Earlier today I showed it to a friend that speedruns the game and we tried guard skip in it. I love the weird extra scene that plays when you meet aerith ‘it begins’ but I was wondering if there was anything else to expect along with it? I was coming up with all kind of theories about how there might be a ‘snowgrave route’ with dialogue/events in sector 7 slums potentially changing due to events at reactor 5 (cloud not being present) going differently. But it didn’t look like anything else was added. Is this right? (Before I spend hours trying to work out the cryptic message!)
We made it back to 7th heaven after the tournament but the only thing that seems to change is a buggy situation where Tifa is present near the bar and talking to barret soft locks the game. You can still continue by meeting Marlene though. FYI: we took the 1.5k payment previously before doing the skip