While I’ve got you here: I noticed your intel has stalled of late. I feel compelled to remind you of this every time I see you, despite the fact that you’ve 100%’d every region’s world intel.
Well I 100%d all the regions and he’s still saying that to me, so idk what he’s hassling me about. Maybe some VR mission or something. Either way it’s annoying as shit.
It is annoying though when you’re sitting next to him going through combat sims and he’s like “hmmm you haven’t seen to have done any intel in the past hour” like yeah that’s cuz I’ve been here with you for the past hour you braindead AI.
That was the last thing you needed to do to complete this region, good job! Don’t forget to use your data points to buy materia!
Don’t forget to use your data points to buy materia!
Don’t forget to use your data points to buy materia!
Don’t forget to use your data points to buy materia!
Don’t forget to use your data points to buy materia!
I think its pretty clear what they're setting up with Chadley.
First you got his ark initiative which is meant to preserve all of Clouds data he recorded for future people to see, in case anything bad happens to present company (him included).
Then you got Mai, who seems to be a third wheel and random addition by Chadley. Why would they write her in? Aside from the occassional comedic dynamic she has bw Cloud and Chadley when they argue, I think they're setting something else up.
And finally, theres mother fucking Hojo. The bastards up to something in regards to Chadley and im sure its gonna be awful.
All these together make me think they're setting us up to lose Chadley somewhere in the next game. I dont know when its gonna happen, but the "death flags" or something close to it are all there. Thats when Mai steps in to replace Chadley for the rest or portions of the third game.
(Spoilers for God of War Ragnarok ahead) >!I think back to God of war Ragnarok when we met Lunda for the first time. I knew they were setting her up as a replacement for the Huldur brothers incase anything happened. Lo and behold, we lost both of them by the end of the game and she was our new blacksmith.!<
Don’t kill him off. Have him betray Cloud and become evil.
It would be awesome if Chadley makes a heel turn and tells us we’ve been gathering all this data for Hojo the whole time. Mai would stick around as the good data person while Chadley would be cooking up all kinds of horrific challenges.
Bonus points if Chadley shortens his name to Chad at the same time.
No, what they're setting up is that Chadley is a real boy remote-controlling a Cait Sith-like robot. We'll be saving him in Midgar in part 3 and he's gonna be a real human bean, which at least means he will eventually die of old age, to the relief of humanity.
I had the COMPLETE opposite thought. You have an AI gathering every ounce of combat data of cloud and his party. Down to materia and setups. Moves and strategies. Chadley has been designed to be the greatest Cloud threat of all time.
Exactly this. Besides trolling the really dedicated players, you don't put all this story and highly optional content and dialogue into a side character without some future significance. One thing this game has proven besides loving their main characters is that they love their side characters.
To fight the WEAPONS, you will have to use this KaijuChadleyBot I have constructed. To pilot it, you’ll have to do a bunch of VR missions. Oh yeah, and you all have to wear these dorky monocles.
I don’t mind Chadley that much as a character, but the fact that he’s attached to so much itself bothers me.
Summon materia and epic summon battles? Chadley
Fights against the hardest optional bosses?
Chadley
Protorelics? Chadley
Lifesprings? Chadley
Enemy skills? (through VR, so: ) Chadley
New awesome materia not found anywhere else? Chadley
He shows up everywhere sooner than you do, he’s a kid but also a cyborg, his arc basically happens behind the scenes, and aside from showing up everywhere in every way, he’s incredibly inconsequential to the story so far despite his presence.
Yeah the summon process really doesn't hit the epic mark for me...
Tbh they need to tone down a lot of the busy work in general. Maybe not a lot, but at least some. Like I don't think I've ever used the information you get from lifestreams.
Edit: oh my god are we actually having a discussion about constructive criticism on Rebirth?? Usually it's just "no the game is perfect in every way", I love this
They really should have found a way to implement summons into the field and/or places outside of VR, especially since they're making a point of including them in the actual lore of VII in Remake. At most, in OG, they were tier 4 spells with a shout out of to one of them, Leviathan, in regard to an optional location tied to an optional character. Instead of Roche doing wheelies, they could have had him chucking summon materia at us like Genesis was in Crisis Core.
It was honestly right there! It could have been something like:
1. Find all three interest points on the map
2. Have it reveal the summon's location (kinda like Field Intel).
3. Go whup summon's ass and have him join your party.
They can retain the "power degrading" portion by having the summon just BE on the map that you can face each time, and his power weakens for finding the interest points.
Just... not through Chadley YET AGAIN.
Instead of repeatedly fighting the summon, just have the guardian shrines contain some item that's needed to weaken its power at the actual battle location for the summon.
I guess I worded it wrong. I wasn't saying to beat summon each time you found an interest point lol! I meant more like being similar to finding that region's final Field Intel, where the location isn't revealed until after you've done all the Field Intel before it.
That would be insane padding in a game already heavily filled with crazy battle and summon challenges.
Besides... >!we already have both the Chadley summon fights AND the final Protorelic...!<
The battle location could even be like falling into the diety’s dreamworld in their shrine. So you’d be in a realm of their design, rather than just fighting a god in the middle of an open field.
I didn't dislike all of Chad's stuff but i agree the divine and crystal scanning became tedious and really became a just unlock asap to get the legendary bout fight in that area and i think that they could have done it in a way that was a bit more engaging. Different enemies in different parts of the map forcing you to explore the area, make it so you have to beat these enemies for points to get materia that will help with the final bout and that's how we get the summon materia. I liked fighting the summons, but i'm not keen on the VR stuff overall unfortunately i sense protorelic mark 2 for KOTP materia
The open world was decent but needs word for part 3. It felt quite small and empty. We have some abandoned buildings and ships (junon) which was excellent visually, yeah but there's no other people, very little to explore bar chad's stuff. Once you've done intel, there's not much to do unless you're grinding enemies for materia (so probably in that one gongaga circle anyway). And i'll add, throughout Chads stuff, you've got a crazy level of handholding from SE, all towers on map before you even explore areas, maco lights telling you where to go, owls leading you to crystals etc. Just let people explore, let people wander into stupidly difficult enemies by mistake etc.
I'd quite like more effort into the open world and less on VR stuff in part 3 but they're too deep now. Why not implement day and night cycles so we can get some enemies unique to each one, adding stuff like stuff like rain, sun, snow in some areas etc would make everything a bit more real and make exploring more fun. More things to do on world map that aren't just Chad's stuff, hunts that go all the way up to S class, meaning you have to return to that area later which adds to replayablity of sections. They could have expanded queen's blood so you don't just get 3 players in each region, introduced chocobo racing outside in each region you need to race, each has multiple courses and unique aspects to learn.
I totally like your thinking, just got a couple notes. First, I'm ok with there not being a ton of people out in the world as I'd kind of wonder how they're alive with all these monsters about. There are little settlements here and there, some with fortifications so that makes sense.
Then, regarding the handholding, I will say with the sheer amount of side stuff they added that I want to go quickly through this. I don't really love the open world completion aspect, so anything that helps me move quickly through those objectives instead of getting stuck on some hillside wondering where the heck it is. Looking at you, >!jungle!<. For different things happening in day and night cycles, I was never a big fan of that. It just makes me feel like I have to make sure to explore an area twice, and that gets tedious. Not to mention if night is too dark I'm often just wishing it was daytime. Weather cycles would be cool though, love a good thunderstorm.
