02 | April | 2020 | Matt-in-the-Hat

Seriously, Calm Down About Final Fantasy VII – The Arcade

We are one week away for the release of Square Enix’s long awaited video game remake of Final Fantasy VII. While most people already have the game in the Europeon and Austrailan country, they probably already know about the game’s memory capacity. If you think Red Dead Redemption 2 was big, Final Fantasy VII Remake will change your mind. According to IGN, the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Remake video game will have up to 100GB. In a interview with the developers, gaming news USgamer asked Square Enix why does this game have 100GBs. FFVIIR co-director Naoki Hamaguchi states this:

“Rather than thinking about repurposing standard assets for individual locations, like the Slums or the Shinra Building, we decided to build each location using unique assets to achieve the quality desired for [Final Fantasy 7 Remake].”

In short, as the player explore Midgar (the main setting for this game), the location such as the Slums and the Shinra Reactor buildings will be unique in features and appearances as opposed to reusing the same assets. Instead of recycling the same asset for different parts of the town, each location will appear different than the other and making them feel unique. Hamaguchi also comments that this will also affect the game’s characters and background music. This game wants players to explore Midgar and experience every part of the location and see the uniqueness.

If you didn’t know, Final Fantasy VII Remake will be an episodic retelling of the classic Final Fantasy VII game. This one will focus on Cloud and his friends in Midgar.

Howdy fam! This is Matthew and I am here to share with my recent purchases of my Funko Pop collection. Even though March has been a rough month due to the COVID-19 epidemic, I was fortunate to snag some Pop goodies.

43. Mandalorian (The Mandalorian)

I bought this figure at the Best Buy website. Since we were in March, Best Buy gave me an email which had a coupon code for a birthday gift. The Mandalorian is one of my favorite shows in Disney+. The story takes place before The Force Awakens and the story focuses on a bounty hunter called the Mandalorian. There is more figures to collect from the series including the upcoming Child (also called Baby Yoda) figure.

44. King Bradley (Fullmetal Alchemist series)

With another birthday coupon code, I went online shopping at Hot Topic. I love Fullmetal Alchemist and I would recommend anyone to watch this anime, but I prefer Brotherhood. I might go back and rewatch the series again, but I also need to make time to watch the 2003 classic version. Anyway, Hot Topic was selling an exclusive figure of the character King Bradley. King Bradley (or also called Führer) is the commander-in-chief of the military in which main characters Edward and Alphonse Elric serve. In the manga and Brotherhood anime, he is actually one of the antagonist and he goes by Wrath (the 2003 version calls him Pride). I haven’t gotten the other figures and I heard it is possible to get an Edward Elric figure and have the English voice actor Vic Mignogna to sign it if you can go to a con where he is participating. I believe there is another Bradly figure where you can remove the eyepatch and see his homunculus but you would have to buy the Chase version.