(06-21-2015, 10:56 AM)Kellach Woods Wrote: The problem is that the translation didn't get that across - It tried way too hard to be serious, when if he was a dork, it should have shown that more.
Just a better translation (and script kinda) will fix the game tremendously in my eyes.
Naw, it's far more likely we'll get more of compilation Cloud, rather than the original direction of the character. There will be brooding and expressionlessness. All of his dorkiness will be lost in time.
(06-21-2015, 07:05 PM)Meena Wrote:(06-21-2015, 01:55 PM)Caspar Wrote: I've heard a lot of people say Cloud was a socially-isolated dork who wanted to be special, and got over it, and Sephiroth had the same problem (due to being raised like a weapon) who felt he was special and never got over it, and I think that's a pretty apt comparison.Well no, Cloud throughout the whole game is having an identity crisis. He thinks he is someone else, he thinks he is a man named Zack (but with his own name). He is a little confused on the whole thing due to the maco poisoning.
Crisis Core explains a lot of his
Sort of but not? I mean, yeah, it was an identity crisis, and he did totally take most of his image of a Soldier from Zack and fill himself into Zack's role in the events of the story, but he didn't actually think he was Zack. He'd forgotten all about Zack. His memories of childhood were pretty complete, it was just everything about his return to Nibelheim he'd skewed in his head.
His personality was a mix of his own and Zack's and his own (mostly incorrect) idea of how an elite Soldier would act. But he didn't actually think he was Zack. he just thought he did the things Zack did in Nibelheim.
Each man longs to pursue his dream. Each man is tortured by this dream, but the dream gives meaning to his life. Even if the dream ruins his life, man cannot allow himself to leave it behind. In this world, is man ever able to possess anything more solid, than a dream?
-Berserk
