Cloud & Aerith!! Lowkey best duo in this game so far? EDIT: Just so people don't get it twisted, duo ≠ ship. I ship Cloud with pretty much everyone at this point, and idk if I have one I prefer over another lmao.
I will admit that Cloud and Aerith is what made me completly fall in love with the game. It just felt like a breath of fresh air. Their dynamic was always my favourite.
Ooh I love hearing why others love games or what got them into a story. Cloud and Aerith have such a fun dynamic and chemistry, its very compelling and i've barely scratched the surface!
Aerith is SO GOOD in this game. They could've done the "holier than thou" archetype/stereotype, but that's just not her. She's lighthearted, witty, sarcastic, and has a bit of an edge. More importantly, she brings light to a very dark world, drawing out deeper parts of Cloud. Truly a breath of fresh Aerith! 😎
Haven't watched your playthrough yet, I will tomorrow, but chiming in because of the description. Tip for this franchise, do not let public opinion sway your tastes and preferences telling you you're wrong to feel a certain way, because you're not. You love Cloud and Aerith's dynamic? Stand on it, that's obviously the emotions the developers wanted from the player going through this part anyway. Ignore ship wars and people bullying others to like what they like, look at what's going on screen and judge from that. Speaking on this part of the game, the fact that she shows up, keeps teasingly poking at him and succeeds in breaking his cold exterior image he feels the need to put on 24/7 within a day of meeting her is amazingly executed and their relationship/characterization throughout the story is some of the most solid character writing I've ever seen in gaming.
Music in these games can form an attachment ! there are so many mesmerising tracks and the time execution and love behind it really shows they know the craft of creating these powerful scenes
I love this chapter so much. And while it was between recording sessions for you, going from Airbuster fight straight into fighting Reno and the escape from the church, the rooftop sequence is such a nice change of pace focused solely on the characters. One of my favorite sequences of the game.
lol I feel like that rooftop scene really was a "sorry we threw everything at you at once, now you can rest" moment. It was super cute and peaceful up there.
I love that you took the time to upgrade your weapons and set Materia. When you slowly get a grasp on the systems and combat, you enjoy more the game. I have watched other people that never did that and were struggling to progress and sometimes even blaming the game or swearing because they couldn't roll their face in their keyboards to win. I really like your playthrough , good luck!
Non-spoiler battle tips: -blocking in this game: makes your ATB gauge grow VERY SLOWLY. So if you need yout ATB gauge to grow, you either need to just be running around the battle field or the fastest way is to use basic attacks on your enemies -stagger gauge and pressuring an enemy: you build up pressure by hitting enemies and exploiting certain attacks. For example on Shiva, using Fire on her builds up the Stagger Gauge. And character basic attacks help build that stagger, like ,cloud’s Focus Strike attack, Barret’s Focus Shot, etc. So when the enemy finally becomes pressured, thats your time to use heavy hitting attacks like Cloud’s Braver, etc. -link your materia: dont forget to combine and link your materia! The blue Elemental Materia should be combined (meaning linked) with another materia, specifically a green one like Fire, Thunder, Ice. And depending on which row you slot it onto your character (Weapon or Armor Row), you’ll either infuse your basic attacks with an element OR guard against those elements). Great job on the playthrough! Do you think you’ll upload more weekly? Or just sticking to Fridays?
Sooo cute this part! Congrats as well for beating Shiva! It seems it paid off working on the SP and upgrades/materia! You are fighting much better. I love so much that Aeriths house is like the only place in the entire Midgard which has a lot of colors and nature! And she loves to slend time with cloud. Its adorable.
I had a good time this episode. I also learned, 4 years too late, that if you use Ifrit during the Shiva battle, he negates all her attacks. Also, epic finisher from Ifrit. Well done!
