Traces of two pasts. Final Fantasy VII remake by Kazushige Nojima
Published 2024 · Science Fiction, Fantasy
How hard is Traces of two pasts. Final Fantasy VII remake to read?
Traces of two pasts. Final Fantasy VII remake scores 26 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 27 out of 100
- A game tie-in novel aimed at a broad fan audience, likely written in plain, accessible prose. Closer to the contemporary commercial fiction of Beach Read than to literary fiction.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Framed as stories two women tell each other, with short interludes, so sentences are likely direct and conversational. Comparable to the plain syntax of Beach Read.
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- The book centers on concrete childhood episodes of Tifa and Aerith rather than ideas. Personal, direct storytelling puts it near It Ends with Us.
- Information density: 28 out of 100
- Short, episodic stories with brief present-day scenes keep the pace light. Fans bring prior knowledge of the game world, but the text itself asks little.
- Narrative indirection: 30 out of 100
- Memories told to each other by the two heroines are likely straightforward. Some references, like the mural in Aerith's room, reward readers who know the game.
- Symbolic density: 24 out of 100
- The mural on Aerith's bedroom wall is one object the final section explains, but the book works as backstory rather than a web of motifs. Symbolism stays minimal.
- Ironic distance: 12 out of 100
- A fan-oriented companion that tells its characters' pasts sincerely. Little gap between what is said and what is meant.
- Resolution withholding: 22 out of 100
- Backstory stories with a coda that clarifies details leave little open. The book closes gaps in the game rather than opening them.
- Structural complexity: 38 out of 100
- Three parts, Tifa, Aerith and a coda, with present-day scenes between the shared stories. The frame is clear and simple, a little more layered than the linear structure of Beach Read.
How Traces of two pasts. Final Fantasy VII remake is regarded
Traces of two pasts. Final Fantasy VII remake holds a literary regard score of 16 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.