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jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-09-20 02:12 am
jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-09-20 02:12 am
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ASGDHJ THIS GAME
Previous f-locked entry regarding original characters and names removed due to me feeling stupid about posting it this evening. If anyone did have a comment for it but hadn't got around to posting it, you can just drop it, uh... Here. Or over there. Or... I don't care. XD Wherever. I do want to know, I just... felt it was a stupid entry.
ANYWAY. Doing other things is for people with lives.
Pseudo-stealth mission, go! (That I didn’t realize it was one until over halfway through kind of says something… KILLING EVERYTHING WHOO good thing I’m not being graded, I guess.)
Oh, Hope does not know exactly where this takes us. XD Well, this’ll be exciting.
Haa, and now “Flanitor”s…
It’s Carbuncle!
… you are much cuter when you are an atomic squirrel.
I like this “don’t fight the fal’Cie” plan they’ve just come up with. Yes, let’s leave the food-producing thing alone. Very wise. (Kinda weird that Carbuncle doesn’t seem to be at all reacting to our presence, though. Wonder what that’s about.)
Whoops, Hope got left behind. The platform left without him! Nooo! Maybe he can teleport.
Why do the fal’Cie baby us. Pets, haha, not sure I entirely buy it, but yeah, good comparison.
(Personally, I’ve become fond of thinking of Cocoon and Pulse as some grand social experiment, you know, like Zimbardo’s prison experiment. They put a bunch of people in a moon and were like THE PEOPLE ON THE PLANET ARE BAD and then sat back to watch what happened.)
And probably a good call trying to cancel the RAGE DOOM (and, you know, hooray for introspection and realizing things about oneself.)
But now we’re back to panicking. (Lightning, we already lost [H]ope, don’t you remember? He caught right back up after you ran into that big lizard-thing, though, so I don’t think it’s really a huge deal or anything.)
Hope, you knew this was going to come up eventually. YOU KNOW YOUR NAME.
FLASHBACK HALLUCINATION THINGS YAY?
Squeenix, please don’t name a character after a word that gets used a lot in the English dub again, it is just ridiculous. HOPE hope Hope hope hope Hope hope ahkjfsdolg!!!
I redub them Team Emotion-Avoidant.
Bwaaarg, crap. HEY LOOK WE’RE ON THE SCREEN! Bad news, bad neeews.
Hey, Snow’s back. WITH ICY DOOM FOR THE SOLDIERS.
Ah, she’s finally been named in-game!
Hey, don’t shoot the poor news camera! It didn’t do anything wrong!
Anyway, yay, we got out of that mess. (…Not a surprise, but I’m glad it wasn’t just AND THEN EVERYONE WAS FINE DON’T ASK US HOW.) Here, Hope, go hang with your nemesis. (Fang, what have you been telling Snow that he thinks Serah can turn back. Is that why her mark is funny?)
Awesome, Snow, way to throw Hope off the bike. XD
… Oh, right, he’s way behind everyone so I have to die and die and die. Stupid solo boss-battle. (Oh, or not. Second time I killed him with the eidolons. WHATEVER.)
So Raines is an ally. Well, that’s good. (I’d kind of been wondering, based on his vague portrayal thus far.)
14775 CP ALL RIGHT thank god people not in the party still gain points, or he would NEVER EVER EVER have caught up.
HEY. HEY, DATALOG. HER NAME WAS SAID STOP CALLING HER “MYSTERIOUS WOMAN”.
ICE EVERYWHERE.
Haha, I love it when knocking the one guy up into the air kills them, so your frontliner / Commando uppercuts them fifty feet into the air and then just turns nonchalantly to the other guy. (It’s not amusing to me when they follow the mob up into the air, I guess is what I mean.)
Hope, we can hear your internal monologue. (And it’s not because we are mind-readers.)
OH SHIT SNOW THAT WAS UNCOOL. Fighting is stupid if you get killed! Dude, he blames you for getting his mother killed. BAD BAD BAD MOVE.
Now Fang is angry, too. And shouting. Yay, shouting. Hope is not great, Hope is about to murder you.
I’M NOT YOUR SISTER, SNOW, GOD.
Local army is upset that they are not being listened to and the poor civilians are gonna get killed. Sorry, guys. Just stay outta my way and we can call it good, yeah?
CONVENIENT HOPE TAKING THE PHONE-THING AND STATIC.
LIGHTNING DOESN’T BELIEVE IN BEING CALM AND COOL.
Fang is in my party (hell, she’s leading it), but is still just “Mysterious Woman” in the datalog.
