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Battle and Materia Team Kentarō Yasui (Lead Effects Programmer) Takatsugu Nakazawa (Lead Battle Planner) Hiroshi Harata (Lead Battle Programmer) Shintarō Takai (Battle Effects Lead) Yasushi Matsumura (Lead Battle Planner) “Please note that there’s more to the game’s weapons than just their...

Included in this thread are English translations of staff interviews from the Final Fantasy VII Kaitai Shinsho Complete Guide (ファイナルファンタジーVII解体真書ザ・コンプリート, AKA "Dismantled"). The book was published March 24, 1997, and the interviews were conducted after the Japanese release of Final Fantasy VII...

6-year update on this. The max number is actually 7 if you equip the Jewel Ring or Heike Soul and kill the group of two simultaneously. This Jewel Ring / Heike Soul trick does not work for the Goddess Keys, but it does work for the Gold Shard in the Seven Wonders sidequest.

Excellent--added to the list! Also, very cool, I never knew about that scene!

Kind of a separate post here since I didn't want to put my own impressions in the list post. -I totally skipped over the title of that Chapter 16 script section—"The Voice that Calls Cloud." At first I thought the Jenova voice that the script notes refer to was the one from the past where...

Here's the list of content from the dialogue script section of the Ultimania Plus. I've added links to English fan translations, mostly from Audrey, plus some stuff from Stan and myself. Note that some of Audrey's script translations are only partial. Let me know if you'd like to know more about...

Just for kicks I googled 未来の記憶/"future memories" and the vast majority of results are for the Japanese translation of von Däniken's "Chariots of the Gods?", which if you aren't familiar is a really stupid and frankly racist historical hypothesis that ancient aliens provided the tools and...

I think it was because you had that sentence about the whispers right before the sentence about the visions Aerith gave Red XIII. And just so we're all on the same page I think we're talking about the Ultimania Plus interview response where Toriyama says Aerith transmits a trove of knowledge to...

I can't remember the exact phrasing but we are told in the Chapter 17 script (I think) that the whispers are taking future memories away from Aerith. We're also told that when Aerith touches Red XIII, she passes along a huge store of future knowledge, too much for Red XIII to fully parse so he...

I agree--I think the "Aerith closest to memories of the future" is our Aerith--but the simplest explanation for who's helping her materialize would be her future Lifestream self. Otherwise the theories start to get a little crazy... Jenova? Minerva? Sephiroth? Of course, the alternative is that...

Yeah I think the error was just caused by Cloud, Barret, and Tifa wrecking the machine. Don't think there was any sort of sabotage or other stuff going on behind the scenes. When I get back home tomorrow I'll list out the scenes for which scripts have been provided in the Ultimania Plus and...

Also lends support to Remake Aerith having the help of some other willpower in projecting herself to Cloud from the Shinra building--or that Aerith indeed being the OG dead Aerith.

Oooh that's neat. I know that scene isn't in the Ultimania because I went looking for it in the hopes it would indicate whether Hojo could see the whispers, which is ambiguous in the Japanese. @Obsidian Fire That theory makes a lot of sense. I totally buy it.

I think part of the difficulty would be having to go through the process with at least the three primary localization teams. You'd then have to hope the staff stay for the lifetime of the project and don't cycle out, otherwise you're kind of back to square one. It's a big ask from technical and...

It's a tough balancing act for sure. Idiomatic localization should be the goal; but the problem is that the localization staff don't have access to the canon and roadmap that the native writers share, and so while there is room to be flexible with translations, the localizers do not and almost...

I think there's no doubt the way "time travel" works in the FFVII universe is deeply entwined with the mechanics of the Lifestream. I don't think anyone would argue that Sephiroth physically time travelled by stepping through a portal or what have you, but rather by reaching back through the...

Sorry, should have quoted the earlier post.

Going back to Toriyama's comment on the Aerith resolution scene: the 意識/consciousness acting in the Lifestream and enabling Aerith to manifest is an ambiguous third party. Could be future Aerith, could be Ifalna, could even be Sephiroth if you want to go out on that limb. I'd be interested to...

@Shademp as ever with the Resources. The lines in question are: 宝条：汚れた《魔晄》の使用によって宿ったカオス 宝条：ならば、清浄なる流れを使えばオメガとなる Localization: Hojo: If the Chaos within you was born of a tainted Lifestream, Hojo: then the almighty Omega would be born of a pure one. As @ph14basicbitch said, the Japanese uses...

Thanks, Sleepezi! As for the 10th anniversary translations, those are all @Obsidian Fire 's handy work. The convo came up again when we saw that 淀み/stagnation line again in reference to Nero's power source. It seems like the writers are staying consistent with the stagnant lifestream vocabulary...