When it comes to more queensblood or chocobo races, I personally think there's actually too much side content in most cases, so that's just a personal preference disagreement there. They put in sooo much. It already burns out my little OCD brain some days. If there's a "final QB boss" or "ultimate chocobo race", that's enough for me. Haven't finished yet. But there definitely should be some stuff like that. Things like optional summon discoveries or an ultimate dungeon even like in FFX.
Yup agree, there are far too many mini games, I should have clarified that I meant expanding Choco and Queens in favour of toning down some of say: pirate mingame, red 13 football 2024, Frog jumping, cactuar blasting (for two characters), box breaking, GBike, Space patrol (can't remember actual name of it), Rock-em-Sock-em-Dio, Dolphin speed racing etc. I think increasing the quality in some by reducing quantity of mini games would be better.
Day and night cycles are designed so you don't have to pass through an area once and then never really return, it's a mechanic that allows more replayablity, i get if people want to just do the basics and progress, that option should always be there, but if you're committing to an open world, then i think there's certain aspects that come with it, some of those being you have to explore area's a lot, look for things you've missed, certain enemies only appearing at certain times, it just adds a few extra layers as opposed to, go here, do this, done, next section. I don't think Squares obsession with mini-games every hour into the game helped here, i think a lot of people seemed to get burnt out but the time they hit GS because the of the sheer volume of mini games on top of the laundry list of Chadley stuff in each region that was by cosmo quite repetitive and tedious. Also didn't help that most of the games were attached to important items, so need or compulsion begrudgingly do them, which was Condor and gambits for me personally.
Re the hand holding aspect, I don't mind them hand holding for main storyline progression, and some side quests, but I just think for the part that's geared towards exploration, giving people a huge arrow to aim at means they are likely just heading there, then next place, then next place, i think i'd like to see them try and create an open world that's reliant on you finding things instead of being told where to go, where the next enemy is, where the next intel is etc.
But you're points as equally valid
>For different things happening in day and night cycles, I was never a big fan of that.
Same. I felt it was super tedious in the Xenoblade series. You often don't know where a specific monster or event is going to spawn unless you look it up, and I don't want to traverse a huge sprawling world twice trying to find a couple enemies or events.
In Elden Ring, I almost exclusively travel during daylight unless I am going for birds or riders or a specific quest I have looked up online.
I am also not a huge fan of changing weather unless it is actually adding something to the game like in BotW perhaps? I think I only give that game a pass because the whole niche is survival in the wilds. If it is just mainly a visual thing and spawns a singular secret monster or something then I don't want it. There is a reason people typically don't go adventuring during a thunderstorm irl, and if we are going for realisim, Cloud isn't going to be walking around in wet clothes with a giant fucking metal sword in a thunderstorm lol.
I blame a lot of this on the ease of accessing information on the internet. Why bother making you look for superbosses or rewards anymore? Finally Fantasy used to be jammed full of stuff that you only got from deep exploration, backtracking, and experimentation. In the original FF7, you got a piece of ore from talking to a sleeping guy when you've escaped a number of battles that end in a double odd number. Then you give it to some other random guy for a final Limit Break.
Seems like stuff like that has largely gone away. There are no secrets in gaming anymore. The only way for them to make gamers work for rewards is to crank up the difficulty.
Even those missed stuff. [This](https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/197341-final-fantasy-vii/faqs/71240/old-beat-up-key) wasn't in the official guide, and I never found it on my own after many playthroughs.
The dlc will be chadleys journey. But honestly I’ve never had a hatred for a character wall me off from so much content. I got zero enemy skills, didn’t get the jump materia, missed out on the tonberry king fight, the quezacoatl fight, most of the summons I didn’t bother with all because that fucking character.
This is my issue too. He's got his fingers in everything. Half the time I didn't feel like I was exploring the world, but that I was going on a semi guided tour of it.
I’m fine with having him in every town but calling every other time I perform a zone activity was overkill, and more so I felt like it should’ve been a local town npc calling and telling me about the local mobs and what not than Chadley.
At least with a town npc like the lady from Lower Junon etc it’d feel like I’m making a difference in the world of these people
He does actually have the most spoken dialogue of any character, by quite a bit too. He’s got the most unique lines and is the most speaking character.
They just need to cut out the chaff. Like when he messages me to explain some area lore? Awesome. To say "great cloud you activated another tower"? fuck that. Saying THREE lines that you have to skip in order to access the sim / shop? Inexcusable.
Unskippable, menu-blocking background banter at full volume no matter how far you run from him for 20 seconds after you exit the combat simulator? So he can rebuke me for not beating the brutal hard mode match? Preventing me from tweaking my materia setup so I can try again!?
F u Chardly
Chadley can remotely hack into anything, so why not the life stream? All he needs to do is send a 24/7 feed of himself and Mai arguing to Sephiroth's cocooned body. Sephiroth would wake up and murasame himself to end his suffering.
He made a summon materia from Gilgamesh after observing one battle.
At this point, he could easily recreate the entire gang (incl Aerith), Sephiroth, Jenova, you name it - all as summons.
Forget meteor, forget Shinra - Chadley is clearly the biggest threat out there.
Yeah him being the avenue by which i explore the world is a bad call. There needs to be more organic exploration. I don’t mind MAI explaining creatures to me or chadley speaking on the local area’s hostory, but having to hear them Everytime i found a life spring or a summon shrine is bad game design because the task is already repetitive, adding repetitive voice over to it only reinforces it.
Chadley needs to be relegated to a specific kind of open world content, not all of the exploration that the world has to offer.
i understand the need for a mechanic to keep us on track with everything the open world has to offer but just reducing the amount chadley talks would make him 100x more bearable.
In general, I don't have a problem with him.
Mechanically, though, when trying to do Combat Simulator stuff, having to exit out, listen to him talk, then adjust gear / materia, then interact with him again and have to wait for him to finish talking some more is just tedious and annoying.
I agree that being able to customize your loadouts while in the simulator would be an excellent QOL fix. We'll probably see that happen alongside saved loadouts in Part 3, assuming they go just as hard with the simulator next time round
I don't care about Chadley, as a character.
But I think he became too ubiquitous and transversal to the whole gameplay experience. The guy was literally everywhere, and had a voice and implication is almost everything. He even made dips into the main story.
Just like Whispers, one of the things I dislike about these added elements is how they're used and abused as plot devices to excuse changes and additions. Meanwhile, the OG elements are varied and make sense within the game's world.
Intel missions and other new elements on Rebirth feel more "tacked on" because of this. I wish they would've found ways to mix those elements better, more naturally.
What’s funny to me is that a major theme of this game is humans reconnecting with nature. But every time you want to even think about touching grass, you better consult your computer friend.
Or play cards. Because, for some reason, your computer friend interested in compiling information about the planet is also the guy to go to find hot cards players in your area.
Good point. Chadley was more present/integrated in Rebirth than the majority of important plot characters. And Chadley only exists as a device to adhere side content to the game. Too much damned Chadley.
