I would recommend FFIX to anyone. Of course it had it’s “lost-in-translation” moments, but it was definitely an astounding experience.

You’re definitely right, it felt forced. I was just trying to remember the lore behind it all. Personally, I’m more of a IX fan than VII, anyway. Never liked Cloud either, haha.

I’m kinda going off of ages old memory, but my theory was that Kaz, Kadaj, and whatever Crybaby’s name was were Remnants (those shadow figures from the game that we supposedly fragments of Sephiroth himself) that gained their own consciousness. That being the case, the transformation isn’t really all that random, and…