>>720501845
You stupid faggots are killing Final Fantasy by letting them pull this shit. What are you, 15 years old? It was cringy, cliche, shounen crap that hurt to watch. Zack's death in the original game was dead silent. Cloud finds his body when he's too fucked up to even speak or move beyond dragging himself, grabs the sword, and the drugs fuck him up in the head. It's an immensely powerful scene without any dialogue from him after he's shot. Because he's dead. They shoot him point blank in the heart and he dies, right there, end of story.
BUT NO that's not good enough, is it? That doesn't get the point across to you children. We'll make the scene more powerful with a lot of cringe-worthy "you're my living legacy", "follow your dreams," "did I become a hero?" shit to hammer the point home because subtlety is for idiots. Nice retcons by the way; now that cloud isn't as fucked up the whole thing loses a lot of credibility, because you can't so easily imagine his mind getting warped when he seems lucid when Zack is talking at him. PS, how is Zack alive with a bunch of bullet holes in him for so long? The soldiers in VII finish the job until he's dead for sure. I guess these guys just respect drama too much for that. PS, it's hard for Cloud to impress himself onto his dead friend when his friend doesn't just die, but talks to him at length, and Cloud feels prolonged grief over the whole thing.
I'm rambling, and this is a bit long winded, but the point is, you retards need to understand the key difference between "showing" and "telling" in writing. If you thought that poorly written, blunt force trauma schlock was somehow better than the dead silent and abrupt death sequence in VII that pans up to Midgar in the distance, you're LITERALLY cancer, tasteless in the highest order, and I'd like you to stop poisoning my industry at just any time now.
