Big Mysteries of FF7 & More

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So here're a few things in Midgar I noticed:

#1. When Tifa joins the party, she leaves a 4-year-old in charge of her bar while she's out. This is the slums of Midgar! Some of them say how dangerous it is. I think the worst thing for a four-year-old to do is tend bar.

#2. Immediately before that scene, the gang "rest up for the night" (or something), and in less than 20 mins are at the reactor 5. Then Cloud crashes through the church and takes Aeris to her home. Her mother mentions it's too late (at night) to go to Wall Market and suggests staying the night! Cloud couldn't have been falling for more than 30 seconds and apparently wasn't unconscious for more than a few minutes. Yet it's apparently almost night only a few minutes from the previous morning!

#3. Cloud survives the fall. But he IS in SOLDIER....

#4. There is no number fo...... oh, wait, there is. When the gang get to the pillar after battling Aps, Cloud elects Aeris to help Wedge. Tifa then asks her to get Marlene to safety. I see two odd things about this:
      4.1: Why didn't Tifa just say to Cloud "I'll look after him, I have to get Marlene"
      4.2: Somehow, Aeris was able to get Marlene from the bar to her house AND get caught by Shinra by the time Cloud and Tifa join Barret at the top of the pillar. Maybe she has what it takes to be in SOLDIER after all. :D

*Crisis Core Spoiler!!*
#5. EX POST FACTO break here. Zack and Cloud fell from two completely different places about five years apart, yet both landed on the same spot (probably through the same hole). Aeris doesn't even mention this to Cloud. She doesn't find it odd that the guy she liked and probably had a crush on fell through the roof of the building she was in, then about five years later, some completely different guy WITH THE SAME MONSTROUS SWORD she last saw Zack with falls through the EXACT SAME HOLE and she doesn't say a word about Zack to Cloud?!!?
*End Spoiler!*

Gongaga releated

#6. You can completely pass Gongaga and not even know it's there. I did that on a recent playthrough. Really! I completely forgot it existed!

#7. If you DO go to Gongaga, Cloud states he believes there's a spy because the Turks were there before him. Did he forget about meeting them at the mythril caves?! Why didn't he think there was a spy then? The obvious "culprit" at that moment would have been Red XIII. Anyway, he then says "I trust everyone" despite Cait Sith being new (assuming you immediately came from Gold Saucer).

#7A. Vincent also has lines for this scene. So you can get him before this. I think this scene is available anytime before you get the Tiny Bronco. Cait Sith's line regardless reads thus:
{CAIT SITH}
“You don't think there's a spy,
   do you {CLOUD}?”
{NEW PAGE}
“I hate this.
   Now everyone's gonna blame me
   because I'm new.”
-taken from Loveless
If you have Vincent, he's no longer "the new guy" anymore.

Cosmo Canyon:

#8. Bugenhagen says Red XIII is 48 years old, his parents died when he was very young (we'll assume between 5 and 10 so he can remember the battle and come to the conclusion that his Father abandoned the tribe). Yet, now, of all times, Bugenhagen FINALLY decides to let him know what happened to his father?! Why didn't you tell him immediately after?!

#8A. Apparently Seto and Red's mother told Bugenhagen to seal the cave and not tell anyone what happened here. Huh?! Why not?!!?! Did they want their little cub to assume that daddy ran away instead of being killed/petrified in defense of the tribe?

#8Ai. How can Seto tell Bugenhagen to seal the cave if he's petrified?

#8B. He sheds tears (supposedly) at the end of the scene. Why did no one say: "HE'S ALIVE!!! QUICK! GET SOME SOFT AND CAST FULLCURE THAT'S SITTING AT THE BACK OF THE ITEM SHOP!!!"

#9. Red XIII is a big liar. Bugenhagen didn't "zip out"

#10. Some NPC says:
“Wh…who are you?
   You…can't just come barging
   into my home uninvited!!”
It never stopped them before or after. :)

Nibelheim:

#11. A little later in the game, but Shinra has some amazing recon records of Nibelheim. Enough to recreate Tifa's room with all her personal effects still in it! Piano, fine. But secret stashes of gil and materia? Nice attention to detail there!

#12. Zangan. Strange that he has 128 students in the world and we never meet any of them. Oh well.

Rocket Town

#13.
“Everyday‚ [the rocket] tilts a little bit more.”
Yet in the flash back, it shows that the rocket hasn't moved since it initially tilted. Not to mention the entry way to it looks pretty level.

#14. The rockets fired in the flashback. If Cid's to be believed, Shera should have flash-fried when that happened. Yet even after they make it into space later in the game, she was in that room (or close to it) when it took off.

#15. Why does Shinra want the Tiny Bronco anyway? It's not like they don't have air ships! I mean, it's called the TINY Bronco for a reason!

OK, I've officially wasted too much time on this. I've got to do other things. ;)
 
Does anyone know who Emperor Steele is talking about when he says the guy in the Costa Del Sol inn looks like someone?
 
Thanks for seconding the question I asked earlier that never got answered :-)

I'll see if I can find his NPC in Kimera...

