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jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-09-12 12:41 am
jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-09-12 12:41 am
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This wasn't supposed to be next...
SO FINAL FANTASY XIII. Hi. How are you.
I was planning on waiting longer to buy this game at a nice Used price, but people kept talking about it, and then the game shop had a sale, and basically I bought it new for about $30, while used was still $54. WHATEVER.
And then, during the pre-game cutscene, the cat jumped on my lap and I hit a button and it jumped straight to the title screen and I had to sit around and wait forever for it to loop back around.
It all looks very pretty, and I like the music that goes with it and how it starts off soft, builds, and then drops back off again.
…I hope this story feels more coherent that FFXII’s did.
…So, thirteen days? WOULD IT HAVE BEEN ONLY TEN IF THIS WERE FFX?
I have no idea what is going on. I am probably not supposed to. FIGHT TIME?! Or are we just going to cut to Lightning destroying things. No, definitely fighting time.
I WANT A BABY CHOCOBO.
…NO I MEAN ANOTHER ONE.
No offense meant, of course, Agate. YOU ARE STILL MY BABY CHOCOBO.
What is the Purge?
Treasure chest, floating orb-thing… same difference.
Ah, being Purged is just being sent to Pulse (I KNOW ABOUT PULSE AND COCOON, ANYWAY)? …"just" maybe, I don’t know. So why are we being sent to Pulse? Oh, because we were too close to a Pulse fal’Cie or however. (Though Purged, or ‘relocated to Pulse’, it seems, may instead just be a nicer way of saying WE KILL YOU!!!)
I WILL MAKE A DEAL WITH YOU, SAZH. I will not be pushy if you do not stand right in my way.
(Worst preemptive strike ever.) ITEM TUTORIAL I already read about Item Usage.
OH NOW WE’RE ON SNOW (who, speaking solely on his appearance, here, reminds me vaguely of Seifer) and some other random NPCs. "Real heroes don’t need plans." Hmm. On one hand, I can agree. On the other, I suppose that means none of you are heroes, because, uh. YAY PLANNING? … and apparently we do actually have a plan (sort of. HIT IT UNTIL IT FALLS OVER isn’t exactly a plan), anyway.
The bodies all over the place are kind of depressing.
What’s with these robes, anyway? SILLY SPECIAL PURGE GEAR.
Moms maybe are tough, but I bet that Mom’s gonna get herself killed (or something similarly awful). SAY GOODBYE, HOPE.
DRAMATIC MISSING OF THE GUN.
NOW EVERYONE FALLS DOWN AND DIES.
NOW BACK TO LIGHTNING AND SAZH. Oh, yep. "Purge" = death euphemism.
… GDI SE.
Siren! "What’s that?" SCREEN GOES BLACK.
AAAA SILENT HILL
Meanwhile, Vanille encourages bad behaviour. (Let's chase after Snow, 'cause you're angry about your Mom and are blaming him for her death! WHAT COULD DO WRONG WITH GOING OVER TO WHERE THE PULSE fal'CIE IS??) Not that either of them have actually been named yet, but whatever. I KNOW WHO YOU ALL ARE.
Toggling between Snow's soloing and Vanille and Hope poking around looking for him. Yay, we're all together now! Hope is angry, but silent.
OH LOOK SERAH IS DEAD WHO SAW THAT COMING okay Lightning just punched Snow and that was pretty awesome.
No offense guys, but charging the fal’Cie seems kind of like a terrible idea. (And it’s Anima! Blargle!)
… I don’t know what I was expecting the thing to look like, but a … big, mechanical-looking thing surrounding a crystal-thing all in a shell was not it.
Yay, we ticked it off! FULL ATTACK!
I keep thinking the Stagger gauge is the HP gauge. It makes for a confusing battle.
ALSO WHICH OF YOU IDIOTS KEEPS TRYING TO ATTACK ANIMA STOP THAT STOP THAT I DON’T LIKE THE ARM-SWEEP COUNTERATTACK IT HURTS
AND NOW EVERYONE IS A l’CIE RIGHT? (I’d had that spoiled for me, sort of. It’s been kind of painfully obvious, anyway, though.)
Floating!
Dramatic bell tolling!
