So here're a few things in Midgar I noticed:
#1. When Tifa joins the party, she leaves a 4-year-old in charge of her bar while she's out. This is the slums of Midgar! Some of them say how dangerous it is. I think the worst thing for a four-year-old to do is tend bar.
#2. Immediately before that scene, the gang "rest up for the night" (or something), and in less than 20 mins are at the reactor 5. Then Cloud crashes through the church and takes Aeris to her home. Her mother mentions it's too late (at night) to go to Wall Market and suggests staying the night! Cloud couldn't have been falling for more than 30 seconds and apparently wasn't unconscious for more than a few minutes. Yet it's apparently almost night only a few minutes from the previous morning!
#3. Cloud survives the fall. But he IS in SOLDIER....
#4. There is no number fo...... oh, wait, there is. When the gang get to the pillar after battling Aps, Cloud elects Aeris to help Wedge. Tifa then asks her to get Marlene to safety. I see two odd things about this:
4.1: Why didn't Tifa just say to Cloud "I'll look after him, I have to get Marlene"
4.2: Somehow, Aeris was able to get Marlene from the bar to her house AND get caught by Shinra by the time Cloud and Tifa join Barret at the top of the pillar. Maybe she has what it takes to be in SOLDIER after all.
*Crisis Core Spoiler!!*#5. EX POST FACTO break here. Zack and Cloud fell from two completely different places about five years apart, yet both landed on the same spot (probably through the same hole). Aeris doesn't even mention this to Cloud. She doesn't find it odd that the guy she liked and probably had a crush on fell through the roof of the building she was in, then about five years later, some completely different guy WITH THE SAME MONSTROUS SWORD she last saw Zack with falls through the EXACT SAME HOLE and she doesn't say a word about Zack to Cloud?!!?
*End Spoiler!*Gongaga releated
#6. You can completely pass Gongaga and not even know it's there. I did that on a recent playthrough. Really! I completely forgot it existed!
#7. If you DO go to Gongaga, Cloud states he believes there's a spy because the Turks were there before him. Did he forget about meeting them at the mythril caves?! Why didn't he think there was a spy then? The obvious "culprit" at that moment would have been Red XIII. Anyway, he then says "I trust everyone" despite Cait Sith being new (assuming you immediately came from Gold Saucer).
#7A. Vincent also has lines for this scene. So you can get him before this. I think this scene is available anytime before you get the Tiny Bronco. Cait Sith's line regardless reads thus:
{CAIT SITH}
“You don't think there's a spy,
do you {CLOUD}?â€
{NEW PAGE}
“I hate this.
Now everyone's gonna blame me
because I'm new.â€
-taken from Loveless
If you have Vincent, he's no longer "the new guy" anymore.
Cosmo Canyon:
#8. Bugenhagen says Red XIII is 48 years old, his parents died when he was very young (we'll assume between 5 and 10 so he can remember the battle and come to the conclusion that his Father abandoned the tribe). Yet, now, of all times, Bugenhagen FINALLY decides to let him know what happened to his father?! Why didn't you tell him immediately after?!
#8A. Apparently Seto and Red's mother told Bugenhagen to seal the cave and not tell anyone what happened here. Huh?! Why not?!!?! Did they want their little cub to assume that daddy ran away instead of being killed/petrified in defense of the tribe?
#8Ai. How can Seto tell Bugenhagen to seal the cave if he's petrified?
#8B. He sheds tears (supposedly) at the end of the scene. Why did no one say: "HE'S ALIVE!!! QUICK! GET SOME SOFT AND CAST FULLCURE THAT'S SITTING AT THE BACK OF THE ITEM SHOP!!!"
#9. Red XIII is a big liar. Bugenhagen didn't "zip out"
#10. Some NPC says:
“Wh…who are you?
You…can't just come barging
into my home uninvited!!â€
It never stopped them before or after.
Nibelheim:
#11. A little later in the game, but Shinra has some amazing recon records of Nibelheim. Enough to recreate Tifa's room with all her personal effects still in it! Piano, fine. But secret stashes of gil and materia? Nice attention to detail there!
#12. Zangan. Strange that he has 128 students in the world and we never meet any of them. Oh well.
Rocket Town
#13.
“Everyday‚ [the rocket] tilts a little bit more.â€
Yet in the flash back, it shows that the rocket hasn't moved since it initially tilted. Not to mention the entry way to it looks pretty level.
#14. The rockets fired in the flashback. If Cid's to be believed, Shera should have flash-fried when that happened. Yet even after they make it into space later in the game, she was in that room (or close to it) when it took off.
#15. Why does Shinra want the Tiny Bronco anyway? It's not like they don't have air ships! I mean, it's called the
TINY Bronco for a reason!
OK, I've officially wasted too much time on this. I've got to do other things.