EDIT: No luck.  Can't rely on Scorpicus's char tutorial and list for everything, I guess...

I did, however, find someone who thought that the innkeeper at Costa del Sol looked a bit like Zack.

Anyway, he can be seen in this vid at 3:25.  He looked a bit like Hojo to me... but Hojo's down at the beach scoring with the bikini chicks, so it can't possibly be him.
 
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I also got one! Notice Johnny, Tifa's friend that lives in the Sector 7 slums. Wow, he in unusually rich for someone to be living in the slums! He travels alot doesn't he? I mean, making it to the Honey Bee Inn, and then you spot him again living in a nice cabana out in Costa Del Sol with his mistress. WOW. What is his job to be spending alot of money on traveling and buying a nice house?! :lol:
 
Lol he happens to be wherever tifa is.

 "omg what are you doing here (i think its working!), yea i love your battlescarred look....extreme"
 
Battlescarred indeed... ever seen a kinky, slutty-looking bartender traveling around the world without ever changing her clothes and beating up everything that gets in her way?

And why does Cloud still wear his SOLDIER uniform while opposing Shinra?  As a runaway, wouldn't he be less noticeable in ordinary clothing?  Vincent dresses strangely as well.  If you saw a man in a dark red cape and long black hair wearing a golden clawed gauntlet, wouldn't it freak you out?

And what's up with the giant living stuffed toy and the talking canine creature following these people around?  Seriously, for fugitives, they're not inconspicuous at all.
 
Battlescarred indeed... ever seen a kinky, slutty-looking bartender traveling around the world without ever changing her clothes and beating up everything that gets in her way?

And why does Cloud still wear his SOLDIER uniform while opposing Shinra?  As a runaway, wouldn't he be less noticeable in ordinary clothing?  Vincent dresses strangely as well.  If you saw a man in a dark red cape and long black hair wearing a golden clawed gauntlet, wouldn't it freak you out?

And what's up with the giant living stuffed toy and the talking canine creature following these people around?  Seriously, for fugitives, they're not inconspicuous at all.
I would like to know how Red XIII managed to get away with dressed up like a sailor
 
It's also funny in the Corel flashback (the first one that Barret mentions) the dog is chasing the cat. Then, the kid is chasing the dog and cat. And then the cat and dog are chasing the kid!  :lol:
It starts at 8:53.
 
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I noticed that on my second playthrough :lol:

And you'd think that Heidegger's men would catch Red XIII going through, wouldn't you?  I suppose the Shinra Executives' stupidity is contagious.

By the way, after you defeat Palmer, he gets hit by a truck.  One would think that he dies, right?  It would be a good, Darwinian, satisfying end :evil:  Yet he survives.  He has dialogue while the rocket is taking off (the part of the game where you get a Huge Materia).
 
That's true! Palmer does have dialogue after he dies... he *does* die though, or get relinquished of his duties since towards the end of the game scarlet and heidegger mention that they're the only ones left in charge of shin-ra.
 
The Revenge of Palmer!  His ghost's voice is heard through a speaker inside the rocket saying "MWAHAHAA!!!  I owe you own for killing me, so I'm going to launch the rocket and blow you all to hell! :evil:"
 
And then he adds "With lotsa sugar and honey! Oh and don't forget the lard!"  :lol:
 
:lol:

Yeah, they made sure Palmer would be fat for a reason.  He's just disgusting...

Yet he's fit enough to jump about four feet into the air from a sitting position while at a conference in the Shinra Building.
 
Lol. And somehow "thin" enough to be hidden from Sephiroth during the demise of President Shinra.  :-o
 
Sephiroth would've let him live as a witness anyway, so that Cloud would know that it was indeed him who slaughtered all of the Shinra personnel and that he is still alive.
 
I also find it weird and odd that no one seems to be annoyed by Bugenhagen's "Ho Ho Hooooo!" line that he uses all the time!  :lol:
 
Someone ought to do a Christmas spoof using Loveless.

"Ho ho hooooo!!  Merry Christmas!!!  Cloud!  You've been a BAD BOY this year!!  You killed... *checks list* ... 3,426 people while power-leveling to get Fire3 in Midgar!!  No presents for you this year!  Ho ho hoooo!"

And let's see... Tifa gets boob reducers, Aerith gets life insurance (100,000 gil at the end of Disk 1), Red XIII gets a chew toy, Barret gets nothing 'cause he's a terrorist, Yuffie gets the Super Nova materia, Cait Sith gets a new litter box, and if you revisit Cosmo Canyon later on, Cid gets nicotine patches and Vincent gets a new Halloween costume.
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By the way... HOW did Rufus transport that enormous Sister Ray from Junon to Midgar?  Did he hire Dio to carry it on his shoulders?
 
:lol:
And just why did the Shinra needed HUGE material in the first visit to Gongaga?  Yes, to build an ultimate weapon but why would they want that? They were already the leading organization at the time.  :-o
 
Because Scarlet is excessively power-hungry for no reason.  Like Kefka.
 
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