First of all, sorry if it has been posted before or if it´s in the wrong section...

Jemina, a member of Faith, from AC.net forums, has found this interview here: http://forums.khinsider.com/showthread.php?t=48593&page=3

It says (may it contains SPOILERS? O_o):

Is it real? :unsure: What do you think about some things which Nomura is saying here? Thoughts, please ;)

Don't some CloTis still say that Nomura killed off Aerith and replaced her with Tifa because he liked Tifa more? And here he is flatly saying that he loves some of the FFVII characters, mentioning Cloud, Aerith, and Red XIII. I'm not suggesting that he doesn't like Tifa. But it certainly does give rise to the possibility that Nomura is a closet Cleris if he likes Aerith more than Tifa (I think that most Clerises prefer Aerith over Tifa and CloTis are the other way around. All IMO). I'm probably stretching things here, but I like to think he's in favor of CloudxAerith.

Nomura also mentions that Cloud's lost people he loved in the past. So Cloud loved Aerith. Maybe not in a romantic way, but it doesn't hurt our argument either, does it? He's probably also referring to Zack and I would guess Cloud's mother. Point is, the loss of these people that Cloud loved have shaped who he is, and their deaths weren't all just about guilt for him.

Reading over this, I'm really talking in circles :lmao: . Hope people can get what I'm saying. After an AP American History test, my brain turns to mush. Can't reason properly.

oh wow


did anyone else take notice of how TN pointed out the contrasts of the "light aeris" and the "dark tifa"? that only feeds more fuel to our fire of showing who clouds light really is...... :lol:

That's very interesting. But it can also turn out being April Fool joke. <_<
Though I like the part about CC like a game that tells everyone stories from Zack's POV. So it would tie everything? I hope that's true... :unsure:

Things that made me squee :fangirl:

We know he must have meant Mama Strife (first and foremost, imho), Aerith and Zack.

Damn straight bitches! :devil: So who says Nomura replaced Aerith with Tifa as the heroine?

Mind jumps to conclusions :woot:

Some things that stuck out at me as interesting:

1) So Tifa definitely isn't a Hollow Bastion resident? Then she must not have known Cloud before HB went to hell during the heartless invasion. Then again Cloud seems to know her during the Sephiroth fight. Maybe she's like a little jimminy cricket type, there to help Cloud while he's emo but disappears when she's not needed? lol who knows really.

2)Tifa's dark and Aerith is light, right? So that makes me wonder about the whole Tifa= Cloud's light thing... or did they only mean in their attire? Somehow I doubt that.

Anyway that's enough of my ramblings. I hope this isn't a late April Fool's joke. i'd like to say that I don't believe anyone would go through all the trouble of doing that, but after Era Clash, I can't be so sure.

That was an interesting read, thanks for sharing it with us, Aerith_kun? Some of my favourite parts from the interview:

So just as we've been saying all along, KH is a different world to FFVII and AC, but the connections between the characters have been brought over. The same type of connection Cloud has with Aerith in AC we can see clearly in KH, since Aerith understands Cloud has things he needs to do before he can be at peace, and she supports him as best she can. Also, she's aware that he'll return to her, to where he belongs - he doesn't need to to say anything because she understands him. There's also a nice parallel with Aerith waiting alone for Cloud in the endings of both AC and KH II.

It's nice to see that confirmed. Of course we know it means he loved his mother and Zack too Sexeh C/Z lovin'!, but it's great to see it admitted that he loved Aerith, since some fans still just refuse to admit that Cloud felt anything at all for her.

Oh Nomura... you're a man after my own heart. I also doubt he's just referring to clothes there. I don't think he's saying that Tifa is the personification of darkness at all, I think it's rather that he's wanting to show that Aerith is light, and one of the best ways to show this without outright stating it is the contrast between the colours of the outfits.

:giggle: I'm sorry, but this interview has just made my crappy day... :D

'Specially this:

Hehe, Cloud's speech with Aerith does contain special meaning to it I guess. ^_^ I'm taking that whatever's shown with Cloud and Aerith in KH really does connect to the FFVII compilation... that's what I'm most definitely assuming based on this interview. I hope that after they see this Clotis will stop bitching that the Cleris bit at the end of KH1 doesn't count because they're just seperate games. Hm, but I'm just wondering, would this mean that Cloud's little talk with Aerith is just as important as the whole Sephiroth battle, which when Tifa gets involved? Because I've found that the Cleris part in KHII so cute that *others* thought it was very unnecessary and only fanservice that gives NO impact to Cloud whatsoever. :rolleyes: Ah, just wait, Cleris-opposers will be all over this interview... prepare to duck from tomatoes, Square. x]

Anyway, not because I'm being my REALLYREALLY biased self right now, but I do agree that this interview paints Cleris all over it. Even my brother agrees, and he's a big Tifa fan with a bit of Clotiness inside. :P

I dont know about this...I'd like to know what magazine this was from, because to me it seems like Nomura's not being vague enough. I mean, up until now, we only knew about the three men in CC, but now we finally have Aerith as the female lead? I figured they were going to reveal who it was in a big press conference for the game or something...

