Final Fantasy Rebirth - Blog Posts

...still confused a little about somethin' everyone else seems to take in stride.

what exactly is the relationship between cait sith and reeve tuesti...?

like, cait is a robot. there are multiple copies of cait sith, ala the extra one in reeve's office in rebirth, the one being crushed in chapter 13 of rebirth, the one that blows up in dirge of cerberus. dirge of cerberus also has that awful scene where there's a cait sith inside of a reeve robot. (it. scared me. so. bad.)

does reeve control him? but he doesn't have to, 24/7, because in dirge of cerberus, the two are in the same room, and they interact. and you know, cait works 24/7, even when reeve is in board meetings and whatever. does he program him from his office?

maybe that's why cait takes a nap is cosmo canyon and freezes at the end of nibelheim, in rebirth. he's being updated with reeve's new information...?

playing rebirth makes me feel SO BAD for reeve/cait sith. he tries SO HARD to convince AVALANCHE that he's truly on their side, that he wants to help people and do the right thing, and right when they're FINALLY warming up to him, rufus/tseng/whoever makes him throw that trust away and give away the keystone. he doesn't WANT TO T-T

even in the beginning of chapter 12, when he pulls cloud aside, he's trying to talk them out of going, so he doesn't have to trick his friends. he doesn't want to betray these people who are trying to save the planet.

side note. do we think any other exectives know about reeve's little switcheroo with the wanted posters??

on my rebirth replay i had the stellar idea to write down the loveless prelude and compare it to the "original" loveless poem. also it's color-coded.

later i'm gonna think harder about my big "explore differences" note. maybe on the airplane. i mean, what do you do on an airplane anyway? analyze fictional religious poetry.

rebirth hard mode update:

aw man. everyone was right. rufus stinks. i forgot he was IMMUNE TO ELEMENTAL DAMAGE?? HOW??

plus, i'm going on vacation, and i will not get another opportunity to try again until i get back. he's just gonna haunt me for a week. i'm gonna watch so many videos about hard mode rufus. i'm gonna get him. i am not going to pysche myself out of fighting him. i am gonna get him. he's gonna say "and yet here. you. are." in that stupid tone that i like so much when he summons darkstar. and i'll blow him up.

thinking about "say goodnight, pippilly...!" followed by the losing music.

rebirth hard mode update:

those adjudicators and yin and yang with JUST CAIT??? oh. my gosh. AAAAAAAAH. thank goodness for the fat moogle acting as another target 🙏🙏🙏

also i did NOT get the box throwing game my first playthrough... but i had much more luck this time, it only took me three tries :) not. that. bad!!

rebirth hard mode update:

FUCK GI NATTAK!!!! THAT WAS SO SCARY :( AND DOOM??? i literally forgot about doom and got so nervous i dropped the controller and died :(((

btw reraise TOTALLY works. does gi nattak recast doom immediately? ...yeah. but MORE TIME!! IGNORE THE MP COST.

after taking a 4 month break after beating the story, i am back on my rebirth grind for the plat (i'm going to go insane but i like platinum trophies.)

i just found out viceroy sarruf is implied to be rufus 😭 wdym they pulled a gerad again??? i wanted it to be someone completely unrelated but nooOOOo.

Sephiroth tree of life symbolism is driving me insane-

That one cutscene near the end of the game where Sephiroth is near this a humongous tree near the Forgotten City and that rainbow rift in the sky has me thinking.

And of course he chooses to transform into Bizzaro Sephiroth, in the Forgotten City, NEAR THE TREE.

If the Lifestream and its many worlds represent branches/roots of a tree and that Jenova meanwhile is busy corrupting the Lifestream...

According to Norse mythology, the god Odin hung himself on the world tree to obtain knowledge. Just like how Sephiroth got his knowledge from the Lifestream (or future events).

Then maybe Sephiroth would have to do the ultimate sacrifice. I find it fitting that a villan named after the sefirot will be the one to save everyone at the cost of his life.

This may not happen in Part 3 obviously, but it's a great theory methinks.

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That would be a CRAZY way to end things. Part of me wonders how genuine they're being when they're saying the R Trilogy leads up to Advent Children. If Sephiroth DOES get some form of redemption...do the events of AC not play out the same way? Or is it the remains of the Sephiroth that WAS? Crazy stuff...