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I have some more information on this... both from an in-game and meta perspective. It turns out, the "protagonist" of Loveless is the "Prisoner" and the not the "Hero". So the story is indeed mostly about the Prisoner for a very good reason. The "Hero" is the one who gets the "Planet's Divine...

The Shinra executives in the OG (barring Reeve or the most part and Tseng) really don't think anything of... emotional ties other people have within a group. They really don't get things like oh... loyalty. Or that most people have a really hard time killing people they don't have a "good...

The Turks in the OG are... yet another victim of the OG's weak localization. How they are portrayed in the Compilation and Remake is how they have always sounded in Japanese. As far as JP players are concerned... this is always how the Turks have been. And that goes for many characters, not...

The Turks are based on stock Japaense Anime character archetypes. Even as a group they are. They're basically a romanticized Yakuza (JP organized crime) gang. Reno is cut from the exact same cloth as Renji in Bleach down to the red hair, facial tattoos and general course way of talking (and...

The two big defining moments for the Turks in BC are the Nibelheim "cover up" and the Corel Reactor bombing. Nibelheim because it's something they *really* do not want to be a part of and help do (to the point they flat out tell their boss it's too dirty for them to do).... and their boss...

It is interesting that it seems the main Turk heading up construction efforts is Reno. First in Edge and then the last we see of him in TKAA is him helping Icicle Inn rebuild (after Kadaj burned it down). And he's the one who in the OG dropped the Plate on Sector 7. So while it's not *said*...

I'm kind of sitting here with popcorn. More than likley, they'll curate it.

I would say the same thing about Avalanche. Half the point of the "Case of" novellas is that Avalanche is not blameless and about several members of Avalanche learning how to live with themselves with that idea in mind. Barret and Tifa in particular feel... really guilty about what they did in...

It's not that I hate it... I just find it... *really* annoying when I'm trying to figure out the actual... "mechanics" of how the setting works. And all too often any real-world mythology terms/symbolism ends up being a distraction from what the game/story says is actually going on. It's a very...

I have a love/hate relationship with these kinds of things. On the one hand, it's cool to see SE looking into this kind of stuff. On the other hand, so much other stuff with mythological names are cultural appropriation at *best* and is nothing like the actual source material. I tend to mostly...

It should also be pointed out that the "Northern Crater" has a very twisty cave system in the bottom of it leading down in the Planet. So... one name for the crater/impact region on the surface, one name for the cave system below it? Both crater and cave system are also *really* huge... so...

It would be more accurate to say that *console* JRPGs rely on the Western Market. The Japanese market is far more about handheld games these days and that's where all the money is at for a lot of JP companies in their home market. Which is part of why we see so many phone games out of Japan...

There's really no *stopping* the Jenova Project at Nibelheim. And that's just the S Project. There's an other project also involving human experimentation running concurrently somewhere else: the G Project. And Gast is... somewhere else... overseeing the whole thing (and running into Ifalna)...

Again. Shinra *owns* the world. There's no way of getting away from that. If Shinra finds reason to want someone dead, like for oh... *treason*, then that person will be dead. And the Turks... have definetly committed treason in Before Crisis. At he only reason the Turks managed to commit...

BC is... really key to the Turk's characterization (unfortunately)... Where they *do* do something about it... specificly for their boss and his kid (who is the figurehead of Avalanche). This ends up with being enemies of the company for a good eight months, which is when they go after Zack and...

For a bunch of people who *should* be the most emotionless people in Shinra, the Turks are repeatedly shown as having the most morals out of almost everyone at Shinra (even if their morals *are* very complex). They *get* people having emotional ties to other people and don't just insist they...

I know that in real life, it's Indian term and called a "bindi". And that is what SE calls it too, just in katakana: アクセサリ の ビンディ. Literally: "Bindi Accessory". Nothing else is said about it. Not where he got it, not why he wears it. Nothing. The one place that has that info, the CC Complete...

@frosty The only place the BC version of the Nibelheim event *really* runs afoul of the CC version is that Sephiroth jumps in rather than gets thrown in. Everything else works more or less... Or even helps it make more sense. I'd always wonder how Shinra *knew* to send Sephiroth to Nibelheim and...

The last scene of Vincent in DoC is him in Lucrecia's cave telling her that Chaos and Omega have returned to the Planet where they belong. And thanking her for everything that she did for him and saying she's the reason he's still alive. Then Vincent leaves Lucrecia's cave and goes out to meet...

My thing has always been... Vincent is never *shocked* that Lucrecia is pregnant when she tells him she wants to experiment on his kid. He *knows* she's pregnant already. He's the one who brings up that she's pregnant even. Now how he figured that out... who knows... but... he *was* her...