Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
wait what the smurf that was an ACTUAL THING
Yes, in the early drafts, there were clones of Red XIII, and they were meant to reappear a few times over the course of the story in a subplot that got cut in the original drafts. In fact, according to the FF Wiki, the clones were actually named that, so perhaps they just restored the subplot. Honestly, the early drafts of VII are pretty weird. Sakaguchi's idea for the game made the game sound more like Parasite Eve, Aerith and Sephiroth went back and forth between being either siblings (which is why they bear a slight resemblance) or lovers (Sephy would have been Aerith's missing boyfriend instead of Zack who didn't exist until later draft Nojima did), and Jenova was originally conceived to be just a certain gene within the brain the Cetra figured out how to harness to give them magical powers at the cost of their sanity... which isn't far from the little details given about how Magitek Knights were made in VI or what happened to Melissa Pierce in Parasite Eve.

Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
Anyway, if these rumors are true, then I may actually start getting a little bit more interested in this remake.

Still, splitting it like that is still a really bad deal, IMO. Even with what’s on disc 3, the second disc of FFVII is much more lacking, both in the quality and in the amount of content compared to disc 1. They’d really need to work pretty hard to justify having both be priced like that.
Eh, content wise, I feel they would be roughly the same if we're merging Disc 2 and 3. Especially if the side quests remain, then the second part should be about the same. Though I really hope they do a better job justifying the Big Materia quest, assuming they don't just go completely off rails and rewrite the entire second act.