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To boil it down to its simplest elements, the hug scene in Remake is about one friend in emotional distress, being clumsily comforted physically by another friend who is not experienced in such matters. Are Cloud and Tifa an item after the hug? Absolutely not. Have they closed some of the...

The key marketing tagline for this game was: “DEFY FATE TOGETHER”! They’re messing with us, man!

Terrific bit of art here on Twitter

Ah - so not quite an Ultimania, but nevertheless, it is indeed a book published by Square according to this wiki page (which also links back to the TLS translation page!). Thanks for the clarification!

Wait a minute… “through these the distance between them shortens”. When would this Ultimania have been published, Eerie? 2007/2008? “Closing the distance” is a recurring visual motif for Cloud and Tifa in Remake and Rebirth. There’s the barstool occupying space between the two at Seventh...

I think it’s clear now that Rebirth and XVI have underperformed. Both games would have been very expensive to produce and keeping them confined to one console has not been a recipe for success. There are lots of threads to pull at around this topic, so please forgive the following brain-dump. I...

I mean, he didn’t need to write a ballad, but I’m glad he did. There’s a bit of a sea change going on this time. The debate appears to be over and many authors now consider the canonicity of Cloud and Tifa’s love as settled business. I wonder if the LTD thread will need closing soon after part...

Apropos of nothing, I wanted to report a fun bit of LTD-discourse shared by some pretty well-known journalists in the games industry. The podcast Triple Click is hosted by Jason Schreier, Maddy Myers and Kirk Hamilton. I believe they all worked together at Kotaku once upon a time. Jason writes...

The beautiful thing is: we now live in a world where people can glibly meme about the reality that Cloud has kissed Tifa, and no one can contradict the premise of the meme. It’s clear where this is going, let’s just be patient and hope Rebirth is selling well enough that SE can do part 3 the...

Regarding the topic of Cloud being a dork (which he absolutely is and we love him for it), this is one of my favourite tweets doing the rounds right now:

I’m only 18 hours in and I’ve only just met-up with Yuffie in Under Junon, so it’s going to be a few months until I have anything worthwhile to contribute in this thread. Nevertheless, allow me to share some unsolicited hot-takes (informed by glorious spoilers, of course): 1. Cloud has a lot of...

Hell yeah, dude. My uncle had FFVIII on PC and so whenever I would visit, I ended up replaying the intro with Quistis at least 5 times. Squall is a tasteless fool. I think when I finally booted up FFVII for the first time, I knew the game was gonna lay it on thick with Aerith - she was in the...

All right folks: part 2 is out next month. Let’s get back into it. So I’ve had a mostly peaceful 2 and half years, but the marketing campaign has kicked in and it’s caused both me and apparently a bunch of other people to capture brain worms about this 27-year-old mess. Again. However, while...

Apologies for the super late reply, Thenir. Thank you (and Eerie!) for your response and pulling that tumblr post. It’s quite frustrating to see that the English translation misses some of the nuance of the Japanese original and can leave viewers (including myself) with quite a different...

Doesn’t Tifa say before the climb up to the Shinra HQ at the end of Chapter 14 that Cloud is “a really nice guy” and she “couldn’t see it when they were kids”? Are there quotes from the new book that contradict Tifa’s statement here? I know that the book says that she liked him, especially after...

That’s a great shout, Licorice. We should be precise with language. Shipping is a more purposeful and emotional activity that individuals in fandoms engage in. Trekkies have been shipping Kirk and Spock since the original Star Trek fanzines in the 60s, I believe. Anything less than that passion...

You’re touching on an interesting topic. I have one angle on it, and this may be shocking to some: I think there’s a lot of psychological warfare in online fandom. You got normal people who just like to ship everything under the sun: the multishipper, who ships in good faith. You got people who...

I can definitely see the appeal in a K-Drama/Cinderella story between Tifa and Rufus. It’s a cliche, for sure. Tifa has a preference for blondes it seems, and Rufus is on a redemption arc after the OG. Then again he did try to have her publicly executed, so I’m not sure how you square that...

Thanks for the reply, @S.L.Kerrigan. I have three immediate responses: 1. So you agree that the shot of the eye is referencing Tifa? 2. Wouldn’t the use of stars be a strong enough reference to Tifa alone? (Tifa’s key art, the promise scene, ‘Stargazer Heights’, ‘Starshower’, ‘The Star of...