EVERYTHING EXPLODING. Anima makes stuff freeze and go boom while in its death throes. And we’re totally l’Cie. AWESOMENESS.
Day 11! Wherein Snow and Serah become engaged because Snow wished upon some fireworks and Serah wonders how she’ll tell Lightning she’s become a l’Cie and then they both nearly get killed by fireworks whilst flying through them and trying to kiss. And also Fang is apparently looking for someone, but maybe we aren’t supposed to know it’s her yet.
Back to the present, everything is all… frozen or crystallized or something. Cocoon lowlands, Lake Bresha. Ah. It’s crystal. SERAH TOTALLY SAVED US FROM THE HUGE FALL – dude, she’s a crystal – I USE MAGIC ON THE Cie’th! And Hope is all probably having another breakdown. Yeah. (Yes, apparently we had to attack it, but why did you have to follow us I AM JUST ASKING.) …Snow, don’t be mean to the poor kid.
Paradigm time!
Also incoming Ragnarok time.
Snow decides our job is to protect Cocoon. Because Serah said so.
Wow, becoming l’Cie lets you do all sorts of neat things. Not only can we heal without potions and use magic abilities, but now we can even earn EXP (or the equivalent, anyway). Crystarium. Whatever. Same differenceeee.
We walk five miles and repeat OUR FOCUS IS TO PROTECT COCOON!! Only this time Sazh is all like, no, man, what gave you that idea? The fal’Cie are EVIL! While we are arguing, soldiers show up to arrest our sorry faces. Lightning smashes most them and is awesome. And then rains on everyone’s "whoo, they weren’t so bad!" parade by threatening us with stories of the PSICOM elites.
So Vanille sets a stunning example by FLEEING THE SCENE. (She is adorable! People really find her annoying? …who am I kidding, of course they do.)
… Snow, you can’t keep the kids out of trouble. Even beyond the “being one of them” thing. You got them INTO trouble. XD
Hey, now there’s a People section in the datalog!
… Heeey, the chocobo chick has an entry! Ha! “The chick has no name, as voicing the true identity of the animal might trigger ripples of destiny across Cocoon and cause a hurricane in Eden. Either that, or Sazh just hasn’t thought of one yet.” My money’s on the former.
"Should we look for another way around?" Vanille asks as I careen hopelessly into the walls. Shush. Stop mocking my inability to steer!
Oh, I accidentally saw part of these scene before (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mysticeden has a game streaming account … sssomewhere, anyway, and I was watching the gameplay and OOPS CUTSCENE). I wonder what they plan on doing with Serah once they chip her crystal out of the other crystal… They can’t really drag it around all over, can they…?
LIGHTNING DECKS SNOW AGAIN (AND AGAIN AND AGAIN), geez.
ON NO ENEMY ATTACK. …Hope sure spends a lot of time down on the floor… Sitting or sulking or crawling backwards away from things…
… hahaaa, Sazh and the shaking of the tube. DID I OR DID I NOT SAY "DO NOT SHAKE THE SLIPPERY TUBE"? Sorryyyyy, Sazh.
Oh, now look what you’ve done, Lightning. Now, rather than just shout at Snow, I think Hope is intending to commit acts of violence upon him.
Okay, we have now slowly made our way to some ruins. There are crystal flames now, which Sazh helpfully points out... First Vanille finds us a helpful shortcut, but then she pulls a boss. I guess they even out.
Whoo, now Sazh and Vanille can do new things! Also, whee, flying thing. Escape!
MEANWHILE, WAY BACK WHEREVER… Snow is still attempting to chip away at Serah. It doesn’t appear to be going well. Also now the sweep team has found him. So now we’re progressed to SNOW VS THE WORLD. Fortunately, they’re kind of pushovers.
For me, anyway, not really, I guess, since now Snow is all OMG I AM DYING oh look my arm is glowing SUMMON THINGS ATTACK death death death.
HI FANG.
Now I fight the Eidolons.
Crap, I just skipped half the tutorial. HOPE THAT WASN’T IMPORTANT. Timer fail. I am dead now.
I like how Snow is totally cool with just hopping on the random bike-thing. AND now he is unconscious. And now being dragged away. Wheeee.
BACK WITH THE OTHER FOUR AGAIN NOW they are attempting to fly away and mostly barely managing to not get themselves killed in attempting to escape.