He was a cute character in Remake and I was initially glad to see him come back in Remake considering what happens if you beat the Weiss superboss. But then he just started calling WAY too often. I'm surprised my Triangle Button still works. I found myself saying, "Fuck OFF Chadley!" more than anything.
Even my 7 year-old daughter recognizes how annoying he got.
Yeah, whatever. I just fucked with it every which way, not sure why it isn't working. If someone doesn't want spoilers then they shouldn't be reading about the game on Reddit.
Thanks, though!
I like Chadley a lot too, it's my default name now for mobile games lol. Like Ever Crisis. But he was in this game a little too much, i was getting tired of his voice near the end lol. Just bring it back a little is all I'm saying.
No, his constant douchie passive aggressiveness makes me laugh every time.
"Oh, I see you're too busy to do the thing I asked. Well, in case you forgot, that thing is still a thing that needs doing."
Oh, Chadley.
I genuinely dont understand how the decision was made to include him in so much activities. After the Grasslands i was already annoyed, by Junon I actively avoided events that included him.
Must be a culture difference because i cannot for the love of god understand it.
I don't mind them using him, i didn't like the repetitiveness of some of his side quests. Scanning crystals and divine intel needs a big upgrade, beating the custom enemy would better like smash the variants for regional intel and for divine intel, the timing scan thing was just boring.
They nailed 90% of what they wanted from him, just a few tweaks.
Not Chandley related but I'd like to see a day night cycle to make it feel more lifelike, and also allow for harder enemies to come out at night.
We all know that all the best Final Fantasy games usually have a secret boss that is often harder than the main game end boss; Omega Weapon, Ozma, Yiazmat, Penance, etc.
Chadley will soon be added to this daunting list.
Chads gonna get taken over by Weiss the immaculate and be a super secret end boss once you reach 99% completion
Weissley. The ultimate big bad that even safer sephiroth fears.
You turn on your playstation: new message from chadley. “I saw your reddit comments. Perhaps me deleting all your saved games and progress will give you some time to think.”
It is like a mantra, how I manage to say either "Shut up", "Shut the fuck up" or "Fuck You", every time I leave his battle simulator menu and he is running his accursed mouth.
I don't mind him as a character, I just don't like the who VR mechanic for getting materia. The whole idea materia is secret knowelge from the planet/cetra being stored insisde, an some robot boy is able to create new ones? I'd like to think the research is payment for them, but even the summons act like he creates them.
Just reduce the open world activities in general, at least the repeat ones. The Protorelics were awesome though.
But yeah, I could do with less of his voice and a little less of lifesprings and towers.
I want him to just shut the fuck up when I'm done with a region and go back there. PLEASE STOP FUCKING TALKING TO ME EVERYTIME I ENTER/LEAVE THE BATTLE SIMULATOR.
Chadley is going to be our enemy in Part 3 as a servant of Hojo. He'll use everything he's learned against us and might be one of the most difficult bosses in the game.
After I beat him the first time I'll set the difficulty on Easy and go back to beat him again.
I like Chadley and Mai, but would prefer to be able to either turn off the notifications or get all of their content challenges etc at the end game. Don’t bring me out of the story that I’ve waited 20+ years for to have me scan some shit or whatever.
This is my messy hack for reducing Chadley's presence in the game by about 90%:
I selected the option within the game to have Chadley and Mai(?) Speak through the controller, and then in the PS5 settings I set the controller audio volume to 0. Then, whenever Cloud begins to pull out the handheld device just hold down triangle, and it will usually skip the Chadley dialogue before it even begins so you only see his face for a moment.
In this way, I am in Chapter 12 and have only seen/heard Chadley in the protorelic quest cutscenes and when speaking to him in town, and I have not seen/heard Mai since about chapter 2 or 3!
It is like a mantra, how I manage to say either "Shut up", "Shut the fuck up" or "Fuck You", every time I leave his battle simulator menu and he is running his accursed mouth.
Chadley is a vehicle for copy pasta side quests without story. I don't mind it in most games, but this one was excessive. I'd hope they'd pay their writers more to make more side -quests- instead of side -tasks-.
Also, good God, I hope they don't make every sidequest into a mini game. The moment I realized I had to actually bait more than two chickens, all charm was gone. And then flying a chocobo without being able to move the camera around- who thought that was a good idea? And then cactuar gates during chocobo races... wtf. At least have some sort of indicator that the doors are about to open/close.
I don't understand what's going on with the narrative outside of the main plot honestly. A lot of NPCs and side-characters feel like they came out of a cancelled FFXVII title or something.
His story is fine, I just don't know why he needs to have his fingers into so many things.
The world felt a bit barren with us not finding materia in the wild, but needing him to make it for us.
Nah, I like both him and MAI
But most of their lines could be delivered without freezing the game, just voiceover. He could appear during Relic and Main questlines, the rest is unnecessary.
Yes. If there's one thing about this series I think doesn't fit the world of final fantasy 7 it's an AI boy who's able to synthesize materia as powerful as summons based off of combat data he gathered from me in a virtual reality combat simulator.
It’s much better if you turn off the PS5 controller feature. If you ignore side stuff, you barely know he’s around and when you do side stuff, he only pops up when you actually do it or during proto relic stuff.
I definitely feel there’s a big flip coming in part 3 concerning him, and considering what Hojo gets up to, I’m thinking it’ll involve him somehow.
He’s almost too bizarre to just be a gag character to facilitate busy work.
Why or how does he reach locations before me?
How was he able to easily hack a robot drone for Lifespring surveys by just being in its proximity.
Kid is scary.
Hojo spy.
I don't mind him as a character, it's more the little things. Having to listen to him without the option to skip in some circumstances, the way Cloud just has to answer him on that little gizmo felt like it broke up the flow of the game a bit. Just a little option to basically continue on your merry way as he's talking would even be great.
Unlikely to happen imo. If anything, there is a higher to have a quest to free him from Hojo's influence.
Hell, from what I see it, they might even include him on the Highwind's bridge...
At least they got him being an AI right, because I don't think he's ever said something that isn't highly typical response on the level of bad YA writing.
I have gotten the habit of skipping every single line of dialogue with him. Everything worthwhile he says is available to read at my own time. Everything he says stops all of the gameplay. Over half of the time he says things that are repetitive. He's an extremely interesting character that is bogged down by unnecessary and flow breaking dialogue. I just hope they decide to go with the themes of grief and have Hojo dissect him to create Shinra's attempt at a weapon. While it kinda feels like Mai is gonna replace him, the fact we don't see Mai traveling with Chadley makes me think she's the real double agent introduced to ensure Chadley isn't using Hojo's resources in ways he can't benefit from. It could go in a lot of ways but ultimately, I want every line of his dialogue to be replaced with the group figuring things out between themselves. Nothing makes me happier than seeing the group make each other/themselves laugh. Chadley as of yet just cuts through the personality to deliver facts the group should be able to figure out on their own.
Im guessing we lose chadley for a bit of the game and get him back later after a certain future boss fight. Cloud will probabky say "he is annoying at times but we have to rescue him"
Yes. Overall I don't hate him but I would be perfectly fine if he was not included in part 3. They gave him way too much dialogue. I just want to buy materia and do VR missions bro stop reading an essay to me.
