[POLL] FINAL FANTASY 7 DEMAKE CHARACTER POLL

Considering they die soon after they're introduced... I don't know if it would be worth it, I guess?

Unless your whole game was just a demake of the first Midgar chapter... so in relation to the timespan of the entire game, you'd been playing as those characters for a decent chunk.

But I don't think that's what you're doing, so never mind.

What complaints have other people made about that idea?

I don't think it's necessary to rewrite every friendly character to be a combatant, just so the player can control them for twenty minutes. They're not fighters and they don't need to be. Especially in a game like FF7 where every character plays identically in 99% of circumstances. Who's in your party already barely matters at all.

If it were up to me, I'd actually be more likely to make Aeris, Cid, Red XIII and Cait Sith into non-playable characters. They can still join the party, but there's no reason for them to fight. They serve perfectly good purposes in the party even if they never join in battles, and turning them into extra clones of the other party members frankly cheapens their more important roles.

Sephiroth is more important to the entire story than Jessie, Biggs & Wedge. Having him as a briefly playable character was supposed to illustrate his strength and composure in comparison to Cloud. Then he goes crazy, so I guess you as the player appreciate his strength more because you know he's a badass - but now he's a deranged badass.

There's not really anything to gain from having Barret's friends as playable characters for the short time they appear in the story. They're important to only his character, anyway. Plus I guess they're supposed to make the player relate to the non-combatant masses that Shinra (and Avalanche inadvertently) screws over. So they obviously have a purpose, I just don't think making them playable characters would flesh anything out or be of any use at all.

e: it would be interesting to mess around with the original structure of the game. If you made those dudes from Avalanche playable, but turned the ones Locke has suggested into npcs, then that would be kind of intriguing. (Although personally I liked Cid & Aeris in battle more than most of the other characters. Well, more than Red and Cait Sith, anyway.)

Hmm... why then even have Yuffie as a playable character? She's not really vital to the main plot (even though she has cool attacks :/). You could boil down the playable party to the most essential members and have the other ones serve some other purpose.

...was that sarcastic? XD

e: I wasn't sure what to think of this "demake" concept originally. But if you mess around with the roles of each character, and battles etc. then it could be cool.

You've got a huge undertaking ahead of you, and you're going to add to it by doing the extra spriting and work to add three characters that are with you for a very short time that the original game didn't include?

There are many things I've heard people wish were in FF7, but having those three as playable was never one of them. Why not focus on all the required characters before you start adding ones that weren't playable originally?