Side note, I know everyone is so excited about the Ultimania, but is this the same Ben Sabin who does the translations for Remake and Rebirth?
He did a long lecture about how game companies should explicitly embrace sex scenes and not cop out with fade to black? Somehow that makes me laugh a lot thinking the translator of the games might somehow also subject Nojima/Nomura to a big powerpoint deck on why under the Highwind needs to be explicit for a good half an hour. I'm genuinely laughing about how passionate this dude is.
I'm watching a few streamers that are going in first time blind, and they've heard about the epic love triangle and cos their chat constantly harasses them and comments are along the lines of:
"I thought at this point of the game they'd push the love triangle more but it seems more of just Tifa" - this is from a player called Welonz who just left Corel
"You can't tell me he doesn't love her" - About Tifa in Gongaga from a player called Kastaclysm
"He keeps looking at her lips!" - About Tifa in Gongaga too, from a player called Julia'sTv
The men who are new and are playing the game seem pretty...awful about the LTD so far.
"She's like a home wrecker" - This is Supertf about Aerith
"Tifa come get yo man from Aerith - she making the moves on your man" - This was someone watching the dream date in I'm dontai's stream
It's kind of a weird, out of body experience to me to think the love triangle has been surviving as long as it has, and that I see as CT/CA as being equal in terms of story, screentime and fanservice when new players have the above impressions