1:21:00 Inadvertent actually works pretty well here tbh. "not resulting from or achieved through deliberate planning" i.e. he stumbles his way into it lol
Compliments to you on doing a good job paying attention to most things 😂 unlike the 1st episode but seriously its nice to find people who appreciate the fire music and subtle stuff . I personally love the rooftop scene its so reminiscent of the OG but just done way better. The music change when aerith joins the party was an old fave 2 but its only the beginning . Your only a few hours into the story as far as the original goes
We don't talk about episode 1 lmaoo but yes omg the rooftop scene was so much fun and I loved seeing the word from that perspective. I think I'm also very much into good character writing, and that scene was full of it.
Remember back in like episode 2 or 3 how I mentioned you did the hidden secret tifa divekick animation cancel that most people don't even know about? And that you did it on accident, during the first ever divekick you ever even used and were completely oblivious to it? WELL You just did ANOTHER hidden move that noT a lot of people know about. Around 20:40 and around 20:46 Reno ran towards you to attack and you dodged TOWARDS him. Meaning you hit to button to roll out of the way, but pushed the directional stick in his direction, and you didn't just evade the attack, you got to witness the animation of your character climbing OVER reno. When you dodge towards a human enemy, you can actually grab them and flip over them. Not a lot of people know about it, how to do it, or have ever witnessed it. ...and you did it twice in less than 10 seconds. This might be the best first time playthru I've ever seen. It's like watching someone not realizing their scratch-off ticket actually won money, because they are too busy enjoying the scratching
"It's like watching someone not realizing their scratch-off ticket actually won money" 💀 I was wondering how that move kept happening lol. My roll forward approach is definitely out of habit from playing elden ring. I'm going to attempt to use it more!
@cloudsi IT WAS MEANT TO BE AN ENDEARING COMPLIMENT! SORRY! Remember that dodge trick in the future. It doesn't work on fiends or mechanics but humans it works like a charm! I believe only cloud and Tifa can do it though given Barrett is built like the hulk and aerith is not a melee fighter. Also my boyfriend and I were CACKLING when you said "all the bitches....want meeee." SO fricken funny
Ok just helpful non-spoiler tips regarding materia and weapon upgrades: - weapon upgrading: dont just get everytjing available because your SP points you receiev is limited and you will not be able to get everything. So def choose wisely. Id recommend focusing on actual weapon upgrades like physical Attack Power, Magic Attack Power, adding additional Materia slots, and of course certain upgrades for characters while using that specific weapon like upgrading Defense against elemental attacks (fire, ice, etc.) damage. I wouldnt recommend the HP upgrades, or like the high percentage damage output while your HP is 75% and up, etc. You have the right idea cause you mentioned that! And your weapons current stats is on the top left of the screen that shows you Weapon Physical Attack Power, Weapon Magic Attack Power, Etc. So choose wisely cause its only that specific weapon! -Materia - materia levels up with AP. After every single battle, you’ll see how much AP is earned on the screen on the right literally as you defeat each enemy in real time. You want to def upgrade materia that is going to be useful and powerful for you! So def like Cure, Fire, Electric, Ice, etc. cause they become more and more powerful. AND your support materia is SUPER important. The blue Elemental Materia for example is AMAZING. Every character will have to rows where you can add Materia. Top row is your weapons materia slots and bottom row is your Armor Materia Slots. You notice how some Materia slots are linked together and some are just single slots? The linked materia is how you can come up with combinations. So for example, you can combine Fire + Elemental Materia in either your Weapon Row Or Armor Row coming up with different side effects. In either row you put it in, your character will be able to use Fire magic - but the side effect on the character is different so for example: if you have the combined materia in your Weapon Row, your attacks will now have a Fire Effect to it! Meaning everytime you attack say an enemy weak against Fire, you will do double damage because you are hitting it with its weakness! And say if you have that combo materia of Elemental + Fire in your armor row, your character will guard against Fire attacks better doing less damage to you. The higher leveled up both materia are, the more effective it is! So say both materia combined are maxed and in your armor row - your character will now ABSORB Fire damage, healing your character! I know that may be a lot! But you will get the hang of this! You are already learning on your own and loving your playthrough! And yes, Cloud and Aerith are def so amazing together! ❤
ahh ok ok, so I wasn't doing the weapon upgrades properly then! I forget what I did moving forward, but I may have continued to upgrade everything available...whoops. I'll start paying more attention to what I do. Appreciate the rest of the tips! I'll keep all this in mind for next time!
