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I will need some clarification on how game events transpired exactly. But first, a recap on the normal order of events.
- The group gathers in the hotel (field "ghotin_4") and discuss the black capes, the Black Materia, Sephiroth and Red XIII's tattoo. The party starts going to their room and the scene ends with Cid snoozing on the chair. Screen fades to black.
There is no variation of this scene, be it in English or in Japanese, that in any shape or form discusses a date between two people. I have not investigated the French script.
- With the fade we find Cloud in his hotel room (field "ghotin_2"). The player can't move him around and you have no choice but to wait for the scene to play out as the selected "date character" drags Cloud out the room. This is always how the date initiates, regardless of character.
- Game transitions to the hub of the Gold Saucer (field "gldgate"), with no other field/map visited inbetween. The date events commence.
There is no variation of this scene, be it in English or in Japanese, that in any shape or form discusses a date between two people. I have not investigated the French script.
- With the fade we find Cloud in his hotel room (field "ghotin_2"). The player can't move him around and you have no choice but to wait for the scene to play out as the selected "date character" drags Cloud out the room. This is always how the date initiates, regardless of character.
- Game transitions to the hub of the Gold Saucer (field "gldgate"), with no other field/map visited inbetween. The date events commence.
After the date events and Cait Sith's betrayal, the player is transported back to the hotel room (ghotin_2). You then control Cloud to move down to the hotel lobby (ghotin_4). Here you can speak to a character (who will merge with Cloud) to form a party on your way to the Temple of the Ancients. Tifa's optional dialogue here:
This moment is the only candidate for what you are describing, @Eerie. The modern PC version, and especially the Switch port, can experience errors where the game's various event flags, plot progression values and even map-teleportation calls are not updated properly. It's possible that, at an odd point, the game moved you to the hotel lobby and skipped the bedroom/hotel-room scene. The game then waited for you to form a party as though you were going to the Temple of the Ancients, but once you formed a party with Tifa and left the hotel the normal date events still ensued. *Edit: It's also possible you already had Tifa in your party and simply left without interacting with the characters, as I do not know exactly how your playthrough went.*
Definitely big glitches required for all this to happen but it's not beyond the realm of possibility. The fact that you were playing the PC version makes all this more likely.
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