Once I give it some thought, the unique Ultimate Fantasy 7 was in all probability the primary sport I ever performed with ‘courting sim’ components. Again within the late 90s, I used to be but to play Persona, and wasn’t but a PC gamer, so I used to be but to find the stripe of CRPGs that preceded the dating-mad shenanigans of the likes of Mass Impact and Dragon Age.
In my first run by means of of FF7, I didn’t even give it some thought. I wasn’t following a information, so each dialogue selection I made simply went with my intestine. Once you attain the Gold Saucer a little bit underneath midway by means of the sport, I made the belief that everyone noticed the scene I did – a cute little ferris wheel date between Cloud and Aerith. Later, I realized the reality – and in subsequent playthroughs, I augmented my selections within the earlier components of the sport to see scenes with the entire eligible forged members, (together with Barret).
This was a part of the enjoyment of FF7’s courting system, I feel. Both intentionally or just by means of developer oversight, it was an obfuscated mechanic, the stat that determines your date and the occasions that alter it a shadowy factor solely seen to followers who hearth up a save sport editor or peek into the sport code.
