Quote Originally Posted by Omecle View Post

To be honest, the most you see in FFVII of the flash back is what Cloud tries to remember and I wouldn't exactly say a random flashback would fully explore what Zack and Cloud went through.

I don't think that just because they introduced Genesis into the story, that it gives it continuity errors -- it still flows very well into the original FFVII game. It's just that there is no one in FFVII to mention Genesis apart from Shirna and the Turks, which you don't really interact with enough anyway.
The reason no one mentions it in VII is cause when the game was made it never happened. Besides, I don't care how good Shin-Ra is on covering things up. (SPOILER)A massive desertion in SOLDIER, a town wiped off the face of Gaia and it wasn't rebuilt like Nibelheim, two major attacks on Midgar and the Shin-Ra building itself, an attack at Costa Del Sol and Junon and no one mentions it? Genesis' actions were too extreme (don't get me started on AVALANCHE in Before Crisis...) for people not to remember something!? Had he been more discreet and low key, I can see Shin-Ra completely covering it up like they did Nibelheim. What happened in Crisis Core was too much for no one to remember.

I think it's quite decent that it still manages to go through what happened that stays true to the original, and still manages to add on the Genesis layer of the story. So what if there's tiny differences of what exactly happened? As I said, we only see what Cloud remembers (and as far as he's concerned, he probably didn't know he was going because of Genesis).
(SPOILER)Genesis' appearance at Nibelheim was completely unnecessary. Its only purpose was to try to hammer in the fact that he is now part of the story. That scene is incredibly important and just "adding him into it" cheapens the experieice cause it served no purpose storywise. Up until that point, I didn't mind Genesis but having him show up during one of the most critical scenes in the VII mythos just so you can say he was there shows me that the people working on the Compilation has no respect for the original source material. In fact the entire Compilation has been one giant slap to the face to VII. They have no respect for continuity and feel they can change things at whim to suit their own purposes.

I feel the point of the Compilation is not to expand on the VII world but to cash in on a popular franchise. CC proves that as long as you slap the VII moniker on it, you can do as you please and fanboys will treat it like gold The fact that the fanbase is okay with this just makes me sad.

The technological differences could be due to a number of things (like Shinra funding and stuff). It seriously isn't that big of a deal, still fairly similar.
Thats a lousy answer and the game offers no in-game solution. You can build holgram technology that can actually take real physical form (SPOILER)(enough for a hologram of Sephiroth to slice through Zack's sword) but you have to use early 60's technology to build a rocket just so you can get into orbit? WTF!? Granted their two different sciences but the hologram tech seems to me to be light years away from most of the technology shown within the game.

Quote Originally Posted by Dragonsoul View Post
Gargh! Is there anybody that doesn't love this game?!
Me :mog:

Its not a terrible game and it does have some truly beatiful moments in its story and gameplay (though they are few and far between) but overall I felt it was just mediocre and for the most part a disappointment. It could have been amazing...