AAAND FANG AND VANILLE ARE INDEED FROM GRAN PULSE! Wow. What a shock. I am sure no one saw that one coming.
Back to Snow and Hope now. Snow is planning either a GRAND SACRIFICE or to SAVE EVERYONE, since it looks like they might be conducting another Purge. And Hope’s gonna be all I AM ANGRY I GRIT MY TEETH.
Cool! The railing lights up alongside me as I run past!
That girl has a stuffed Carbuncle doll. Adorable! But still not the atomic squirrel. (FFXI easily wins the cutest Carbuncle prize.)
SNOW PUNCHES THE GUARD and causes mass hysteria by shooting the overhang overhead Sure, it got everyone else out of the way, but it also called the military right down on our heads…
Hope, don’t stop to check on the civilians. All it gets you is a Carbuncle-doll to the face and a mob.
Wow, nice, Snow, hitching a ride on the air unit! That was pretty cool.
Nooo, Hope, you’re back to sitting down… Blah, blah, more WE HAVE NO HOPE. And now PSICOM is blowing up signs for Felix Heights. (Snow, I somehow doubt that Hope cares that you are an orphan.)
…Snow, you just keep walking more and more into Hope’s hatred for you. Not that it’s your fault, since of course you don’t know, but, oh, man, you have an amazing knack for saying completely the wrong thing to the poor kid.
Boss battle… eh. Pretty easy.
CONFRONTATION. HOPE IS ANGRY! HOPE WILL EXPLODE NOW. No, uh, really. The shockwave blew Snow over the railing (but it’s okay! He grabbed the edge of the roof).
KNIFE ATTACK – foiled by missiles. Oh! You’re the kid that woman was all talking about! BUT TOO LATE EVERYONE FALLS OFF THE BUILDING NOW. Well, Hope is blown off the building. Snow lets go of the edge he’d been clinging to so he could… grab Hope and sort of kind of break his fall by taking the direct impact. Now we’re all unconscious in an alley. HOORAY!
Day 5 flashback time! Back in the Euride Gorge plant! Only with Vanille and Fang this time, instead of Sazh and Dajh. I guess Fang doesn’t know what her focus is/was since waking up / decrystalifying. (Given how weird Vanille has been acting in some regards, I have to wonder if she does remember more than Fang does.)
Forget our focus! We don’t need it!
We don’t need it??
And they split up so Fang could buy Vanille time to get away, and that is why Fang was looking for her in an earlier flashback.
SLAPFIGHT. Lightning, I know you can do better than that. I guess apologizing makes her slap you instead of knock your head off…
Anyway, off to Hope’s place, still.
Is the line still jammed, or is Snow just unconscious? Silly. More talking about Focuses and the not knowing and the turning into a crystal / turning back, though now with added Gran Pulse citizens being somewhat afraid of Cocoon. Good to see it runs both ways…
So, this’ll come as a total shock to you all, I’m sure, but I’m quite fond of Fang, too. I KNOW, RIGHT? WHAT THE HECK.
Also, she finally has a name in the datalog. Good job, Fang. You exist.
Oh, Snow has undied. Hope is still all bleargh on the ground, though. Cannot carry Hope. But we will grab Lightning’s knife back up!
Oh, no, there we go. Forward motion! Hurrah!
NOW BACK TO LIGHTNING AND FANG.
… I wanted to finish this chapter tonight, but apparently it’s really freaking long, and I’m getting really freaking tired. SO TOO BAD, I guess.
Snow’s brand is looking a little pointy. They said something about trauma making it progress faster, I wonder if Hope’s is farther along due to his whole being exceptionally distraught.
Hope is awake again now. Snow says he is sorryyyy, sorry he got your mom killed and sorry for, you know, everything and all.
Maturing as an individual! Now Hope is like, well, I mean, I had to blame someone, but it’s not… really your fault.
EVERYONE HUG NOW.
BOSS ATTACK. It’s okay. Snow’s got this one… RIGHT IN THE FACE and then the wall, anyway. Snow has totally got that wall covered, man. He is all over it.
… HOPE’S SOLO BATTLE. This will end well…
No. This is ridiculous, there is no way they’ll make me do this solo. I’m barely denting its HP. And actually now I’m just cure-spamming. EFFECTIVE BATTLE STRATEGIES.
YAY FANG AND LIGHTNING TO THE RESCUE. PREPARE TO DIE, THING.
Teamwork! It makes everything easier.
Here, Lightning, have your knife back. So we collect Snow and march on again. Aren’t we there yet?
