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I agree that the morality of the characters can sometimes be too black and white - more so in the Compilation than in the OG. I think this is the result of fan pressure. A preponderance of fans like their heroes to be clearly good (hurrah!) and their villains to be clearly bad (boo hiss) and...

Of course, what Vincent should have done is inform his superior that his mission was compromised, and then he would have been pulled and another Turk sent to replace him. But then we wouldn't have this story. I agree that it's excellent writing.

Are Joanna and Jasmine the same person? Isn't there a Joanna in the short Aerith novella about the drawings? Edited to add: on a different note, I really love Tifa's teenage self-centredness, it rings really true. She'll do calisthenics with the old ladies but she doesn't have to like it. She's...

I'm stealing that gif

It's whoever is your Player Turk. But I wouldn't be surprised if the Remake made it Cissnei. I also wouldn't be surprised if they made it Shotgun, as she's very popular. The somewhat sad thing is that the Remake may definitively make it someone, and thus exclude everyone else's favourite...

I can't tell you how many different names I've heard from different languages for Tseng's dot, or how many different claims for his Earth ethnicity. Canon doesn't even tell us he's from Wutai. That's mere fanon, but a lot of people think it's canon, on the basis that Wutai = China and Tseng...

Thank you so much Shademp, that's great! I knew I could count on you guys.

"The problem with BC is that it forced the player Turk to be the protagonist of all the main moments of the story." Good point.

Maybe everybody asks Cloud why he's keeping his helmet on. It seems like a guaranteed way to draw attention to himself. "Who's the weirdo who won't take his helmet off? What's wrong with him?"

That's great, Obsidian. And it's in the Crisis Core Complete Guide? I wonder if, as an "accessory", it was at some point intended to carry special powers?

Here's a really tough question for all of you who are steeped in FFVII lore: what word, if any, does Square Enix use to refer to the dot on Tseng's forehead? I don't know the answer, but I feel that someone here either knows the answer or knows where to look for it. Thanks!

That is a lovely translation, and I really like the characterisation Nojima gives Tifa. As Eerie points out, she's not an easy kid, and she's living in psychologically difficult circumstances. Imagine having to spend every morning teaching the old village gossips callisthentics and listening to...

I think there are a lot of trolls about, and the LTD shippers on both sides are often quite easy to hoodwink.

"I kinda wonder if Vincent thinks he and Lucrecia had a kid together, and then Lucrecia left him and married Hojo, and then used Vincent's kid for an experiment... While saying Vincent doesn't have right to get involved to Vincent's face." If that were what "actually" happened, it would make...

I wasn't sold on the dialogue tba. It sounded forced and like it was trying too hard to be hip and natural. It will date quickly.

Fair enough

There's no easy answer to that question. It depends on what's more important, the character itself or the way the audience perceives the character. I wouldn't say a western audience's response to a Japanese Aerith is confused, per se, just different. One isn't more right or wrong than the...

Surely the blue baby thing was a spoof or troll? Funny how we haven't really moved on from the idea of fictional marriage and family = happy ending, when in reality it's often anything but.

What might sound quite blunt in Japanese can, when translated literally, come across as very polite in English.

So "Oh my god" would appropriate for an English localisation, because everybody says it, to the extent that it has even been shortened to "OMG!". It doesn't indicate that the speaker is religious in any way; it's become completely detached from any religious association. This is true in the...