YAAAY, we made it!
Blah, blah, blah, The Sanctum’s talking about the Purge and everyone is happily relocated to Cocoon now, right, right?
Hey, you know, Sazh, no one could be a Pulse l’Cie if everyone were dead. The idea does have some merit, in an extreme, ridiculous sort of way. WHOOPS MORE GUYS AFTER US TIME TO RUN AWAY AGAIN.
AND SO WE DID.
…AND THAT IS THE END OF CHAPTER 3, with Snow captured and everyone else stuck in a crashing airship. Whee!
WE SURVIVED SOMEHOW. WHAT A MIRACLE.
Haha, Lightning is such a wonderful team player. YOU CAN’T KEEP UP? FINE, STAY HERE.
Oh, another flashback. Now Vanille is watching the fireworks. Oh, so it Lightning. (Well, okay, so is everyone, but that’s who we’ve just watched watching…)
Idle chat > Lightning.
So, hate to be the one to break it to you but you’re totally not getting that promotion.
"Pulsework" Soldier, haha. It … split and got taller halfway through, that was kinda weird. Stagger makes it go boom, I guess.
I DON’T BELIEVE IN GOING BACK.
The background vocals remind me of something I’ve heard, don’t remember where. The notes they sing. Maybe something out of .hack//SIGN.
MOAR FLASHBACK.
… wow. STAY IN LINE OR WE SHOOT YOU!
… Hope, you went into the vestige to yell at Snow for getting your mother killed. That’s… okay, it is quite different, but not COMPLETELY different from getting on the Purge train.
Lightning left, but you didn’t hop after, so obviously it’s completely your fault.
BABY CHOCOBOOOOO. It’s helping! CHIRPING IS HELPING OKAY.
"Now the robots are fighting each other?" … well, naturally. What else would they be doing? Getting along? Tch. AS IF.
… Sazh is going to get us killed with his machinery-poking (more than I’m already managing, I mean. This "Retry" option is making me careless). TERRIFYING FAN OF DOOM.
Hey, we found Hope again, anyway. "Grumpy" went up over the wall. We’re never catching up with her. (Hope is a rather despairing individual. SE thinks they’re funny.)
AAAND BACK TO DAY 11 AGAIN!
Hope has issues with his father. ~MYSTERIOUS~? Or just Tidus Jr.?
And I feel confident now saying that Sazh has/had a kid. (I hope they haven’t gone over that already and I somehow missed it. How embarrassing.)
… I can’t for the life of me work out what just prompted Hope to say, "Guess we’re fighting." Hope, no. This is a save point. We don’t fight this.
I didn’t pay a lot of attention during the battle rating tutorial/explanation thing, so I’m not sure if SE doesn’t like my style because it takes a little longer, or if they don’t like my job choices, or that I don’t switch around a lot, or what, but, man, I’m scoring poorly on these suckers through here.
Are we supposed to be suspicious of how little Vanille seems to know about some of this stuff, or is she just in the unfortunate role of serving as an exposition device? I mean, really. Something’s probably up here. Is she from Pulse? It’s the only explanation I can think of.
(If Vanille is from Pulse, then Fang is, too – because I know they know each other, on account of accidentally being spoiled for that before the game even came out…. [Also their outfits are kinda similar and they are both Australian.] Fang already has the l’Cie mark, but it’s weird looking. Did she somehow complete her Focus and not turn into a crystal, or what? Also, could that mean Vanille was a l’Cie before we all stormed Anima? What would that even mean? [Though then wouldn’t her mark be further along?] It would potentially put that clip from the pre-game scenes - right at the end, where Vanille is staring up at Cocoon - into an entirely other context.)
… Brain is in overthinking mode. How to stop.
(Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I could be way off-base, here, anyway, but either way, I am thinking about it and enjoying it, which is a nice step up from their last console game that I played. Oh, FFXII. You had amazing characters, and you were fun once I got past the AAAUGH IT’S LIKE SINGLE-PLAYER FFXI bit, but your story needed serious work. Or to at least not be quite so far removed, random, and, ultimately, pointless.)
Lightning’s back! Aaand she’s off again. Everybody run to catch up! We mustn’t lose her again so soon! She destroys shit so much better than the rest of us!
