Lord Noctis
Harbinger of Darkness
- AKA
- Caius Ballad
All this talk in the 'Was The Compilation a Mistake' thread has gotten me to thinking about how the Compilations true potential could have been unleashed. So in this thread I will basicly express my opinion on what I would have liked to see for each respective entry with the exception of BC, since I know jack-all about it, and OTWTAS, since for the most part I think they were done rather well, at least in terms of plot.
So to start, lets begin with Last Order. For many of us, Last Order was the first indicator that the Compilation might not live up to our expectations. It was horribly inconsistent with the OG, and if you were'nt already familiar with FFVII then you weren't gonna understand a damn thing about it.
The way it should have been done is this. First it needed to be longer, lets say an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes. Now instead of leaping from past to present, lets just focus the first forty-five minutes on the Nibelheim incident. This would include Zack and Sephiroth's arrival, the journey to the reactor, Sephiroth's speech about the Cetra, the burning of Nibelhim, and the confrontation in the reactor. We would also want to keep the scene of Sephiroth walking into the flames.
Tifa's father would still die in the reactor, and we would maybe include a little spray of blood when Tifa gets sliced. Zack and Sephiroth's fight could go roughly the same, except we would have Zack land on the same pod as in the game, instead of crashing into the top row. Cloud and Sephiroth's confrontation should be changed back to what it was in the OG.
Now once all this happens we might have sort of a blurred series of images and scenes in the labs, showing Cloud and Zack being experimented on, before showing their escape. Following that we would skip to them being in the truck to Midgar, and show Zack's death as it was in the OG. We can include the dialogue that was in ACC and CC for this scene, but not the whole 'Zack ascends to heaven' thing we had going there. No J-pop either.
That is how Last Order should have been iny my opinion.
So to start, lets begin with Last Order. For many of us, Last Order was the first indicator that the Compilation might not live up to our expectations. It was horribly inconsistent with the OG, and if you were'nt already familiar with FFVII then you weren't gonna understand a damn thing about it.
The way it should have been done is this. First it needed to be longer, lets say an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes. Now instead of leaping from past to present, lets just focus the first forty-five minutes on the Nibelheim incident. This would include Zack and Sephiroth's arrival, the journey to the reactor, Sephiroth's speech about the Cetra, the burning of Nibelhim, and the confrontation in the reactor. We would also want to keep the scene of Sephiroth walking into the flames.
Tifa's father would still die in the reactor, and we would maybe include a little spray of blood when Tifa gets sliced. Zack and Sephiroth's fight could go roughly the same, except we would have Zack land on the same pod as in the game, instead of crashing into the top row. Cloud and Sephiroth's confrontation should be changed back to what it was in the OG.
Now once all this happens we might have sort of a blurred series of images and scenes in the labs, showing Cloud and Zack being experimented on, before showing their escape. Following that we would skip to them being in the truck to Midgar, and show Zack's death as it was in the OG. We can include the dialogue that was in ACC and CC for this scene, but not the whole 'Zack ascends to heaven' thing we had going there. No J-pop either.
That is how Last Order should have been iny my opinion.
