The Final Fantasy Series Thread

[Lith]

Uh, I forget. And I'm too lazy to replay it and find out. Hadn't SOLDIER been disbanded or something... during Sephiroth's reign of terror?

[Cayal]

I don't remember.

While on the subject how come President Shinra knows Cloud as the one who left SOLDIER when he was never in SOLDIER.


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You know a game I'd like to see is a Devil May Cry style action game based on Sephiroth's rise through SOLDIER as one of the greatest. Imagine kicking ass with his Masamune sword.

[Talysia]

Good question about President Shinra. When I played it, I always thought he knew Cloud as a SOLDIER from his mako eyes, but not what his name was (rather he knew that someone with mako eyes had joined Avalanche).

[Cayal]

Originally Posted by Talysia

Good question about President Shinra. When I played it, I always thought he knew Cloud as a SOLDIER from his mako eyes, but not what his name was (rather he knew that someone with mako eyes had joined Avalanche).

He mentions he was the one who left or whatever.


On a side note, as anyone hear the One Winged Angel theme from Crisis Core. God I never get sick of that song, no matter the version.

[Cayal]

drool worthy

YouTube - final fantasy 7 crisis core genisis & sephiroth trailer

[Thadlerian]

Originally Posted by Cayal

Question on Final Fantasy VII

Cloud, Zach and Sephiroth are all intertwined with SOLDIER. How come throughout the entire game you never encounter a SOLDIER as an enemy or character or whatever. I figured they would have been deployed for any number of reasons.

You meet SOLDIERs in the Shinra Building in the first part of the game, and perhaps also in Junon(?), as random encounters. Third or second class. They have swords that resemble thin cones, IIRC.

[Cayal]

They're not very good then. I'll have to check it out when I re-play it.

[Cayal]

It's so weird playing Crisis Core. Sephiroth is a good guy (so far) but you know where he ends up and you know where Zach ends up.

Getting a strange feeling about it all.

[Talysia]

I haven't played Crisis Core, but I remember feeling like that when I saw the FF7 anime - Last Order - for the first time. I enjoyed watching it, and whilst it was good to see the scenes that had only been hinted at in the game (flashbacks and such) it felt a little odd.

[Commonmind]

I think part of that sense of detachment has to do with the fact that, despite popular belief, FF7's storyline and characterization simply wasn't that cohesive or fleshed out.

It seems odd or out of place because to a certain degree the original characters were rather contrived and shallow and those we're getting to know now through other mediums have considerably more depth. As well as there being a really poor connection between plots due to, as I said above, a lack of cohesion in the original plot.

[kaneda]

Originally Posted by Cayal

Question on Final Fantasy VII

Cloud, Zach and Sephiroth are all intertwined with SOLDIER. How come throughout the entire game you never encounter a SOLDIER as an enemy or character or whatever. I figured they would have been deployed for any number of reasons.

You do encouter SOLDIER has enemies, I don't think you encounter first class SOLDIER, but you definately do encounter second class SOLDIER.

[kaneda]

Originally Posted by Talysia

Good question about President Shinra. When I played it, I always thought he knew Cloud as a SOLDIER from his mako eyes, but not what his name was (rather he knew that someone with mako eyes had joined Avalanche).

Yup, he knows he was in SOLDIER because of the mako eyes. He calls him "the one who left", and I assume that he thinks that because Cloud is now with the enemy

[kaneda]

Originally Posted by Cayal

drool worthy

YouTube - final fantasy 7 crisis core genisis & sephiroth trailer

OMG. I actually NEED to play that.

Gaddam you Square enix! Why can't all the games be released on the PS2. Now I need a PSP!

[Cayal]

^ I got a PSP just for the game. It doesn't fail.

That full cut scene is amazing though.

[WriterDoug]

I do not intend to play Core Crisis, but I did watch the ending on Youtube about 4-5 months ago.

I agree with whomever says it must be awkward playing a game in which you know the outcome (at least the important points of such outcome.)

Also, anyone who is a total die-hard Final Fantasy VII fan will remember from the original game that Cloud and Zack were trapped in Nibelheim and used as experiments and that Zack was later shot during their escape.

One had to actually return to the laboratory at a certain point in the game and read the research notes in the basement. It is pretty easy to miss.



Cheers,
WD