I'm not gonna lie, Aerith is probably my favourite videoagame - character ever. I love her so much it's insane! They way she was written and designed is out of this world. But I'm not gonna spoil anything so I'll leave it to you to judge 🙂
Congrats on taking out Shiva! Don't sweat the weapon upgrades too much; as long as you're spending your SP none of the choices will make or break any boss fights. Re: respeccing, you can do that with Chadley. It's pretty cheap. I think Reno only gave you a hard time because his EM Flail move that he uses when there's still mines floating around looks a lot like the unblockable EM Shot, so you kept trying to dodge it.
Great gameplay, Don't pay attention to some comments, Tifa vs Aerith is unfortunately something that has become big in the community, some people get mad at someone having a preference, especially in Rebirth which delves deeper into Cloud's relationship with one of them, you choose which one, I'm team Tifa but I respect those who want Aerith with Cloud, each person can have their preference
Ah yea, thankfully it hasn't been too bad so far! Also, please just be mindful of spoilers. Telling me that I can choose who to get to know more feels like a big hint to future storylines.
Just wish to provide some timestamped example of battle tips based on a helpful comment of others. 8:20 (you are viewing "Elemental" materia) And the weapon shows LINKED SLOTS for the Weapon section. What you want to do is(was), slotting in the "ELEMENTAL" materia AND another ELEMENT materia of your choice (fire/ice/thunder/etc). Since you have known Shiva is an ICE 'monster', you automatically know she is weak against fire. if your enemy(ies) is(are) MACHINE type, you could probably have guessed you can overvoltage them by EQUIPPING Thunder in the LINKED SLOTS along with "ELEMENTAL" materia. What you did at 15:20 , that "ELEMENTAL" materia was slotted NOT into LINKED SLOTS but single slot, therefore it has NO EFFECT in battle.
Now imagine if you have a party of 3 and EVERYONE have Elemental+Fire while battling Shiva.. Now imagine about other enemies(or Boss Fight) with everyone equipping the Boss' weakness.. What i am trying to suggest, maybe have 3 units for each of materia (especially ELEMENT materia - fire/ice/thunder/etc).
Cloud & Aerith!! Lowkey best duo in this game so far?
EDIT: Just so people don't get it twisted, duo ≠ ship. I ship Cloud with pretty much everyone at this point, and idk if I have one I prefer over another lmao.
Saying lowkey for that is so funny,
They have the best chemistry!
@@donknox775 lmao, it's still too early for me to say highkey!
@@lieberte it's so gooood!
I still gotta go with cloud and tifa.
I will admit that Cloud and Aerith is what made me completly fall in love with the game.
It just felt like a breath of fresh air.
Their dynamic was always my favourite.
Ooh I love hearing why others love games or what got them into a story. Cloud and Aerith have such a fun dynamic and chemistry, its very compelling and i've barely scratched the surface!
I've always loved Cloud and Aerith's dynamic, it's like watching a romantic comedy 😂
aww that's a cute way of putting it! I can totally see that
I love how Aerith always calls Cloud out 😂 such a good part of the game.
Agreed!! She does not give af 🤣
Aerith is SO GOOD in this game. They could've done the "holier than thou" archetype/stereotype, but that's just not her. She's lighthearted, witty, sarcastic, and has a bit of an edge. More importantly, she brings light to a very dark world, drawing out deeper parts of Cloud. Truly a breath of fresh Aerith! 😎
0:21 "We need to protect her..." Yes! Fun section of the game.
