History Awesome / FinalFantasyVIIRemake

*** "[[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight No, sir! I will not obey that order!]]" You are a random grunt, a mook for the megacorporation that controls most of the world. You are working under Heidegger, Scarlet and other executives who have no qualms killing anybody defying them. You are standing in front of a crowd of people trying to escape impending doom (the plate about to fall and crush everything beneath it) and your superior officer tells you to keep the gate shut. And you tell him, with utmost respect, that he is wrong and that you will do what is right because one overweight dude in front of you (who might actually be an AVALANCHE operative) is begging you to be more than a cog. In a world full of badasses, [=SOLDIERs=], monsters and magic, you shined above most in awesomeness.

* Shinra's visual presentation. It's propaganda at its finest, but from a visual perspective graphically and in-universe, it's hard not to find the swooping in and around Midgar shots impressive.

* Motorcycle-based combat makes a return during the escape from the Shinra building and is just as awesomely ridiculous, if not more so. Highlights include Cloud mowing down a room-full of {{Mook}}s with his motorcycle and sweeping a wheel a couple of inches from Heidegger's face, and flying off a ramp to take down a helicopter with his sword by slicing its main rotor off like he's in ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. Much [[{{Overcrank}} slow motion]] is involved.

* [[WhamLine Six words]]: "[[ScrewDestiny Wait...]] [[SparedByTheAdaptation was that all of 'em]]?" Just to prove that NothingIsTheSameAnymore, Zack shows up after the timeline has been altered, and [[OneManArmy wipes out all of the Shinra grunts sent to kill him and Cloud]].
** The buildup to it counts as well. A horde of Whispers are surrounding the party as Sephiroth tells them to "listen" and how "destiny comes", causing Cloud to have another flashback - where we now see a horde of Whispers surrounding Midgar at daytime, with a figure carrying the Buster Sword overlooking it for a cliff...and then we see said figure's black hair, and it turns out to be '''Zack'''. He then remarks "we dragged our asses all this way, and this is the welcome we get" - [[WhamShot with the camera then cutting to Shinra's army surrounding him]], confirming that this is happening just before Zack's death, and that the Whispers aren't just intervening in Cloud's time anymore.

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* Rufus's out-of-battle EstablishingCharacterMoment at the end of the game, when he completely ignores Heidegger calling him "Mister Vice President," but responds to Tseng's "Mister President" before taking a seat in his father's chair.
-->'''Heidegger:''' Mister Vice President.
-->'''Rufus:''' ...
-->'''Tseng:''' Mister President.
-->'''Rufus:''' That's right.

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* [[BloodKnight Roche]] is nothing but a bundle of joy to hear every time he shows up. He does nothing but laugh, [[WallCrawl wallride]], and do wheelies and flips on his bike during the chase scene. First, he twirls said bike, and does a ''reverse wheelie'' on top of a regular wheelie right before he drifts while using his ShockAndAwe {{Sword Beam}}s to fight Cloud. Then, he disarms Jessie, wheelies again while swinging his sword, drifts, smacks Cloud with the bike, before doing a u-turn wheelie to joust Cloud '''again''' before locking blades in a scene reminiscent of ''Advent Children.''
** Motorcycle-based combat makes a return during the escape from the Shinra building and is just as awesomely ridiculous, if not more so. Highlights include Cloud mowing down a room-full of {{Mook}}s with his motorcycle and sweeping a wheel a couple of inches from Heidegger's face, and flying off a ramp to take down a helicopter with his sword by slicing its main rotor off like he's in ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. Much [[{{Overcrank}} slow motion]] is involved.
* Jessie's plan for escaping the Sector 8 plate and getting back to the slums? ''Jumping off the plate'' and parachuting down into the slums. [[CrazyEnoughToWork It works.]]
* The boss battle with the Air Buster in Remake is vastly different from the one found in the original Final Fantasy 7, and is a much more satisfying boss to fight against. We hear that the Air Buster was designed specifically for the purpose of killing giant monsters, and the party notes how better off they would be by running away from it instead of facing it. The lead up to the boss shows how much armaments and data are being used to power it up, with the party actively sabotaging it in hopes of standing a much better chance in the fight against it. Cloud even notes how he isn't sure if they can defeat it. When they finally face off against it, Shinra places a camera to show off the battle to the population. Instead of being a pushover much like it was in the original game, the Air Buster has multiple phases and a powerful laser to boot, it even takes to the air to bombard the party with missile attacks forcing the party to use magic and Barret's machine gun to even fight back. All the while Heidegger's projection is in the background cheering on the Air Buster and taunting you while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUcs_veqy1s this plays]]. The best part is that it starts off the fight by separating Cloud from the party much like it did in the original fight.