DREADNOUGHT! And then it shoots the floor out from under us and jumps on our heads.
Whoo, I can upgrade weapons and stuff now! Not to say I will, but I CAN.
Game plan (oh, excuse me – "This isn’t a game!") is to charge Eden (AKA Sanctum HQ / the head fal’Cie). KILL!!!
Unfortunate rhymes in dramatic speeches always make me giggle, especially when coming from the serious characters. I don’t take orders from fal’Cie! How I live is up to me! … very nice, Lightning.
… aaaand she’s off again. With Hope trailing after.
OH, NO, it’s the Noir soundtrack that this music is reminding me of! "Les Soldats". …yeah, that was a little random, but I just finally figured out what it was.
Meanwhile,Snow lolwhut? Hope is futzing around with Pulse machinery and ticking Light[ning] off. We rampage around and then crash. Exciting.
… haha, he keeps making comments on how he wants another one. Hope, you’re adorable. "It was a lot easier when we didn’t have to walk…"
And then he randomly falls over on a bridge. Lightning says GO AWAY GEEZ I CAN’T BABY YOU and then she explodes. (By "explodes" I mean "is attacked by Odin", who has no horse, and even then he was originally aiming for Hope but she jumped in the way. They are so similar, it is easy to understand the confusion.) Holy hell, I wish I’d known this was coming. I am so not going to win this on my first attempt. XD
OH! OR MAYBE I WILL! With like 50 remaining on the clock, geeeeez. That was close.
(ODIN IS SLEIPNIR.)
Haa, she can’t really abandon the poor kid.
This chapter is officially longer than the other three thus far. They were all only six parts, and now we’re up to seven.
… dang, now she’s even waiting while he rests. Careful, Hope, I think she’s adopted you (though she will deny it FOR EVERRRR).
And back to Sazh and Vanille now.
… You know, I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about the "tunnel vision" in this game, but it doesn’t really bother me. Of course, apparently the "tunnel vision" of FFX ticked these people off, too, and… I dunno. I don’t care? The story is entertaining me. There is no word map? I can deal. There are no towns? … Well, yeah, we’re on the run. Town would be a bad place to swing through. It would be kinda nice if we could explore a little more, or if the camera were a little less fixed at times, but it’s still so pretty, and I have fun running around what areas I can, anyway.
Maybe I’ll have changed my mind twenty hours in, though. I suppose it could happen.
Anyway! WE ACTIVATE A MACHINE. Or Sazh does, anyway. A machine for powering other machines! Or so Vanille proposes.
Also, she is still adorable. (SO IS THE CHOCOBO.) Hee, drawing a line in the dirt. DO NOT CROSS. And now sad! Sad is not adorable. Sad is… uh. Sad. *genius* :(
Oh, hey, Snow’s back. (…If Fang and Vanille are from Pulse, you could make - and I'm sure people have already made - terrible jokes about their "land down under" accents.)
We are on the Lindblum. We are meeting some guy! Ah, Cid. We are meeting Cid. BRIGADIER GENERAL RAINES TO YOU.
Maybe we should retitle this game, "Everyone Beats On Snow, But He Kind of Deserves It, Anyway"…
Baaack to day 7…. Where Serah and Snow are breaking up, I guess (‘cause of the l’Cie thing, right)? Or Serah is trying to and Snow is giving soulful speeches, or he is until Serah is all LOOK WHAT I AM NOW WE ARE ENEMIES I AM GOING TO RUN AWAY CRYING.
Oh, hey, I can control this one! Wandering around the beach, la la la.
Haha, I like Snow standing around, eavesdropping on all these conversations while punching his hands together.
This guy is playing with his dog. It is cute and fluffy. =(
Oh, she’s on the dock. Now they have made up and we start down that whole I WILL SAVE SERAH thing that led half of us to where we are now in the first place. … well, a couple of us, anyway. Maybe not a full half. Whatever.
Hey, have I made it to the end of chapter four?
Maybe?
Maybe not…? Ugh, I don’t know. Gabra Whitewood.
Lightning will take front! NO SHE WON’T HOPE WANTS THAT JOB. Oh, okay. Hope will take front!
…Dude, she has totally, totally adopted you, Hope. You’re never getting away now.
