Cloud Monday - Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion - Not Recommend To Stream From The Cloud

This week's Cloud Monday video is part 2 of playing Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion on PS4 via the PlayStation Plus Cloud Streaming Service to my Japanese launch model PlayStation 4.

Part 1, https://youtu.be/rUNzRtmKoQk, ended with the PlayStation Plus Cloud Streaming Service terminating my connection so in this part we got to see when the last save was. thankfully, it wasn't as bad as i feared. it looks like there is an auto save feature so i probably lost 5-10 minutes of the mission i was currently on rather than 20 minutes or more it would've cost me if the game relied on my manual save instead.

there's more than one reason reason why i've come out and said i do not recommend streaming this game from the cloud. the save system is one of those but there's other things. a bizarre one i don't think i've seen before was when the poor connection logo appeared but it covered up the game's controls right a moment when i needed to guard. i hadn't used guard up to this point, but i was facing off against a boss level character and had to try and dodge whilst i waited for the logo to disappear so i could finally read how to guard. 

another little thing that i noticed more in this part than the first part is how it affected the music in the game. i'm a big fan of the Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII soundtrack so i found it very distracting when there were, admittedly rare, audio issues. The overarching issue that became more apparent in this part was how it interfered with how cinematic the game was trying to be.

The game is full of cutscenes and they look much better than the rest of the game. but when there's an issue with the stream, because these videos are of such a high quality it becomes quite noticeable and distracting and ultimately detracts from the cinematic presentation of this game. this also occurs when you're racing to get to an auto save or a manual save. as you can skip these videos, you're choosing to skip either some cool cinematics or important story stuff.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion does have some useful game design that makes it good to stream from the cloud, but they're only small aspects when compared to grand overall game itself. personally, i don't recommend this game as something you should stream from the cloud and instead you should download it and play it that way,