To this day, I wonder how there wasn't some public outcry from nongamers because of the Honeybee Inn scene alone. Also the swearing. Sure, they edited the REALLY bad word, but I remember it being surreal to see s*** unedited. One of my friend's mom played RPGs, and I was worried she wouldn't enjoy FFVII when it came out because she REALLY didn't like swearing. I know a lot of the more risque stuff in FFVII seems tame these days, but seeing heavy swearing and weird Japanese stuff was fairly uncommon in the mainstream back then, and FFVII was awfully huge when it was released.

Anyway, good article, shion! I never got the date with Barret, so it was amusing to see what happens (yes, I looked up a video of it ages ago, but I have forgotten since then)!