What I'm saying is, why can't SE also
Personally, I don't need "reminding" of anything. I've played this game 1000+ hours and am aware of every character that's in it, as well as their history.
Most here are enthusiasts and, I would imagine, fall into a similar bucket.
As for your question to me about 'who needs more attention' - I'd say, probably, the characters that are going to garner the most interest from fans or potential new players. And that would be Tifa and Aeris, because, frankly, they're more interesting to most people - including me. So, my answer back to you would be..
"Tifa and Aeris."
Now, the question becomes 'Can you accept that' or are you going to continue down the path of trying to convince me that Jesse deserves more attention? And then, the question becomes, 'Why do you feel you have to convince me or anyone else of anything?' And, 'Why can people not decide for themselves who they wish to see more of?'
But you don't know what the remake will give us concerning Jessie. Why can't SE promote all three at the same time? There's nothing stopping them from
making a character like her marketable. And if you paid any attention to the reactions from the demo, people are liking Jessie a lot. So there's no reason she can't be used to get such attention from players and fans based on that. I'm just trying to get you to consider wanting to see more of characters besides Aerith and Tifa, that's all.
If you're aware of all the characters in the game, then give thought and attention to more than just the mains.
I think you might have to realize that for most people, the disparity doesn't register because Jessie is already getting promoted more than anyone would have expected. This is a character who has had zero mainstream attention since the game launched - even within her own franchise, which is famously self-referential (I think she literally just has an expy in FFXIV?) - and suddenly she's showing up in major tweets and almost all of the promotional materials. For most people, that's a lot of Jessie, and they're enjoying it, and so they just don't share your opinion that she's been short-changed somehow.
Major tweets? I can only remember three official tweets that she's been a part of, and in every single one she's been grouped with Biggs and Wedge. Not once has she been shown in an official tweet/post all by herself, something that focuses on her alone, unlike other NPC's. Even a random quest giver got an individual tweet. But she hasn't, and she's more important to the story than he is. Outside the trailers and demo, the trio have been virtually ignored for the most part. And never shown separately as individual characters with their own individual stories. Only ever as a group.
And I mean - Marlene hasn't gotten her own short, or render. Elmyra hasn't, Johnny hasn't, Rufus hasn't, most of the Shinra upper brass (Reeve, Scarlet, Palmer) haven't. In the original game, Jessie is only about as important as any of them (except Johnny). Which isn't a slight! I like those characters, and am excited to see them all portrayed and expanded on. But the point is that there are lots of secondary characters who are reasonably important who haven't gotten any focus either, and so people aren't really up in arms that Jessie - originally of similar importance - has gotten the spotlight that she has.
Fair enough, but SE did say in interviews that they specifically wanted to expand and develop the trio in particular. But the non-video marketing and promotion for them - what little there's been - hasn't matched up with that promise.
No, but, that's just it - that logic works for real people, but when it comes to marketing, the things that get marketed are the things that hype people up. Fictional characters can't get their feelings hurt by being ignored, and the main cast hypes people up more - it's that simple.
Except as I said, there's nothing wrong with SE
making a character like Jessie marketable. They could do tweets/posts/biovids teasing a bit of her expanded backstory, hinting at the possibility of her being a guest fighter like Red, give more official HD screenshots than just the single one she has. Same for Biggs and Wedge. Show a bit of what their expansion and development looks like. They said the trio is important to the story, but they've never been shown as individual characters.
During the interview video, they were only discussed as a group but not as separate characters with their own unique stories distinct from each other. And that's how they've always been treated in the promotion and marketing. Just once, I'd like to see SE have a tweet/post/biovid that's just about Jessie and her alone. Same for Biggs and Wedge. Give them all some
individual promotion as separate characters for once instead of always being lumped together.
Only other thing I will add is that there has been occasional speculation regarding what we may learn about the trio, going all the way back to when it was announced that they would have an expanded presence -- e.g. folks have wondered if we'll find out whether that one WRO chick in the train graveyard in "Dirge of Cerberus" was Wedge's sister or Biggs' sister.
Occasional speculation. But no more since more's been revealed about them? And what about the rest of what I asked about? Those things aren't noticed or talked about?
