Though Final Fantasy games often target the focus on lead characters with comically large swords and steely gaze , theother member of their partyare nothing to shrug at . This is particularly true for Final Fantasy VII and itsstellar 2020 remake . Seeing Cloud Strife and the Avalanche gang realized with better computer graphic and a report that wasdeeper than it originally seemedintrigued and emotional old fans , and also drew in newfangled ones who in all probability only knew of the 1997 Jagganath by reputation . Tifa Lockhart often captures care the most , most late thanks toan unfortunate interruptionduring an Italian politics meeting where porn of Tifa was played during the Zoom call .
queer and strange as it was to hear about this over the week , the ribbing and memes of the Tifa TV eventually loop into a celebration of the character , and it makes you wonder why Square Enix never pulled the induction on giving her a spotlight of her own outside the sphere of her childhood friend Cloud . Tifa was already moderately popular back in the daylight , with strong debates over who was best between her andmagic - user Aerith . For as much as buff fell in erotic love with her appearance , they also came to love her electrical capacity for empathy and power to keep the rest of the political party pore in their conflict to save the creation .
With Remake , fans have learned or perhaps rediscover why they love Tifa on a deeper level . perhaps it ’s because you could search at her and see her and Cloud ’s friendship evolve , or peradventure it ’s because she and Aerith are gal pals who make Cloud an upstage third wheel . It could also just be the remake ’s combat , which is extremely dependable . Though all four eccentric — Cloud , Barrett , Tifa , and Aerith — are fun to bet , she ’s well the best of them . Designed around Final Fantasy ’s Monk category , Tifa ’s strength and velocity put her a few step removed from a character action secret plan that Remake vamper with being when playing as fellow frontline fighter Cloud . If you spec her right , you ’ve engender a beast on your hands who can bring down enemy health pretty fast . ( The coming Final Fantasy Origin also gives you an idea of whatplaying as a Monkin a single player experience could be , and it feels like it ’s in conversation with how Tifa play . )
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Square has had no trouble whirl FF7 into its own universe over the age . During the 2000s , there was extended medium digging into past events for its characters ( see Crisis Core ) , along with exploring the aftermath of the original game with the moving-picture show Advent Children . With the first chapter of Remake out the door , they ’ve riposte to expanding the universe with the occasional roving game Ever Crisis , which retells events from the 1997 game and various spinoffs , and the wandering fight royale The First Soldier . Outside of that , occasional adventures starring company members are nothing unexampled for the serial — FF13 and FF15 gave their party member expansions , and FF7 has both Dirge of Cerberus and Remake ’s Yuffie enlargement .
Smaller , chomp - sized adventures for corroborate grapheme have become a resort trend in recent AAA games , fromSpider - Man : Miles Moralesto Gears 5 and chartless . Those short stories often ca n’t do everything their larger scaled brethren can , but they ’re still appreciated for the insight they fetch to a case or just by giving a case more elbow room to breathe . In Remake , Cloud , Barrett , and Aerith ’s journeying get jolly prominent screen time . Tifa , meanwhile , has perchance the least development of the core four , with much of it happening offscreen or muddle thanks to Cloud’sglitchy headaches . As much as she ’s in the biz , it can palpate like you do n’t really know her as well as the other three .
A heap of that may be from the fact that she was originallygoing to geta special chapter of her own during Remake . Created during the game ’s exploitation phase , she would ’ve had her own spotlight during the biz ’s midway incision that would ’ve turn attention towards her relationship with the Avalanche crew and also cut into into her psyche and previous trauma at the hands of Shinra . That cognitive content was at long last cut , and it ’s a shame that it was , since Tifa is an interesting juxtaposition to the other characters . She is n’t apathetic like Cloud , not to a fault devoted to her cause the room Barrett is , and she ’s not on the face of it cognisant of her space in this world like Aerith . She ’s the company ’s Normal Person who have sex that things need to change in the world , but is n’t entirely quite certain how . For a story that is in part about the characters taking back their agency , she ’s the one who deserves a chance to take it back the most : not just to be The Sensible One , but one whose hero ’s journey is about live with that if you desire to lay aside the globe , you’re able to get your helping hand dirty and not compromise your ideals .
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Tifa is n’t the only political party extremity of FF7 who could palm their own solitary adventure , we all fuck that . ButMs . 10/10is perhaps the one who a fortune of fans would go to bat for if you ask them what party appendage should have their own game , and one whose narrative potential seems to align with whatever Tetsuya Nomura and the author are concerned in playing with .
And if a Tifa plot did occur , she ’d be slue on Twitter for the “ right ” ground .
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