REeeeeeve!
Jan. 8th, 2006 12:45 pm
Okay, NOW I'm pissed - Square went and gave Reeve a canon surname (and no doubt other profile info) NOW, after years of leaving us to our own devices with the members of Shinra. Dammit. Wikipedia also provides surnames for Gast and Lucrecia; I don't know how reliable this is, but given Square's love of name-recycling (Highwind, for instance) I can believe Lucrecia's last name is Crescent.
And there's more Wikipedia rage! From the FF7 entry: "Much speculation exists surrounding Lucrecia's motives and her relationships (romantic or otherwise) with Vincent and Hojo, and hopefully some of these mysteries will be resolved in Dirge of Cerberus." Why the hell would we want them resolved? Every unresolved mystery is room for fanfic! Every resolved-after-years-of-open-ended-ness mystery is simply room for fans to get in huge, stupid fights and be assholes. I mean, I know I'm refusing to treat things as part of the same canon, but that's by no means universal, and "what exactly is canon" is plenty of pretext for a fight. On the bright side, I guess it'd be nice for the FF7 wank to not involve the Cloud/Tifa crusaders being dicks for once - I find them too enraging, both anti-feminist and impervious to logic, to be funny.
What's really pissing me off, though, is that I know I'll play Dirge of Cerberus anyway, even though it's the kind of game I really, really suck at. (Edited: I SAW A SCREENSHOT OF REEVE WITH A GUN. I will so totally be playing this it's not even funny.)
OMG I found a Reeve character portrait for Before Crisis on Wikipedia! All is forgiven, Wikipedia! It's not your fault Squeenix hates me! Man, he looks wrong without a goatee.
And there's more Wikipedia rage! From the FF7 entry: "Much speculation exists surrounding Lucrecia's motives and her relationships (romantic or otherwise) with Vincent and Hojo, and hopefully some of these mysteries will be resolved in Dirge of Cerberus." Why the hell would we want them resolved? Every unresolved mystery is room for fanfic! Every resolved-after-years-of-open-ended-ness mystery is simply room for fans to get in huge, stupid fights and be assholes. I mean, I know I'm refusing to treat things as part of the same canon, but that's by no means universal, and "what exactly is canon" is plenty of pretext for a fight. On the bright side, I guess it'd be nice for the FF7 wank to not involve the Cloud/Tifa crusaders being dicks for once - I find them too enraging, both anti-feminist and impervious to logic, to be funny.
What's really pissing me off, though, is that I know I'll play Dirge of Cerberus anyway, even though it's the kind of game I really, really suck at. (Edited: I SAW A SCREENSHOT OF REEVE WITH A GUN. I will so totally be playing this it's not even funny.)
OMG I found a Reeve character portrait for Before Crisis on Wikipedia! All is forgiven, Wikipedia! It's not your fault Squeenix hates me! Man, he looks wrong without a goatee.