CLOUD STRIFE

Updated 05-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about CLOUD STRIFE!

Final Fantasy VII Remake’s new trailer drops hints at potential love triangle: The FFVII-R trailer (above) had a little bit of everything — snippets of gameplay, bits of dialog, and lots of action. It mostly focused on lead character Cloud Strife, providing a bit of backstory and context to what he and…

Super Smash Bros. is adding Cloud Strife, and everyone is freaking out: Wuuuut

‘Final Fantasy VII’ Remake Star on “Paving New Way” for Iconic Character: Cody Christian, who stars as mercenary Cloud Strife in the highly anticipated role-playing game from Square Enix, joins host Patrick Shanley on the latest episode of ‘Heat Vision Breakdown.’

Cody Christian on Twitter: “Honored and humbled to be able to announce my participation in the @FinalFantasy VII remake as the voice of Cloud Strife. I vow to give nothing shy of 100% and my absolute best to ensure this iconic character’s depth and complexity resonates. Thank you all for the support. ❤️”

Cloud Strife Voices (Final Fantasy): Voiced most times by Steve Burton, Takahiro Sakurai. Images of the Cloud Strife voice actors from the Final Fantasy franchise.

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Cloud is the main protagonist of Square’s 1997 role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII . he fights a new threat to the world while dealing with a seemingly terminal illness . Cloud reappears as the protagonist in Cloud has been voiced by multiple actors in Japanese and English languages . he was designed by Tetsuya nomura, a character artist for the Final Fantasy series . Cloud has garnered a primarily positive reception from critics . he has ranked highly in various character lists compiled by video game publications . his characterization and design have served as a trope for other characters Yoshinori Kitase commented Cloud was designed to be the game’s protagonist during early development of the game . Cloud was one of the first two characters designed for Final Fantasy VII by Tetsuya Nomur nomura altered Cloud’s design to give him spiky, bright blond hair . early renditions of cloud’s weapon, the Buster Sword, depicted a smaller blade . earlier versions of Nomura stated the Buster Sword was originally going to look like a Western sword . cloud’s appearance is marked by spiky blond hair, striking blue eyes and dark clothing . his massive sword previously be Nomura and Kitase Nojima created Cloud’s character of Zack . the team also created the character of Cloud to expand upon the mysteries in his backstory . nomura also provided supervision over Cloud Kitase felt Cloud’s character was fresh in reviewing Nojima’s scenario . the love triangle between Cloud, Tifa and Aerith was also viewed as a novel for the series . Cloud one of the event planners proposed a scene involving Cloud walking out of the Highwind’s Chocobo stable . Kitase rejected it as too extreme, but maintained a scenes depicting the night before Nomura believes Cloud’s popularity is due to the impact his personality made in Nojima’s scenario . the former will be more focused on in the remake of Final Fantasy VII . his design was briefly altered but Square Kazushige Nojima is working into making Cloud’s interactions with Tifa and Barret natural . he wants the players to connect with the character once again in the form of an intimate conversation . co- nomura wanted to give character a more demon-like appearance due to his ties to the dark side in the game . Takahiro Sakurai, Cloud’s Japanese voice actor, was recommended for the role nomura describes Cloud’s life as peaceful but, hurt by the losses he experienced in the original game . Cloud, by taking up his sword and fighting, struggles to achieve it . nojima sought to establish Cloud Nojima altered the scene because it “sounded too creepy” about thirty different designs were made for Cloud’s face . his hair was altered to give it a more realistic look . staff attempted rendering Cloud based on game’s illustrations, but concluded he looked gross . further revisions were made to Cloud’s face after completion of the pilot film . cloud’s clothes were difficult to make in the film Takayuki Takeya was asked to design an upgraded version of Cloud’s “Hardy-Daytona” motorcycle . the bike got bigger as development continued, making it an impact that worked well within the film Nomura said Cloud’s appearance was sightly slimmer than in Final Fantasy VII . Sakurai felt greater pressure performing the role than he did when he voiced Cloud for Kingdom Hearts . Sakurai says that Cloud’s silence conveys more about the character than when he speaks . he describes cloud’s outlook as negative, and says that he is delicate in some respects . after the final product in English adaptations, Cloud is voiced by Steve Burton . Burton first hired to voice Cloud after Square saw his work in 2001 movie The Last Castle . Burton calls Cloud a rare opportunity for him as an actor . he describes Cloud as having a “heaviness about him” he says he is surprised when fans recognize him for his work as Cloud . Christian used Burton’s works as an inspiration for his portrayal of the characcter . Cloud claims to be formerly of SOLDIER 1st Class, an elite Shinra fighting unit . despite appearing detached Cloud narrates his history with a legendary member of SOLDIER and the game’s primary