Haven't watched your playthrough yet, I will tomorrow, but chiming in because of the description. Tip for this franchise, do not let public opinion sway your tastes and preferences telling you you're wrong to feel a certain way, because you're not. You love Cloud and Aerith's dynamic? Stand on it, that's obviously the emotions the developers wanted from the player going through this part anyway. Ignore ship wars and people bullying others to like what they like, look at what's going on screen and judge from that. Speaking on this part of the game, the fact that she shows up, keeps teasingly poking at him and succeeds in breaking his cold exterior image he feels the need to put on 24/7 within a day of meeting her is amazingly executed and their relationship/characterization throughout the story is some of the most solid character writing I've ever seen in gaming.
Thank you for another episode !
i love Aerith with all of my heart. I won't say much, but listen carefully to everything she has to say. 🙂
Music in these games can form an attachment ! there are so many mesmerising tracks and the time execution and love behind it really shows they know the craft of creating these powerful scenes
I love this chapter so much. And while it was between recording sessions for you, going from Airbuster fight straight into fighting Reno and the escape from the church, the rooftop sequence is such a nice change of pace focused solely on the characters. One of my favorite sequences of the game.
lol I feel like that rooftop scene really was a "sorry we threw everything at you at once, now you can rest" moment. It was super cute and peaceful up there.
48:43 first date and you say this🤣🤣🤣😭
i have no clue what you're talking about....👀🫣😅
FINALLY the meeting with airith this is the legendary chapter favourite cheracter in the entire franchise love this game to bits❤❤
I love that you took the time to upgrade your weapons and set Materia. When you slowly get a grasp on the systems and combat, you enjoy more the game. I have watched other people that never did that and were struggling to progress and sometimes even blaming the game or swearing because they couldn't roll their face in their keyboards to win.
I really like your playthrough , good luck!
Thank you!! And so true, the combat is way more fun now that I mostly understand how it works.
Non-spoiler battle tips:
-blocking in this game: makes your ATB gauge grow VERY SLOWLY. So if you need yout ATB gauge to grow, you either need to just be running around the battle field or the fastest way is to use basic attacks on your enemies
-stagger gauge and pressuring an enemy: you build up pressure by hitting enemies and exploiting certain attacks. For example on Shiva, using Fire on her builds up the Stagger Gauge. And character basic attacks help build that stagger, like ,cloud’s Focus Strike attack, Barret’s Focus Shot, etc. So when the enemy finally becomes pressured, thats your time to use heavy hitting attacks like Cloud’s Braver, etc.
-link your materia: dont forget to combine and link your materia! The blue Elemental Materia should be combined (meaning linked) with another materia, specifically a green one like Fire, Thunder, Ice. And depending on which row you slot it onto your character (Weapon or Armor Row), you’ll either infuse your basic attacks with an element OR guard against those elements).
Great job on the playthrough! Do you think you’ll upload more weekly? Or just sticking to Fridays?
Sooo cute this part! Congrats as well for beating Shiva! It seems it paid off working on the SP and upgrades/materia! You are fighting much better.
I love so much that Aeriths house is like the only place in the entire Midgard which has a lot of colors and nature! And she loves to slend time with cloud. Its adorable.
Thank you!! And yes omg its almost like upgrading your equipment helps you get stronger, can't believe I wasn't doing that this entire time LOL
Have a fun time with Aerith. She's the best girl :)
I had a good time this episode.
I also learned, 4 years too late, that if you use Ifrit during the Shiva battle, he negates all her attacks.
Also, epic finisher from Ifrit. Well done!
Ha I totally didn't realize at first that he was doing that either!
Thanks!
