If you've looked at any website or database that collects concept art for Final Fantasy VII, you may have stumbled across this image:
Those are "Mystery Panties", which was an unused key item for the original game.
Most people deduced these were Tifa's "Orthopedic Underwear", which you could collect jokingly during the Nibelheim flashback.
It turns out, however, that the panties are part of a bigger, darker secret buried deep within FFVII's coding.
The passage below is taken from two websites, GlitterBerri and Lifestream.net:
http://www.glitterberri.com/final-fantasy-vii/unseen-text/
http://thelifestream.net/final-fantasy-vii/9501/ffvii-the-unused-text-series/
Originally, the HoneyBee Inn was supposed to have several extra floors and rooms to visit, filled with patrons talking about the newest hostess, Tifa. Turns out in order to seek an audience with Don Corneo, Tifa had to work her way up the sleaze ladder to rank as one of the top girls at the Inn in order to catch Corneo's attention.
During this stage of the game, Tifa is already at Corneo's mansion awaiting an audience, so Cloud is tasked with collecting the necessary items in order to create a convincing crossdressing outfit in order to be let in.
Now that the context has been established, I'll let the video speak for itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3iEHsGeaDbY
If you hadn't quite pieced it together, you can get the quick and dirty version below:
Once you've come back from your fifth shower scrubbing off the imaginary filth you feel yourself covered with, you're probably wondering who would come up with such a twisted idea.
Behold the man responsible...
Food for thought.
Those are "Mystery Panties", which was an unused key item for the original game.
Most people deduced these were Tifa's "Orthopedic Underwear", which you could collect jokingly during the Nibelheim flashback.
It turns out, however, that the panties are part of a bigger, darker secret buried deep within FFVII's coding.
The passage below is taken from two websites, GlitterBerri and Lifestream.net:
http://www.glitterberri.com/final-fantasy-vii/unseen-text/
http://thelifestream.net/final-fantasy-vii/9501/ffvii-the-unused-text-series/
Originally, the HoneyBee Inn was supposed to have several extra floors and rooms to visit, filled with patrons talking about the newest hostess, Tifa. Turns out in order to seek an audience with Don Corneo, Tifa had to work her way up the sleaze ladder to rank as one of the top girls at the Inn in order to catch Corneo's attention.
During this stage of the game, Tifa is already at Corneo's mansion awaiting an audience, so Cloud is tasked with collecting the necessary items in order to create a convincing crossdressing outfit in order to be let in.
Now that the context has been established, I'll let the video speak for itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3iEHsGeaDbY
If you hadn't quite pieced it together, you can get the quick and dirty version below:
At one point in FFVII's development, you were able to procure a stolen pair of Tifa's panties from a pervert, which can be used as part of Cloud's disguise.
Only they aren't Tifa's panties....they're Marlene's.
Only they aren't Tifa's panties....they're Marlene's.
Once you've come back from your fifth shower scrubbing off the imaginary filth you feel yourself covered with, you're probably wondering who would come up with such a twisted idea.
Behold the man responsible...
Food for thought.