antagonist . he would sign up for a “big mission” whenever they became available, as Shinra’s war numerous visual and audio clues suggest the unreliability of Cloud’s memory . Cloud will spontaneously remember words or scenes from his past, sometimes collapsing to the ground . as Sephiroth manipulates his cloud, resigning himself as a “failed experiment”, goes missing . party later discovers a comatose Cloud suffering from Mako poisoning . Cloud never qualified for SOLDIER, instead Cloud ambushs Zack at the Mt. Nibel Mako reactor and believes him dead . cloud’s mind creates a false personality largely based on Zack’s . exposure to Mako radiation in the 2005 computer-animated film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Cloud lives with Tifa in the city of Edge . he lives with Marlene, Barret’s adopted daughter, and Denzel, an or cloud has given up his life as a mercenary . he is a courier for the “Strife Delivery Service” that Tifa set up in her new bar . Cloud suffers from the effects Cloud appears in On the Way to a Smile, a series of short stories set between Final Fantasy VII and Advent Children . “Case of Tifa” serves as an epilogue to VII, and portrays Cloud in the PlayStation Portable game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Cloud is presented as a young Shinra infantryman who befriends Zack . during the game’s conclusion, a dying Zack gives Cloud his Bus Cloud is a playable character in the PlayStation version of Ehrgeiz . in Chocobo Racing, Cloud rides a motorcycle . Cloud is one of several playable Final Fantasy VII characters . Cloud appears as a playable guest character in the 2014 Nintendo crossover fighting games Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U . Cloud is the protagonist of Final Fantasy VII G-Bike, a mobile game for Cloud returns as a playable character in the 2018 sequel, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate . he was a candidate guest character for Soulcalibur II but replaced by Heihachi Mishima from Tekken Cloud wanders into Ramza’s world, where he encounters a flower girl named Aerith . Cloud returns to help her escape, and Ramza and his party catch up to him . he joins Ram in Kingdom Hearts, Cloud appears in the Olympus Coliseum world . he is hired by Hades to kill Hercules . Cloud meets with Sora afterward and explains that he Cloud battles Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix . he appears in the game’s sequel as a boss in the Olympus Coliseum . Cloud reappears in kingdom hearts II Cloud serves as representative hero of Final Fantasy VII in Dissidia Final Fantasy . he is depicted in his final fantasy VII design, while his Advent Children design is also available . Cloud’s fight against Sephiro Cloud reappears in the prequel Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy as a Warrior of Chaos . Cloud’s main outfit is based on Yoshitaka Amano’s original artwork concept . his Kingdom Cloud’s original attire is also present in the mobile phone game Mobius Final Fantasy . he has mental illness in the form of dissociative identity disorder (DID) he also has involuntary memory resulting “no RPG has ever deliberately betrayed the connection between protagonist and player like FFVII does,” says Patrick Holleman . the book Japanese Culture Through Videogames addresses Cloud as a complex fictional character . Cloud’s redesign in Kingdom Hearts praised of the best in the game . his development in Advent Children praised by DVD Talk . Joystiq’s Andrew Yoon opined that the director’s cut Yoshinori kitase: fight between Cloud and Sephiroth popular enough to make Japanese gamers remake it . cloud’s high popularity within the series in contrast to other Final Fantasy characters like Bartz or Terra Cloud’s popularity and addition to the Super Smash Bros. series generated multiple response . despite Final Fantasy VII’s lack of release on a Nintendo console, fans expressed surprise . IGN praised the design and marketing involving Cloud’s role in the trailers . TechSpot noted fans were interested in cloud’s love interests . despite noting his antisocial attitudes in the remake, IGN after lightning was voted most popular female character in the series by Japanese fans, Mollie Patterson of EGMNOW commented: “Some have also brought up that Lightning is kind of the female equivalent to Cloud” in 2014, IGN held Cloud ranked number one of all the characters . he also took the same place in the Final Fantasy VII title alone . in 2013, Complex ranked Cloud as the eighth greatest soldier in video games . IGN ranked him third in both their lists of top Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy series characters . GameSpot published a video titled “Greatest Game Hero: Cloud Strife” in 2009 . UGO Network in 2011, Empire ranked Cloud as the 13th greatest video game character . in 2013, Complex named him the greatest Final Fantasy character of all time . Cloud’s name ranked third for male characters . in 2011, Famitsu readers voted Cloud as the third best video game character of all time . in 2011, Square released figurines of him alongside other Final Fantasy protagonists . popular models at the time included Cloud’s Advent Children Square has also released two promotional books focusing on Cloud’s character: Cloud vol.1, which was released in 2007, and Cloud message, in 2008 . in 2013, a replica of the Buster Sword was created by blacksmith Tony