Kinda makes me worried, especially how he's describing Tifa as just dark...If the CloTi's read this, I think they are probably crapping...I'm not elated, however, because as it's only the 3rd of the month, I'm still prepped for those late FF jokes.

Oh my...I can't believe Nomura actually said some of these things... :lol:

It's so great that he specifically mentions Aerith as one of the characters that he loves. So much for the claim that Nomura had killed Aerith off because he hated her... :whistle:

He's lost people he loved in the past and that has made him into who he is

:giggle:


Crisis Core is not only about Zack. You can expect to see FFVII's heroine Aerith and the villain Sephiroth. In many ways it is the game that will tie everything together and because of that we are very nervous.


Once again, Nomura mentions that Aerith is FFVII's heroine. Since Crisis Core ties everything together, I wonder if it'll finally spell out answers. SE admits that they're nervous about it... :ermm:

This part about ties between KH 2 and AC caught my attention as well:

Certain themes are carried over, like connections. We show this in Cloud's speech with Sephiroth and Aerith.

I recall that Cleris have been arguing all along that the KH series portrays a "connection" between Cloud and Aerith (sephiroth as well too, of course).

I made it so that there is a contrast between the characters. The light Aerith and dark Tifa, the winged Sephiroth and wingless Cloud. We worked on making it easy for the players to have various interpretations of these themes.

The light Aerith and dark Tifa... :giggles:

*HD seriously thinks Nomura is Cleris*

I thought it was obvious that Aerith's the female lead in CC. :blink: If you saw the trailer for CC, you could hear Aerith speaking at the beginning about making a promise with Zack. Plus, the game's tagline is, "A story of three young men and one young woman bound for destiny's core." Unless you think there's somebody else who is the "young woman bound for destiny's core."

Well, there are those who actually believe Tifa was the most important female character of FFVII, and that she's more closely tied to Cloud, Zack, and Sephiroth than Aerith is... :whistle:

People like that just need it spelled out to them before they accept even the most obvious.

Hearing that Tifa wasn't for Hollow Bastion, I caught something I'd missed before. In the Kingdom Hearts games they went back and used some of the abandoned FFVII ideas.

Originally the plot for FFVII was supposed to feature an angel chasing a demon (check the wings on Cloud and Sephiroth from the first KH) and Cloud and Aeris were supposed to be childhood friends with Tifa just having a minor supporting role.

I'm not too sure how I like this "you decide" kind of thing. But I am interested to see how Tifa and Sephiroth might be connected; they're not really two names that I would place together (even though he did kill her father and wound her in Nibelheim) because they hardly spoke directly to each other.

Crisis Core is sounding good! I really expect to see Aerith and Sephiroth in a slightly different light, considering that it's mostly through Zack's perspective.

where is this acticle from, I want to know if it's real or not I'm a little skepticle about it.

I think it would make more sense for Aerith to be that young woman. Sure Tifa is important, but compare her role to Aerith, it seems pretty small. Besides, I'm more interested in seeing what Aerith was doing during the time Zack left for Nibelheim and how serious their relationship with each other. We pretty much knew what Tifa was doing that time (pining and waiting for a 1st Class Soldier Cloud :rolleyes: ).

Has it been confirmed if this is a late April's Fool joke or not?

*till then, refrains almost-bursting urge to SQUEE*

:lmao: Me too! This interview sounds almost TOO good to be true. It's terribly Cleris-slanted compared to some of the other stuff we've gotten before, especially the "light Aerith and dark Tifa" part. That's a pretty big hint to make if you really wanted to keep to the "player's interpretation" stance in KH2.

I'm holding in any squees for a few days more, just to be safe.

Very interesting news! I remember you've mentioned the idea of Aerith as Cloud's childhood friend before, but the angel-and-demon reference is a new one to me. Where did you hear it?

i will back with information ^-^

Same here. I will wait until we get a confirmation before I celebrate. :unsure:

And I would like to know where you got the info about the early version of FFVII, too, Alan! :D

Edit: Ally, can you ask them what gaming mag they got it from?

i did it..i hope she answers me ^-^

Now I won't be able to fall asleep. >_< I need to know is it a joke (very cruel, by the way) or not. Because this interview "isn't Cleris at all cuz Clotis say so" :whistle:

I've gotten my info from various interviews in magazines. I wish I could remember which issues but it's been quite a while since I read the stuff.

:o I cannot believe Nomura said those things...

*is in shock*

This interview doesn't sound like Nomura at all... now that I think about it.

:lol: Usually he's all for the frustrating 'fan interpretation and vague-ness' thing. But if this is for real I will bow down and kiss his feet with fangirl honour...

**haha I probably looked like this the whole time I was reading that interview " :woot: "**

Having said that, I would like to declare without a doubt that Nomura is pro-Cleris... :whistle:

Tifa's also one of my favorite characters. But it doesn't make sense. In Kingdom Hearts 2, if Tifa's the dark, then why does she have a light to give to Cloud?

