Fair enough. I wish it were a brighter red too. I don't like this burgundy shit. I feel like it's the color of heartburn -- or maybe that's just because I feel heartburn when looking at the Compilation uniforms.
That really should have happened, if only because it's weird that Zack wouldn't wonder about it, particularly given his reactions to Essai and Sebastian in Before Crisis.
All the townspeople were Shin-Ra employees, though, at least some of which were reporting to Hojo. It wouldn't be weird to them.
I have to disagree. You give Zack a wide, open space to fight in, he's going to dodge your gunfire, as he does in Last Order. Heck, at one point in Junon during CC, three Genesis copies are standing down the street from him and shooting, yet they miss even without him making an effort to dodge. Giving him room is just a bad idea.
The smarter way would be to 300 him -- just group a bunch of guys with guns at one end of a corridor from him and fill the air with many strings of bullets.
Even in the game's final battle, where he died, it was still a bad idea to give him space to move around. Of all those guys who went up against him in the wastelands, only three survived. That's crazy and also really points to not giving him room being the best way to beat him.