1:21:00 Inadvertent actually works pretty well here tbh. "not resulting from or achieved through deliberate planning" i.e. he stumbles his way into it lol
I like the new camera position. I like being to see combat and item popups and HP bars, opposed to the mini-map which isn't as useful when watching
Yay! Happy FFF. I love the Aerith Cloud Sass-off XD
Compliments to you on doing a good job paying attention to most things 😂 unlike the 1st episode but seriously its nice to find people who appreciate the fire music and subtle stuff . I personally love the rooftop scene its so reminiscent of the OG but just done way better. The music change when aerith joins the party was an old fave 2 but its only the beginning . Your only a few hours into the story as far as the original goes
We don't talk about episode 1 lmaoo but yes omg the rooftop scene was so much fun and I loved seeing the word from that perspective. I think I'm also very much into good character writing, and that scene was full of it.
Remember back in like episode 2 or 3 how I mentioned you did the hidden secret tifa divekick animation cancel that most people don't even know about? And that you did it on accident, during the first ever divekick you ever even used and were completely oblivious to it?
WELL
You just did ANOTHER hidden move that noT a lot of people know about. Around 20:40 and around 20:46 Reno ran towards you to attack and you dodged TOWARDS him. Meaning you hit to button to roll out of the way, but pushed the directional stick in his direction, and you didn't just evade the attack, you got to witness the animation of your character climbing OVER reno.
When you dodge towards a human enemy, you can actually grab them and flip over them.
Not a lot of people know about it, how to do it, or have ever witnessed it.
...and you did it twice in less than 10 seconds.
This might be the best first time playthru I've ever seen.
It's like watching someone not realizing their scratch-off ticket actually won money, because they are too busy enjoying the scratching
"It's like watching someone not realizing their scratch-off ticket actually won money" 💀
I was wondering how that move kept happening lol. My roll forward approach is definitely out of habit from playing elden ring. I'm going to attempt to use it more!
@cloudsi IT WAS MEANT TO BE AN ENDEARING COMPLIMENT! SORRY!
Remember that dodge trick in the future. It doesn't work on fiends or mechanics but humans it works like a charm! I believe only cloud and Tifa can do it though given Barrett is built like the hulk and aerith is not a melee fighter.
Also my boyfriend and I were CACKLING when you said "all the bitches....want meeee."
SO fricken funny
@@neoncaelum haha do not apologize! I took it exactly as you intended.
ANd lmao ok now i'm imagining Barret trying to do this move and i'm cracking up
There is an option in the settings for a tooltip to display the subs for what the NPCs are saying.
Ok just helpful non-spoiler tips regarding materia and weapon upgrades:
- weapon upgrading: dont just get everytjing available because your SP points you receiev is limited and you will not be able to get everything. So def choose wisely. Id recommend focusing on actual weapon upgrades like physical Attack Power, Magic Attack Power, adding additional Materia slots, and of course certain upgrades for characters while using that specific weapon like upgrading Defense against elemental attacks (fire, ice, etc.) damage. I wouldnt recommend the HP upgrades, or like the high percentage damage output while your HP is 75% and up, etc. You have the right idea cause you mentioned that! And your weapons current stats is on the top left of the screen that shows you Weapon Physical Attack Power, Weapon Magic Attack Power, Etc. So choose wisely cause its only that specific weapon!
-Materia - materia levels up with AP. After every single battle, you’ll see how much AP is earned on the screen on the right literally as you defeat each enemy in real time. You want to def upgrade materia that is going to be useful and powerful for you! So def like Cure, Fire, Electric, Ice, etc. cause they become more and more powerful. AND your support materia is SUPER important. The blue Elemental Materia for example is AMAZING. Every character will have to rows where you can add Materia. Top row is your weapons materia slots and bottom row is your Armor Materia Slots. You notice how some Materia slots are linked together and some are just single slots? The linked materia is how you can come up with combinations. So for example, you can combine Fire + Elemental Materia in either your Weapon Row Or Armor Row coming up with different side effects. In either row you put it in, your character will be able to use Fire magic - but the side effect on the character is different so for example: if you have the combined materia in your Weapon Row, your attacks will now have a Fire Effect to it! Meaning everytime you attack say an enemy weak against Fire, you will do double damage because you are hitting it with its weakness! And say if you have that combo materia of Elemental + Fire in your armor row, your character will guard against Fire attacks better doing less damage to you. The higher leveled up both materia are, the more effective it is! So say both materia combined are maxed and in your armor row - your character will now ABSORB Fire damage, healing your character!
