Dat shitty translation

Wow, even the zanny fan theories about this game are boring as sin.

Its just a theory

A GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYME THEORY

Cloud grew up in Nibelhiem and then decided to join SOLDIER as a young adult. He spent an unspecified amount of time in the army, but he returned to Nibelhiem during his first field job, along with Sephiroth and Zack, and was involved in the Nibelhiem incident. He got impaled, he got dropped into a vat of Mako, and he pretty much lost his memory due to the acute poisoning and shock. He doesn't know anyone in Midgar except Tifa and AVALANCHE, and he doesn't recognize Tifa at first, he only vaguely remembers her. Most members of Shinra wouldn't associate with a wanted group of fringe "extremists" that go around making statements with gunpowder and lead, meaning there's no one from the army who'd recognize him either.

Everything else you've pointed out is pretty much true. So what? Game's not perfect, but that's what gives it its charm.
No, you nigger. You level up your current Materia until it hits the max and then it'll spawn itself. In addition, if you just explore, you'll find more than enough Materia to get you through the game.

If true Rinoa would be a 10/10 villain and the VIII would rise through the ranks as a game.
Though my favorite villains are the meme villains from VI and VII.

Lots of reading.

I'd pay for a Beth style RPG in Midgar, other than that Final Fantasy VII has a cool soundtrack with a few nice tunes and loads of nostalgia.

Final Fantasy was never good but you could enjoy it I wouldn't mind seeing a good western JRPG with good western writing, story and detailed world building and a whacky JRPG setting, D&D combat as well, I'm not big on Baldur's Gate but I like that the combat scales well between hard battles and easy battles.

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I can understand where he's coming from.

The bethesda style is good at letting you fuck about and meander around in a world. So if the setting itself is interesting, good, and something you like, it could be fun.

Obviously not touched by Beth, or Square-Enix


It would be baller as all fuck. Midgar was the best part of FFVII.

Fucker, if you think FFVIII is anything but bad, then you will never enjoy a decent RPG. Just stop.