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  1. Obsidian Fire

    Did Hojo manipulate Lucrecia? [split from Repository of Debunked Rumors]

    Eeeh... don't know about that. A good chunk of the flashbacks happen *after* Vincent is shot... and they're of Lucrecia explaining her entire thought-process for why she was doing what she was doing to the player. And also of her being yelled at by Hojo. It's a *huge* plot-point that Shelke is...
  2. Obsidian Fire

    Sephiroth, Genesis and Angeal

    Even in the OG, the President was hard on the Promised Land, and *not* as a side project. Him looking for the Promised Land was why he okayed the Jenova Project to begin with... so a Cetra could make creating mako reactors easier and find the Promised Land for him... And then the Jenova Project...
  3. Obsidian Fire

    Did Hojo manipulate Lucrecia? [split from Repository of Debunked Rumors]

    Also... "probably was emotionally pressured into a relationship with a guy when she's not in an emotionally stable state". I don't think *anyone* wants to think that could happen to them with someone else... and yet we *know* it happens all the time. The trouble with DoC is that it's asking the...
  4. Obsidian Fire

    Significant Differences Between English and Japanese

    Granted, that kinda side-steps the question of if I can see Tifa and Aerith swearing the way swearing happens in English given how they're portrayed in Japanese... And... I really can't? Tifa more so than Aerith for sure. There are words/phrases that function as swears in Japanese. Characters...
  5. Obsidian Fire

    Significant Differences Between English and Japanese

    If you go far enough back, just about *all* "swear words" in English are either religious in nature or refer to sexual intercourse (the US for sex references more so than in Europe). "Bloody" (as in "bloody hell") in England is a reference to "Christ's blood". You'll see a similar reference in...
  6. Obsidian Fire

    Significant Differences Between English and Japanese

    Having characters (both male and female) who talk/act in a childlike manner while everyone takes them seriously is... not uncommon in manga/anime. And it's always weird trying to get that across in English. It oftentimes feels like everyone is ignoring what *should* be a glaring character...
  7. Obsidian Fire

    Sephiroth, Genesis and Angeal

    We see them doing exactly that in CC! Twice even! Modeoheim is on an island right off the Northern Crater and was founded to be the site of a mako reactor. And then Zack is sent up to the Northern Crater to clear out the monsters and the Genesis Copies and the Wutaians *and* whatever the thing...
  8. Obsidian Fire

    Significant Differences Between English and Japanese

    Aerith swearing is just as off-putting given what she says in JP though. She *never* swears in the JP, or is sassy how she is in English. She talks a lot more like a little kid. So it's just more of the same stretching of the characterization to fit what different fans want out of their...
  9. Obsidian Fire

    Sephiroth, Genesis and Angeal

    It actually doesn't. The location doesn't matter all that much. It's just that not knowing where Jenova was found doesn't *break* anything either. We do know Jenova came to the Northern Crater from somewhere... and then left... and then the Cetra would have somehow sealed her there *somehow*.
  10. Obsidian Fire

    Sephiroth, Genesis and Angeal

    I'm kind of amazed at how well hidden that piece of information is... Because that is legit the only place I've found that says that and it's from a 15+ translation that is *really* hard to find on the internet if you don't know exactly where to look for it...
  11. Obsidian Fire

    Translated Interviews from the Kaitai Shinsho (AKA Dismantled) Complete Guide

    Yep, more than once even. So it's very... hard... to mesh Maiden's take on Cloud's background with even *just* the OG. Let alone all the other info in the *very* Ultimania it was published with (Ultimania Omega)... Some excerpts... ---------------------------------------------------------- In...
  12. Obsidian Fire

    Sephiroth, Genesis and Angeal

    I'm honestly having a hard time finding this. At least in the OG Script, CC Script, CC Keywords, DC Keywords, 10th Anniversary Keywords, etc.. *Nothing* that I can find says *where* Jenova was found by Gast or *where* the Cetra sealed her. Just that she was found in a "2000 year old geological...
  13. Obsidian Fire

    Translated Interviews from the Kaitai Shinsho (AKA Dismantled) Complete Guide

    Saying Tifa remembers more than anyone else of Nibelheim doesn't mean she remembers *everything*. Her own memory of that night is really spotty, that's part of why she doesn't come out and contradict Cloud. She doesn't remember everything, and she knows it. It actually would mix things up for...
  14. Obsidian Fire

    Translated Interviews from the Kaitai Shinsho (AKA Dismantled) Complete Guide

    About Tifa being awake and knowing it's Cloud in LO... Those lines that she says while being awake *are* in the OG!!!! It's just that... most people playing the OG think the line about the promise is commentary Tifa says to Cloud in the "present" in Kalm rather than in the flashback. LO had...
  15. Obsidian Fire

    Translated Interviews from the Kaitai Shinsho (AKA Dismantled) Complete Guide

    Thanks for the correction. It's further complicated in that in 2009, Case of Lifestream would be published which is *Nojima's* account of... essentially the same thematic elements of Maiden... that of what Aerith was doing in the Lifestream... which was... *very* different from Maiden. Thing...
  16. Obsidian Fire

    Translated Interviews from the Kaitai Shinsho (AKA Dismantled) Complete Guide

    The thing to really do is to compare Dismantled to the Early Material Files from the 10th Anniversary Ultimania. Those are even *earlier* than what Dismantled is pulling from as Jenova wasn't even... what we know as Jenova at the point. Only thing is, Zack is never mentioned in those... It...
  17. Obsidian Fire

    Translated Interviews from the Kaitai Shinsho (AKA Dismantled) Complete Guide

    The big trouble with Dismantled and it's take on characters (especially in Maiden Who Travels the Planet) is that lots of details about character backgrounds are flat out *wrong* compared to the game (stuff like Cloud *really* being a SOLDIER in the past) and a lot of them feel out of character...
  18. Obsidian Fire

    Opera Omnia Dissidia News/Discussion Thread

    Of course not... but if you're new, the *bulk* of content available to you doesn't need an LD to clear. What it needs is a *stat* beatstick. And if you just sit on ingots until you pull someone's LD, you're gimping yourself of taking advantage of all the resources out on the board. You don't...
  19. Obsidian Fire

    Opera Omnia Dissidia News/Discussion Thread

    You can do fine without a lot of LDs. The far bigger issue is being smart about who's EX+s to limit break to max rank. Those do even more damage than the LD weapons. To know which EX+s to limit break requires knowing how to put a balanced team together. Once you have a working team, you can...
  20. Obsidian Fire

    Sephiroth, Genesis and Angeal

    The offical OG localization is... a constant headache... it's not so much... "wrong" in terms of grammar (which is probably why more people don't notice it)... It's just... off... in a lot of different ways and places in terms of tone. Oftentimes in the middle of very important discussions about...
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