UPDATE! Demo Footage Leaked Final Fantasy VII Remake Scenes Shows Off Midgar

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Hiku said:

AngryLittleAlchemist said:
That first screenshot almost looks more like a poorly-lit real life picture than a game, lol.

Yeah. And the lighting of the bottom of the bigger pictures looks interesting. Makes me wonder how it looks in proper gameplay footage.

But seeing sunlight at all is new, because in the original game it was always dark.
The upper plate blocks out the sun for the slums that live beneath it, so those places never got to see sunlight at all. And for the ones living on the upper plate, it was unclear if there was any sunlight there either (possible due to pollution) because whenever we saw Midgar in the game, it always looked like night time.

We know upper Midgar got sunlight because it shines down onto Aeris' garden through a gap in the plate. But it will still seem a little strange seeing a daytime Midgar, obviously it was going to happen now that we are getting a massively expanded city that encompasses a whole game, but there was something fitting about only really seeing it at night. Final Fantasy often carefully set the time of day and weather to help convey a certain tone or feeling. I'm not saying it'll be worse like this, ultimately I might like it more, I'll have to wait and see.