* Tifa, having had enough of ghosts in the Train Graveyard finishes off the Eligor monster by giving it a massive somersault kick into oblivion.

* The revised Wall Market sequence, including the part where Cloud -- for someone who claims to not partake -- manages to bust out some very impressive moves on the dance floor.
* It's not commented on, but ''Andrea'' gets one as the first competitor in the pull-up challenges by putting up a rather good showing against [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Tifa]] (a woman with enough body strength to kick a monster through several shipping containers and give Sephiroth himself pause), despite being already gassed from doing it for hours before she turned up.
* While all of the Remade boss fights are highly impressive, special mention has to go the revised [[AdaptationalBadass Rufus Shinra]] boss fight. Once an underwhelming enemy that went down pretty quickly and easily, he is now far more threatening and impressive with the newly christened President carrying around an ornate [[ComboRifle shotgun that can split into a pair of]] {{Hand Cannon}}s, pulling off various {{Combination Attack}}s with his attack dog Darkstar, tossing around coins and [[ImprobableAimingSkills shooting them out of the air]] for a variety of deadly effects, using his shotgun to [[RecoilBoost propel himself around the helicopter pad]] as a sort of improvised FlashStep, and parrying the Ex-SOLDIER's sword swings with ease despite being [[BadassNormal nothing more than the son of his company's CEO holding a gun.]]
* Shinra's visual presentation. It's propaganda at its finest, but from a visual perspective graphically and in-universe, it's hard not to find the swooping in and around Midgar shots impressive.
** Rufus's out-of-battle EstablishingCharacterMoment at the end of the game, when he completely ignores Heidegger calling him "Mister Vice President," but responds to Tseng's "Mister President" before taking a seat in his father's chair.
--->'''Heidegger:''' Mister Vice President.
--->'''Rufus:''' ...
--->'''Tseng:''' Mister President.
--->'''Rufus:''' That's right.

* Everything about Cloud in this game can count as one large series of awesome moments, especially compared to his original self from the Playstation 1 game. In the original, while Cloud was definitely a pretty experienced fighter, he was SLOWLY, but surely gaining the strength to pull off the incredible feats he does throughout the whole remake. Here, Cloud is at full top ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' tier from the very beginning of the game. He's able to pull off superhuman jumps, feats of swordplay no mere mortal can perform, and is constantly doing awe-inspiring stunts throughout the entirety of the game, such as any of the motorcycle segments within which require him to do death-defying swordplay while still riding like a pro. By the time you get to the end, fully decked out with your best materia, weapons, and techniques, Cloud is such a badass the final fight of what's ONE-THIRD of the story turns into one worthy of ''Advent Children'' or even its little brother, ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. The same could easily be said about how ridiculously powerful the whole team is, compared to the original (to say nothing about how their enemies measure up).

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* The E3 exposition also has an amazing partial remake of the famous opening of the original, moving from the abstract camera pan through glowing particles of magic Aerith kneeling before a luminous piece of Materia to Cloud Strife riding the highjacked train and effortlessly and awesomely executing the classic flip that brought him into the franchise to begin with.

--->'''Cloud''': [Sephiroth’s] tough.
--->'''Aerith''': [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Yeah, so what?]] [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Screw him.]]

--->’’’Cloud’’’: [Sephiroth’s] tough.
--->’’’Aerith’’’: [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Yeah, so what?]] [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Screw him.]]

