Characters love to grunt and sigh in Final Fantasy VII Remake. They do it all the bloody time. If someone moves more than a centimetre, they need to make a noise, and once you hear it, you can never unhear it.
If you're familiar with anime or other Japanese media, then you'll already be aware of these sounds. In animation, they're often employed so that characters can react to things even if no dialogue is taking place -- and it's a trope that's carried over into video games.
Some people find it incredibly annoying -- others don't even notice it. But one thing's for sure: Final Fantasy VII Remake has a lot of uh, huh, ah, ngh, tch, and heh. But we can take this topic one step further thanks to the poor souls over at Destructoid, who have painstakingly put together the above video.
The video catalogues every little noise that characters make across all of the game's main story cutscenes (and one grunt-filled squat battle at the gym). It concludes that there are over 2,000 grunts and sighs in Final Fantasy VII Remake, which is, quite frankly, ridiculous.
Do anime-style grunts and sighs get on your nerves? Did you notice them in Final Fantasy VII Remake? Pray for the sanity of those who made this video in the comments section below.
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I didn’t notice it until I played with headphones on. While manly grunts aren’t exactly the least appetising sound in the world, it does grate after a while.
Tifa never got her shower.
I'm in Chapter 10 rn and the most baffling one for me was SPOILER when you defeat the sewer monster Aerith just does a weird grunt and Cloud and Tifa don't even say anything...I was like wtf?
Maddening. I played through this game twice and on the second run, the grunts did my head in because I was so aware of them. Square Enix is the absolute worst for them — Final Fantasy XV was the same.
@ShogunRok Every Japanese game/anime is like that. That, overexplanation of things and YELLING when scenes are dramatic.
@AFCC If you think that grunt’s weird, I raise you Tidus.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qo7SYtg72N8
@AFCC Not every Japanese game or anime does it this much, but I guess it depends on the structure. Persona 5, for example, has almost no grunts or sighs because the story is all text-based rather than full-blown cutscenes.
It's not something that always annoys me, and it doesn't ruin the game, but I find it hard to ignore in Remake.
@nessisonett To this day, that's one of the most baffling bits of dialogue I've ever heard in a game. Incredible.
Tch
Magnifying negatives for clicks....
sigh
@ShogunRok Oh yeah this much, for sure!!
I'm currently seeing Jojo and it's hilarious how they grunt and yell and explain every single last bit of story lol
To me what bothers me most in the remake is some of the voiceover from sidecharacters is BAD, real bad. Sometimes the characters grunt for no reason at all, sometimes the story doesn't make sense (the old guy that wanted to visit his late wife and Cloud ask for money like you guys wrote on the article)....there's many things I dislike but there's much more that I love!
Oh NO! Grunts... ... ...we need more text based ellipses!
Hmm.
I am not sure I ever noticed. Finished the game a couple days ago - it was awesome!
I'm replaying FFXIII right now before diving back into FFVIIR for the Hard Mode, and it's kinda funny how so much of it seems like a test run for the latter. The combat momentum, the "dungeons" (even Hojo's lab in the remake reminded me of that tower you climb in FFXIII), even the music with Hamauzu returning. And Vanille's legacy definitely lives on too.
I notice Cloud does a lot of grunts, especially after Tifa or Aerith say something.
I only noticed them in this game simply because they seem to be about half the script of the game compared to most other japanese games and anime. And for the most part, it really doesn't bother me but I do question from time to time why they thought it necessary for them to make those grunts and sighs
Huh. I’d, uh, never have guessed this. Tch.
Can't say I've noticed after 8 chapters. To me it's just typical Japanese gaming stuff
Those grunts and sighs are a big reason why I watch anime in sub.
Like an actual human being.
Man... Imagine watching anime in dub? Cringe!
Welcome to the wacky world of Tetsuya Nomura anime writing, people. Us Kingdom Hearts fans have been listening to these anime grunts for ages.
It‘s the only thing that I didn’t like about the remake. I started replying to my wife with them. She had no idea what I was trying to say. Haha.
Still love the remake though. Just needs a photo mode ASAP.
I imagine if you recorded someone over the course of a few days, you could very easily make a compilation of all the non-verbal sounds they made with their mouths.
I find it nnnngh so annoying ach.
Nier grah Automata was the same huh.
It's part of japanese culture, as they do not like confrontation, or difficult discussion that could lead to something being said that would hurt feelings, or cause upset. Pauses, grunts, exclamational noises etc are used to soften a difficult area of discussion, and to help segue into more comfortable, less confrontational dialogue.
Totally annoying ! I was saying this to a friend last week, it's almost like really poor, lazy writing. But EVERY FF game is the same. XV was full of it, as was X
If anyone has ever seen FF7 Advent Children there's more grunts in that film as well in fact in any JRPG I've found they all do some form of it
started to really notice it withion the games 1st three hours or so but I never let it ruin the experience for me, I expect nothing less from SquareEnix, Kingdom Hearts 3 was another with silly Anime style voice grunts
I don't know, sure there's a lot of grunts, but I really like them. Maybe it's because I'm so used to them from anime.
I can't stand overexaggerated grunts and running pants in JRPG games. It just sounds silly.
Definitely noticed them through the first play, but skipped all the cutscenes for hard so didn't get chance to on that run. Can't say it bothered me as I loved the game, 100+ hours worth.
Hmmm, quiet news day, huh?
Wow, coincidentally that's one grunt for every article Push Square has written about the DualSense controller.
I see no problem with the grunts, but I played the game in Japanese, which makes it sound more normal (English dubs always have to ham it up).
@nessisonett Lmao it actually is a good joke. Macarena AAAY
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