#Cloud strife advent children free#

His face was modeled to keep 'a stiff upper lip', with his emotions and thoughts being expressed through his eyes. Nomura said a great deal of care was taken to animate Cloud's face and expressions, and over thirty different models of his face were made. The sword was meant to be held on his back with the use of magnets and have a small chain.Д¬loud's concept art for Advent Children, still carrying six separate blades.Д¬loud's redesign for Advent Children is an accumulation of eight designs the staff made, ranging from deformed to realistic designs, and in The Reunion Files, Nomura explains that, while Cloud was depicted as a more upbeat character at the end of Final Fantasy VII, he chose to have Cloud be a character fans would find more familiar, and the script was written to explain why Cloud had returned to such a frame of mind. Nomura nicknamed it 'the giant kitchen knife' due to how he originally envisioned it. Originally listed as a 'Mystic Knight (Berserker)', Cloud's Buster Sword was smaller, its size increasing with Nomura redesigned Cloud. Aspects of Cloud's original design were later used in designing Angeal Hewley, and the image of Cloud and Sephiroth was based on Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki KojirЕЌ, famous Japanese warriors whose duel became legendary, and since appeared in many forms of Japanese pop culture.

However, to make Cloud stand out more and emphasize his role in the game as the lead protagonist, Nomura altered Cloud's design to give him spiky blond hair instead. Cloud's original character design called for slicked-back, black hair with no spikes, a depiction supposed to contrast to the long, flowing silver hair of Sephiroth. Zack was a character Nojima brought in while he was building up the mystery, so the others had no clue he would be such a pivotal character. The team ended up doing the test play with no idea how it was going to end, and that's how they first found out the true course of events. Event planner Motomu Toriyama had made the 'Cloud showing off' pose, which was made to be be used in the scene where Cloud first appears in the game, the animation impressed Nojima, who determined Cloud's false persona based on that pose.ДЄfter figuring out Cloud's identity issues, Nojima made not only the scenario but the event scenes as well, and the parts where the mysteries are made clear. The game's directors only had a vague image of Cloud's identity, mainly that it was intended as mysterious, but the actual unfolding of events was left in Nojima's hands. This version was altered after the introduction of Jenova and the fleshing out of Zack Fair's story.

It would be told that Cloud's memories were created by Sephiroth himself out of his emotions when he was 'killed', and he would later discover that Sephiroth was directly trying to take control of him, and that his own complexes, combined with Sephiroth's willpower, would've created his alternate persona. In early drafts of the script Cloud was meant to be more directly controlled by Sephiroth, and as he fell to his death in the Nibelheim's mako reactor, his strong will to live would manifest itself in Cloud. This 'demo version' is also seen in other pre-release shots published in magazines before the game was out, and his battle model also had an earlier build, wielding a different version of the Buster Sword that had only one slot as opposed to two.Д¬loud's first sketch, featuring a Buster Sword with a single materia slot. In the 1996 demo version Cloud's menu portrait is the young Cloud portrait seen during the Kalm flashback to the Nibelheim Incident in the final game, and his character model is different and shorter than his finalized model.

The characters living in a game's universe know their world well, but it's a new place to the player, and so Cloud's foggy memories were created as a solution to introduce the information to players. In a case of an RPG protagonist whose name and past have already been decided, Nojima tries to come up with ways to get the player to empathize with the character.

#Cloud strife advent children free#

Nojima thought of the relationship between the player and the protagonist when writing for Final Fantasy VII, and in an interview in Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Ultimania, he makes a comparison to Dragon Quest, where the main character doesn't have a set personality and the player is free to 'become' the hero. Originally conceptualized by Sakaguchi as one of only three playable characters (the others being Barret Wallace and Aerith Gainsborough), Cloud's various lines and personality traits were supervised by Nomura while Kitase and Nojima were in charge of developing Cloud's background and his relationship with Sephiroth. Cloud was one of the first three characters designed for Final Fantasy VII by Nomura with influences from producer Kitase, scenario writer Nojima and director Sakaguchi.