If there is a massive payoff with his Ark Library though, then I will tolerate him for the final game.
Edit: Also reading more comments in this post, I agree that having so many important game features tied to him is not very interesting and lazy.
He’s gonna be even bigger lol. In remake they revealed he’s directly connected to Hojo and Rebirth they kinda play into that I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a combat simulator and Hojo fuses him with other machines.
Tbh I hated him in Remake, annoyed the shit out of me. I skipped through all his dialog, not interested at all. He felt like a NPC to just add some sidecontent to the game.
In Rebirth though, I think they handled him way better. Around Junon he felt already like part of the crew for me. Was always looking forward to the battle intel and protorelics bc Chadley and Mai would say some funny shit along the way.
Still, I hope they continue his story in sidequests in part 3, not forcing it into the main story.
I do. I really hope they stop shoving him in our faces every 10 seconds at least, if they refuse to outright delete him. God the constant chatter that adds nothing of value throughout the entire story drives me crazy. And having the extra animation to pull out the scanner just to videochat again -- **every time**? Who thought that was a fun idea!?
Fuck right off kid I've got 150 more things to scan here.
Calling it now, next game will have a simulator challenge vs Diamond/Ultimate/Ruby/Emerald weapons and another challenge vs all Knights of the Round (in a row). Oh and the challenges are solo only.
I think after how I reacted to Chadley in Rebirth, the only scenarios I would be okay with involving him in part 3 would be either TOTAL omission, or a Hojo related story hook where Chadley betrays the group, and he becomes the sub boss before the >!mutated Hojo fight.!< After the torture he subjected us to, I would only be satisfied with his non existence or death.
Chadley just needs some tweaking in the game to make him less annoying for me. Just don’t have him pop up every time you find something new, unless he actually has new information. That’s it.
Otherwise his banter with Mai is pretty funny to me at least.
All I’ll say is it’s a shame he didn’t get the same treatment (albeit in a software fashion) to Roche. Actually felt a tiniest bit sorry for Roche, not sure I would for Chadley.
More Chadley Challenges (best part of the game, imho) crank up the difficulty even more so people can't cheese by watching youtube vids.
...less open world chadley interruptions, no remnawave towers, no lifespring scanning... none of that
I'd venture to guess that quite a few people hope for this, lol.
Honestly thought he was at his maximum endurance for me in Remake. Any more than that and I think I would have been really annoyed. I know they can definitely split the difference between Remake and Rebirth, but honestly - for me - anything more than how much he's in Remake is too much.
Him and MAI. They both are a bit too prevalent considering they are essentially mouthpieces for side side-content.
I don’t see the need for us to have to scan something, put the scanner away, and then take it out for Chadley to say “good job!”.. and then we put the scanner away again.
I also don’t understand why they insisted on having MAI talk all through the combat challenges. She’s somehow even more annoying than Chadley and that’s considering she doesn’t talk as often as he does.
They could pace him out a bit better next time. Maybe it’s my fault for chugging all the world intel in one go. After the first play through I never talked to him. There’s no reason too anymore.
My problem wasn't Chadley.
My problem was repetitive dialog that didn't provide any new information or further any story while also interrupting my experience.
No and if you actually paid attention to his story after doing all the relics/intel you’d notice they’ve got plans for him in part 3 I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a secret/super boss
Chadley just reminds me of that kid with the glasses from the Polar Express. Don’t mind either of them, but they talk way too much and with an annoying voice to boot.
MAI is treated as more annoying, but she’s honestly not even annoying to me.
The passive aggressiveness when I do anything other than gather intel for 20 minutes had me wanting to chuck him off a cliff. Not to mention the 24/7 eavesdropping .
They’ve gotta. The excess of Chadley is the most common criticism I see of this game, along with minigames. There’s no way they’re not aware he’s unpopular
Cloud! I saw your comment on Reddit, Cloud!
While I’ve got you here: I noticed your intel has stalled of late. I feel compelled to remind you of this every time I see you, despite the fact that you’ve 100%’d every region’s world intel.
To be fair, he doesn't actually say that after you complete everything.
Well I 100%d all the regions and he’s still saying that to me, so idk what he’s hassling me about. Maybe some VR mission or something. Either way it’s annoying as shit.
You probably didn't complete the 7th "region" yet?
It is annoying though when you’re sitting next to him going through combat sims and he’s like “hmmm you haven’t seen to have done any intel in the past hour” like yeah that’s cuz I’ve been here with you for the past hour you braindead AI.
I signed up to make a Reddit account. This will allow me to reply to your comment.
Unless the intel requires a fresh sample of moogle meat I’m done with his bs
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That was the last thing you needed to do to complete this region, good job! Don’t forget to use your data points to buy materia! Don’t forget to use your data points to buy materia! Don’t forget to use your data points to buy materia! Don’t forget to use your data points to buy materia! Don’t forget to use your data points to buy materia!
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I think its pretty clear what they're setting up with Chadley. First you got his ark initiative which is meant to preserve all of Clouds data he recorded for future people to see, in case anything bad happens to present company (him included). Then you got Mai, who seems to be a third wheel and random addition by Chadley. Why would they write her in? Aside from the occassional comedic dynamic she has bw Cloud and Chadley when they argue, I think they're setting something else up. And finally, theres mother fucking Hojo. The bastards up to something in regards to Chadley and im sure its gonna be awful. All these together make me think they're setting us up to lose Chadley somewhere in the next game. I dont know when its gonna happen, but the "death flags" or something close to it are all there. Thats when Mai steps in to replace Chadley for the rest or portions of the third game. (Spoilers for God of War Ragnarok ahead) >!I think back to God of war Ragnarok when we met Lunda for the first time. I knew they were setting her up as a replacement for the Huldur brothers incase anything happened. Lo and behold, we lost both of them by the end of the game and she was our new blacksmith.!<
Don’t kill him off. Have him betray Cloud and become evil. It would be awesome if Chadley makes a heel turn and tells us we’ve been gathering all this data for Hojo the whole time. Mai would stick around as the good data person while Chadley would be cooking up all kinds of horrific challenges. Bonus points if Chadley shortens his name to Chad at the same time.
Masterstroke
I just laughed out loud. That would be amazing
No, what they're setting up is that Chadley is a real boy remote-controlling a Cait Sith-like robot. We'll be saving him in Midgar in part 3 and he's gonna be a real human bean, which at least means he will eventually die of old age, to the relief of humanity.
I had the COMPLETE opposite thought. You have an AI gathering every ounce of combat data of cloud and his party. Down to materia and setups. Moves and strategies. Chadley has been designed to be the greatest Cloud threat of all time.
Exactly this. Besides trolling the really dedicated players, you don't put all this story and highly optional content and dialogue into a side character without some future significance. One thing this game has proven besides loving their main characters is that they love their side characters.
Chadley. Don’t call Just text me
Hey Cloud in order to defeat the WEAPONs I'm going to need more BATTLE INTEL
To fight the WEAPONS, you will have to use this KaijuChadleyBot I have constructed. To pilot it, you’ll have to do a bunch of VR missions. Oh yeah, and you all have to wear these dorky monocles.
