Level Up! Seize the Experience!

I’m plugging along with this one, slowly but surely. Last night I got to Cloud’s recollection of the events that transpired at Nibelheim with Sephiroth going nutjob over his past. Words cannot describe how surreal this was for me. Almost everything was verbatim from the Nibelheim chapter in Crisis Core, just with far older graphics and Cloud acted out Zack’s role. Everything Sephiroth said, down to his laughter about his father, everything Cloud said, everything Tifa said, the random photographer who wanted a picture of Sephiroth, Sephiroth staring out of the window of the Inn… completely deja vu. I have to give huge kudos to the game developers of Crisis Core for watching (and probably rewatching numerous times) this cut-scene to make sure they duplicated the Nibelheim story. I was overwhelmed while watching this flashback, remembering everything Zack went through there, and how everything collapsed for both Zack and Cloud in the end. It’s a mark of an incredible game to make anyone experience emotions, especially emotions over ANOTHER game.

Cloud didn’t recall his amazing battle with Sephiroth at this point, but I know he will later and I can’t wait to see it all over again, even if it is in archaic graphics. He will have a Zack flashback eventually, right?

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