** Square Enix also deserves acclaim. After some fears pre-release that the cross-dressing sequence may be handled in the worst ways possible from the original, the developers instead ''doubled down'' from the original by turning it into a wise discussion, while making a fun and absurd dance sequence, leading to one of the funniest parts in the game and almost making it a meta RefugeInAudacity.

** In one of the most meta ways possible, Aerith gets a moment in the climactic battle with [[WorldsStrongestMan Sephiroth]]; the [[HeroKiller man destined to kill her]], and it's implied she knows it too. After joining the fight, Cloud warns her that [[PhysicalGod Sephiroth]] is strong, and she responds with an incredibly badass one-liner.
-->'''Aerith:''' Yeah, so what? [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Screw him]].

*** His overall attitude during the fight makes it clear he wasn't going all-out, and he keeps his SmugSmirk the entire time as he easily beats Cloud and handles him and another party member. He only briefly loses his composure when he is beaten hard enough to cancel his Meteor and even then he quickly recovers and manages to separate Cloud from his friends for a final on-on-one duel by using the Whispers.

** Be it Aerith or Tifa, the way that they managed to repel Sephiroth from attacking Cloud and another party member is simply commendable, Aerith by casting a fire spell and Tifa by somersaulting the guy.

* Not to belabor a point, but the sheer, unremitting ''gall'' that the writers and developers had to take one of the most beloved stories in all of video gaming and not only change it, but change it in such a way that ''actively'' calls out their own fanbase for expecting a one-to-one rehash of a story that is over two decades old… while the changes to the ending of the Midgar section was one of the more [[BrokenBase polarizing]] aspects of FFVII:R, you can't help but appreciate Square Enix for sticking to their creative guns and making a new mark on this franchise and its story.

* Not to belabor a point, but the sheer, unremitting ''gall'' that the writers and developers had to take one of the most beloved stories in all of video gaming and not only change it, but change it in such a way that ''actively'' calls out their own fanbase for expecting a one-to-one rehash of a story that is over two decades old… while the changes to the ending of the Midgar section was one of the more [[FlameBait polarizing]] aspects of FFVII:R, you can't help but appreciate Square Enix for sticking to their creative guns and making a new mark on this franchise and its story.

** That said, Nero's entire attitude during the fight was [[LaughingMad]] and while he clearly felt it when Yuffie and Sonon attacked him, it was evident that the pain was minimum enough that he could go as far as to enjoy it, suggesting he may have been holding back to enjoy the fight. He even feigns defeat in the end in order to get the drop on them, showing how strategic he could be. Doubles as NightmareFuel and a TearJerker considering Sonon ends up dying.

* In one of the most meta ways possible, Aerith gets a moment in the climactic battle with [[WorldsStrongestMan Sephiroth]]; the [[HeroKiller man destined to kill her]], and it's implied she knows it too. After joining the fight, Cloud warns her that [[PhysicalGod Sephiroth]] is strong, and she responds with an incredibly badass one-liner.
-->'''Aerith:''' Yeah, so what? [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Screw him]].

** Heck, just the fact that after the Arbiters of Fate are defeated and the status quo is changed up, the first thing you do in the new timeline is '''''fight the FinalBoss of the original game!''''' [[CatharsisFactor With the very girl he was supposed to kill at your disposal!]]
* After the final battle of Part One, Sephiroth offers Cloud a chance to join him, and is clearly leagues beyond him. Cloud refuses and confronts Sephiroth, despite being terrified of him. This seems to intrigue Sephiroth enough that he spares Cloud after winning the ensuing duel, if only to see what he does next.

* The sheer fact that ''Remake'' is introducing the '''Tsviets''' straight away, and Nero is even the FinalBoss of the episode! And he proceeds to show off why Chaos Vincent was the only one who was able to finish him off in the original canon by essentially toying with Yuffie and Sonon throughout the entire fight, even feigning defeat in the end in order to get the drop on them. Doubles as NightmareFuel and a TearJerker considering Sonon ends up dying.

