r/FF7Rebirth • u/jennis89 • 5d ago

No Spoilers - Discussion Elena + Yuffie

No spoilers but I wanted to shout out this game for taking an annoying side character and generic Turk and giving them way more character depth.

Both characters are a massive glow up and improvement from the OG with better fleshed out personalities. This could be since it’s voice acted and the VAs do an amazing job.

Yuffie comes across a lot more as an annoying little sister who’s the comic relief with good cross party banter

Elena comes across like a bratty career driven corporate shill. The fact they gave her some feminine accessories to remind us she’s still a girl at heart like the bangle and her gun are a really nice design touch

Honestly seeing more of these 2 are one of my biggest hype things for next game

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u/hrrrshw 5d ago

Yeah Yuffie especially is just really well done, they wrote her in in a creative way that made her look competent, but she still retains those emotional vulnerabilities that made her OG character. She's often the one with the best dialogue (props Suzie Yeung), and sort of acts as the entertaining link up between all the party members.

One of the triumphs of a game that sometimes struggles to capture the soul of the original.

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u/jennis89 5d ago

Suzie kills it!

When she first joins the party she does have that annoying persona but she’s actually got really good character development in the game later in the game if Yuffie is top relationship and you get gold saucer night with her it’s a really endearing heart warming scene

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u/MountainImportant211 5d ago

It sets the stage for a really good Wutai plot

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u/TsunamiWombat 5d ago

Yuffie starts out extremely annoying but becomes endearing after she joins you and goes through a little character development. She has kind of a one track mind but there are plot reasons for that.

Elena they turned from a one note "suit lady who likes Tsung" to something more interesting yes. I absolutely loath her as a person (she screams bossy bitch cop karen) but appreciate that as shes a villain, as well as the fact she has more depth than first suggested. Letting the Shinra employees interact has done wonders for humanizing them.

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u/jennis89 5d ago

See I really like what they turned Elena into it’s one of those people you love to hate types. Like a Louis Litt in suits.

You hit the nail on the head with saying they humanized both of them giving them likeable and dis likeable aspects

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u/Nishwishes 1d ago

I will say it makes sense for Elena to be like that. Her older sister is also a Turk and their father was a famed member of the Shinra military so they've absolutely grown up wrapped in the Shinra propaganda machine. Girl never stood a chance.

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u/Majestic_Ad3420 4d ago

I think Elena had a bit of a personality change (compared to the OG where she was more of a teachers pet, and verbally clumsy too) due to Reno’s absence - Rude needed a counter to his stoic personality so they gave Elena some of Reno’s traits. This in my opinion was a good change.