Some of us here believe she isn't Cloud's light. She offers him her light, but Cloud says "For me...I don't know." So it's possible he didn't take her light, but instead it's his inner light that glows.

Cloud's running from her. Wasn't he searching for his light? Why would he be running from her is she's his light? No, I think Cloud's searching for his inner light, whatever it is.

"""Yeah, my BF emailed the information. His scanner's down right now but I'll see if he can get a copy of the article. I can't remember which magazine it was... I think it was EGM (June) but I'm not sure"""


i'm waiting for her confirmation

He didn't say that Tifa was Cloud's darkness. He compared dark Tifa to light Aerith. So it's not that Tifa represents a darkness like Sephiroth. It's that Tifa's light is different from Aerith's, which could simply mean that Tifa's not be the light that Cloud needs. ;) We know that Sora represents light, for example, yet Sora wears black in KH2.

Exactly, yin-chan. It could easily be that Cloud glowed with his own light. I also think Cloud is searching for his inner light in KH2, and that the search for his inner light is quite different from a search for a romantic light. I think Cloud wants to find his own inner light so that he doesn't have to rely on anyone else's light for support.

Or maybe bad stuff happens because he has darkness in his heart?

tifa is twiligth like everybody...
aerith is diferent since ff7... she's pure liiiiigth**gets blind**

**Minor KH2 Spoilers in this post**

But isn't there darkness in everyone's heart? Leon said there was in KH1, so I think this conflict is different.

It almost seems to me like what Cloud went through during the Lifestream Event in FFVII. Remember when Hojo told Cloud that he was really a Sephiroth clone, and Cloud couldn't handle it? Cloud essentially lost his "identity" at that time. He no longer knew whether he had grown up in Nibelheim, or whether he was nothing but a Sephiroth clone engineered by Hojo.

If he's nothing but a Sephiroth clone engineered by Hojo, then it's the same as Cloud being swallowed up by darkness. (I think that's what Sephiroth meant when he said, "I am you" to Cloud.) Tifa can confirm his identity as someone born in Nibelheim, which means she knows that he's more than just a Sephiroth clone. I think that's why Tifa offers him her light. It's sorta like Tifa confirming Cloud's identity during the Lifestream Event as being more than just a Sephiroth clone. That's the darkness Cloud is trying to overcome in KH2, and the hold of darkness that Sephiroth has on him.

Wow, Ally, thank you for the information! :huggle:

It seems it´s real, right? :ermm:

And about the dark Tifa vs. light Aerith, I think he´s talking about the design of both characters more than other thing. Tifa always wears darck pieces, while Aerith is always being assoaciated with light, not only in her vestiment, but in AC during the credits and with the Sephiroth summoning darkness and all... For this and for other reasons, Tifa being Cloud´s light is just... odd -__-º

:whistle: well the fact is that nomura said ligth aerith dark tifa

It isn't June yet. Do they mean June 2005??? Because no one knew about Tifa then. This smells fishy... :no:

I just watched EGM's site and there was no interview with Nomura in June. And wasn't that the way too early to speak about DVD release? :unsure:
Also FF_G is right, no one knew about Tifa.

True true (I hadn´t noticed :blush: )... So if it´s taken from June´s number, then it´s imposible... AC hadn´t been released by then :ermm:

No. That interview does sounds familar (vaguely). I will have to look into it tomorrow or something....(sorry, on busy schedule now... <_< ), but I'm positive that the interview was from EGM. It's an issue that they cover on AC and all other SE games. I think it was issue#196. If I remember correctly, the front cover has Cloud holding Kadaj. Though, my memory could be faulty.

Though, it feels like some of the quotes is a bit off.

I: Is Advent Children the end of Cloud's story?

TN: FFVII was not Cloud's story alone. It was the story of Cloud, Tifa, Aerith and AVALANCHE. Advent Children is a closure for Cloud.

Hmm....I don't quite remember reading something like that...(I'll really have to dig that issue out...) But this quote sound similar to this (which came from Issue196 interview):

"TN: Those three are an inseparable trio, and Kadaj is their leader. Really, Advent Children isn't just Cloud's story...it's Kadaj's too. The central theme of the film pertains to him."

Well, I'll check tonight or tomorrow. I stacked my issue in my mag. box unless someone beat me to it first. :whistle:

I have that issue. That's not the one where this came from.

It's possible that this friend is just guessing what month it is. Or even what magazine because that quote didn't sound all that sure.

So this interview is real?? Wow, there are good news! :woot:

Thanks to aerithstrife and Remy :gift:

I think that's jumping the gun a little, Aerith_kun. :sweat: Nothing's confirmed yet. aerithstrife says that part of the interview is SIMILAR to what she quoted, but I think I've seen the interview with that quote, and it didn't have any "light Aerith/dark Tifa" in it.

I agree with CG that the source didn't sound confident which issue the interview is from. It sounds like she's just guessing right now, so it may very well be from another month/magazine.

http://img434.imageshack.us/img434/5472/p2340983io.jpg
here's the scan..i can't see very well it...someone can confirm this?
is from play station magazine uk :)

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TIFA LIGTH THEORY= R.I.P XD