(06-16-2015, 12:43 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote:I don't deny the main purpose of CC was to draw in money. What confuses me is why people assume CC was just thrown in for money because in actuality they tied it in well with the original VII. Its not perfect but its good enough. Nothing in the lore was drastically altered since the original VII had a deal of vagueness anyway.(06-16-2015, 12:35 PM)Aaron Wrote:(06-16-2015, 12:29 PM)Gegenji Wrote:This is where you're missing the entire point.(06-16-2015, 12:23 PM)Aaron Wrote: That was before Cloud threw him in the reactor. That was the turning point.Â
If Genesis never existed (taking into account the games timeline not the way they were implemented IRL). Sephiroth most likely wouldn't have went all "Mother I will bring us to the promised land"
Except he wasn't there in the original and it still happened. The only people at the Nibelheim reactor were Sephiroth, Cloud, Zack, and Tifa. There was another nameless grunt, but he died when the bridge collapsed. Sephiroth jumped to the conclusion - albeit correctly - that he might be like the monstrosities in the capsules on his own. He didn't need a Gackt insert to lay it all out for him and somehow know all about Hojo's dirty secret.
From Genesis wiki
"His words, combined with what Sephiroth learns about his origins in the Shinra Manor, spark his descent into madness, and he burns Nibelheim to the ground and is seemingly killed by Cloud within the reactor."
Genesis /led/ sephiroth to read those notes and all that in VII
SE didn't just ADD him for no reason. They made him the catalyst for Sephiroths decent into madness.
CC ties in perfectly with VII. And as I said. Genesis was the real reason Sephiroth went mad.
I mean you could remake Romeo and Juliet, and add a new character makes the two fall in love. Like some person who just talks about how great Juliet is to Romeo. But you don't need to because the story already makes sense.
The story in FFVII already made sense.
You can argue that maybe it makes /more/ sense now, but in the years leading up to crisis core, people were never going 'WHY DID HE READ THE NOTES'
'WHY, OH WHY'
'CLEARLY WE NEED A J-ROCK SINGER TO BE ADDED TO THE STORY TO EXPLAIN THIS INCONSISTENCY'
And good things came out of it. Got to know Zack as more than just that "black haired dude in my mind", got to see how Sephiroth was before he went crazy. Got more of Cloud and Aeris before all hell went through and so on and so on.
Also I liked Genesis as a character but it seems that I'm alone in that regard.
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