[Part 2 will release next month - Aug 13th.]Great to see it sitting as the current #1 top seller too.
Also, just finished my replay of FFVII last night.
Having not played it in such an incredibly long time that gap actually worked to my benefit for the most part. Ofc I could remember the wonderful soundtrack quite clearly, one of those games where you can pretty much remember each and every track the second you hear the first chord play, and other than a couple of the other FF game soundtracks and Akira Yamaoka's work on the Silent Hill games there aren't many I'd hold as high as this one personally. But as far as events in the story, sidequests, secrets, chocobo raising etc I had forgotten an awful lot of it tbh, enough so that part of the game actually felt fresh to me again. Something I hadn't experienced with it for a long time either as I always used to play it often enough that I knew how to acquire stuff, when the best time to do certain sidequests was etc like the back of my hand. Also with the addition of steam achievements those encouraged me to get the most out of the game again like I used to. Speaking of which. Anny, here is your challenge!: On the subject of bugs btw now that I have finished the game. There are only 2 which jump out at me.
The first one being my screen went completely black a couple of times when entering battles (but could still hear the music) in the Ancient Forest. I had been alt-tabbing quite a bit at the time and I may have had a scan running in the background too so I'm not sure if they triggered it or not or whether this is an old bug. Have read about black screens before but I'm not sure if they were the same issue or not but for that one I had to reload the game each time but it only happened maybe 3 times in total.
The second one was a save glitch in the Northern Crater. I don't recall this from when I've played before but after a google search this is something which has been around for years. - I entered the crater as normal with one of my saves, ploppled the save crystal down in the area where your group splits up, leveled up inside and saved, then exited the crater to go and kill the weapons etc. Once I'd done with all that stuff I went back inside to master some materia to sell and complete the game. However, once I'd gone back inside and climbed down the wall in the room where I had placed the save crystal earlier it would not let me climb back up again to go sell stuff. I then had to use my other save file to unlock that last achievement. But yeah, this (might be rare?) glitch has been around for years and is not unique to the re-release it seems. Other than those 2 incidents I played through the entire game without any issues
Has been so great to experience the game like that again anyway and have loved every minute of it. Now to wait for the steam release of FFVIII and FFX-HD on PS3!
Also fingers crossed that Valve add some trading cards for this too as I want a FFVII background xD
Oh one funny thing. Linked this on IRC last night but I'd literally just completed the game and come off it for the night when the first site I visited was Qwertee who were selling this:
Back to the Steam sale.. Think I may get Reus later. There has already been some very good deals so far imo but I already own a lot of the ones I'd want heh.
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is worth picking up for £3.74 too btw, I have a boxed copy of that
Will see what tonight brings..