I know that may be a lot! But you will get the hang of this! You are already learning on your own and loving your playthrough! And yes, Cloud and Aerith are def so amazing together! ❤
And you can even look up on youtube a “explanation’s on how the upgrading weapons and Materia systems work” cause it def is A LOT of info.
ahh ok ok, so I wasn't doing the weapon upgrades properly then! I forget what I did moving forward, but I may have continued to upgrade everything available...whoops. I'll start paying more attention to what I do.
Appreciate the rest of the tips! I'll keep all this in mind for next time!
I'm not gonna lie, Aerith is probably my favourite videoagame - character ever. I love her so much it's insane! They way she was written and designed is out of this world. But I'm not gonna spoil anything so I'll leave it to you to judge 🙂
Aww, yea she's pretty special huh? Can't wait to keep learning more about her as I go.
Id wait until u have at least 2 party members b4 challenging a summon normally but you got it
Holy shit ive never seen that glitch thank god you just saved
Are you going straight to rebirth after you're done with remake! I hope so, it's too hard to wait!!
There will most likely be a slight delay in-between, but I don't want to wait too long!
Congrats on taking out Shiva!
Don't sweat the weapon upgrades too much; as long as you're spending your SP none of the choices will make or break any boss fights. Re: respeccing, you can do that with Chadley. It's pretty cheap.
I think Reno only gave you a hard time because his EM Flail move that he uses when there's still mines floating around looks a lot like the unblockable EM Shot, so you kept trying to dodge it.
Thank you!! The Shiva fight was super fun!
For Reno, should I have been guarding against those moves instead of dodging?
Great gameplay, Don't pay attention to some comments, Tifa vs Aerith is unfortunately something that has become big in the community, some people get mad at someone having a preference, especially in Rebirth which delves deeper into Cloud's relationship with one of them, you choose which one, I'm team Tifa but I respect those who want Aerith with Cloud, each person can have their preference
Ah yea, thankfully it hasn't been too bad so far! Also, please just be mindful of spoilers. Telling me that I can choose who to get to know more feels like a big hint to future storylines.
Just wish to provide some timestamped example of battle tips based on a helpful comment of others.
8:20 (you are viewing "Elemental" materia)
And the weapon shows LINKED SLOTS for the Weapon section.
What you want to do is(was), slotting in the "ELEMENTAL" materia AND another ELEMENT materia of your choice (fire/ice/thunder/etc).
Since you have known Shiva is an ICE 'monster', you automatically know she is weak against fire.
if your enemy(ies) is(are) MACHINE type, you could probably have guessed you can overvoltage them by EQUIPPING Thunder in the LINKED SLOTS along with "ELEMENTAL" materia.
What you did at 15:20 , that "ELEMENTAL" materia was slotted NOT into LINKED SLOTS but single slot, therefore it has NO EFFECT in battle.
You can restart the weapons but only at chadley for $100 for each weapon.
Now imagine if you have a party of 3 and EVERYONE have Elemental+Fire while battling Shiva..
Now imagine about other enemies(or Boss Fight) with everyone equipping the Boss' weakness..
What i am trying to suggest, maybe have 3 units for each of materia (especially ELEMENT materia - fire/ice/thunder/etc).
Yeah this was a nice part with Aerith. Cloud really needs to learn manners when being a house guest though.
Cloud needs to learn manners period lmao.
@cloudsi Exactly! He's certainly no Zack that's for sure🙄
i dont have too much to say, so, support comment i guess
Appreciate that!! :)
Play thr next couple chapters and ill ask you if your on team aerith or team tifa