… oh, look at that. We are! Ha.
I like how they just keep saying she’s gone, not that she’s, you know, dead. I knoooow, I know, they’re upset and euphemisms and denial and coping mechanisms and whatall.
Snow is waking up. QUICK, TURN OFF THE NEWS ABOUT THE PURGE.
I’m getting really sick of this song. GOD. At least in FFX, they remixed and revamped the track enough that you weren’t ready to scream every time it popped up again. At least cut the vocals, or something, I don’t know…
Chat time! Blah, blah, take down the Sanctum, save Cocoon… Ah, thank you, Hope’s Dad, for pointing out the flaw in this plan. Uh, guys. You’re Pulse l’Cie. If you topple the Sanctum, people are only going to panic even more.
OH NO POWER OUTTAGE must be the Sanctum. … Yep. Gas!
(I’m glad we’re all getting along better now, at least.)
Fang is getting annoyed that I’m choosing to hang out in the house and kill the perpetually respawning groups of soldiers. FANG. They drop an item that gives me a lot of gil! I NEED GIL OKAY. I have… 3k to my name. I can barely afford anything, and I think you have to pay for weapon upgrades, even if nothing else. So. Too bad. It’s not like we’re going to be here forever. Just a bit more. … or not, if I accidentally trigger the next scene. Boo.
Dad! Hope! Oh, we haven’t seen each other for like… five whole minutes omg.
SNOW, STOP TRYING TO REASON WITH THE SOLDIERS.
I mean, even if you rattle the troops, you’re not going to sway this… General-dude. Yaag whoever. Yeah, and now he’s turning that around. Look, if you really wanna protect Cocoon, won’t you just die? You don’t actually think your one life is worth millions of others, do you? DO YOU??? So die now!
Oh, except now he’s dead. Surprise! EVERYONE SHOOT EVERYONE ELSE NOW YAY. (Cavalry must be hiding in with the real troops.)
We’re just like… ‘kay, whatever, leaving now, then. But first, a touching father-son moment! Brought to you by… bondage. HOPE, GO TIE YOUR FATHER UP.
ANOTHER BOSS NOW.
Oh god this thing’s hp is 441,000 and it’s stagger is 999%. Kill the other things first?
Mediguard must be some kind of regen-granting thing, because otherwise I have no explanation for Fang’s HP.
… What?! … Oh, okay, Stagger… magically dropped to only, like, 200% or something at some point. Was like, NO I DID NOT GET IT TO 999% SE YOU ARE A LIAR. I didn’t. Okay.
… Who’s this clown? Other than part of the Cavalry, I mean.
Crystarium expanded. I must be at the end of the chapter.
Vanille keeps voicing over stuff randomly. This is her story, or something, I guess.
END OF CHAPTER 7.
NOW CHAPTER 8.
Nautilus! THE CITY OF DREAMS. Back to Narrator Vanille and Sazh! I wonder when we get to all meet back up again…
I wish I could remember how far along Vanille’s mark was, and whether she described her Focus-dreamthing or if she just jumped in with “everyone had the same one??” after a bit.
Oh, look, cutscenes from the last chapter are on the news! Vanille is all omg! At seeing Fang turn up in them. Non-l’Cie citizens encourage the murder of hostages ‘cause they’re totally infected with Pulse already, anyway, right?
Oh, these folk are relatively sane. They call the panicking idiots… well, idiots. Ha! A group of guys standing around talking about how cute chocobos are, except the poor guy who is allergic to them, and the guy who likes sheep better ‘cause he can’t get enough of that fluff.
Anyway, fal’Cie parade. Whee! … Or not, ‘cause Vanille is feeling sad.
Oh, it’s commemorating the war. Pompa Sancta parade? … I think we saw bits of this in the pre-game cutscenes.
IT RAINS CDs. They spew out Carbuncles that talk and then fly away!
The red dancers must be Pulse. … Yeah, seems so.
… Valefore? Or just something that looks similar, maybe. Carbuncle’s voice is annoying. CARBUNCLE IS SUPPOSED TO BE CUTE, NOT ANNOYING.
I like how the other group is getting over the awkward doom and these two are just getting more and more entrenched in it.
Okay, yeah, the sheep are apparently adorable. Vanille, I completely understand the SQUEEZE THEM ‘TIL THEY POP urge! Woolly fluff would go EVERYWHERE. Oh they are so cute.
… Yes, Vanille, that’s a chocobo. Do they not have those down on Pulse or something? I actually honestly cannot believe that.
