anakha fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Apr 25, 2020

Zaa Boogie fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Apr 25, 2020

• After returning to Sector 7 you can hear some ambient dialogue where the Shinra Middle Manager is talking to his daughter and apparent wife. He's probably a resident. The day after, he's near Johnny's house talking with the other Shinra employees from the train about how they can best help combat terrorism, too. It's possible that Barret isn't just accosting random strangers when he hollers at them on the train during Chapter 2 - he might actually know these people. It could also be why Tifa goes out of her way to save the Middle Manager's life later on.
• The anti-Avalanche guy you meet in Sector 7 calls Cloud a "mako junkie," which has some weird implications. Is mako an addictive substance? How does releasing the exhaust from the reactors into the open air above not immediately hook everyone in the city on mako? How does one become a "mako junkie" if prolonged exposure to mako renders you catatonic or turns you into a monster (or, if you're lucky, an anime superhero)?
• Seventh Heaven specializes, apparently, in eggs & chips and pizza. I've only ever heard of the first dish as "chips and egg," not all that dissimilar from fish and chips - it's a UK thing. Apparently it became popular during World War I owing to a meat shortage, so maybe that's why it's popular in Sector 7.
• When you're first being shown to your apartment by Tifa, Kyrie is in Sector 7 regaling a group of people with her tales of what it was like plate-side when the reactor blew up. (Her name comes up as "???" in the subtitles, but if you look around you'll see her.)
• Johnny's father is probably the one responsible for Biggs getting grappling guns for the attack on Reactor 5 (he'll mention he has a surplus of the things if you talk to him in Chapter 3). It could be that he has at least an inkling as to what Tifa, Barret, and the Neighborhood Watch are up to, as he also mentions having "worked with" Seventh Heaven before. That could be why Tifa references Johnny having "his suspicions" about the gang being Avalanche - maybe his dad knows the score.
• Wymer will lay down some foreshadowing during the sidequest to kill the Wrath Hound - he explicitly mentions rumors that a secret Shinra lab is somewhere below Sector 7, which the gang later discovers is true.
• Much like every other RPG ever, characters will have only so much dialogue if you keep hitting the prompt to speak with them, and then begin looping their lines from the beginning. Curiously, during the scene where the gang shouts "Avalanche!" and reminisces about the good ol' days, it seems to save conversation progress even if you use chapter select to come back. Thus it will sometimes feel as if you are mid-discussion with some of the members of Avalanche even if you're on a fresh run of the chapter unless you remembered to complete the loop. This is kinda weird, as Tifa's two lines are pretty different in tone ("Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm going to spend time with the gang" versus "We'll talk later, I promise") and give two distinct impressions, if you're the kind of person who cares about the eternal love interest debate.
• If you try to speak with one of the members of Avalanche while they are celebrating amongst themselves, they'll give you their brush-off dialogue and then say something to the effect of "Oh, what were you saying?" to their conversation partner. As cool attention paid to detail, they do not add that line if you wait until the second cheer of "Avalanche!" to speak to anybody, since they're done talking by then.
• One last incidental tragedy for Chapter 3: Jessie's parents live on the plate of Sector 7. Her dad's name is Rowan Rasberry. If Jessie is still dead in the sequels, she died while believing the collateral damage caused in the reactor bombings was her fault instead of Shinra's, and her parents will have died with her.

guts and bolts fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Apr 25, 2020