* In one of the most meta ways possible, Aerith gets a moment in the climactic battle with Sephiroth; the man destined to kill her, and it's implied she knows it too. After joining the fight, Cloud warns her that Sephiroth is strong, and she responds with an incredibly badass one-liner.
-->'''Aerith:''' So what? [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Screw him]].

* The sheer fact that ''Remake'' is introducing the '''Tsviets''' straight away, and Nero is even the FinalBoss of the episode! And he proceeds to show off why Chaos!Vincent was the only one who was able to finish him off in the original canon by essentially toying with Yuffie and Sonon throughout the entire fight, even feigning defeat in the end in order to get the drop on them. Doubles as NightmareFuel and a TearJerker considering Sonon ends up dying.

* The sheer fact that ''Remake'' is introducing the '''Tsviets''' straight away, and Nero is even the FinalBoss of the episode! And he proceeds to show off why Chaos!Vincent was the only one who was able to finish him off by essentially toying with Yuffie and Sonon throughout the entire fight, even feigning defeat in the end in order to get the drop on them. Doubles as NightmareFuel and a TearJerker considering Sonon ends up dying.

* The sheer fact that ''Remake'' is introducing the '''Tsviets''' straight away, and Nero is even the FinalBoss of the episode! And what's even better, Yuffie and Sonon defeated ''Nero the Sable''. Two ''teenage'' ninjas were able to beat Nero, who previously was unbeatable to all but Chaos!Vincent.

* One of the biggest problems many had with the Compilation is that if you weren't the main character you were not going to do anything of worth. Here everyone has their own time in the limelight, moving forward the plot in their own way. A key thing is that Cloud does get saved himself by others instead of being the untouchable super soldier in comparison. A great example is that when the final battle gets into the Advent Children levels everyone pulls their weight and contributes to the fight.

** Square Enix also deserves acclaim. After some fears pre-release that the cross-dressing sequence might be the same idea as the original, the developers instead ''doubled down'' from the original, turning a dated and poorly aged joke into a genuinely respectful discussion, while making a fun and absurd dance sequence, leading to one of the funniest parts in the game and almost making it a meta RefugeInAudacity.

* Everything about Cloud in this game can count as one large series of awesome moments, especially compared to his original self from the Playstation 1 game. In the original, while Cloud was definitely a pretty experienced fighter, he was SLOWLY gaining the strength to pull off the incredible feats he does throughout the whole game. Here, Cloud is at full ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' tier from the very beginning of the game. He's able to pull off superhuman jumps, feats of swordplay no mere mortal can perform, and is constantly doing awe-inspiring stunts throughout the entirety of the game, such as any of the motorcycle segments within which require him to do death-defying swordplay while still riding like a pro. By the time you get to the end, fully decked out with your best materia, weapons, and techniques, Cloud is such a badass the final fight of what's ONE-THIRD of the story turns into one worthy of ''Advent Children'' or even its little brother, ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. The same could easily be said about how ridiculously powerful the whole team is, compared to the original (to say nothing about how their enemies measure up).

* Let's begin where this entire journey did. The [[https://youtu.be/Kznek1uNVsg reveal trailer]], shown at E3 2015. After all the buildup throughout the stellar trailer, the incredible WhamShot of both Barret's gatling gun and Cloud's {{BFS}} sent the audience ''ROARING''. It's STILL and incredible trailer, even with the game out and available for all.

*** "[[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Sir! I will not obey this order, sir!]]" You are a random grunt, a mook for the megacorporation that controls most of the world. You are working under Heidegger, Scarlet and other executives who have no qualms killing anybody defying them. You are standing in front of a crowd of people trying to escape impending doom (the plate about to fall and crush everything beneath it) and your superior officer tells you to keep the gate shut. And you tell him, with utmost respect, that he is wrong and that you will do what is right because one overweight dude in front of you (who might actually be an AVALANCHE operative) is begging you to be more than a cog. In a world full of badasses, [=SOLDIERs=], monsters and magic, you shined above most in awesomeness.