__Xzyx987X said:
Wrong, but based on the complexity of the story of FF7 (with several important plot points in hidden scenes), not to mention the bad traslation, I can see why you might get that idea. Actually Cloud was always just Cloud; the same Cloud that grew up in Nibelheim and the same Cloud he always believed he was. But as a result of experiments done to him in the Shinra mansion after he killed the original Sephiroth, he got seriously messed up by being injected with Jenova cells. That's why Sephiroth's clones were able to control him as a puppet later and why his memory was so muddled.
Right, but the point is, the personality of Cloud that they all know (except Tifa, who knew him as a child) is really Zack's. The Nibelheim incident, combined with the experimentation and Cloud's own mental weaknesses gave rise to him believing a false past, where he accepts parts of Zack's life as his own. His sword, his hair style, even the way he talks and his body language are all truly Zack's, not his own.
ChankastRules said:
It's not exactly common to main characters, that you control in the party to die, in J-rpgs!
I don't know why people always say this. In the Final Fantasy series itself death amongst main characters was already pretty common. Final Fantasy IV is a playable character death-fest. FF6 had even more death in general, but not so much the playable characters
As for the initial question, I always choose Tifa. It's not about her looks, I just like Tifa's personality alot more... although she could have made Cloud's life alot easier if she had told him how she remembered Nibelheim alot sooner, before Sephiroth could **** with him and make him question his existence. Plus Cloud and Tifa have the whole history and everything... Aeris just annoys me. I must be one of the 1% who was pretty much unmoved when she died.