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I get the impression he never considers that her teasing was genuine flirting, similar to how he took Jessie’s flirting back in Remake although he’d grown far closer to Aerith by the end of Rebirth. Never really considered her as an option so filed everything in the friendship folder of his...

As soon as CC revealed that her appearance in FF7 is based on Zack’s preferences, it was a sealed deal imo every time she said “it wasn’t serious” was her trying to convince herself of that. That’s why Elmyra fears her getting her heart broken again ( if it wasn’t serious, then why are you...

From what I can remember, Aerith doesn’t really come up again until Cosmo Canyon which leads into the second visit to FC with Buganhagan. That’s where we get lore about the White Materia. I need to get to disc 2 on my OG playthrough. We have so much ground to cover in part 3

I think what kinda trips people up is that, like you say, the LS should make you look back over the first half of the game with different eyes. Preferably via a second playthrough. It’s interesting because you’re not just playing a story where the main character is an unreliable narrator, YOU...

I don’t have any experience in dating sim games, but are you able to check affinity as you go along? Using the affection points in FF7 as an argument fundamentally seems odd to me because it’s such a hidden stat, there’s no way it was designed with the intention of players being aware of it...

“It’s up to the player” and “player choice” has quickly become the most frustrating to me. The “well, in my playthrough that’s not what happened” is an offshoot of it and it’s engineered to derail any type of real discussion.

Doesn’t really matter if it was an option in OG. Like many other options, it can easily have been removed and I strongly believe it’s been ignored. Similar to the ability for Cloud to call Tifa his girlfriend in Remake, it got removed because it doesn’t align with the story properly.

The dev note around the park scene in Remake is a bit too vague for me to comment on, but maybe jealousy plays a factor? Kinda weird considering they just met, but they did share a friendly moment before so it could be confusion on what her angle is. As for Gongaga, nothing aligns with how...

A lot of bizarre takes in circulation recently, none of which worth a second thought since they drag down characters into being terrible/manipulative. Pure nonsense.

Are these posters for a concert?

Almost every scene held up by CA has an undeniable tie to Zack, and that’s the nail in the coffin imo. That’s a deliberate choice, no doubt about it.

I mean, unless Part 3 goes mask off and shows them clearly happy together in the future, they’ll just default to ACC talking points. Also, you don’t get bedroom eyes if your relationship isn’t about to have an upswing

That’s what’s telling to me in Rebirth, to your point. In the original, I could see it going towards a confession or her trying to gently bring up his mental state. When it came time for a remake however… Tifa bringing his “degradation” gets canonized into a brand new segment with Cloud being...

Yeah, imo it’s closer to canon to do everything and that’s why they tell you to watch all the dates because there’s important characterization with all of them right before things go downhill fast at the ToA to the end of Rebirth. It must have been a little weird for them with the GS dates. In...

I’ve just come to the conclusion that some people don’t treat scenes as part of a whole story and instead as isolated moments. I always ask myself if an observation is narratively consistent with other parts/aspects of the story. If it creates a contradiction or makes a character look scummy...

Regardless of whatever part 3 does, social channels are going to be wild. Not really looking forward to that…

I’m just keeping some of the more antagonistic ones I’ve seen because I can already smell that when part 3 drops, half these types will switch and claim “they always knew it was going to end with Cloud and Tifa lul” People trying to follow along for the first time and coming to whichever...

Separation and reunion can apply to both CT and ZA, just in different ways. I think it’s less that the sidequest subplot is a 1:1 parallel and more that Tifa is directly sympathetic to Merle in her desire for Leslie to find her, and in Leslie for his vengeance blinding him to the message Merle...

Tifa’s got a soft spot for separated lovers and people aiming to get someone else’s attention romantically. I think it’s The Kids Are Alright where Leslie and Merle first show up in the compilation. Tethering them to Tifa and Cloud is seen as a roundabout way of soft confirming their...

Makes sense to me. If you step back and think about it, it’s an odd situation Cloud and Tifa are in. They’re starting a relationship and cohabitation, but they’re also closely tied to Barret and Marlene ( Tifa always struck me as like this aunt to Marlene who takes care of her like a mother...