Recent content by Cae Lumis

Its just... so fucking baffling how a middle of the road answer can inspire this much vitriol. Through my contacts, I understand this is in part because they don't trust or believe him when he says he's being impartial, and that this is some kind of... Trojan Horse(?)... to then latter suggest a...

Well, in that same interview, it is mentioned that all the characters who can see the Whispers did also come into contact with Cloud or Aerith, which is why Rufus Shinra can see the Whispers as well. Since Yuffie herself hadn't encountered Cloud yet, it'd make sense she would be unable to see...

Its because Sekai is a very... general way of saying "World", and can be used depending the context it's being said to mean a figurative world, like "The World of a Story", much like how in English when we say World to mean "Story" sometimes. When he's talking about the theme of the story, he's...

That was exactly how I rendered that when I saw "Sekai" in that sentence! Sweet damn vindication there. Rendering the line as "A new world" would have been too literal a rendering because of the context involved with the sentence, where Toriyama is focused on themes of a story, and in a...

That is a question I feel we need more information on to firmly say one way or the other... however, I must point out that its fairly easy to switch with personal pronoun you use since in Japan they carry more nuance such as being humble or tough or polite, etc. For example, you'd never use...

By contrast, I think Northern Crater Sephiroth has been overwritten by EoC Sephiroth, in order to fulfill the idea that all the Sephiroth's we've been seeing have ALL in the end been EoC Sephiroth. I... honestly can't believe for a moment that a Sephiroth from the future would tolerate more than...

What I suspect Aerith was making a distinction with was that, technically speaking, Sephiroth should not at that moment have been able to make a personal physical visit with the Party. Up until that moment, Sephiroth could interact with the party through the various Mimic Illusions (either...

Technically yes, though with extra steps. Minerva is referred too as the Goddess of the Planet, but when you examine the Keywords for Crisis Core, she's more of a Summon for the Planet & Lifestream itself... a form that can interact with others. So, short answer is "The Planet itself", the...

Every time we've seen death depicted in FFVII though (and I mean slowly passing away and thus are able to communicate, not surprise sudden deaths), it never comes off as a surprise or that the people who are dying don't exactly know they are about to join the Lifestream. Its often portrayed as...

We're currently discussing this, with (hyperbolically-speaking) half of the fanbase deeming this all madness, right? We're basically invested and hooked now, some because we like the idea of Remake leading to a new ending, some to see those theories proven wrong, and others just for plain old...

Going by the details that the figures in Aerith's Mural in her old room at Shinra Building wear outfits that matches the garb seen in Shinra's VR Movie about the Cetra, and we know via Picturing the Past that some of the artwork was done by both Ifalna and Aerith while going over the History of...

Its the "chigau" doing that, which can be translated a bit more literally as "differently" or "wrong" depending on context, and if you take it with what Toriyama is talking about (namely that the theme of the Original Final Fantasy VII is about loss), saying "This world would be different from...

Therein lies the rub, doesn't it: What version of time-travel are we experiencing? Is it one time-line being actively rewritten or two timelines in order to maintain continuity between the two, or two parallel timelines with events occurring side-by-side? Until we finally get solid answers on...

I believe the Statement Toriyama made about the theme of story being "about loss" makes much more sense when you realize Toriyama (along with NKN) have been playing up till now word games with Remake itself, one moment mentioning how much it will follow the Original Story, while making it very...

The way I've been interpreting Aerith's actions up till now, since (if I recall correctly it was the Remake Ultimania interviews) Nomura (or Nojima) commented that Aerith may have been seeing the Whispers for awhile prior to meeting Cloud at Sector 8, that Aerith herself has a fair good idea of...