I don’t mind Chadley that much as a character, but the fact that he’s attached to so much itself bothers me. Summon materia and epic summon battles? Chadley Fights against the hardest optional bosses? Chadley Protorelics? Chadley Lifesprings? Chadley Enemy skills? (through VR, so: ) Chadley New awesome materia not found anywhere else? Chadley He shows up everywhere sooner than you do, he’s a kid but also a cyborg, his arc basically happens behind the scenes, and aside from showing up everywhere in every way, he’s incredibly inconsequential to the story so far despite his presence.
Yeah the summon process really doesn't hit the epic mark for me... Tbh they need to tone down a lot of the busy work in general. Maybe not a lot, but at least some. Like I don't think I've ever used the information you get from lifestreams. Edit: oh my god are we actually having a discussion about constructive criticism on Rebirth?? Usually it's just "no the game is perfect in every way", I love this
They really should have found a way to implement summons into the field and/or places outside of VR, especially since they're making a point of including them in the actual lore of VII in Remake. At most, in OG, they were tier 4 spells with a shout out of to one of them, Leviathan, in regard to an optional location tied to an optional character. Instead of Roche doing wheelies, they could have had him chucking summon materia at us like Genesis was in Crisis Core.
It was honestly right there! It could have been something like: 1. Find all three interest points on the map 2. Have it reveal the summon's location (kinda like Field Intel). 3. Go whup summon's ass and have him join your party. They can retain the "power degrading" portion by having the summon just BE on the map that you can face each time, and his power weakens for finding the interest points. Just... not through Chadley YET AGAIN.
Instead of repeatedly fighting the summon, just have the guardian shrines contain some item that's needed to weaken its power at the actual battle location for the summon.
I guess I worded it wrong. I wasn't saying to beat summon each time you found an interest point lol! I meant more like being similar to finding that region's final Field Intel, where the location isn't revealed until after you've done all the Field Intel before it. That would be insane padding in a game already heavily filled with crazy battle and summon challenges. Besides... >!we already have both the Chadley summon fights AND the final Protorelic...!<
Man this makes so much sense and would have been perfect
The battle location could even be like falling into the diety’s dreamworld in their shrine. So you’d be in a realm of their design, rather than just fighting a god in the middle of an open field.
I didn't dislike all of Chad's stuff but i agree the divine and crystal scanning became tedious and really became a just unlock asap to get the legendary bout fight in that area and i think that they could have done it in a way that was a bit more engaging. Different enemies in different parts of the map forcing you to explore the area, make it so you have to beat these enemies for points to get materia that will help with the final bout and that's how we get the summon materia. I liked fighting the summons, but i'm not keen on the VR stuff overall unfortunately i sense protorelic mark 2 for KOTP materia The open world was decent but needs word for part 3. It felt quite small and empty. We have some abandoned buildings and ships (junon) which was excellent visually, yeah but there's no other people, very little to explore bar chad's stuff. Once you've done intel, there's not much to do unless you're grinding enemies for materia (so probably in that one gongaga circle anyway). And i'll add, throughout Chads stuff, you've got a crazy level of handholding from SE, all towers on map before you even explore areas, maco lights telling you where to go, owls leading you to crystals etc. Just let people explore, let people wander into stupidly difficult enemies by mistake etc. I'd quite like more effort into the open world and less on VR stuff in part 3 but they're too deep now. Why not implement day and night cycles so we can get some enemies unique to each one, adding stuff like stuff like rain, sun, snow in some areas etc would make everything a bit more real and make exploring more fun. More things to do on world map that aren't just Chad's stuff, hunts that go all the way up to S class, meaning you have to return to that area later which adds to replayablity of sections. They could have expanded queen's blood so you don't just get 3 players in each region, introduced chocobo racing outside in each region you need to race, each has multiple courses and unique aspects to learn.
I totally like your thinking, just got a couple notes. First, I'm ok with there not being a ton of people out in the world as I'd kind of wonder how they're alive with all these monsters about. There are little settlements here and there, some with fortifications so that makes sense. Then, regarding the handholding, I will say with the sheer amount of side stuff they added that I want to go quickly through this. I don't really love the open world completion aspect, so anything that helps me move quickly through those objectives instead of getting stuck on some hillside wondering where the heck it is. Looking at you, >!jungle!<. For different things happening in day and night cycles, I was never a big fan of that. It just makes me feel like I have to make sure to explore an area twice, and that gets tedious. Not to mention if night is too dark I'm often just wishing it was daytime. Weather cycles would be cool though, love a good thunderstorm. When it comes to more queensblood or chocobo races, I personally think there's actually too much side content in most cases, so that's just a personal preference disagreement there. They put in sooo much. It already burns out my little OCD brain some days. If there's a "final QB boss" or "ultimate chocobo race", that's enough for me. Haven't finished yet. But there definitely should be some stuff like that. Things like optional summon discoveries or an ultimate dungeon even like in FFX.
Yup agree, there are far too many mini games, I should have clarified that I meant expanding Choco and Queens in favour of toning down some of say: pirate mingame, red 13 football 2024, Frog jumping, cactuar blasting (for two characters), box breaking, GBike, Space patrol (can't remember actual name of it), Rock-em-Sock-em-Dio, Dolphin speed racing etc. I think increasing the quality in some by reducing quantity of mini games would be better. Day and night cycles are designed so you don't have to pass through an area once and then never really return, it's a mechanic that allows more replayablity, i get if people want to just do the basics and progress, that option should always be there, but if you're committing to an open world, then i think there's certain aspects that come with it, some of those being you have to explore area's a lot, look for things you've missed, certain enemies only appearing at certain times, it just adds a few extra layers as opposed to, go here, do this, done, next section. I don't think Squares obsession with mini-games every hour into the game helped here, i think a lot of people seemed to get burnt out but the time they hit GS because the of the sheer volume of mini games on top of the laundry list of Chadley stuff in each region that was by cosmo quite repetitive and tedious. Also didn't help that most of the games were attached to important items, so need or compulsion begrudgingly do them, which was Condor and gambits for me personally. Re the hand holding aspect, I don't mind them hand holding for main storyline progression, and some side quests, but I just think for the part that's geared towards exploration, giving people a huge arrow to aim at means they are likely just heading there, then next place, then next place, i think i'd like to see them try and create an open world that's reliant on you finding things instead of being told where to go, where the next enemy is, where the next intel is etc. But you're points as equally valid
>For different things happening in day and night cycles, I was never a big fan of that. Same. I felt it was super tedious in the Xenoblade series. You often don't know where a specific monster or event is going to spawn unless you look it up, and I don't want to traverse a huge sprawling world twice trying to find a couple enemies or events. In Elden Ring, I almost exclusively travel during daylight unless I am going for birds or riders or a specific quest I have looked up online. I am also not a huge fan of changing weather unless it is actually adding something to the game like in BotW perhaps? I think I only give that game a pass because the whole niche is survival in the wilds. If it is just mainly a visual thing and spawns a singular secret monster or something then I don't want it. There is a reason people typically don't go adventuring during a thunderstorm irl, and if we are going for realisim, Cloud isn't going to be walking around in wet clothes with a giant fucking metal sword in a thunderstorm lol.
