Sonon appreciation thread

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Yuffie and Sonon are much more pleasant and likeable than the base game's party. Remake's Cloud comes off as too dry and one note for 30 hours. It also started getting a little tiring seeing Cloud be cold towards every sidequest NPC for 30 hours. Tifa is pleasant in her character scenes with Cloud, but when it comes to the plot she kept being a debbie downer constantly undermining our war. I quite liked Barret, but he is abrasive towards Cloud for the first 20 hours. I actually wish my JRPG characters expressed more animosity towards other people than they usually do, but for hours and hours on end is too much. And at times, he sounded a little too comical. And Aerith's degeneracy was offputting.


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But here, the two main characters are upbeat. You have the cute and silly moogle batman, and a reliable man with his act together. Sonon humors Yuffie by allowing her to be "the leader", and then decides to tag along and help her out on her personal desire to steal materia from Shinra. And the duo are also pleasant towards the other NPCs. Sonon expresses a general apathy towards Midgar - as is to be expected of someone whose home country was invaded - but it doesn't dominate him. These two are my favorite party members in this remake series thus far. If I could mix and match a party of any characters, it would be those two and Red XIII, and maybe Barret if I could have four man parties. It would also be nice if you could make a full party of solid men with Cloud, Barret, and Sonon (apparently Cid is not playable in part 2?). I was a little disappointing that you couldn't directly play as Sonon, though.

I thought Sonon's design looked cool without being over the top and out of place for Remake's world. Not like Cloud (big pauldron when no one else wears one, huge sword on his back)/Barret (has a big gatling gun arm when no one else has one)/Tifa (scandalous outfit when only Andrea and that thief girl NPC wore something like that). Except for having a rather large staff on his back, he could better fit into the Midgar crowds and not obviously look like a suspect people should call the cops on. He is more in line with Biggs who was toeing the line of conspicuousness on that train, though having magazine clips on his chest was a giveaway.