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The three ones I've got are all in English:I'm currently in my second ever playthrough of Crisis Core on PSP, and I 100%ed the remake last year, so I'm at least doing that. I genuinely had no idea there were novels, maybe I'll grab those if they're in English...
Dirge has actually been referenced a lot more than that. There have been situations in both games where you're dealing with Hojo that he keeps throwing monsters at you that allude to what he's doing beneath Shinra Tower w/ Deepstate. But the player honestly doesn't need to know any of it beyond being vaguely aware of the fact that Hojo is doing crazy experiments underground. There's a scene in Remake where the Plot Ghosts literally whisk you up and out of the underground because you're getting too close to seeing stuff you shouldn't yet because it would get in the way of Dirge happening. But ya, it's mostly easter egg status.Dirge mostly showed up in the first game in Yuffie's segment, with a couple bosses there, so far. But Dirge takes place after all this anyway so it's more of a "hey remember Nomura's weird bondage guys" easter egg than anything else.
pretty sure this is brand-new to the remake.Unless the expanded material explains why the Gi tribe is now closely tied to the Black Materia, I only played Final Fantasy VII before playing Remake and Rebirth, and I didn't feel like I missed any important context.
... I only played Final Fantasy VII before playing Remake and Rebirth, and I didn't feel like I missed any important context.
It's kinda bad and disposable for sure. But it explains a lot of background/environmental things in FF7's lore. Like, in Remake when we see Aerith's quarters at the top of Shinra Tower, there's vibrant illustrations all over the walls. When first playing the game, I assumed it was Ifalna who drew them to brighten up Aerith's life, but it was actually Aerith who drew them because those were the interpretations of the whispers from the Ancients. And it also explains how Shinra was using Aerith's visions as the basis for its Mako Reactor expeditions (which btw gets touched on in the FF7 mobile game "Ever Crisis" -- which is bad/boring) to find locations for new reactors, as well as how Aerith's visions were also behind Shinra's entire obsession with finding the Promised Land as well. None of this is essential to the core story of FF7 and its world, but it's nifty flavor text.I don't know what the point of it was, really. Maybe it comes up again in Rebirth, who knows. Very strange.