VANILLE AND SAZH ARE ADORABLE I DON’T WANT AWKWARD AND UNHAPPY TIMES.
omfgchocobo
….. CHOCOBO SONG HAS LYRICS WHAT
TAKE US AROUND THE WORLD AND BACK AGAAAAAAIN.
WE WILL FIND THEM.
Okay, seriously, I’m moving on now. I mean it.
… goddamnit, someone invent chocobos so I can have one, already!
AAAUGH BABY CHOCOBO COME BACK!
It is so ADORABLE I am going to EXPLODE AUGH. NO STOP FLYING AWAY. Man, how does it go so fast when its wings are so TINY? And cute. And fluffy. BWEE.
oh god i just got attacked by a falling box
Man, this whole game, and the chocobo park is what finally gets me to create a second save file. XD Typical!
Nooo, Sazh! Don’t turn yourself in! I don’t care if you’re tired of running! (I can kind of understand why!) That is not the answer!
AAUGH VANILLE IS GOING TO TELL HIM NOW I CAN’T WATCH *hides behind hands*
Oh, no, convenient chocobo stampede and soldier attack. NOT YET, THEN.
Run away!
Boss battle…
RANDOMLY, DAJH. Surprise! o_O I totally thought it was a hallucination at firs--- nuuuuu! Dajh! Oh, Sazh. D:
... His crystal form looks different than Serah’s. Maybe it’s just a Pulse versus Cocoon thing. Ah, and his Focus was to help in the capture of the Pulse l’Cie, which is why he could sense Pulse-things.
…SORROW.
AND NOW THE SECRET IS OUT VIA REUSE OF CUTSCENES (aka “security cameras”). I AM JUST GOING TO GO CRY NOW. STUPID GAME. YOU’RE EVIL. AND MEAN.
YOU PROMISED ME CHOCOBOS AND THEN YOU GAVE ME THIS, THAT’S JUST NOT NICE. *throws controller at screen*
Vanille runs away crying and SAZH YOU’RE NOT GOING TO HURT HER, DAMNIT, YOU CAN’T FOOL ME.
And now she has hallucinations of Sazh killing her, boo. AND NOW HE’S REALLY HERE and they argue and it’s SAD this is a STUPID CHAPTER.
AUGH HIS CHEST trauma, the mark, augh, augh. Oh, no, it’s another Eidolon, not just rapid growth. Okay, okay, I can work with that.
NO SAZH DON’T SHOOT HER she is adorable and it would be sad.
HUG AND RUN AWAY MORE.
BABY CHOCOBO APPROVES OF NO SHOOTING.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HE’S NOT DEAD, RIGHT?
RIGHT.
OKAY.
NOPE, I DON’T BUY IT. SO THERE, SQUARE. You FAILED.
BLARGH.
OKAY END OF CHAPTER.
Meanwhile back in the sky, or whatever functions as it here in the middle of Cocoon where there is no sky, that’s still weird.
So they are on the Palamecia. The other people are like, okay, well. We can use this, right? Even though it’s totally a trap. ‘Cause Snow doesn’t believe in plans and all.
… AND NOW END OF ENTRY.
'Cause, seriously, it's way past my bedtime.
SO GUYS.
I mentioned this under the cut, but if you’re not reading due to SPOILERS, obviously you won’t know. Anyway, they have a version of the chocobo song with lyrics and it’s kind of ridiculous and kind of cute, in a weird kind of way.
GO LISTEN TO IT!
Edit:
Oh, and. FFXIV beta is finally, truly over... Finished! May or may not do another photo dump of the other two towns / their openings. Would there be interest?
ANYWAY. Doing other things is for people with lives.
Pseudo-stealth mission, go! (That I didn’t realize it was one until over halfway through kind of says something… KILLING EVERYTHING WHOO good thing I’m not being graded, I guess.)
Oh, Hope does not know exactly where this takes us. XD Well, this’ll be exciting.
Haa, and now “Flanitor”s…
It’s Carbuncle!
… you are much cuter when you are an atomic squirrel.
I like this “don’t fight the fal’Cie” plan they’ve just come up with. Yes, let’s leave the food-producing thing alone. Very wise. (Kinda weird that Carbuncle doesn’t seem to be at all reacting to our presence, though. Wonder what that’s about.)
Whoops, Hope got left behind. The platform left without him! Nooo! Maybe he can teleport.
Why do the fal’Cie baby us. Pets, haha, not sure I entirely buy it, but yeah, good comparison.