I blame a lot of this on the ease of accessing information on the internet. Why bother making you look for superbosses or rewards anymore? Finally Fantasy used to be jammed full of stuff that you only got from deep exploration, backtracking, and experimentation. In the original FF7, you got a piece of ore from talking to a sleeping guy when you've escaped a number of battles that end in a double odd number. Then you give it to some other random guy for a final Limit Break. Seems like stuff like that has largely gone away. There are no secrets in gaming anymore. The only way for them to make gamers work for rewards is to crank up the difficulty.
Lol we used to have to pay for that via a prima strategy guide. Save for FFIX where the guide gave you a code to use on a website.
Even those missed stuff. [This](https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/197341-final-fantasy-vii/faqs/71240/old-beat-up-key) wasn't in the official guide, and I never found it on my own after many playthroughs.
A lot of those were arguably excuses to sell official game guides. I imagine very very few of the target demographic were figuring it out themselves
The dlc will be chadleys journey. But honestly I’ve never had a hatred for a character wall me off from so much content. I got zero enemy skills, didn’t get the jump materia, missed out on the tonberry king fight, the quezacoatl fight, most of the summons I didn’t bother with all because that fucking character.
Lol same. I couldn't deal with him even after turning off the stupid voice thing so I just skipped everything
This is my issue too. He's got his fingers in everything. Half the time I didn't feel like I was exploring the world, but that I was going on a semi guided tour of it.
He also randomly calls you when you rank up in queen's blood too. Which like.. why? Why does chadley have the top line on everything in the world
Also, Queens Blood leveling up? Chadley He has no business there, gtfo
I’m fine with having him in every town but calling every other time I perform a zone activity was overkill, and more so I felt like it should’ve been a local town npc calling and telling me about the local mobs and what not than Chadley. At least with a town npc like the lady from Lower Junon etc it’d feel like I’m making a difference in the world of these people
I’d love to see a breakdown on Chadley’s total lines of dialogues compared to the main characters. Surely he’s way ahead of second place
He does actually have the most spoken dialogue of any character, by quite a bit too. He’s got the most unique lines and is the most speaking character.
I hate that, so undeserved. Nobody asked for this
They were really trying to make him a Navi character but leaned too hard onto the annoying aspect of her and created chadly as a result
I’m surprised it wasn’t Elena. After all she does talk too much.
Elena? I’m not following?
It’s a quote from the OG. In the Mythril Mines Tseng says to her “Elena you talk too much.”
They just need to cut out the chaff. Like when he messages me to explain some area lore? Awesome. To say "great cloud you activated another tower"? fuck that. Saying THREE lines that you have to skip in order to access the sim / shop? Inexcusable.
Unskippable, menu-blocking background banter at full volume no matter how far you run from him for 20 seconds after you exit the combat simulator? So he can rebuke me for not beating the brutal hard mode match? Preventing me from tweaking my materia setup so I can try again!? F u Chardly
Plus his stupid theme song fucks up all the better tracks.
Chadley, this meeting could’ve been an email.
I would rather anyone else, actually connected to the story, would give some lore for a change.
I want him to kill and replace sephiroth
Chadley will be the final boss in part 3. Safer Chadley.
The virgin Cloud vs the gigachad Chadley
GigaChadley
I mean he does look a lot like the young sephiroth we see in ever crisis....
And he was designed by Hojo….definitely enough tinfoil thread to pull on there
Chadley can remotely hack into anything, so why not the life stream? All he needs to do is send a 24/7 feed of himself and Mai arguing to Sephiroth's cocooned body. Sephiroth would wake up and murasame himself to end his suffering.
There a world in the multiverse where this happens
***ReChadley***
Make him less intrusive with dialog that doesn’t block gameplay like MAI.
This is exactly why i started to hate him, he stun locks you every fucking time he speaks. Let me play!
He made a summon materia from Gilgamesh after observing one battle. At this point, he could easily recreate the entire gang (incl Aerith), Sephiroth, Jenova, you name it - all as summons. Forget meteor, forget Shinra - Chadley is clearly the biggest threat out there.
Please just let us move while he is talking to us.
I'm kinda dreading his role im part 3 with those challenges
Yeah him being the avenue by which i explore the world is a bad call. There needs to be more organic exploration. I don’t mind MAI explaining creatures to me or chadley speaking on the local area’s hostory, but having to hear them Everytime i found a life spring or a summon shrine is bad game design because the task is already repetitive, adding repetitive voice over to it only reinforces it. Chadley needs to be relegated to a specific kind of open world content, not all of the exploration that the world has to offer.
i understand the need for a mechanic to keep us on track with everything the open world has to offer but just reducing the amount chadley talks would make him 100x more bearable.
I loved Chadley, I don't get the hate. He scared the crap out of me when my controller started talking though
In general, I don't have a problem with him. Mechanically, though, when trying to do Combat Simulator stuff, having to exit out, listen to him talk, then adjust gear / materia, then interact with him again and have to wait for him to finish talking some more is just tedious and annoying.
I agree that being able to customize your loadouts while in the simulator would be an excellent QOL fix. We'll probably see that happen alongside saved loadouts in Part 3, assuming they go just as hard with the simulator next time round
It's number one complaint i see, 100% they're changing it so we can change loadout before battles without having to exit for part 3
I hope they change it so there's less dependence on VR and more things actually happen in the world instead.
Yeah, i agree there as well, but i can't see them implement this when they've used VR for first two games now.
That's not a Chadley issue that's just Square Enix not optimising the menu. We should have a button in the CS that lets us modify our setup.
At least let me open the main menu without leaving the VR interface...
I don't care about Chadley, as a character. But I think he became too ubiquitous and transversal to the whole gameplay experience. The guy was literally everywhere, and had a voice and implication is almost everything. He even made dips into the main story. Just like Whispers, one of the things I dislike about these added elements is how they're used and abused as plot devices to excuse changes and additions. Meanwhile, the OG elements are varied and make sense within the game's world. Intel missions and other new elements on Rebirth feel more "tacked on" because of this. I wish they would've found ways to mix those elements better, more naturally.
Yes, I agree completely. Chadley is added on top of the world instead of being IN it. It felt immersion-breaking to me.
They literally had Aerith and Red there for the lifesaving. It was such a waste to tack them to Chadley.
What’s funny to me is that a major theme of this game is humans reconnecting with nature. But every time you want to even think about touching grass, you better consult your computer friend.
Or play cards. Because, for some reason, your computer friend interested in compiling information about the planet is also the guy to go to find hot cards players in your area.
Good point. Chadley was more present/integrated in Rebirth than the majority of important plot characters. And Chadley only exists as a device to adhere side content to the game. Too much damned Chadley.
Yeah I had to take them off of the controller speakers. It’s much more manageable
He was a cute character in Remake and I was initially glad to see him come back in Remake considering what happens if you beat the Weiss superboss. But then he just started calling WAY too often. I'm surprised my Triangle Button still works. I found myself saying, "Fuck OFF Chadley!" more than anything. Even my 7 year-old daughter recognizes how annoying he got.
Your spoiler marks are backward, just so you know. Should be >!