Ah, yes, new chapter.
OKAY, CALLING IT A DAY (not that this is just one day’s worth of playing). And an entry, for that matter.
I was planning on waiting longer to buy this game at a nice Used price, but people kept talking about it, and then the game shop had a sale, and basically I bought it new for about $30, while used was still $54. WHATEVER.
And then, during the pre-game cutscene, the cat jumped on my lap and I hit a button and it jumped straight to the title screen and I had to sit around and wait forever for it to loop back around.
It all looks very pretty, and I like the music that goes with it and how it starts off soft, builds, and then drops back off again.
…I hope this story feels more coherent that FFXII’s did.
…So, thirteen days? WOULD IT HAVE BEEN ONLY TEN IF THIS WERE FFX?
I have no idea what is going on. I am probably not supposed to. FIGHT TIME?! Or are we just going to cut to Lightning destroying things. No, definitely fighting time.
I WANT A BABY CHOCOBO.
…NO I MEAN ANOTHER ONE.
No offense meant, of course, Agate. YOU ARE STILL MY BABY CHOCOBO.
What is the Purge?
Treasure chest, floating orb-thing… same difference.
Ah, being Purged is just being sent to Pulse (I KNOW ABOUT PULSE AND COCOON, ANYWAY)? …"just" maybe, I don’t know. So why are we being sent to Pulse? Oh, because we were too close to a Pulse fal’Cie or however. (Though Purged, or ‘relocated to Pulse’, it seems, may instead just be a nicer way of saying WE KILL YOU!!!)
I WILL MAKE A DEAL WITH YOU, SAZH. I will not be pushy if you do not stand right in my way.
(Worst preemptive strike ever.) ITEM TUTORIAL I already read about Item Usage.
OH NOW WE’RE ON SNOW (who, speaking solely on his appearance, here, reminds me vaguely of Seifer) and some other random NPCs. "Real heroes don’t need plans." Hmm. On one hand, I can agree. On the other, I suppose that means none of you are heroes, because, uh. YAY PLANNING? … and apparently we do actually have a plan (sort of. HIT IT UNTIL IT FALLS OVER isn’t exactly a plan), anyway.
The bodies all over the place are kind of depressing.
What’s with these robes, anyway? SILLY SPECIAL PURGE GEAR.
Moms maybe are tough, but I bet that Mom’s gonna get herself killed (or something similarly awful). SAY GOODBYE, HOPE.
DRAMATIC MISSING OF THE GUN.
NOW EVERYONE FALLS DOWN AND DIES.
NOW BACK TO LIGHTNING AND SAZH. Oh, yep. "Purge" = death euphemism.
… GDI SE.
Siren! "What’s that?" SCREEN GOES BLACK.
AAAA SILENT HILL
Meanwhile, Vanille encourages bad behaviour. (Let's chase after Snow, 'cause you're angry about your Mom and are blaming him for her death! WHAT COULD DO WRONG WITH GOING OVER TO WHERE THE PULSE fal'CIE IS??) Not that either of them have actually been named yet, but whatever. I KNOW WHO YOU ALL ARE.
Toggling between Snow's soloing and Vanille and Hope poking around looking for him. Yay, we're all together now! Hope is angry, but silent.
OH LOOK SERAH IS DEAD WHO SAW THAT COMING okay Lightning just punched Snow and that was pretty awesome.
No offense guys, but charging the fal’Cie seems kind of like a terrible idea. (And it’s Anima! Blargle!)
… I don’t know what I was expecting the thing to look like, but a … big, mechanical-looking thing surrounding a crystal-thing all in a shell was not it.
Yay, we ticked it off! FULL ATTACK!
I keep thinking the Stagger gauge is the HP gauge. It makes for a confusing battle.
ALSO WHICH OF YOU IDIOTS KEEPS TRYING TO ATTACK ANIMA STOP THAT STOP THAT I DON’T LIKE THE ARM-SWEEP COUNTERATTACK IT HURTS
AND NOW EVERYONE IS A l’CIE RIGHT? (I’d had that spoiled for me, sort of. It’s been kind of painfully obvious, anyway, though.)
Floating!
Dramatic bell tolling!
