Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
I didn't really care about how forced Lightning's drama cutscene was because I felt it was one of the best cutscenes in the game, and it's not like forced situations aren't common (and in VI's opera scene, highly regarded by the masses) to Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy is the Queen of Forced Situations (Uncharted is King).
Yeah I get that, but even on the scale of how forced things were this was another level. Like it's FFX-2 and we want Yuna to sing a Thousand Words. There's a lot of fighting in the world... so let's hold a concert to make everyone unite over a shared experience and be friends! Cool, okay, that is a little bit lame but I can understand the logic behind this. I need to get Snow.... I must wear this dress and fly around while fireworks go off and that'll mean I can get inside because explosions! ...huh? I wasn't even quite sure why I was doing it or how it was linked. So forcedness isn't necessarily bad, but to clarify my point I think they could've come up with a slightly better reason that made a little more sense. The cutscene itself was alright. I'd heard a lot about this beforehand and I don't think it lived up to its reputation.
Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post

I didn't say I disliked Snow's development but that I felt it was a shame, because I miss the ol' goofy Snow. Sure, sometimes that kind of character development is good, but it's still a shame that he found himself in such a situation.
Did you not hear the stuff he was spouting once Lightning brought him back? Haha, full on goofy Snow. He has about 6 or 7 lines when you talk to him as an NPC too.
Quote Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
The Coliseum is no problem for me. Cloud needed to fight in the Battle Square, too.
I'm not going to make the argument that they should be more original and not copy things from older games as most ideas have been done to death. That said, as BoB pointed out, the FFVII Arena was a lot better because of the handicaps, the non-stop battles, and because it was a different type of gameplay as you played as just Cloud (as opposed to the whole party) although I appreciate that wouldn't make a difference in LR. To copy things from a 17 year old game is not imaginative but whatever, fine, but to do it to a lower standard is just sloppy.