A comprehensive list by Faustus Diablo (cute huh!)
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Just don't do it! ( I haven't put my name
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mention
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Before I get into this any
more than I already have I'd just like to say
that this is not something I know is in the game. This is a hunch I
have.
Several people have sent me mail concerning this and a few have said
That they
want to more and where he is. Again I stress I don't know. nor do I
even know
if he's in the game. But what I do know is that it seems very likely.
And with
that....the good stuff!
CLUES POINTING TO ZACK
1.)Zack plays a very important
role in the game as far as Cloud's past
is concerned and in general yet after Cloud's big flashback in the
lifestream
we never hear from him again. A little odd don't you think? Without
Zack we
wouldn't have Cloud as he is now and without that we wouldn't have
FF7. Zack
indirectly makes this game what it is. He plays to intricate a role
in the
game to just be left there like nothing ever happened.
2.)During the same flashback
sequence if you will remember is several
differen versions of Cloud. The one we all know now, Young Cloud, and
a dark
sillohuette of sorts of him. Cloud and Zack share more than that memory
bond
or whatever it was that Sephiroth game them. They share the same Tailor!
They Look very similar. It is possible that this "Dark Cloud" could
be Zack
but if it is why would he be there. It is never explained. Again, a
little
odd don't you think?
3.)Tifa appears to be confused
and she has a right to be no doubt but
what would make her say this : "Zack....you've been away a long time...."
She said this to Cloud at the trainstation of what I believe was the
2nd
disc. Hmmm....
4.)Friends of mine that
have played this game through have not
gotten a certain sequence I have but I'm sure someone has. It's quite
simple
to get. All you do is take Aeris into Zack's parents house and she
will say
"I used to out with someone from Soldier named Zack...". It's a long
shot
but maybe Zack told Aeris at one point something and she knew where
he might
be. His parents are upset at this which upsets Aeris in return. Does
she
know something? It's a little late so you maybe find out something
about him
in the first disc if you do the right things maybe even get him. (
I don't think that will happen)
5.)Something else about
this sequence bothers me. I would think that
if he had dies his parents would have been notified because of his
work
with a large corrporation. (But he does
die! Just check out the labortory in the Nivelhiem mansion basment.
Cloud will relive a past memory) As it stands they are totaly clueless
as to
what happened to him. That's the way Democracy works
people. And since his parents haven't been notified of his death He
is more
than likley still alive. Sure you may say Sephiroth killed him, but
did he
really? All he said was "Cloud Go get Sephiroth". He could have gotten
up and
strolled away or been rescued. Geez maybe Cloud rescued him. Cloud
doesn't
remember much about his past as it is. (BUT THAT
CHANGES!! Look around the game!)
6.)I know you've heard this
before but there is an empty space on the
PHS screen as well as the ledge at Sephiroth at the end of the game.
(For
Aeris?) Also
when you split your party up at the end of the game one group would
only have
2 people. They make you have three people in your party and yet...you
can't? Someone is missing. 3 different oppertunities for another
character to be in the game.
7.)It would be convienant
for Square to do this seeing as how all
would really have to do is swap color pallettes for Cloud. Zack does
use
the same weapons as Cloud. It's Easy to do. (he
has the same wepon because when Zack died Cloud took his weapon)
8.)The mystery town. What!?!?
Remember when Cloud was escaping after
blowing up the 2nd reactor and trying to meet the group back at Avalanches
base? Soldiers will attack you. (it's been awhile so keep me posted
for up-
dates to this part) If you chose to fight then more and more come and
you
outnumbered. If you can run away you see a town that you can never
see
again or enter again on your way back the HQ. Maybe there's a way into
this
town and maybe Zack is in this town? Maybe....
(WHAT TOWN?!! Someone sent me this
to read! About this "Town?")
9.)Another thing about Tifa.
When Sephiroth, Tifa, and Zack are taking
that picture in Nibleheim Tifa never notices anything. Ever. The only
thing
she ever says to the fact that her mind had been manipulated is pertaining
to Cloud. She said that he knew stuff that he shouldn't have and didn't
know
things he should have. Why is that? Tifa knows something but never
says
what. What could it be that she knows. Maybe she knows something like
the
location of Zack or what happened to him. She has too. She was there
with
the whole time.
Possible Locations
1.)The reactor near his parents
house = They are his parents after
all.
2.)Nibleheim or around =
That's the last place we heard of him.
3.)Anywgere in Midgar (ouch!)
= He did work there.
4.)The Northern Crater =
Maybe he heard Sephiroth was there and wanted
to exact his revenge for trying to kill him.
5.)The Shinra HQ = Possibly
at the very top Since you can't get back
near the end of game at the raid on Hojo.
6.)Junon = This appears
to be Soldiers HQ and he was a Soldier.
7.)The Ancient City (vauge
possibility) = Maybe he loved Aeris
so much he found out she was dead and wanted to say goodbye.
The problem is
getting back in.
8.)Mideal = There was a
pathway that you can take near the Doctors
office that I never took. Maybe someone did. Hell I'm sure of it. But
since
I haven't been there I can only think that maybe he's there or around
there.
9.)Hojo's Lab = He was a
Sephiroth Clone wasn't he? *confused*
In Conclusion....
In Conclusion I'd have to
say that it is very likely that he is in this
game or at least was going to be in the game at one point. He might
have
pulled due to time restrictions. A note on that.....Many people like
myself
believe that Aeris was originaly going to be resurectable but was pulled.
However Square left somethings in like the flickering image of Aeris
in the
church whenever you go back to it. Possibly this is true. A friend
of mine
said that he went back to Midgar to look for Zack and he went near
the left
edge of the gate in sector 6 or thereabouts and noticed that his playstation
started to load something but it never finished. Something might have
been
there but was pulled at the last moments except for a line or 2 of
code that
started a load off the cd. Hmmm....Could it be so. Is there a secret
character in the game so obscure that it is WAY to hard to find? I'd
say so.
How many people do you think stumbled onto Gogo in FF3. I wouldn't.
GeeZ! He
was way to hard to find I thought. Vincent and Yuffie are not Secret
characters they are in the Book! Secret means you don't know they are
in
the game. Vincent would sure be hard to find yes but you know he's
there.
This game was obviously
rushed. We all know that. When you fight
Sephiroth in his human form in the end he will attack you and hurt
you VERY
BAD. But you will Live and apparently kill him or either that or Sephiroth
kills himself. It shows his bloody face and you don't even hit him.
What
the? Also in the 500 years later scene after the credits you see Red
XIII
and his 2 cubs overlook a jungle or something? Explain this too me
how does
Red XIII have two cubs when he's the last of their kind. Where did
he stumble
on a female red? This again proves my theory that this game was unfinished
and Zack might have been pulled due to time like so many other things.
And
if he wasn't then I think he is in this game definatly maybe or maybe
not
as a playable character but I think you can just talk to him at least.
Maybe
to clear up a few things.
OKAY let me point out this can't be. ZACK IS DEAD!!! If you got back to the Shinra Mansion in Nivelhiem you will find out more. We are jumping to conclusions, people really should search the game before they deside to become masters. And believe me I am no master that is why I have not put up anything. But I must admit he did do a lot of reasearch. Possible places to pick up Zack. I didn't even know about that hidden town thing?