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Why?
Personal preference.
Psychotic prefers to get lost in the ladder maze?

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So a place where they study the planets life, and is full of people who want to save the planet has nothing to do with the game? The game which is about stopping Sephiroth killing the planet with a giant mothersmurfing meteor? Yep, you're so right, nothing to do with the game. It would have been much better for them to simply put Nanaki in the party with no discernible reason or motive. Heck, why would you be curious about this lion wolf hybrid that can talk?

Lets also not forget that Bugenhagen is completely irrelevant to the plot either, it not like he was helpful as to what they had to do to stop meteor, or they had any idea what to do with the key to the ancients or anything like that.

Oh, wait...

On a side note, if you don't want to be "forced" to do something in a game, don't play the game.
*snip* I already said I DON'T have a problem with Cosmo Canyon as a whole. I just don't like being forced into Nanaki's little sidestory as it has nothing to do with the rest of the game. At least Barret's story with Dyne goes to show how truly horrible ShinRa is (as if we didn't know) but then CC introduces us to the Gi? Why? Who the hell cares? It would have been a great optional quest if they had done it that way, but beyond the things you learn at the observatory, there was really no point to stay at Cosmo Canyon. Okay, I get it. Mako is Lifestream is vital to the Planet. Can I go now?