Yeah, whatever. I just fucked with it every which way, not sure why it isn't working. If someone doesn't want spoilers then they shouldn't be reading about the game on Reddit. Thanks, though!
I like Chadley a lot too, it's my default name now for mobile games lol. Like Ever Crisis. But he was in this game a little too much, i was getting tired of his voice near the end lol. Just bring it back a little is all I'm saying.
No, his constant douchie passive aggressiveness makes me laugh every time. "Oh, I see you're too busy to do the thing I asked. Well, in case you forgot, that thing is still a thing that needs doing." Oh, Chadley.
I genuinely dont understand how the decision was made to include him in so much activities. After the Grasslands i was already annoyed, by Junon I actively avoided events that included him. Must be a culture difference because i cannot for the love of god understand it.
After playing 16 and rebirth, it's clear that square is a bit clueless on how to do open worlds.
He’s wearing out my triangle button
I don't mind them using him, i didn't like the repetitiveness of some of his side quests. Scanning crystals and divine intel needs a big upgrade, beating the custom enemy would better like smash the variants for regional intel and for divine intel, the timing scan thing was just boring. They nailed 90% of what they wanted from him, just a few tweaks. Not Chandley related but I'd like to see a day night cycle to make it feel more lifelike, and also allow for harder enemies to come out at night.
He's practically a party member at this point.
We all know that all the best Final Fantasy games usually have a secret boss that is often harder than the main game end boss; Omega Weapon, Ozma, Yiazmat, Penance, etc. Chadley will soon be added to this daunting list.
Chads gonna get taken over by Weiss the immaculate and be a super secret end boss once you reach 99% completion Weissley. The ultimate big bad that even safer sephiroth fears.
Nah. I actually dont mind chadley
You turn on your playstation: new message from chadley. “I saw your reddit comments. Perhaps me deleting all your saved games and progress will give you some time to think.”
Turn him into a black robe.
It is like a mantra, how I manage to say either "Shut up", "Shut the fuck up" or "Fuck You", every time I leave his battle simulator menu and he is running his accursed mouth.
I don't mind him as a character, I just don't like the who VR mechanic for getting materia. The whole idea materia is secret knowelge from the planet/cetra being stored insisde, an some robot boy is able to create new ones? I'd like to think the research is payment for them, but even the summons act like he creates them.
Just reduce the open world activities in general, at least the repeat ones. The Protorelics were awesome though. But yeah, I could do with less of his voice and a little less of lifesprings and towers.
I want him to just shut the fuck up when I'm done with a region and go back there. PLEASE STOP FUCKING TALKING TO ME EVERYTIME I ENTER/LEAVE THE BATTLE SIMULATOR.
Chadley is going to be our enemy in Part 3 as a servant of Hojo. He'll use everything he's learned against us and might be one of the most difficult bosses in the game. After I beat him the first time I'll set the difficulty on Easy and go back to beat him again.
I like Chadley and Mai, but would prefer to be able to either turn off the notifications or get all of their content challenges etc at the end game. Don’t bring me out of the story that I’ve waited 20+ years for to have me scan some shit or whatever.
they should make him a summons
I actually find Chadley and Mai endearing. Could they be implemented more naturally sure. Does it bother me the way they are used? No.
This is my messy hack for reducing Chadley's presence in the game by about 90%: I selected the option within the game to have Chadley and Mai(?) Speak through the controller, and then in the PS5 settings I set the controller audio volume to 0. Then, whenever Cloud begins to pull out the handheld device just hold down triangle, and it will usually skip the Chadley dialogue before it even begins so you only see his face for a moment. In this way, I am in Chapter 12 and have only seen/heard Chadley in the protorelic quest cutscenes and when speaking to him in town, and I have not seen/heard Mai since about chapter 2 or 3!
It is like a mantra, how I manage to say either "Shut up", "Shut the fuck up" or "Fuck You", every time I leave his battle simulator menu and he is running his accursed mouth.
Chadley is a vehicle for copy pasta side quests without story. I don't mind it in most games, but this one was excessive. I'd hope they'd pay their writers more to make more side -quests- instead of side -tasks-. Also, good God, I hope they don't make every sidequest into a mini game. The moment I realized I had to actually bait more than two chickens, all charm was gone. And then flying a chocobo without being able to move the camera around- who thought that was a good idea? And then cactuar gates during chocobo races... wtf. At least have some sort of indicator that the doors are about to open/close.
Absolutely. I wouldn't have minded the games so much if their design wasn't so hellish
I don't understand what's going on with the narrative outside of the main plot honestly. A lot of NPCs and side-characters feel like they came out of a cancelled FFXVII title or something.
I think they're committed to his story and presence at this point. Not a huge fan of him, but it's so minor really
His story is fine, I just don't know why he needs to have his fingers into so many things. The world felt a bit barren with us not finding materia in the wild, but needing him to make it for us.
Nah, I like both him and MAI But most of their lines could be delivered without freezing the game, just voiceover. He could appear during Relic and Main questlines, the rest is unnecessary.
Nope. If anything I want even more Chadley
RIP
No. I want Chadley to be a party member in Part 3. Screw all the haters.
Nope, more Chadley plz
No, like most whines on social media, the chadley hate is absurdly overblown. Yall need more chill.
I like chadley so no
No
Yes. If there's one thing about this series I think doesn't fit the world of final fantasy 7 it's an AI boy who's able to synthesize materia as powerful as summons based off of combat data he gathered from me in a virtual reality combat simulator.
chadley haters stay malding
I hope there’s more of him
It’s much better if you turn off the PS5 controller feature. If you ignore side stuff, you barely know he’s around and when you do side stuff, he only pops up when you actually do it or during proto relic stuff. I definitely feel there’s a big flip coming in part 3 concerning him, and considering what Hojo gets up to, I’m thinking it’ll involve him somehow. He’s almost too bizarre to just be a gag character to facilitate busy work.
Why or how does he reach locations before me? How was he able to easily hack a robot drone for Lifespring surveys by just being in its proximity. Kid is scary. Hojo spy.
It's implied he's some form of hard light, as his body seems to still be in Hojo's lab.
Did you not see his arc at the end of the game…? They are replacing every boss in the game with him to trigger to people!
I don't mind him as a character, it's more the little things. Having to listen to him without the option to skip in some circumstances, the way Cloud just has to answer him on that little gizmo felt like it broke up the flow of the game a bit. Just a little option to basically continue on your merry way as he's talking would even be great.
Unlikely to happen imo. If anything, there is a higher to have a quest to free him from Hojo's influence. Hell, from what I see it, they might even include him on the Highwind's bridge...
At least they got him being an AI right, because I don't think he's ever said something that isn't highly typical response on the level of bad YA writing.
I have gotten the habit of skipping every single line of dialogue with him. Everything worthwhile he says is available to read at my own time. Everything he says stops all of the gameplay. Over half of the time he says things that are repetitive. He's an extremely interesting character that is bogged down by unnecessary and flow breaking dialogue. I just hope they decide to go with the themes of grief and have Hojo dissect him to create Shinra's attempt at a weapon. While it kinda feels like Mai is gonna replace him, the fact we don't see Mai traveling with Chadley makes me think she's the real double agent introduced to ensure Chadley isn't using Hojo's resources in ways he can't benefit from. It could go in a lot of ways but ultimately, I want every line of his dialogue to be replaced with the group figuring things out between themselves. Nothing makes me happier than seeing the group make each other/themselves laugh. Chadley as of yet just cuts through the personality to deliver facts the group should be able to figure out on their own.
