Quote Originally Posted by silentenigma View Post
A few things come to mind that seemed to give Aeris an slight edge in the game... like the ending and the fact that Aeris starts out with 20 more love points than Tifa in the dating mechanics.
Which reflects on Aerith, not Cloud, since the AV decides who takes action.

I'm pretty sure in his article SoS does address these points. Also with the highwind scene at the end of Disk 2... since there is a high affection version and a low affection version for Tifa, i don't really consider either of them as canon or very indicative of Cloud's 'true' love interest.
The 'high' version only was listed an an important scene in the story of FF7 in the 20th Ani Ultimania Scenario book. It is canon.

But I'm sure that in 10 pages everyone's already brought up all of that stuff... I'm not going to bother reading it all.

And about the compilation being full of retcons and ruining the integrity of the original... That's for an entirely different discussion, but it's true.
Horribly overstated. There are a few retcons, but hardly as many as people keep whinging about.

And I say that in a general sense; there's not to my knowledge any retcons in the compilation that completely 'undo' the cloudxaeris moments of the game.
Which are?