firaga and tri thunder. Just crushes

  • @CactuarJactuar
    @CactuarJactuar Год назад +1

    Loving the discussion so far! Just wanted to add a little tidbit that I thought you might find interesting.
    50:00 Talking about the craziness of summons and their over the top attacks, I recently learned that summons in Final Fantasy pull their targets into pocket dimensions! (Also explains the strange arenas you get pulled into when you battle them)
    Let's be honest, the reality is that it's just batshit anime-style insanity, but it was nice after 20+ years of playing FF games to discover this little detail!
    Going to crack on with the rest of the podcast now. Hope you're all doing well!

  • @garywood97
    @garywood97 Год назад +1

    Colin, you know you can just fuse the HP++ and MP++ materia onto something else, to save materia slots. My Curaga ended up with HP+800% effect at the end, so no need for the purple material at all.

  • @Brody_Low
    @Brody_Low Год назад +3

    Zack is one of my favorite protagonists.

  • @knleonhart
    @knleonhart Год назад +2

    I have a theory that Zack is going to recruit the Turks to be their own version of Avalanche in Zack’s timeline.. and they all die as if they were Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie defending the Sector 7 pillar. There’s something very cool about the parallels in this theory. And the Biggs and Jessie in his timeline become his party members before they are merged into the Remake timeline.

  • @AtotheZness
    @AtotheZness Год назад

    Still rocking that PSP version but boy would I love to get some trophies on this remake version!
    Glad to see Gene back in action. He had a great interview with Neil D a few weeks ago I think? Give it a watch y’all!

  • @Youngblaise2
    @Youngblaise2 8 месяцев назад

    Still no explanation on Cloud's absurd strength pre Mako!
    Need more spoilers in these spoiler discussions lol

  • @DerUserX
    @DerUserX Год назад +1

    Always love a good FF7 discussion. Thanks!

  • @Mousuke
    @Mousuke Год назад

    36:33 I'm not concerned about story spoilers in a walkthrough, I just want to accomplish as much as I can naturally with my own thoroughness on a first playthrough of a game. The experience feels cheapened, like someone else did all the work for me, if I just follow specific instructions from the beginning. Guides and walkthroughs are for clean up, or to find something I KNOW I'm missing in the moment, as relayed by the trophy list.

  • @Shynotic
    @Shynotic Год назад

    Love Crisis Core, was my favorite game for the longest time growing up

  • @williamaguilar9389
    @williamaguilar9389 Год назад +2

    Thanks for this I can't wait for Rebirth

  • @everythingmeraz
    @everythingmeraz Год назад +1

    Love you gene! 1:30

  • @bkborngaming3586
    @bkborngaming3586 Год назад

    Great video guys. We demand more Gene lol

  • @smgofdvld
    @smgofdvld Год назад +2

    Gene is awesome 😁

  • @PaulieWalnuts13
    @PaulieWalnuts13 Год назад +1

    This is the same Crisis Core Colin

  • @residentevilclone
    @residentevilclone Год назад

    When I got hell firaga/blizzaga and the status ward materias- it felt like the game broke. The only status I could be affected by was the one that blocked my DMW. And I one hit KOd 75% of enemies. The only normal enemy that gave me any trouble was the weird little orange balls. I had no clue how to do significant damage to those. Also- hated the voice actor for Zack. It wasn’t noticeable how different the direction was until I picked up on the cutscenes not being the new voice actor. Great game though!

  • @Not_Liquid
    @Not_Liquid Год назад +1

    Gene!

  • @Sam-sd5si
    @Sam-sd5si Год назад +5

    I play through the Metro games in Russian and it actually makes a big difference. The English is pretty mid tier voice acting and the Russian is either better because it is local or I can't notice the problems as much.

    • @GenePark
      @GenePark Год назад +4

      oh shit i should do this too thanks

    • @OilersHD97
      @OilersHD97 Год назад

      I am 100% doing this

  • @XeromusPrime
    @XeromusPrime Год назад

    Honestly, I love the voice acting in this game. I think Zack's VA is great in both versions, but I certainly don't think it was a downgrade for Reunion. I don't see the big issue that the internet is in an uproar over.

    • @XeromusPrime
      @XeromusPrime Год назад

      Also Gene, glad to see you back on LSM content! Glad you're doing well!

  • @blackeyedpeasfan916
    @blackeyedpeasfan916 Год назад

    Is there a ff7 remake spoiler cast?

  • @hanes2
    @hanes2 Год назад +2

    I went back to psp version and this is very much replica of it. Very true remake to its original. They didn’t change anything shift the story or cutscenes , just redid it all

  • @quezcatol
    @quezcatol Год назад

    I think zack survived in a third timeline, and when sepiroth is about to lose in the later remakes- he will try and escape to a new timeline and zack will be there to slay him (and playable) AND we will lose aeris that way, by chasing him into it and reunite with zack :)

  • @connorhayes1642
    @connorhayes1642 Год назад

    I don't even like or care about Crisis core but I love hearing Gene on the show, glad he's doing well!