EVERYTHING EXPLODING. Anima makes stuff freeze and go boom while in its death throes. And we’re totally l’Cie. AWESOMENESS.
Day 11! Wherein Snow and Serah become engaged because Snow wished upon some fireworks and Serah wonders how she’ll tell Lightning she’s become a l’Cie and then they both nearly get killed by fireworks whilst flying through them and trying to kiss. And also Fang is apparently looking for someone, but maybe we aren’t supposed to know it’s her yet.
Back to the present, everything is all… frozen or crystallized or something. Cocoon lowlands, Lake Bresha. Ah. It’s crystal. SERAH TOTALLY SAVED US FROM THE HUGE FALL – dude, she’s a crystal – I USE MAGIC ON THE Cie’th! And Hope is all probably having another breakdown. Yeah. (Yes, apparently we had to attack it, but why did you have to follow us I AM JUST ASKING.) …Snow, don’t be mean to the poor kid.
Paradigm time!
Also incoming Ragnarok time.
Snow decides our job is to protect Cocoon. Because Serah said so.
Wow, becoming l’Cie lets you do all sorts of neat things. Not only can we heal without potions and use magic abilities, but now we can even earn EXP (or the equivalent, anyway). Crystarium. Whatever. Same differenceeee.
We walk five miles and repeat OUR FOCUS IS TO PROTECT COCOON!! Only this time Sazh is all like, no, man, what gave you that idea? The fal’Cie are EVIL! While we are arguing, soldiers show up to arrest our sorry faces. Lightning smashes most them and is awesome. And then rains on everyone’s "whoo, they weren’t so bad!" parade by threatening us with stories of the PSICOM elites.
So Vanille sets a stunning example by FLEEING THE SCENE. (She is adorable! People really find her annoying? …who am I kidding, of course they do.)
… Snow, you can’t keep the kids out of trouble. Even beyond the “being one of them” thing. You got them INTO trouble. XD
Hey, now there’s a People section in the datalog!
… Heeey, the chocobo chick has an entry! Ha! “The chick has no name, as voicing the true identity of the animal might trigger ripples of destiny across Cocoon and cause a hurricane in Eden. Either that, or Sazh just hasn’t thought of one yet.” My money’s on the former.
"Should we look for another way around?" Vanille asks as I careen hopelessly into the walls. Shush. Stop mocking my inability to steer!
Oh, I accidentally saw part of these scene before (
mysticeden has a game streaming account … sssomewhere, anyway, and I was watching the gameplay and OOPS CUTSCENE). I wonder what they plan on doing with Serah once they chip her crystal out of the other crystal… They can’t really drag it around all over, can they…?LIGHTNING DECKS SNOW AGAIN (AND AGAIN AND AGAIN), geez.
ON NO ENEMY ATTACK. …Hope sure spends a lot of time down on the floor… Sitting or sulking or crawling backwards away from things…
… hahaaa, Sazh and the shaking of the tube. DID I OR DID I NOT SAY "DO NOT SHAKE THE SLIPPERY TUBE"? Sorryyyyy, Sazh.
Oh, now look what you’ve done, Lightning. Now, rather than just shout at Snow, I think Hope is intending to commit acts of violence upon him.
Okay, we have now slowly made our way to some ruins. There are crystal flames now, which Sazh helpfully points out... First Vanille finds us a helpful shortcut, but then she pulls a boss. I guess they even out.
Whoo, now Sazh and Vanille can do new things! Also, whee, flying thing. Escape!
MEANWHILE, WAY BACK WHEREVER… Snow is still attempting to chip away at Serah. It doesn’t appear to be going well. Also now the sweep team has found him. So now we’re progressed to SNOW VS THE WORLD. Fortunately, they’re kind of pushovers.
For me, anyway, not really, I guess, since now Snow is all OMG I AM DYING oh look my arm is glowing SUMMON THINGS ATTACK death death death.
HI FANG.
Now I fight the Eidolons.
Crap, I just skipped half the tutorial. HOPE THAT WASN’T IMPORTANT. Timer fail. I am dead now.
I like how Snow is totally cool with just hopping on the random bike-thing. AND now he is unconscious. And now being dragged away. Wheeee.
BACK WITH THE OTHER FOUR AGAIN NOW they are attempting to fly away and mostly barely managing to not get themselves killed in attempting to escape.
