So on the plus side, I have managed to rein my screenshots under control so that I could put a 10k word update into a single post instead of a split update.
On the other hand I also need to rein in the 10k words updates, god.
Omicron, i believe you can turn "All" on and off with either R1 or L1… one of the shoulder buttons.
how am i supposed to know that T_T i don't even know what the 'R1' and 'L1' buttons are on keyboard....
Did you remember to go collect the junky Materia that Scarlet threw away? I think it's a decent one.
To 'remember' that, I would have needed to know that it was a thing in the first place
There's no visual indicator that Scarlet is manipulating a Materia so I thought she was just looking at the ruins. Even knowing it's there now, I had to pixel-hunt for that thing.
I feel like Cloud's ignorance of his memory issues has to be wilful at this point. Like, this is not just him being oblivious, with as many issues as Cloud has had so far (especially including straight up having a hallucination at the Honey Bee inn that he just Does Not Acknowledge), Cloud is very definitely and deliberately Not Thinking About It.
Like, 'If I never look at my bank account, then everything is fine' or 'It doesn't mean anything I only play girls in video games' level of self-delusion.
Okay so first of all, rude, but second of all, absolutely.
I particularly like the scene in Remake where Cloud runs into a Shinra soldier who recognizes him as an old training buddy and calls him out by name. Cloud is visibly distressed by this recognition and immediately leaves the scene once the guy is gone, never acknowledging what happened to anyone around him. Our boy has basically two reactions whenever someone points out his cognitive dissonance; one is to have a vague headache and then just act like no one saw anything even if someone is directly asking him about it, and the other is "This is Sephiroth's fault somehow" and getting mad as a way of distracting himself from recognizing his mental issues.
It's very much "if I don't look at it it can't hurt me" behavior.
So...
Is now the time to bring up one of the dumbest and most immediately infuriating transliteration quibbles that the Reunion and a certain class of fan have with this game?
In Japanese, his name ends with a "su" katakana, meaning that strictly speaking the original name is "Zax" or, if you really prefer dumb shit, "Zacks". Reunion really pushes hard for Zax, obviously, but they get even more insistent on it by claiming it's some intentional etymology to an Old English word "seax", which became "zax", which refers to a kind of knife.
Once again, I'm really disappointed with the motivated reason and big stretches to claim deep, meaningful etymology on names chosen to sound cool or fit the setting.
See, this reminds me of the funniest decision Tim Rogers made in Let's Mosey, which is that faced with the choice of Aeris or Aerith, he went with, of all things,
Aeriス. That's right.
He ended her name on a katakana character.
Funniest man in video games.
Man, there's absolutely some small gremlin part of me giggling at the implications of this part where Aerith outright confirms Zack was her first boyfriend and Tifa implies she knew him as well, and how absolutely assmad this must have made a few Sweaty Gamer types back in the day.
Hope they make it a ten minute unskippable cutscene discussion in the Remakes.
Interestingly, Tim Rogers' take on Aerith's dialogue regarding Zack is that in Japanese, she is talking about
her feelings, rather than
their relationship, in a way where he thinks what she's describing is actually pining/unrequited love for a boy who either didn't return her feelings, or was unaware of them as she never confessed them.
Which does make me wonder which way the Remake version will lean. Personally I favor the ex-boyfriend thing just because it's an underused narrative device.
I think the problem is that it's a secret entrance. If they reveal that Seto's a hero then they have to also reveal what it was he was defending, and that means it's much more likely that another attacker will learn about the weak point. Historically, kids are shit about keeping secrets, especially secrets that make them look good.
Yeah, it sucks for Nanaki, but opsec matters.
Eeeh.
If it was opsec, people who protect the village need to know about it, yeah? As it stands, Bugenhagen is the only one who knows - Red's parents ask that "everyone forget about" the cave, Bugenhagen sealed it, and no one even seems to know the cave is there or where it leads to, not even Red, whose responsibility it was to help protect the village.
That actually makes the tunnel a crippling vulnerability.
