Koibito Discussion, From the 3rd page :D

I think people worded it their own way. Cuz I own the Euro manual and the NA manual and they never say that. Now I gotta go make sure.

A video would be far better if you have the stuff to make one. If nothing else, you can tell everyone exactly what you do to get those results so it can be repeated.

Well, if she's saying "I've always been with you" and he says "I mean something different," then clearly he's talking about her being with him in a way that's different from before.

Of course, you can take that to mean different things. As you said, you take it to just mean that they've transitioned from allies in battle to close friends. My understanding is that they were close friends before that moment, so I'm just taking the conclusion I feel is implied by that and related circumstances throughout the Compilation.

Because that's the version most people are familiar with, since it's easier to get.

It's not like the Yuffie or Barret dates are particularly easy to get either, though.

I get that. I feel that there's a more plausible interpretation (one that doesn't call for an unidentified exchange of words), but I'm not discounting the possibility of others.

I'd prefer to say "interpreting" rather than "assuming." The latter implies you've made up your mind before you watch it.

To me, there's only one way to read a scene like that, but I'm approaching it from a cinematic school of thought.

Then why are Tidus and Yuna considered the couple of FFX? I haven't seen the chart for FFX ...

Wait, what? You haven't seen it and don't know what it says, but you're asking me why it says something that you don't know it says?

I haven't seen it either, so I don't know -- but this much I do know: The chart for FFIX in the 20th Anniversary Ultimania doesn't identify either of the game's main couples as being couples. Not Dagger and Zidane, not Beatrix and Steiner.

For Dagger and Zidane, it just says "important existence" ("taisetsu na sonzai") running from both to the other. For Beatrix and Steiner, it says they're rivals.

Here's the chart for reference:

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/1657/ffixchart.png

FFVI's chart, on the other hand, has what looks like a "likes" line running from Celes to Locke, and from Locke to Celes. Hard to tell in the scan for it we've seen online, but that's probably it.

Well, for the bit where we see him alive, yes. XD

Well, the same description running between Celes and Locke runs from Eiko to Zidane.

But it's in response to "I've always been with you" that he says he means something different.

Pretty much the whole game.

They've constantly been called "childhood friends" in every official capacity known. Yes, they weren't friends at the well, and Tifa even said they weren't all that close, but it's not like Cloud left the day after they made their promise at the well.

Is it really that hard to imagine that they talked again sometime between that night and when he left?

Even if you discount their childhoods, you would still have to say they were friends prior to the Lifestream sequence -- the same way that Yuffie was Aerith's friend, or Barret was Cid's, or Red XIII was Cid's.

They weren't traveling around all that time thinking they were friends and acting like they were friends while somehow actually being less of friends to one another than the people on the team who had just met each other.

That's fine. I'm not saying that it's as straightforward as "Let's go make little blondes and brunettes."

You said he left because of what she said -- or, at least, that his leaving was a sign that he was lying with his smile.

He built Seventh Heaven. He could have built something a little more luxurious at the church.

One person's feelings don't reflect another's. You've never seen someone get jealous when their boyfriend or girlfriend was hanging out with someone? Even though the boyfriend or girlfriend had no romantic interest in their friend?

The fact that people who speak the same languages misunderstand each other every day tells me that you need more than that. Communication is not perfect.

In any case, she also said she considers Cloud and Tifa together (in that way) post-FFVII, so if you take one conclusion she offered, you have to take the other.

Pg. 41 of the Ultimania Omega says most of his fortunes are innacurate and calls his fortune telling abilities "dubious." For that matter, how much stock are we really going to put in the fortune telling abilities of a fake cat who was controlled by a guy working for the enemy -- who himself has never made any kind of predictions?

The prediction about a wedding that never happened?

Also your save files are in whatever folder FFVII is in (usually Program Files) and in the folder "saves." You just upload whatever is in there to post your saves.

What is this then?

and i'm not trying to be rude, I really don't know what that's about.

The wedding of Cloud/Aerith that never happened was based off a fortune saying how wonderfully compatible they both are for each other. That's why Cait Sith said he'll help arrange a marriage for them.And to me they still are just as compatible.

Also, you mean to tell me, his predictions like for example, "you will lose something dear" rings no truth as it is a straight foreshadow of events to come?? Even one of these accurate predictions open a way of thinking that his fortunes can be true.

I think that was foreshadowing on the author's part. But I don't think Cait Sith -- which is to say Reeve, because that's who it really was -- knew a thing about it. He even said he didn't know if the prediction was good or bad.

You're not forgetting the two completely useless predictions that preceded it, though, right?:

Also, something I forgot to say earlier:

In addition to "The prediction about a wedding that never happened?" I'd like to add that Cloud and Tifa being childhood friends has appeared in far more than three official sources. And Cloud being happy at Seventh Heaven has come from several as well.

Why aren't those accepted? It's not like those suggestions are any more at odds with what's shown to us than the predictions of a man in a business suit spying on the team while talking to them through an animatronic cat.