YAAAY, we made it!
Blah, blah, blah, The Sanctum’s talking about the Purge and everyone is happily relocated to Cocoon now, right, right?
Hey, you know, Sazh, no one could be a Pulse l’Cie if everyone were dead. The idea does have some merit, in an extreme, ridiculous sort of way. WHOOPS MORE GUYS AFTER US TIME TO RUN AWAY AGAIN.
AND SO WE DID.
…AND THAT IS THE END OF CHAPTER 3, with Snow captured and everyone else stuck in a crashing airship. Whee!
WE SURVIVED SOMEHOW. WHAT A MIRACLE.
Haha, Lightning is such a wonderful team player. YOU CAN’T KEEP UP? FINE, STAY HERE.
Oh, another flashback. Now Vanille is watching the fireworks. Oh, so it Lightning. (Well, okay, so is everyone, but that’s who we’ve just watched watching…)
Idle chat > Lightning.
So, hate to be the one to break it to you but you’re totally not getting that promotion.
"Pulsework" Soldier, haha. It … split and got taller halfway through, that was kinda weird. Stagger makes it go boom, I guess.
I DON’T BELIEVE IN GOING BACK.
The background vocals remind me of something I’ve heard, don’t remember where. The notes they sing. Maybe something out of .hack//SIGN.
MOAR FLASHBACK.
… wow. STAY IN LINE OR WE SHOOT YOU!
… Hope, you went into the vestige to yell at Snow for getting your mother killed. That’s… okay, it is quite different, but not COMPLETELY different from getting on the Purge train.
Lightning left, but you didn’t hop after, so obviously it’s completely your fault.
BABY CHOCOBOOOOO. It’s helping! CHIRPING IS HELPING OKAY.
"Now the robots are fighting each other?" … well, naturally. What else would they be doing? Getting along? Tch. AS IF.
… Sazh is going to get us killed with his machinery-poking (more than I’m already managing, I mean. This "Retry" option is making me careless). TERRIFYING FAN OF DOOM.
Hey, we found Hope again, anyway. "Grumpy" went up over the wall. We’re never catching up with her. (Hope is a rather despairing individual. SE thinks they’re funny.)
AAAND BACK TO DAY 11 AGAIN!
Hope has issues with his father. ~MYSTERIOUS~? Or just Tidus Jr.?
And I feel confident now saying that Sazh has/had a kid. (I hope they haven’t gone over that already and I somehow missed it. How embarrassing.)
… I can’t for the life of me work out what just prompted Hope to say, "Guess we’re fighting." Hope, no. This is a save point. We don’t fight this.
I didn’t pay a lot of attention during the battle rating tutorial/explanation thing, so I’m not sure if SE doesn’t like my style because it takes a little longer, or if they don’t like my job choices, or that I don’t switch around a lot, or what, but, man, I’m scoring poorly on these suckers through here.
Are we supposed to be suspicious of how little Vanille seems to know about some of this stuff, or is she just in the unfortunate role of serving as an exposition device? I mean, really. Something’s probably up here. Is she from Pulse? It’s the only explanation I can think of.
(If Vanille is from Pulse, then Fang is, too – because I know they know each other, on account of accidentally being spoiled for that before the game even came out…. [Also their outfits are kinda similar and they are both Australian.] Fang already has the l’Cie mark, but it’s weird looking. Did she somehow complete her Focus and not turn into a crystal, or what? Also, could that mean Vanille was a l’Cie before we all stormed Anima? What would that even mean? [Though then wouldn’t her mark be further along?] It would potentially put that clip from the pre-game scenes - right at the end, where Vanille is staring up at Cocoon - into an entirely other context.)
… Brain is in overthinking mode. How to stop.
(Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I could be way off-base, here, anyway, but either way, I am thinking about it and enjoying it, which is a nice step up from their last console game that I played. Oh, FFXII. You had amazing characters, and you were fun once I got past the AAAUGH IT’S LIKE SINGLE-PLAYER FFXI bit, but your story needed serious work. Or to at least not be quite so far removed, random, and, ultimately, pointless.)
Lightning’s back! Aaand she’s off again. Everybody run to catch up! We mustn’t lose her again so soon! She destroys shit so much better than the rest of us!
