You could see some minor brightness in the trial version, but it's not very noticeable. They just made it more noticeable in the final version. It hurts my head that they did all that work but never bothered changing the models of Zell and Rinoa in the vessel, and not to mention thier shadows before the FMV.

I really don't think SquareSoft did this just to emphasise the result of X-ATM092 being damaged. It has to be something else. Square is known for humor at certain times, and perhaps, this is one of thier moments. Showing us Zell, instead of Squall!