Final Fantasy VII Switch Update Removes "Restrictions For Sharing Features"

Dood! Spoiler warning geez!!!

@JohnnyMind It gets a bit more ridiculous when you remember the switch has no easy sharing options. So it was gonna be far more cumbersome to try to spoil.

I get that remasters attract younger audiences who may be curious about older games, so they don't want to be spoiled. But for a lot of people, the infamous scene has become a meme in gaming as a whole, that it's a talking point as to whether it's gonna happen again in the new Re;make trilogy.

Yes, the famous scene where Sephiroth plans to activate a powerful UFO laser on area 51, but Aerith flies her fighter jet armed with a missile into the UFO's main weapon, sacrificing herself to give Cloud the chance to upload the computer virus into the UFO mothership.

This isn't a spoiler since early 2000s.

It's one of the most well known scenes in gaming, so much so that it's become a full blown meme multiple times over, for multiple generations of people. To say nothing of the fact Aerith's death happened 27 years ago.
People shouldn't have to tiptoe around one of gaming's most well known moments.
Are we also to avoid saying that Soylent Green is people, or that Rosebud is a sled? Better use spoiler tags to talk about the end of Romeo & Juliet too!

Am I wrong for just wanting a remake of this game using the exact models that were in the original cinematics? Keep everything the same, but just update all the Dire Straits video looking character models.

Have they fixed the glitch from the original game which bricked my save file 65% of the way through?

This is the only mainline entry I own, and I still haven't played it. I keep waiting to run out of newer rpgs, but it turns out that doesn't happen anymore.

Also, though I had the story's biggest twist spoiled long before I bought it, knowing in advance still really kills my motivation to play it, so, even after your personal expiration date, maybe don't intentionally put spoilers where you expect large numbers of people to see them.

Oh, wow, what a spoiler. It's not like I haven't known that for over six years at this point. . .

@LoroTalby after 2020? Highly unlikely.

@Erigen

Oh! Yeah, that scene was wild. I thought they were talking about the famous ”BBQ scene“, in which Sephiroth gulps down a whole chicken wing and starts choking on the bones. Aerith has to use all her powers, and do the Heimlich, in order to save him. It’s really awkward what with him being the villain and all. I guess it shows that there are truly good people out there who will put aside their differences to save another. Very powerful scene! Whoops! Spoilers!

@batmanbud2 oh, I absolutely know that. My comment is more an expression of lost at what could have been a very magical title.

What a weird restriction. But hey it's gone now I guess lol.

I'm not sure what this is. What in the game prevents you from "sharing" that scene?

I'm just glad I'm able to play this game on a cartridge with an N64 controller.

I still haven't played this game so that's actually a spoiler for me. Though that's not the first time I've seen that spoiler unfortunately.

I always hated games that restrict from taking pics. Nice update

@Erigen star fox 64 spoilers!

That is certainly an update

I thought it was the scene where Sephiroth destroys Galeem and descends upon Cloud, Mario, Erdrick, Sonic, Banjo-Kazooie, Richter, Samus, King K. Rool, Mewtwo and Inkling. Then proceeds to not-kill Mario and use him as decoration for his sword in a fight against Cloud.

@LadyCharlie Or that Princess Peach is in another castle?

That's a weird restriction, I had no idea. It would have annoyed me as a kid. I had the PC edition and I used to browse the disc files to rewatch the cutscenes whenever I wanted. I probably rewatched the Aeris scenes a hundred times. The movie files only had the sfx, but it was probably more poignant without the music. Though part of that was me buying into the rumor you could bring Aeris back and I was looking for clues.

You really don’t need to follow what Square Enix says about streaming.

@Purgatorium Some Switch games/apps prevent you from using the share button to take screenshots or clips. YouTube is the quickest example of that restriction.

@rushiosan Except for the people that weren't alive then and are playing it for the first time. How hard is it to mark spoilers as "SPOILERS"? Just because you and I have played the game decades ago doesn't mean that everyone else has. It's just being considerate of others so they can enjoy the same experience we did.

@LadyCharlie
I think you are totally wrong. It's always bad to spoil a person.

Just because people are born later or missed something in a specific time slot (because whatever, tons of reasons possible) and could not experience it, when it was new, does not entitle others to spoil their media experience. You have that only once! Why should anyone not deserve this feeling for something for the first time? It's special.

I think everyone has the same right to have a fresh experience. Independant of the point in time without beeing biased, influenced or spoiled, because this alters the outcome and perception of any media for the experiencing person.

iirc back in the day square had the scene show up in ads for the game and it even showed up as one of the screenshots on the back of the EU versions box.

square have done this in other games. Live A Live restricted the capture button during the entire final chapter iirc. They patched it out shortly after.

But this FF7 rerelease has been on Switch for years. I wonder why it took so long to patch it out for this one, especially for one of the most well-known plot twists in gaming history, at that?

btw I think this practice is absurd. Any company trying to enforce any kind of "anti spoiler" policy is completely misunderstanding their audience. It's not just Square, I've seen Atlus try to enforce stupid anti-spoiler things too.

@LoroTalby

Personally I love the older models but I'm also okay with the new ones.
What I really wish they had not done though is destroy the story.
This game went from being a dream game, litteraly my dream game from my childhood, to being the biggest missed opportunity in the history of gaming.

I unironically think there should probably be a spoiler warning for this article. I and millions of others may know the plot of FF7, but there are still some out there who don't.

nintendo needs to update xenoblade 2, i still cant record videos from the game, only screenshots.

@Andy_Witmyer there is.

@Mgalens yes indeed. The box over here has a picture of cloud standing next to Aeris floating in the water before she begins her sink and release of holy. It's not ultra clear what's happening in the pic but it's definitely a screenshot which you couldn't have shared if this restriction was on the original game

Spoiler alert the game is nearly 28 years old and anyone with even the slightest interest in it, knows about this scene. Also Vader is Lukes dad, Arnie is the good Terminator in T2 and Columbo always arrests the murderer at the end of the show

Kinda unrelated, but I hate it when sharing features magically slap copyright info onto your screenshots and stuff, especially when it's obnoxiously large... can we please stop them from doing that?

@carlos82 the remake its not 28y old, and they have the same lore, a spoiler box its still valid.

Eh, whut? I once pulled a fish out of my ear.

Whut was what you ask?

Whut did it say?

It asked "what has this article got to do with the price of fish?"