DREADNOUGHT! And then it shoots the floor out from under us and jumps on our heads.
Whoo, I can upgrade weapons and stuff now! Not to say I will, but I CAN.
Game plan (oh, excuse me – "This isn’t a game!") is to charge Eden (AKA Sanctum HQ / the head fal’Cie). KILL!!!
Unfortunate rhymes in dramatic speeches always make me giggle, especially when coming from the serious characters. I don’t take orders from fal’Cie! How I live is up to me! … very nice, Lightning.
… aaaand she’s off again. With Hope trailing after.
OH, NO, it’s the Noir soundtrack that this music is reminding me of! "Les Soldats". …yeah, that was a little random, but I just finally figured out what it was.
Meanwhile,
… haha, he keeps making comments on how he wants another one. Hope, you’re adorable. "It was a lot easier when we didn’t have to walk…"
And then he randomly falls over on a bridge. Lightning says GO AWAY GEEZ I CAN’T BABY YOU and then she explodes. (By "explodes" I mean "is attacked by Odin", who has no horse, and even then he was originally aiming for Hope but she jumped in the way. They are so similar, it is easy to understand the confusion.) Holy hell, I wish I’d known this was coming. I am so not going to win this on my first attempt. XD
OH! OR MAYBE I WILL! With like 50 remaining on the clock, geeeeez. That was close.
(ODIN IS SLEIPNIR.)
Haa, she can’t really abandon the poor kid.
This chapter is officially longer than the other three thus far. They were all only six parts, and now we’re up to seven.
… dang, now she’s even waiting while he rests. Careful, Hope, I think she’s adopted you (though she will deny it FOR EVERRRR).
And back to Sazh and Vanille now.
… You know, I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about the "tunnel vision" in this game, but it doesn’t really bother me. Of course, apparently the "tunnel vision" of FFX ticked these people off, too, and… I dunno. I don’t care? The story is entertaining me. There is no word map? I can deal. There are no towns? … Well, yeah, we’re on the run. Town would be a bad place to swing through. It would be kinda nice if we could explore a little more, or if the camera were a little less fixed at times, but it’s still so pretty, and I have fun running around what areas I can, anyway.
Maybe I’ll have changed my mind twenty hours in, though. I suppose it could happen.
Anyway! WE ACTIVATE A MACHINE. Or Sazh does, anyway. A machine for powering other machines! Or so Vanille proposes.
Also, she is still adorable. (SO IS THE CHOCOBO.) Hee, drawing a line in the dirt. DO NOT CROSS. And now sad! Sad is not adorable. Sad is… uh. Sad. *genius* :(
Oh, hey, Snow’s back. (…If Fang and Vanille are from Pulse, you could make - and I'm sure people have already made - terrible jokes about their "land down under" accents.)
We are on the Lindblum. We are meeting some guy! Ah, Cid. We are meeting Cid. BRIGADIER GENERAL RAINES TO YOU.
Maybe we should retitle this game, "Everyone Beats On Snow, But He Kind of Deserves It, Anyway"…
Baaack to day 7…. Where Serah and Snow are breaking up, I guess (‘cause of the l’Cie thing, right)? Or Serah is trying to and Snow is giving soulful speeches, or he is until Serah is all LOOK WHAT I AM NOW WE ARE ENEMIES I AM GOING TO RUN AWAY CRYING.
Oh, hey, I can control this one! Wandering around the beach, la la la.
Haha, I like Snow standing around, eavesdropping on all these conversations while punching his hands together.
This guy is playing with his dog. It is cute and fluffy. =(
Oh, she’s on the dock. Now they have made up and we start down that whole I WILL SAVE SERAH thing that led half of us to where we are now in the first place. … well, a couple of us, anyway. Maybe not a full half. Whatever.
Hey, have I made it to the end of chapter four?
Maybe?
Maybe not…? Ugh, I don’t know. Gabra Whitewood.
Lightning will take front! NO SHE WON’T HOPE WANTS THAT JOB. Oh, okay. Hope will take front!
…Dude, she has totally, totally adopted you, Hope. You’re never getting away now.
Ah, yes, new chapter.
OKAY, CALLING IT A DAY (not that this is just one day’s worth of playing). And an entry, for that matter.