Or, as our review puts it, “Some Kingdom Hearts BS”. The Harbinger is joined by three additional Whispers one armed with a sword, another with a gun, and a third with melee fist attacks. In the penultimate boss battle, the team battles against their own destinies in a fight against the gigantic Whisper Harbinger within a singularity. Red XIII only learns of their nature after connecting with Aerith, and so it stands to reason that the Whispers may be connected to the Ancients. Red XIII explains that these entities are Whispers of Fate, and their entire existence is dedicated to ensuring Destiny (yes, with a capital D) plays out according to plan. And, in one of the biggest changes from the original, Barret is not only killed by Sephiroth, but these spectres restore him to life, too. These hooded spirits seemingly prevent Cloud from dying after falling from Sector 5, and protect Aerith from being captured by Reno and his Shinra guards. Whispers of FateThe most frequently appearing new element in Remake’s story are the Whispers. Well, until Sephiroth takes on that job, of course. These creatures were not revealed until Cloud’s later flashback to the Nibelheim Incident in the original game, but bringing a similar story into Remake helps cement Shinra as the big bad that it is. These creatures are failed experiments, and appear to be Remake’s answer to the original game’s Makonoids humans who have been saturated with Mako to the point that they have become monsters. While exploring its tunnels in search of Wedge, Barret and Tifa discover practically a whole army of fishman-like creatures who attack them on sight. Sector 7’s hidden labWe’ve already established that Shinra is pretty evil, but did you know they’re evil as in secret-underground-lab-conducting-human-expeirments evil? After the company drops an entire sector of the upper city on the slums to try and wipe out Avalanche, the party discovers a hidden laboratory that’s been operating in secret beneath Sector 7 – something that doesn’t exist (or at least is never mentioned) in the original. This marks Roche’s first and only appearance in the whole game, but it’s pretty memorable thanks to some absurd motorbike acrobatics and a boss fight that sees Cloud 1v1 him within a circle of Shinra guards, as if they were in a Midgar underground sword-fighting club. Apart from this entire mission being new, including the attack on a Shinra warehouse to secure more explosives, we’re also introduced to a whole new villain in the form of Roche, a flamboyant member of Shinra’s elite SOLDIER division. Turns out her mom is very, very good at making pizza. Here we get to see how the wealthier people of the city live, as well as visit Jessie’s family home. Jessie’s missionOne of few completely new locations in Final Fantasy 7 Remake is the Sector 7 Employee Housing Area, a residential zone on Midgar’s upper plate. In the original, Wutai is never brought up in relation to Avalanche, and the only direct sabotage of Midgar by Shinra is when they drop the Sector 7 plate, which remains here. Shinra wants to encourage the population of Midgar to support a second war with the nation of Wutai, and so it begins to spread propaganda that Avalanche is in allegiance with them. But why did the company do this? Surely they’d want to keep the Mako reactors working, in order to generate electricity and profit? Well, turns out the one thing that makes more profit than energy is war. Instead, Shinra does the dirty work itself, causing an explosion far bigger and more devastating than Avalanche had planned. Shinra blows up its own reactorUnlike the original game, the bomb Cloud and Barret set in the Sector 1 reactor in Remake does not blow the facility up. Dissatisfied with being demoted to little more than a librarian, Mayor Domino helps Cloud with his attack on Shinra HQ. More helpful, though, is the fact that Avalanche has a man on the inside at Shinra: Midgar’s Mayor Domino. Both of these come in handy as Avalanche basically has to bail out Cloud and his pals at a couple of points in the story. The organisation at large is surprisingly well equipped, with an arsenal of weapons and even helicopters. Barret’s team isn’t much loved by Avalanche’s leaders, though, hence their independent-like status. Instead, it’s a much larger organisation with multiple cells, of which our heroes are just one. Avalanche is huge, and has a spy in ShinraUnlike in the original game, Avalanche is not just a tiny rag-tag band of warriors.
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