Those pesky files!

August 30, 2007, 8:56 AM

Everyone always applauds Final Fantasy 7 for its excellent plot. For the most part, I agree. But one part of the plot that ALWAYS bothered me (call me picky, I guess) was that Sephiroth seemed to find those files at Nibelheim so EASILY. I would think that files that contained information that explosive and potentially dangerous would either be hidden better or destroyed. Why would Shinra leave files like that just lying around? Surely they could have guessed that if Sephiroth found those files, he wouldn't take it particularly well (and, well, he didn't). What do you guys think?

August 30, 2007, 9:22 AM

I assume you mean the ones in the ShinRa Mansion in Nibelheim?
The only thing I can think of is that they never really thought that Sephiroth would ever discover what was done to him, or the truth about Jenova and such, and therefore didn't see a risk.

September 3, 2007, 9:17 AM

In my opinion, a game wouldn't be a game if it didn't have loopholes for gamers to find. Its the same with movies.

September 3, 2007, 9:23 PM

he didnt find them easily, it says he spent days without sleep reading the logs in the library to find them

September 3, 2007, 9:37 PM

They were easy for him to find, since he just walked into the room and took the straight off the shelf. In that respect, they were easy. He did have to make sense of them all though, so the truth wasn't so easy to find.

September 6, 2007, 12:50 AM

One could suppose that ShinRa didn't know that those files were down in the basement like that, especially since the mansion had been abandoned for so long.

I'd guess that Hojo's lab and all that stuff down there was a guarded secret that not even the higher ups at ShinRa knew about (otherwise they'd probably have retrieved Vincent and tried to use him to their own ends). Thus, ShinRa didn't know that there was anything to hide down there, not to mention, who would have expected Sephiroth to have gone down there anyway?

September 6, 2007, 2:22 AM

Maybe the shinra didnt expect anyone to find them, the door to the basement was hidden behind a stone wall and no one really went in the mansion, I think the ShinRa had sealed up that basement with all the experiments and all of their records, sorta like skeletons in a closet

September 6, 2007, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by eisprinz

One could suppose that ShinRa didn't know that those files were down in the basement like that, especially since the mansion had been abandoned for so long.

I'd guess that Hojo's lab and all that stuff down there was a guarded secret that not even the higher ups at ShinRa knew about (otherwise they'd probably have retrieved Vincent and tried to use him to their own ends). Thus, ShinRa didn't know that there was anything to hide down there, not to mention, who would have expected Sephiroth to have gone down there anyway?

I agree, Hojo doesnt seem the type to share his findings with the top brass. The Shinra Company probably didnt even know that a laboratory existed in the mansion. I mean I cant see president Shinra or any other or the Shira elite travelling to a crappy run-down mansion when they have other things to thing about and also have lots of wealth to spend as their please.

September 6, 2007, 4:36 PM

That was the place were they used both Zack and Cloud as Guinea Pigs so they probably did know what type of files were down in the basement, they should have hidden them once they knew that Sephiroth was going to Nibelheim but they probably thought that Sephiroth would never understand the meaning of them or simply would not bother uncovering the truth about his past and just keep acting like the loyal SOLDIER that he was.

September 6, 2007, 5:56 PM

you'd think someone would have locked the door, vincents door was locked