Look, I’m simply gonna reduce to the chase: Cid from Last Fantasy VII must be a smoker. Sure, smoking’s dangerous to your lungs. And yeah, smoking’s dangerous for the setting, and Last Fantasy VII is nothing if not environmentally aware. However Cid Highwind must odor like an ashtray always. Now that we’ve seen the foul-mouthed, spear-wielding previous man in Last Fantasy VII Rebirth, followers are involved he may need kicked the behavior on this up to date, alternate telling of the story. [Note: I called Cid an “old man” before realizing he’s supposed to be 32, a year older than I am now.]
To be clear, we don’t but know if Cid smokes or not all through Last Fantasy VII Rebirth. Nonetheless, in each clip and picture we’ve seen of him up to now, he doesn’t have a cigarette in his hand or mouth. In the meantime, within the unique Last Fantasy VII, Cid at all times had that factor on him it doesn’t matter what was occurring. His in-game mannequin, sprite, and official artwork all have burning tobacco someplace in view. In what we’ve seen of Rebirth, nonetheless, he’s both obscuring it one way or the other, or he’s simply not inhaling smoke on the common anymore.
Whereas we’ve solely seen a number of photographs of Cid in Rebirth, followers have undoubtedly taken discover that he’s lacking what was beforehand a reasonably notable piece of his character design. The cigarettes even performed into visible gags, generally dropping from his mouth throughout dramatic moments or doubling as a method to mild dynamite in considered one of his Restrict Breaks.
Last Fantasy VII Remake hasn’t been totally beholden to the unique recreation’s story or imaginative and prescient of sure characters, and in some instances, like altering the Honey Bee Inn right into a queer-friendly and sex-positive nightclub, Sq. Enix has used the alternatives afforded by the Remake to tweak issues for contemporary sensibilities. However Cid’s smoking was a key a part of him, and look, sorry, however older males — or, in Cid’s case, extraordinarily old-man-coded males who’re one way or the other of their early 30s — smoking is horny. It’s true, and if we’re gonna spend all of Rebirth speaking about how Cloud is okay, we’d like one thing for these of us who like our males a little bit extra rugged. Certain, Cid remains to be scorching with out the cigarette burning an precise flame, however it provides to the gruff enchantment. Plus, Cid from Last Fantasy XVI smokes, and that was launched earlier this 12 months. It was fantastic! It hardly looks as if one thing Sq. Enix must sanitize.
Actually, the factor I’d moderately see modified about him is the half the place he verbally abuses ladies, however he appears fairly well mannered on this first trailer. So, I assume we’ll see.
