Playground Date

[Mercen-X]

You need to bump that number by about a hundred years.

Did they include Gongaga in Crisis Core? I don't remember and I can't replay it 'cause my portable's busted.

[Sephex]

You need to bump that number by about a hundred years.

Did they include Gongaga in Crisis Core? I don't remember and I can't replay it 'cause my portable's busted.

Yes, but he didn't go see his parents. Of course, this makes sense because they did note that they didn't see him for several years.

[Jiro]

What a trout son to be in that small town and avoid his folks (I know the town was bigger before it went kaboom but no idea how big)

[Skyblade]

Dumb question here: How long was it in between Cloud being left at the outskirts of Midgar and him hooking up with Tifa and joining Avalanche? Was it more or less the first thing he went to do or did he wander around the city some?

To me, it seemed like it was maybe a couple of hours because Cloud was still out of it until Tifa spotted him and snapped him out of it. Then boom--Cloud started to play SOLDIER in his mind.

Cloud seemed to have been found by Tifa very shortly after the death of Zack, which was several years before FFVII. He made it to Midgar, though he was still very out of it from the trauma of the events of Nibelheim, and Tifa nursed him back. That is the impression the game gives.

He seems to have spent a couple years hanging around Midgar, but didn't actually join up with Avalanche until the reactor mission, which is why Barret didn't know him yet.

Likely he was picking up Zack's job of being a jack-of-all-trades, helping out people with odd jobs around the slums.

Which also means that, had Aeris mentioned Zack, it would have been little different than Zack's parents mentioning him. His memory had already solidly blocked that out.

[VeloZer0]

If the game does it actually say when Zack died? From the timeline that the game gives it would seem that Cloud and Zack spent quite a bit of time (years) as Hojo's research subjects.

So from Cloud's point of view there wasn't much of anything between the events of Nibelheim and the beginning of the game.

At least that is the way that I read it.

[Flying Arrow]

This is all from memory, but:

Cloud's more or less a teenager during the Nibelheim incident, right? 17, unless I'm mistaken. And all the media for the game (instruction booklets, etc) say that he is currently 21.

So, yeah, either he spent a good, long time in Hojo's lab, wandered around Midgar for a few years, or a mix of both.

[Tigmafuzz]

Basically, yeah. When he tells the party the story about Sephiroth, he says he was 16, and that it was five years ago. And then he doesn't remember anything until the point Tifa found him, I think.

[Jiro]

They spend a couple years in the tubes with Hojo as I recall. I guess I'll have to look into it when I get that far.

[Flying Arrow]

Likely he was picking up Zack's job of being a jack-of-all-trades, helping out people with odd jobs around the slums.

So Cloud was a WRPG hero before he became a JRPG hero.

[Jiro]

Killin' rats n' trout.

[VeloZer0]

Oh great, now we know what the next spin off is going to be.

[Bubba]

Killin' rats n' tit.

Oh great, now we know what the next spin off is going to be.

Final Fantasy VII: Rodent Crisis Core

[Sephex]

"But my sword isn't big enough for rat killing!" ~ Cloud

[Jiro]

He will be so happy when he moves up to fixing windows for little old ladies.