That is hella messed-up on Reeve's part- who spies on their parents in a love hotel?
Also, do "love hotels" in Japan typically have red overhead lights? Maybe that's what the strange lighting is a reference to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psky0hMdj18ADDED- Yup, that's what that's a reference to! It also was handy to make things look more "mysterious" via the keyhole.
Any chance of doing an extra video of the keyholes with the red lights included? I definitely appreciate the removal for added detail (since we can see exactly what Reeve's parents really look like- that belongs on the FF wiki for sure!) but I think the red lights also help to capture the ongoing moods of the people in each room.
As for Shinra- yeah, something "risque" is definitely going on. If it was just a big cosplay scenario then his wife wouldn't mind so much, and he's clearly not doing anything with the Honey Bee girl in the room.
The Honey Bee Inn really was one big troll for the player- you have all these hot girls running around in skimpy bee outfits and the player's expecting something to happen, but it's really just a gay brothel with female hostesses and a single deluxe room for couples. I think people who pay for memberships (like the dude who gives away his card) know what it really is, but Cloud doesn't know cause he's just given a card.
Maybe all the girls surrounding the place are meant to hide the fact that customers to the club are looking for guys? (The people outside don't know that Cloud isn't a girl dressed up but they still all oo and ahh over him, suggesting they don't know what's really in the club.)
One more question- does the President's reference to a "curse" and "needing to remove it" have any in-game symbolism or significance? And is the "Knight" supposed to represent anything?
I know that Cloud gets heavily sick later in the game from Mako poisoning, there could be some kind of reference to that there. Not sure if the "Knight" is meant to be Tifa or something.