Quote Originally Posted by silentenigma View Post
I might take your word for it if you give that literal translation. There's no way that "They share their feelings" is the entire statement (it looks like only half), and if it was, it's still not clear that the feelings are mutual.
In that singular quote it's not clear, but in all the other quotes, it either says they are or uses phrases with the same idiomatic tone as 'feelings for each other' has in english.

Tifa "Cloud...? Do you think the stars can hear us? Do you think they see how hard we're fighting for them?"
Cloud "I dunno... But..."
"Whether they can or not, we still have to do what we can. And believe in ourselves..."
"I'll find the answer some day, as long as I keep trying."

Especially considering the contrast between that and the corresponding lines in the high version, I don't know how it could be more plain.
Now who's reading too much into things? He doesn't say he wants to do it alone. He just says he has to keep trying. And either way, he wants Tifa to be with him 'from then on' 'in a different way than before' in the start of CoT.

Hello again, Ryushikaze. I'll just refer you to my most recent response (post #125)
Basically I'm still skeptical about the memorial albums as being more than just a record of one possible playthough in order to get screenshots of the entire game.
You can be skeptical all you want, but they released it twice with the same information.
And really, you don't like new materials, but they do count, so the UO and U20 count.

Not a bond of romance? In the section that specifically addresses Aerith as a "love rival?" what kind of "special bond", other than a romantic one, would stir such "complex emotions" (jealousy) within Tifa as a "love rival?" Once again, it's very plain. Tifa would have no reason to harbor jealousy for Aerith if she had a mutual romantic bond to Cloud. She's frustrated that it is Aerith, instead of her, who has that "special bond" with Cloud.
Cloud is oblivious to any feelings Aerith has. ALSO from the U10. So no, there was no romantic bond. You have to be aware of the other peson's feelings to have a romantic bond.

Then in AC her old jealous feelings are reawakened when she finds that Cloud is living at the church, for she gets the impression that he's drawn there for more reasons than just his guilt ("dragging the past around").
Uh, 'his guilt' IS dragging the past around. 'I failed people, I'll fail more people, I suck' is the basic idea of Cloud in AC/C. His guilt is what he's dragging, what she comments on him dragging around, and that's what he drags so much he wears it down, like he comments on later in the film.