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Hot Blooded Detective Joe?
Topic Started: Jan 29 2009, 09:53 PM (593 Views)
Alan Bates
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From an article in IGN:

"Nomura recalled the creation of the game's plot, which was originally written by Hironobu Sakaguchi, now of Mistwalker. Nomura, who claims to still have a copy of the plot, noted how "completely different" it is from the final version. "I think he wanted to do something like a detective story? There was a character called Hot Blooded Detective Joe."

The Midgar city was already in place at this point. The early part of the story that was written by Sakaguchi involved Detective Joe chasing after the main characters, who then blow up the city.

Obviously, the story changed some once Nomura and Kitase got involved. While Nomura went off into the character design and visual work following some initial changes to Sakaguchi's plot, Kitase and Kazushige Nojima came up with the sections on Avalanche and Shinra, Cloud's background story, and the relationship between Cloud and Sephiroth. Sakaguchi came up with the specifics on the Life Stream in his original plot, but this also saw some work by Kitase and crew before finally being placed in the game."

First I'd heard of this and I've heard alot about the early ideas for Final fantasy VII. Anybody else know anything about this Joe or why I immediately picture him as Inspector Zenigata from Lupin III?

Does add an interesting little twist if there's somebody investigating AVALANCHE who doesn't know who they are.
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Miss Yukari
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Was the guy on the black chocobo called Joe? Maybe that was a homage to the 'hot blooded detective'?
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Alan Bates
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Miss Yukari
Jan 29 2009, 10:07 PM
Was the guy on the black chocobo called Joe? Maybe that was a homage to the 'hot blooded detective'?

Hmm... Good call. Wonder if they kept the same design.
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