I argue a bit about the orphanage foreshadowing as I find some of the hints I noticed, may have hinted towards it but perhaps I may be trying to rationalize a story element into the game for the sake of fulfilling my need for clarity when reality I'm taking a situation and placing it grossly out of context to suit my own selfish needs. A prime example is Irvine not willing to take the shot at the parade. It sounds like a hint when you place the Orphanage twist in there but I feel there are too many logical errors for this to count when you really begin to analyze the dialogue and scene.

If we are talking about good foreshadowing in the FF series, I would probably suggest Cloud's mental illness. Why? Because the game makes it very clear something is wrong with Cloud but we don't know what it is, the game gives us hints but they are all out of context so we never understand there significance but it all makes perfect sense afterwards. The only issue lies in the "clone" terminology" and the logical error of Tifa's reasoning.

In regards to the Orphanage scene or Ultimecia in VIII or Dream Zanarkand in X I feel the presentation is very weak. In fact the plot element only works in this titles when you play it a second time through and even then I feel the foreshadowing suffers from poor execution, terrible pacing, and all of them being utterly ridiculous. This is just my :twocents: though.