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Darc Requiem on 19 October 2007
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Apostrovich said:

Regardless of how Cloud started out, he still beat Sephiroth, and Sephiroth is insanely powerful. His "sickness" was due genetic/mako infusion experimentation, which made him a bit like Sephiroth, and a lot of the stuff he did was while under the influence of Sephiroth's telepathic powers, because Sephiroth fused with Jenova and Cloud was experimented on with Jenova cells. The experimentation screwed a bunch of his memory up, and he was also virtually superpowered thanks to mako energy and Jenova cells.

So,
A) Genetic experimentation wipes you out when you aren't a First Class Soldier
B) Didn't remember who he or Zack was
C) Never even knew who Aeris was before he met her, even without the amnesia
D) I don't seem to recall him beating the hell out of Aeris, I recall Sephiroth telepathically trying to make Cloud kill her, which he was stopped from doing
E) Was recovering from being mind raped when Sephiroth fell from the ceiling to kill Aeris, which he did instantaneously, not exactly much time to intervene
F) I wouldn't want to tell them he was dead either, even if I remembered.

I'm not saying Cloud isn't kind of lame. He's just not lame for those reasons. And certainly not lame for being bad at fighting.


 All members of Solider were infused Jenova cells and Mako. Hojo called him a failure because he reacted poorly to the experimentation. When you were searching for the "Black Materia" its been a while so I maybe off, Cloud strikes Aeris and when she fall to the ground he gets on top of her and procedes to punch her repeatedly. I believe it is Barrett that pull him off of her but I could be wrong. Are you telling me that you wouldn't tell Zack's parents that their son died. You would let his parents continue to suffer with the thought of not knowing his fate? Ouch, that is extremely cruel.

I am not saying Cloud did any of those things on purpose but he is extremely weak minded and unlucky to say the least. In general he just an extremely suspect hero. I like characters with flaws but Cloud is too flawed. If it weren't for Sephiroth he'd probably be the most ill conceived character in the game. That is another post however.