(Personally, I’ve become fond of thinking of Cocoon and Pulse as some grand social experiment, you know, like Zimbardo’s prison experiment. They put a bunch of people in a moon and were like THE PEOPLE ON THE PLANET ARE BAD and then sat back to watch what happened.)
And probably a good call trying to cancel the RAGE DOOM (and, you know, hooray for introspection and realizing things about oneself.)
But now we’re back to panicking. (Lightning, we already lost [H]ope, don’t you remember? He caught right back up after you ran into that big lizard-thing, though, so I don’t think it’s really a huge deal or anything.)
Hope, you knew this was going to come up eventually. YOU KNOW YOUR NAME.
FLASHBACK HALLUCINATION THINGS YAY?
Squeenix, please don’t name a character after a word that gets used a lot in the English dub again, it is just ridiculous. HOPE hope Hope hope hope Hope hope ahkjfsdolg!!!
I redub them Team Emotion-Avoidant.
Bwaaarg, crap. HEY LOOK WE’RE ON THE SCREEN! Bad news, bad neeews.
Hey, Snow’s back. WITH ICY DOOM FOR THE SOLDIERS.
Ah, she’s finally been named in-game!
Hey, don’t shoot the poor news camera! It didn’t do anything wrong!
Anyway, yay, we got out of that mess. (…Not a surprise, but I’m glad it wasn’t just AND THEN EVERYONE WAS FINE DON’T ASK US HOW.) Here, Hope, go hang with your nemesis. (Fang, what have you been telling Snow that he thinks Serah can turn back. Is that why her mark is funny?)
Awesome, Snow, way to throw Hope off the bike. XD
… Oh, right, he’s way behind everyone so I have to die and die and die. Stupid solo boss-battle. (Oh, or not. Second time I killed him with the eidolons. WHATEVER.)
So Raines is an ally. Well, that’s good. (I’d kind of been wondering, based on his vague portrayal thus far.)
14775 CP ALL RIGHT thank god people not in the party still gain points, or he would NEVER EVER EVER have caught up.
HEY. HEY, DATALOG. HER NAME WAS SAID STOP CALLING HER “MYSTERIOUS WOMAN”.
ICE EVERYWHERE.
Haha, I love it when knocking the one guy up into the air kills them, so your frontliner / Commando uppercuts them fifty feet into the air and then just turns nonchalantly to the other guy. (It’s not amusing to me when they follow the mob up into the air, I guess is what I mean.)
Hope, we can hear your internal monologue. (And it’s not because we are mind-readers.)
OH SHIT SNOW THAT WAS UNCOOL. Fighting is stupid if you get killed! Dude, he blames you for getting his mother killed. BAD BAD BAD MOVE.
Now Fang is angry, too. And shouting. Yay, shouting. Hope is not great, Hope is about to murder you.
I’M NOT YOUR SISTER, SNOW, GOD.
Local army is upset that they are not being listened to and the poor civilians are gonna get killed. Sorry, guys. Just stay outta my way and we can call it good, yeah?
CONVENIENT HOPE TAKING THE PHONE-THING AND STATIC.
LIGHTNING DOESN’T BELIEVE IN BEING CALM AND COOL.
Fang is in my party (hell, she’s leading it), but is still just “Mysterious Woman” in the datalog.
AAAND FANG AND VANILLE ARE INDEED FROM GRAN PULSE! Wow. What a shock. I am sure no one saw that one coming.
Back to Snow and Hope now. Snow is planning either a GRAND SACRIFICE or to SAVE EVERYONE, since it looks like they might be conducting another Purge. And Hope’s gonna be all I AM ANGRY I GRIT MY TEETH.
Cool! The railing lights up alongside me as I run past!
That girl has a stuffed Carbuncle doll. Adorable! But still not the atomic squirrel. (FFXI easily wins the cutest Carbuncle prize.)
SNOW PUNCHES THE GUARD and causes mass hysteria by shooting the overhang overhead Sure, it got everyone else out of the way, but it also called the military right down on our heads…
Hope, don’t stop to check on the civilians. All it gets you is a Carbuncle-doll to the face and a mob.
Wow, nice, Snow, hitching a ride on the air unit! That was pretty cool.
Nooo, Hope, you’re back to sitting down… Blah, blah, more WE HAVE NO HOPE. And now PSICOM is blowing up signs for Felix Heights. (Snow, I somehow doubt that Hope cares that you are an orphan.)
…Snow, you just keep walking more and more into Hope’s hatred for you. Not that it’s your fault, since of course you don’t know, but, oh, man, you have an amazing knack for saying completely the wrong thing to the poor kid.
