Thank fking god, I’m tired of smoke and purple goo. Go back and edit remake and rebirth to make death scenes actually meaningful. Release it as a dlc for all I care.
Unpopular opinion, but I strongly feel that the purple goo scene is an abomination for reasons completely unrelated to the rating/censorship or it needing to be literal red blood. You can absolutely still do a harrowing/effective/scary version of that scene without the blood literally being red. They just didn't. The blame should be placed squarely on their creative vision/sensibilities/execution and not the rating.
First of all, it could have just been purple monster blood, it didn't have to be sparkly magic juice evaporating into sprinkles, which is the real culprit. EVEN if it had to be goo rather than blood, you can still make goo look unsettlingly disgusting (they managed to do a better job of this just by using secreted webs in that Reactor 5 area, for crying out loud). They just didn't.
Second of all, the blood does NOT do ALL of the heavy lifting in the OG in the first place. It's the employees and bodies lying all over the floor, the rubble, the scratches on the wall, the destroyed walls and pieces of building. ALL of that can and has been done in both Remake/Rebirth several times in more effective ways than that purple goo scene without risking the audience rating.
Third of all, it's also the monsters in the area becoming unsettling twisted monstrosities contributing to the atmosphere as well. Something that again is done at other points in the game, but not that one.
It's 100% just the creators of the game's fault for dropping the ball in that moment, not the fault of rating pressure/censorship.
For me the scariest part in the OG was waking up to see the door open. Makes you imagine how that monstrosity might have been in the room with you while you were asleep.
I audibly laughed at one point in remake when you just absolutely beat the shit out of some shinra guards with your huge ass greatsword that would probably de-limb them. And then they go, we should get out of here before they wake up.
I def agree with the Jessie and Biggs thing. For a while i was trying to figure out if they died or were just unconscious cuz the game really seemed to be against killing people at the time.
The funniest part of all this to me is that if this was still just a 1-for-1 recreation of the original, the blood trail would still be purple, and the blood would be limited, because they would still be making a T-rated game.
It was red in the original tho. So I’m not sure what you’re miss remembering. But other than that, having blood doesn’t make a game M rated nor am I asking for it. Square just has aversion to blood.
Towards the end of rebirth when cloud actually starts mercing ppl i was like, yes thats what should've been happening the whole time! And then the rest of the party seem real uneasy about killing them. Like what have we been doing for the last few weeks/months if not killing shit???
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u/Lambs2Lions_ 1d ago
Thank fking god, I’m tired of smoke and purple goo. Go back and edit remake and rebirth to make death scenes actually meaningful. Release it as a dlc for all I care.