SPOILERS So let's say that [spoiler] was really alive...

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Well, I would argue that it's less compelling than it used to be precisely because the creators have established that the Planet can have whatever powers the plot requires, and yet, when the plot requires it, the Planet is unable to draw on those powers.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

That's more than fair.

 

[Roundhouse]

I get the sense that we're going to see Zack going through hell this time. (Well, even more so than in Crisis Core.) Just imagine his reaction to seeing Cloud attacking Aerith and giving the black materia to Seph....or the Aerith death scene, assuming it happens. The biggest challenge is how to use him without overshadowing Cloud, I think.

 

[Roundhouse]

Zack tracking Cloud and co without catching up until later is a good way to include him, I must say. I'd like him to have his own party members though, like Cissnei and Kunsel.

 

[Thenir]

But how could he be in their same timeline?

 

[Roundhouse]

That is the very thing people have been debating for ages, haha. In fact you can see some of that discussion in this very thread! Honestly I have no idea what is going on with Zack, but at some point I do think he will somehow cross over to where Cloud and co are.

 

[Tetsujin]

But how could he be in their same timeline?

Pulled there by some kind of time rift left behind by the singularity. Or something.

 

[KindOfBlue]

 

[Thenir]

That is the very thing people have been debating for ages, haha. In fact you can see some of that discussion in this very thread! Honestly I have no idea what is going on with Zack, but at some point I do think he will somehow cross over to where Cloud and co are.

Yeah, I'm rather new in this forum but I'm sure it has been discussed to death here too! Agree, I think as well the aim is to have him involved in the main story with Cloud. But still I can't quite see how they could coexist in the same universe/timeline/whatever as his survival automatically excludes the existence of SOLDIER-Cloud.

The power of fanservice?

I fear this more than anything else.

 

[Roundhouse]

I feel like they really do want to go into an Avengers route where the whole compilation comes to a head in remake...and Zack fighting alongside Cloud seems way too big to resist.

 

[KindOfBlue]

Yeah if this really is the end of the Compilation then it’s inevitable that there will be fanservice, whether or not that comes at the expense of the story is to be determined but given the amount of attention to detail in Remake, it seems they have a genuine vision for the story despite what some of those who responded negatively to it seem to believe