Boss battle… eh. Pretty easy.
CONFRONTATION. HOPE IS ANGRY! HOPE WILL EXPLODE NOW. No, uh, really. The shockwave blew Snow over the railing (but it’s okay! He grabbed the edge of the roof).
KNIFE ATTACK – foiled by missiles. Oh! You’re the kid that woman was all talking about! BUT TOO LATE EVERYONE FALLS OFF THE BUILDING NOW. Well, Hope is blown off the building. Snow lets go of the edge he’d been clinging to so he could… grab Hope and sort of kind of break his fall by taking the direct impact. Now we’re all unconscious in an alley. HOORAY!
Day 5 flashback time! Back in the Euride Gorge plant! Only with Vanille and Fang this time, instead of Sazh and Dajh. I guess Fang doesn’t know what her focus is/was since waking up / decrystalifying. (Given how weird Vanille has been acting in some regards, I have to wonder if she does remember more than Fang does.)
Forget our focus! We don’t need it!
We don’t need it??
And they split up so Fang could buy Vanille time to get away, and that is why Fang was looking for her in an earlier flashback.
SLAPFIGHT. Lightning, I know you can do better than that. I guess apologizing makes her slap you instead of knock your head off…
Anyway, off to Hope’s place, still.
Is the line still jammed, or is Snow just unconscious? Silly. More talking about Focuses and the not knowing and the turning into a crystal / turning back, though now with added Gran Pulse citizens being somewhat afraid of Cocoon. Good to see it runs both ways…
So, this’ll come as a total shock to you all, I’m sure, but I’m quite fond of Fang, too. I KNOW, RIGHT? WHAT THE HECK.
Also, she finally has a name in the datalog. Good job, Fang. You exist.
Oh, Snow has undied. Hope is still all bleargh on the ground, though. Cannot carry Hope. But we will grab Lightning’s knife back up!
Oh, no, there we go. Forward motion! Hurrah!
NOW BACK TO LIGHTNING AND FANG.
… I wanted to finish this chapter tonight, but apparently it’s really freaking long, and I’m getting really freaking tired. SO TOO BAD, I guess.
Snow’s brand is looking a little pointy. They said something about trauma making it progress faster, I wonder if Hope’s is farther along due to his whole being exceptionally distraught.
Hope is awake again now. Snow says he is sorryyyy, sorry he got your mom killed and sorry for, you know, everything and all.
Maturing as an individual! Now Hope is like, well, I mean, I had to blame someone, but it’s not… really your fault.
EVERYONE HUG NOW.
BOSS ATTACK. It’s okay. Snow’s got this one… RIGHT IN THE FACE and then the wall, anyway. Snow has totally got that wall covered, man. He is all over it.
… HOPE’S SOLO BATTLE. This will end well…
No. This is ridiculous, there is no way they’ll make me do this solo. I’m barely denting its HP. And actually now I’m just cure-spamming. EFFECTIVE BATTLE STRATEGIES.
YAY FANG AND LIGHTNING TO THE RESCUE. PREPARE TO DIE, THING.
Teamwork! It makes everything easier.
Here, Lightning, have your knife back. So we collect Snow and march on again. Aren’t we there yet?
… oh, look at that. We are! Ha.
I like how they just keep saying she’s gone, not that she’s, you know, dead. I knoooow, I know, they’re upset and euphemisms and denial and coping mechanisms and whatall.
Snow is waking up. QUICK, TURN OFF THE NEWS ABOUT THE PURGE.
I’m getting really sick of this song. GOD. At least in FFX, they remixed and revamped the track enough that you weren’t ready to scream every time it popped up again. At least cut the vocals, or something, I don’t know…
Chat time! Blah, blah, take down the Sanctum, save Cocoon… Ah, thank you, Hope’s Dad, for pointing out the flaw in this plan. Uh, guys. You’re Pulse l’Cie. If you topple the Sanctum, people are only going to panic even more.
OH NO POWER OUTTAGE must be the Sanctum. … Yep. Gas!
(I’m glad we’re all getting along better now, at least.)
Fang is getting annoyed that I’m choosing to hang out in the house and kill the perpetually respawning groups of soldiers. FANG. They drop an item that gives me a lot of gil! I NEED GIL OKAY. I have… 3k to my name. I can barely afford anything, and I think you have to pay for weapon upgrades, even if nothing else. So. Too bad. It’s not like we’re going to be here forever. Just a bit more. … or not, if I accidentally trigger the next scene. Boo.
