What is on his shelf?

>not having played one of the best jrpgs ever made

lad

I'm not even OP but he's a spawn of Jenova, an ayy lmfao that came from space and can turn into anything it wants. It's based off of the FF3/6 espers and so it can't really die due to not rotting. Scientists find it past int he steam punk tier universe that is FF3/6 in 7 (whatever number that is in Nipland) and with it being the 90s there's green computer monitors and stuff so scientists are more sadistic in the game. They create one of the main characters that's like a jungle cat but can talk, Jenova cells being put into creatures creates such monsters of random variety. Sepheroth is like a child from the actual womb of Jenova. Meant to be a replication of her in perfection, to be the perfect soldier. He is the perfect soldier in their army Soldier, he and the protagonist Cloud are both Jenova experiments. Cloud is a cheap copy, a failed experiment that emulated the love of a main character Tifa, Cloud's friend. Cloud's not Cloud, you learn that later. He's basically the twin brother of Sephiroth. Born of a corpse that terrorized humans like an eon before it's death. Sephiroth being bookish learns this and goes batshit insane, rips his mother's headless torso contained in a tank out of a building then flies away, as he is a one winged angel after all. Sephiroths theme is the one winged angel in the game.

He is full of such angst he summons a comet using dark materia to finish his mother's work, Jenova, to destroy everything basically.

The game, like FF3/6 has flashbacks so it's plot might be convoluted for some. Cloud and him were friends and both in Soldier but eventually Cloud was killed by Sephiroth upon Sephiroth becoming insane. Cloud, the real one, was impregnated with materia, but not made of Jenova cells. The cloud you play as and now was a discarded failure to replicate Sephiroth after Sephiroth went off the rails, if I recall. If not before, a scientist wanted to replicate Sephiroth either way.

Whatever the plot was, Tifa came into contact with the discarded experiment and he morphed into Cloud as that is a power of Jenova. It's why she's so terrible in the past, it was T-1000ing everyone by pretending to be your friend. Cloud ends up copying the actual memories of Cloud, and the lurve, so lurve concurs all and such.

That's the game in a jiff, minus the government being a false antagonist at first to through you off. Cloud starts as part of a terrorist group called avalanche, to stop materia from being sucked out of the planet. Global warming type shit. Not the real issue.

The game is stellar and I'm not even OP.

oh I forgot

Tifa was childhood friends with RIP version of Cloud.

book of five rings

i like the library in shinra hq. the titles of the books are cool. like 'the final evolutionary stages of land dwelling life' and 'the results of failed space mission YA-79'

That library was unironically one of the childhood cues which led me to literature. Place was so cozy. And Vincent was down there. The vibe was that, if you set your mind to it, a library will reveal the secrets of the universe.

>Illuminatus Trilogy
>Prometheus Rising

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I stare at the stars and the sky up above
and think 'what am I made of?'
Am I full of sorrow? Am I hurt and pained?
Or am I filled... with love?
I walk by myself on the streets below
and ask every child I know,
"Do you think tomorrow will bring sun or rain?
Which one of these will show?"
I can't say goodbye to yesterday, my friend,
I keep holding on 'till the end
Out of the darkness there is no other way
than the light leading to yesterday
It's there that I'll find
Inner peace not war
and dreams that I let slip away
I'll find the joyfulness I'm looking for
way back in yesterday
Why can't each of us in the world ever see,
the best things in life are free.
Little sounds of laughter, a warm hug, a smile,
a kiss from you to me
I fall to my knees
I cry and I cry
Love, do not pass me by
Happy ever after, please stay for a while
make time refuse to fly
I can't say goodbye to yesterday, my friend
'cause I know how good it has been
facing forever, here I stand, come what may
in the old, in the new yesterday
It's there that I'll find,
inner peace, not war
and dreams that I let slip away
I'll find the joyfulness I'm looking for
way back in yesterday

It really was an amazing game. Somehow feels like the most "literary" game I've played. Not sure why.

This is a fucking 10/10 response. He would totally revel in Blake, and I don't know how he'd read Milton, but he would be keenly invested, that much seems clear. I wonder what he'd make of St Michael.

W-Wow. I thought you were responding to the lyrics but instead you did it for the post. I didn't think anyone would find it brilliant.

For Milton, I'd think he emphasized greatly on Lucifer's character, considering how he IS an ANGEL and all.

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my diary, desu

Because the PSX had to rely on dazzling with storyline in it's mass of JRPGs rather than impressive graphics as they do now days.

RPGs when made right read like a book. This one was 3 PSX discs long too so if you talk to everyone the monologue plus the detailed frozen background makes it literally a book, as a picture can say aathousand words. The background being a picture basically makes it illustrations in a book. It may as well have not been 3d at all really. It'd have been fine with sprites as xenogears looked better that way anyway. The fight scenes in FF games before it were boring and flat looking, but that's just what they always were like. 3d at all they figured would excite people I guess.

Anywho... you probably felt absorbed due to that being the first, or is it only, final fantasy game set in a 21st century setting with Cloud being devoid of a personality and you being able to choose so actively what his response would be to people. It was meant to absorb you more than others were, 3d goes into that. The propaganda goes into it too about governments destroying the environment, it's very middle east oil crisis tier. Very PR bullshit tier.

Then there's shit like FF3/6, a ton of characters so you can't actually self insert as you could with Cloud and the story is about a fucken clown.

qabbalah

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I think, for him, the Lucifer—Michael battle would be all encompassing. I could see him going either way: embracing the Luciferian mode that he is, after all, the best and the brightest, and ought to have dominion; OR seeing Michael as the ideal of the divine power available to those who let their individuality perish in service to a higher, timeless power.

Regardless, the Milton is dead on. He'd read it like Alexander read Homer.

Yes, for all its foibles, it is at least an "epic". The emptyness of Cloud and the intrigue of Sephiroth were lightning in a bottle. You're right about the setting, too. They just don't make em like they used to *sip*

I've never really thought about it, but it's right in the name, and right under my nose. Huh.

Nerd!

>the PSX had to rely on dazzling with storyline in it's mass of JRPGs rather than impressive graphics as they do now
The story of VII was considered somewhat dull compared to previous titles. At the time of its release it probably was indeed very much a showcase of the technological capabilities of consoles during the era when the transition from 2D to 3D graphics started to become more widespread.

A look at articles in game magazines from the time gives insight what attitudes about it were like.
archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_104_Volume_09_Number_05_1997-05_IDG_Publishing_US/page/n33
archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_109_Volume_09_Number_10_1997-10_IDG_Publishing_US/page/n47
archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_107_Volume_09_Number_08_1997-08_IDG_Publishing_US/page/n87
archive.org/details/PSM_Issue_001_September_1997/page/n17

>the PSX had to rely on dazzling with storyline in it's mass of JRPGs rather than impressive graphics as they do now
The story of VII was considered somewhat dull compared to previous titles. At the time of its release it probably was indeed very much a showcase of the technological capabilities of consoles during the era when the transition from 2D to 3D graphics started to become more widespread.

A look at articles in game magazines from the time gives insight into what attitudes about it were like.
archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_104_Volume_09_Number_05_1997-05_IDG_Publishing_US/page/n33
archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_109_Volume_09_Number_10_1997-10_IDG_Publishing_US/page/n47
archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_107_Volume_09_Number_08_1997-08_IDG_Publishing_US/page/n87
archive.org/details/PSM_Issue_001_September_1997/page/n17

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