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The random stuff that pops into my head.
Scary Little Red Guy
The Mysterious "Red Man" in the desert prison

the Red Man confused me at first, as he doesnt look like anything from ff7 (espesially his face) here is a picture of him User Image
here is some rumors about him from ff7citadel.com :

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What is that little red man? I certainly didn't remember seeing anything like that while playing the game. However, what I found even odder was that there was no "regular" version of this background, which could've been the one I remembered from FFVII. Confounded by this discovery, I posted the image on the Citadel's Forums.

I got a fairly large number of responses. Seb theorized that the little guy is the "signature" of the background artist and/or programmer, and that since it was too late to change the CG background, the empty chest in that scene (which is a separate sprite) was added to cover it up. It seemed like a perfectly plausible theory, since the empty chest in the Desert Prison is one of the game's mysteries. However, when I checked out that part of the game for myself, the results I got were especially baffling:User Image
Notice that the chest doesn't completely cover the area where the "red guy" is in the first picture, and is even placed further right. BlueJay expressed doubt, saying that Cosmo might've added something to the background itself. So I downloaded Gast, a similar image viewer made by a different programmer, and searched through the Desert Prison backgrounds again-- getting the exact same results that I did with Cosmo.

Thus, the mystery remains: what exactly is the "Red Man", and how did the game's programmers manage to cover up his existance, without the use of a second rendered background?

I recently learned that the foregrounds and backgrounds of each individual background image can be viewed separately. Here are the respective ones for the pit in the Desert Prison: User Image
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So it seems that what was behind the "red guy" was preserved in the "background" layer, and the figure itself was somehow masked out in the finished version of FFVII. Still, I thought it was an interesting little find...

very interesting indeed...

Grave of Zered
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  • User Comments: [2]
    Kitty Hinata13
    Community Member





    Wed Jan 16, 2008 @ 09:37pm


    Oooh, cool.


    T o g e T s u m O
    Community Member





    Sat Feb 23, 2008 @ 04:35am


    Now im going to have nightmares. I never noticed him before.


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