Dad! Hope! Oh, we haven’t seen each other for like… five whole minutes omg.
SNOW, STOP TRYING TO REASON WITH THE SOLDIERS.
I mean, even if you rattle the troops, you’re not going to sway this… General-dude. Yaag whoever. Yeah, and now he’s turning that around. Look, if you really wanna protect Cocoon, won’t you just die? You don’t actually think your one life is worth millions of others, do you? DO YOU??? So die now!
Oh, except now he’s dead. Surprise! EVERYONE SHOOT EVERYONE ELSE NOW YAY. (Cavalry must be hiding in with the real troops.)
We’re just like… ‘kay, whatever, leaving now, then. But first, a touching father-son moment! Brought to you by… bondage. HOPE, GO TIE YOUR FATHER UP.
ANOTHER BOSS NOW.
Oh god this thing’s hp is 441,000 and it’s stagger is 999%. Kill the other things first?
Mediguard must be some kind of regen-granting thing, because otherwise I have no explanation for Fang’s HP.
… What?! … Oh, okay, Stagger… magically dropped to only, like, 200% or something at some point. Was like, NO I DID NOT GET IT TO 999% SE YOU ARE A LIAR. I didn’t. Okay.
… Who’s this clown? Other than part of the Cavalry, I mean.
Crystarium expanded. I must be at the end of the chapter.
Vanille keeps voicing over stuff randomly. This is her story, or something, I guess.
END OF CHAPTER 7.
NOW CHAPTER 8.
Nautilus! THE CITY OF DREAMS. Back to Narrator Vanille and Sazh! I wonder when we get to all meet back up again…
I wish I could remember how far along Vanille’s mark was, and whether she described her Focus-dreamthing or if she just jumped in with “everyone had the same one??” after a bit.
Oh, look, cutscenes from the last chapter are on the news! Vanille is all omg! At seeing Fang turn up in them. Non-l’Cie citizens encourage the murder of hostages ‘cause they’re totally infected with Pulse already, anyway, right?
Oh, these folk are relatively sane. They call the panicking idiots… well, idiots. Ha! A group of guys standing around talking about how cute chocobos are, except the poor guy who is allergic to them, and the guy who likes sheep better ‘cause he can’t get enough of that fluff.
Anyway, fal’Cie parade. Whee! … Or not, ‘cause Vanille is feeling sad.
Oh, it’s commemorating the war. Pompa Sancta parade? … I think we saw bits of this in the pre-game cutscenes.
IT RAINS CDs. They spew out Carbuncles that talk and then fly away!
The red dancers must be Pulse. … Yeah, seems so.
… Valefore? Or just something that looks similar, maybe. Carbuncle’s voice is annoying. CARBUNCLE IS SUPPOSED TO BE CUTE, NOT ANNOYING.
I like how the other group is getting over the awkward doom and these two are just getting more and more entrenched in it.
Okay, yeah, the sheep are apparently adorable. Vanille, I completely understand the SQUEEZE THEM ‘TIL THEY POP urge! Woolly fluff would go EVERYWHERE. Oh they are so cute.
… Yes, Vanille, that’s a chocobo. Do they not have those down on Pulse or something? I actually honestly cannot believe that.
VANILLE AND SAZH ARE ADORABLE I DON’T WANT AWKWARD AND UNHAPPY TIMES.
omfgchocobo
….. CHOCOBO SONG HAS LYRICS WHAT
TAKE US AROUND THE WORLD AND BACK AGAAAAAAIN.
WE WILL FIND THEM.
Okay, seriously, I’m moving on now. I mean it.
… goddamnit, someone invent chocobos so I can have one, already!
AAAUGH BABY CHOCOBO COME BACK!
It is so ADORABLE I am going to EXPLODE AUGH. NO STOP FLYING AWAY. Man, how does it go so fast when its wings are so TINY? And cute. And fluffy. BWEE.
oh god i just got attacked by a falling box
Man, this whole game, and the chocobo park is what finally gets me to create a second save file. XD Typical!
Nooo, Sazh! Don’t turn yourself in! I don’t care if you’re tired of running! (I can kind of understand why!) That is not the answer!
AAUGH VANILLE IS GOING TO TELL HIM NOW I CAN’T WATCH *hides behind hands*
Oh, no, convenient chocobo stampede and soldier attack. NOT YET, THEN.
Run away!
Boss battle…
RANDOMLY, DAJH. Surprise! o_O I totally thought it was a hallucination at firs--- nuuuuu! Dajh! Oh, Sazh. D:
... His crystal form looks different than Serah’s. Maybe it’s just a Pulse versus Cocoon thing. Ah, and his Focus was to help in the capture of the Pulse l’Cie, which is why he could sense Pulse-things.