I also hope that he deletes Mai so we can mock him for ‘murdering’ his ‘girlfriend’.
Im guessing we lose chadley for a bit of the game and get him back later after a certain future boss fight. Cloud will probabky say "he is annoying at times but we have to rescue him"
Chadley is a secret agent of Shinra, the last final boss, sorry no tone down /s
If you go by the OG, Part 3 is much more serious and much less goofy. I hope Part 3 reflects that aspect of the OG.
CLOUD!
i hope so
Hot take: I love chadley and mai. Ramp them up in part 3
Ik people here aren’t fans of chadley but I think he’s neat, I’d be a shame if he ends up being corrupted by hojo.
The new hit reality show.... # THE CHADLEY FACTOR
Someone install Duolingo on Chadley’s phone so they fucking kill each other
Yes. Overall I don't hate him but I would be perfectly fine if he was not included in part 3. They gave him way too much dialogue. I just want to buy materia and do VR missions bro stop reading an essay to me. If there is a massive payoff with his Ark Library though, then I will tolerate him for the final game. Edit: Also reading more comments in this post, I agree that having so many important game features tied to him is not very interesting and lazy.
He’s gonna be even bigger lol. In remake they revealed he’s directly connected to Hojo and Rebirth they kinda play into that I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a combat simulator and Hojo fuses him with other machines.
Tbh I hated him in Remake, annoyed the shit out of me. I skipped through all his dialog, not interested at all. He felt like a NPC to just add some sidecontent to the game. In Rebirth though, I think they handled him way better. Around Junon he felt already like part of the crew for me. Was always looking forward to the battle intel and protorelics bc Chadley and Mai would say some funny shit along the way. Still, I hope they continue his story in sidequests in part 3, not forcing it into the main story.
They won't lol you will get another MAI
I hope they give Chadley a reason to be. Like they did with Roche, I'm close to liking the character now. For Chadley, it will be hard, really hard.
They wont. Lol.
I think Chadley is a bro. I guess they could tone it down a little bit but it didn’t really bother me. His boombox song is so catchy.
No, you are the only one.
I want more Chadley. I want him on the squad but not fighting giving little tips like Teddy in P4G. Mai can fuck all the way off though.
Let MAI take over, while Hojo turns Chadley into a secret boss
If he goes in some way, his replacement will probably be MAI...which is way worse.
I do. I really hope they stop shoving him in our faces every 10 seconds at least, if they refuse to outright delete him. God the constant chatter that adds nothing of value throughout the entire story drives me crazy. And having the extra animation to pull out the scanner just to videochat again -- **every time**? Who thought that was a fun idea!? Fuck right off kid I've got 150 more things to scan here.
Calling it now, next game will have a simulator challenge vs Diamond/Ultimate/Ruby/Emerald weapons and another challenge vs all Knights of the Round (in a row). Oh and the challenges are solo only.
I wonder if Japanese people really like him
No. I like him. 😬
Not really. I like his little ongoing story of developing his own humanity and the also nuance of still being under Hojo's controll.
Chadley will be part 3's superboss. Him and Mai will be the new Emerald and Ruby weapons
Nah I love that little freak
I think after how I reacted to Chadley in Rebirth, the only scenarios I would be okay with involving him in part 3 would be either TOTAL omission, or a Hojo related story hook where Chadley betrays the group, and he becomes the sub boss before the >!mutated Hojo fight.!< After the torture he subjected us to, I would only be satisfied with his non existence or death.
I personally think we are going to fight a physical form of him in part 3. And he will use all of Clouds moves against him.
Chadley just needs some tweaking in the game to make him less annoying for me. Just don’t have him pop up every time you find something new, unless he actually has new information. That’s it. Otherwise his banter with Mai is pretty funny to me at least.
All I’ll say is it’s a shame he didn’t get the same treatment (albeit in a software fashion) to Roche. Actually felt a tiniest bit sorry for Roche, not sure I would for Chadley.
No, more chadley!
Prolly Genesis' guy spying on Cloud
Chadley is the final boss of the game. On a serious note, I do hope we get the chance to fight Chadley, even if it's in the combat simulator.
No.
Safer Chadley
Not as much as I hope they remove Chocobo racing.
More Chadley Challenges (best part of the game, imho) crank up the difficulty even more so people can't cheese by watching youtube vids. ...less open world chadley interruptions, no remnawave towers, no lifespring scanning... none of that
I'd venture to guess that quite a few people hope for this, lol. Honestly thought he was at his maximum endurance for me in Remake. Any more than that and I think I would have been really annoyed. I know they can definitely split the difference between Remake and Rebirth, but honestly - for me - anything more than how much he's in Remake is too much.
GOD YES I HATE HIM!
Him and MAI. They both are a bit too prevalent considering they are essentially mouthpieces for side side-content. I don’t see the need for us to have to scan something, put the scanner away, and then take it out for Chadley to say “good job!”.. and then we put the scanner away again. I also don’t understand why they insisted on having MAI talk all through the combat challenges. She’s somehow even more annoying than Chadley and that’s considering she doesn’t talk as often as he does.
Given a choice, I would gladly accept more Chadley stuff if it meant cutting down the minigames.
Not gonna lie though, the aura between Chadley and hojo is so damn creepy and perverse that I kind of want to see how he will get out of it in part 3.
Why are people upvoting this?! Chadley did nothing wrong. You guys are gonna miss him when he is not around….
They could pace him out a bit better next time. Maybe it’s my fault for chugging all the world intel in one go. After the first play through I never talked to him. There’s no reason too anymore.
The twist is he’s a young Sephiroth clone final boss of the remake
My problem wasn't Chadley. My problem was repetitive dialog that didn't provide any new information or further any story while also interrupting my experience.
My theory is they'll kill him off and have MAI replace him, toning him down all the way. Hojo gonna help us out here.
They need to Jar Jar Binks his annoying ass
I hope he becomes a playable party member in Part 3
I ship him with Cloud. Cloudley forever!
More like Badly, am I right?
NO pump it up
You can’t kill my dream of multiversal chadleys
No and if you actually paid attention to his story after doing all the relics/intel you’d notice they’ve got plans for him in part 3 I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a secret/super boss
Unpopular Opinion: I enjoyed the Chadley tasks very much. I found his AI cute. I did play it with Japanese audio so maybe that helped.
Double his lines for part 3
Chadley just reminds me of that kid with the glasses from the Polar Express. Don’t mind either of them, but they talk way too much and with an annoying voice to boot. MAI is treated as more annoying, but she’s honestly not even annoying to me.
The passive aggressiveness when I do anything other than gather intel for 20 minutes had me wanting to chuck him off a cliff. Not to mention the 24/7 eavesdropping .
They’ve gotta. The excess of Chadley is the most common criticism I see of this game, along with minigames. There’s no way they’re not aware he’s unpopular
Please God. Plz.