History Awesome / FinalFantasyVIIRemake

** Square Enix also deserves acclaim. After some fears pre-release that the cross-dressing sequence might be cut or censored, the developers instead ''doubled down'' from the original, leading to one of the funniest parts in the game and almost making it a meta RefugeInAudacity.

** After the first segment, Shinra has set up a roadblock. Cloud, [[CombatPragmatist thinking quickly]], revs up his bike and moves forward, cutting the front tire of a Shinra truck. This causes the truck to flip over onto its roof, sending the truck at high speed into the blockade. The Shinra troops are forced to dive out of the way while Cloud and the Shinra Hauler with the rest of the party breeze right through the blockade, unimpeded.
** After the second segment, a helicopter has been raining DeathFromAbove on the party. After Barret pelts the thing with gunfire, it finally starts shooting a machine gun directly at the highway. Doesn't work; Cloud hits a ramp, jumps up to just beneath the helicopter's blades, and cuts off the entire rotor. Cue the helicopter slamming into the highway.
** Shinra tries one last time to stop the party with the Motorball. Cloud and Red XIII deal the FinishingMove with Red jumping up to cut off the thing's head, with Cloud bisecting the Motorball from below with his sword. As Cloud's bike and the Shinra Hauler jump over an empty section of highway, the Motorball crashes below, complete with a massive explosion behind the group as they ride towards the FinalBoss.

*** "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.

* 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 [[spoiler:Sephiroth himself]] pause), despite being already gassed from doing it for hours before she turned up.

* 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 fought a lot more casual and SLOWLY gained the strength to pull off the incredible feats he does throughout. 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).

* 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 fought a lot more 'normal' and gained the strength to pull off the incredible feats he does throughout. 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).

* 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 fought a lot more 'normal' and gained the strength to pull off the incredible feats he does throughout. 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.

* At one point during the Plate battle, Reno uses a helicopter minigun to shoot down a stack of pipes, which nearly collapse on Aerith. Tifa yells st her to get down, then takes a flying leap over her and kicks the pipes away.

** 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. Much [[{{Overcrank}} slow motion]] is involved.

*** When the senior guard orders the younger guard to close the gate and bring the people back, the younger guard flat out tells him [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight he is not going follow that order]] and starts helping people. Wedge then body blocks the senior guard from stopping the people evacuating.

* "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.

** 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 blades off. Much [[{{Overcrank}} slow motion]] is involved.

** The fight is a complete CurbStompBattle, Tifa perfectly follows up Aerith's GroinAttack with a roundhouse kick ([[CombatStilettos heel first]]) to Scotch's jaw while Aerith ducks under it to give Tifa room perfectly taking him out, Aerith then yanks the rug out from another one of Corneo's men as Tifa punches out the other two. It all takes roughly 10 seconds to finish.

** The fight is a complete CurbStompBattle, Tifa perfectly follows up Aerith's GroinAttack with a roundhouse kick to Scotch's jaw while Aerith ducks under it to give Tifa room perfectly taking him out, Aerith then yanks the rug out from another one of Corneo's men as Tifa punches out the other two. It all takes roughly 10 seconds to finish.

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* 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 fought a lot more 'normal' and gained the strength to pull off the incredible feats he does throughout. 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, [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts Kingdom Hearts.]] The same could easily be said about how ridiculously powerful the whole team is, compared to the original.

* '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 and your superior officer tells you what to do. 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 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.

* 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 [[BifurcatedWeapon shotgun that can split into a pair of]] [[HandCannon Hand Cannons,]] pulling off various [[CombinationAttack Combination Attacks]] 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 and holding a gun.]]

** The fight is a complete CurbStompBattle, Tifa perfectly follows up Aerith's GroinAttack with a roundhouse kick to Scotch's jaw while Aerith ducks under it to give Tufa room perfectly taking him out, Aerith then yanks the rug out from another one of Corneo's men as Tifa punches out the other two. It all takes roughly 10 seconds to finish.

* [[BrokenBase Whatever your opinions about the ending are]], you have to admire the massive ''balls'' that Creator/SquareEnix has to pulling a [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild of Evangelion]] on one of the most beloved game stories and ''commit'' to it.

* The battle against the Whisper Harbinger, the OneWingedAngel form for the Arbiters of Fate i.e, what is essentially the AnthropomorphicPersonification of {{Railroading}} and TheyChangedItNowItSucks. The combined efforts of Cloud, Baret, Tifa, Aerith, and Red XIII lead to an [[CosmicRetcon altered timeline]] where NothingIsTheSameAnymore.
** Sephiroth manipulating the party into slaying the Whisper Harbinger. With its death, [[MagnificentBastard he manages to undo his own defeat]]!
** 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!]]