…SORROW.
AND NOW THE SECRET IS OUT VIA REUSE OF CUTSCENES (aka “security cameras”). I AM JUST GOING TO GO CRY NOW. STUPID GAME. YOU’RE EVIL. AND MEAN.
YOU PROMISED ME CHOCOBOS AND THEN YOU GAVE ME THIS, THAT’S JUST NOT NICE. *throws controller at screen*
Vanille runs away crying and SAZH YOU’RE NOT GOING TO HURT HER, DAMNIT, YOU CAN’T FOOL ME.
And now she has hallucinations of Sazh killing her, boo. AND NOW HE’S REALLY HERE and they argue and it’s SAD this is a STUPID CHAPTER.
AUGH HIS CHEST trauma, the mark, augh, augh. Oh, no, it’s another Eidolon, not just rapid growth. Okay, okay, I can work with that.
NO SAZH DON’T SHOOT HER she is adorable and it would be sad.
HUG AND RUN AWAY MORE.
BABY CHOCOBO APPROVES OF NO SHOOTING.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HE’S NOT DEAD, RIGHT?
RIGHT.
OKAY.
NOPE, I DON’T BUY IT. SO THERE, SQUARE. You FAILED.
BLARGH.
OKAY END OF CHAPTER.
Meanwhile back in the sky, or whatever functions as it here in the middle of Cocoon where there is no sky, that’s still weird.
So they are on the Palamecia. The other people are like, okay, well. We can use this, right? Even though it’s totally a trap. ‘Cause Snow doesn’t believe in plans and all.
… AND NOW END OF ENTRY.
'Cause, seriously, it's way past my bedtime.
SO GUYS.
I mentioned this under the cut, but if you’re not reading due to SPOILERS, obviously you won’t know. Anyway, they have a version of the chocobo song with lyrics and it’s kind of ridiculous and kind of cute, in a weird kind of way.
GO LISTEN TO IT!
Edit:
Oh, and. FFXIV beta is finally, truly over... Finished! May or may not do another photo dump of the other two towns / their openings. Would there be interest?
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(Chocobo theme with lyrics? What madness is this?)
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(I do not know. )
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XD Flanitors. I feel kinda bad for them! They just want to keep the place clean!
Haha, FF games are so bad at stealth.
Team Emotion-Avoidant.
LMAO.
LIGHTNING DOESN’T BELIEVE IN BEING CALM AND COOL.
roflll. SHE ONLY BELIEVES IN PUNCHES.
Wow, nice, Snow, hitching a ride on the air unit! That was pretty cool.
haha, I am always sort of impressed when Snow actually manages to be cool, and then sort of grumpy about being impressed.
you have an amazing knack for saying completely the wrong thing to the poor kid.
Does it make me a terrible person that I loved this bit? Hahahaha, oh Snow. You FOOL. I love how deeply, deeply dense he is.
SLAPFIGHT.
I loved this, too! "You sound exactly like Snow. And he didn't hit me!" Haha, Fang, don't compare her to Snow. Seriously. "It didn't change anything." "Tell that to my jaw." How awesome is it how much of the cutscenes consist of discussions between awesome ladies?
Snow’s got this one… RIGHT IN THE FACE
LMAO
I thought Hope's dad was totally awesome and just did not understand at all why Hope doesn't like him.
VANILLE AND SAZH ARE ADORABLE I DON’T WANT AWKWARD AND UNHAPPY TIMES.
YES ;_;
His crystal form looks different than Serah’s.
That really weirded me out, too!
And the chocobo song with lyrics was stuck in my head FOREVER after that bit.
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Lightning is all CAPSLOCK (not to be mistaken for shouting, though) and STOMPING AROUND and VIOLENCE and I love it so much. I do not even know how to react to the amazingness that is Fang and Lightning interacting other than to flail about uselessly in delight.
Hope and his dad's situation confused me, too! Maybe it is just teenage angst?
The crystal difference, do you think it's just a Pulse vs. Cocoon l'Cie thing? I don't know if we see more of on or the other, so I can't really judge (yet?).
WEEE WILLLL FIIIIND THEEEM oh man I was humming that all day yesterday.
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yesssssss
You are probably right about the teenage angst.
And hey, good point about the different fal'Cie making different crystals! I was worried that the game people just got lazy about their crystal-making.
LEAVE YOUR CARES BEHIIIIIIND