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You're right, it would have been wonderful evidence to have around the last 20 years while we've all been trying to figure out whether Jenova still has a will or if it's just a corpse whose cells still exert a unique unifying power. I guess you could even still interpret this as Jenova's cells...

Need to be careful with the context here. The first Ultimania tells us those are the historical Jenova and Sephiroth calling out to each other in the past, not their present versions. Cloud is getting flashes of what he saw at the Nibelheim reactor. Edit: I was wrong. Jenova is also calling to...

That Chapter 21 ending... at least confirms that if Biggs did survive in the main party's timeline, they still don't know about it by the time they leave Junon. Not that the OG ever showed any means of communication with Midgar aside from Reeve and Cait Sith. Begs the question, how hard is it to...

Hmm, I'm looking in the background files section but I don't see anything geostigma-related. Is it in a different section?

Argh, and here's my dumb ass with the 2005 version. Thanks a bunch for those translations!

@Obsidian Fire Can you tell me where those passages are from so I can source them if I use them in an explanation?

I think the linguistic difference is pretty interesting. Corruption implies an outside agent that is responsible for tainting the Lifestream somehow, whereas stagnation is more of an incidental process that results when the Lifestream gets cut off or diverted by natural changes to like, the...

Even though I'm firmly in the "he's just manipulating Cloud" camp, I still think this is really fun to think about, not least because it's clear the writers want you to at least remotely consider the possibility, if only to inhabit Cloud's shoes. For me the big question is: what would have to...

I found the bestiary entry Mako was talking about: DGソルジャーの精鋭部隊『ツヴィエート』のひとり。 通称、漆黒の闇ネロ。 生命の淀みを凝縮した闇の力を操り、あらゆるものを飲み込む。 A member of the elite Tsviet unit of Deepground soldiers. Also known as Nero the Sable. Wields power over darkness formed by the condensation of stagnated life, which he uses...

That makes sense to me. I remember there was some speculation that the corrupted Lifestream that caused the Protomateria to crystallize in Lucrecia's Cave was the result of geostigma inflicted by Jenova when it arrived 2000+ years ago, and that it sort of slowly built up over time as part of a...

Very badass. Any thoughts on the relation with the Geostigma "Negative Lifestream"?

Oh, right, I was going to make a note about that. Totally my "localization" choice there. It's a specific ability called 《淀みの力》 (literally "Power of Stagnation"). The Ultimania doesn't have a bestiary like the main game's Ultimania, so I can't check to see if it's an attack he can actually use...

Here's the final boss and "death" scene from Intermission. I've used the English localization's script for the spoken lines. Underlined text is the bold red text that the Ultimania wishes to draw readers' attention to. _______ 神羅ビル地下：計測エリア...

Cats! @Maidenofwar レベルデザインスーパーバイザー：澤田唯 ニャル、バニ、パスのようにカットシーンでアップになるネコには、ハイクオリティな専用の3Dモデルが用意されています。これがまた豪華に作られていて、ほかのNPCとくらべて段ちがいに処理が重くなりがちだったので、地味に苦労しました…。 レベルデザインスーバーバイザー：澤田唯 七番街スラムのクエストで捜すネコですが、企画の時点では黒ネコの想定でした。しかし、雑然としたスラムに溶けこみすぎてしまい、開発スタッフから「全然見つからない！」との苦情を受けた結果、白ネコが採用されています。 Level Design...

A cool page from the storyboard section—the only colorized one included in the book. ストーリーボードアーティスト：奥居久明 パリア内で逆光を受けるネロとヴァイスのあやしげな雰囲気を伝えるべく、カラーで絵コンテを作成しました。この絵コンテでは、VR空間のなかに研究員たちが描かれていますが、完成版ではチャドリーとヴァイスを目立たせるために研究員たちは登場させていません。 リードカットシーンテクニカルアーティスト：林淳一...

Hojo you scoundrel

Ah, sounds like you would enjoy the Cat Page. I'll take a pic when I get back home. In English the enemy is called Diabolic Creation. I think it's the last battle before Nero, when Yuffie and Sonon are trapped in the VR dome. It's only Rayleigh's "combat data" simulation though, I guess. Who...

I'm mostly done going through the Ultimania, though I haven't read absolutely everything, just the stuff that seemed most urgent. I'm posting the ToC, so if there's anything in here that you'd like to know about, or if you'd like me to look up something about a particular model (weapons...

Here's another second opinion translation. It's the interview question about Aerith's resolution scene. Q:「でもね、好きにならないで」「もしそうなっても、気のせいだよ」というエアリスのセリフは、どういう意図で発せられたのでしょうか？...

I can't speak for everyone else but one of the things that made me hesitate to believe there was only one Sephiroth was the way the clones were presented. For some reason I got the impression that they were still going about their OG business, unaware that a new, more powerful version of...