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jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-09-27 01:10 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-09-27 01:10 pm
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Plowing right along...
I was going to post this last night and then it got late so I was going to post it later this afternoon and then I was wrong about when I was going in to work, so I am posting it now while hopping around try to get my shoes on because if I sit, the cat will hop into my lap again.
Snow wants a plan now! WHAT HAS THE WORLD COME TO.
… I cannot help but think that Cid could just be pretending to be our ally to as to ensure we all end up in the same place where we can be easily trapped and killed in front of everyone, after our obvious attack that really does make us look like the terrible threat they think us to be! I'll be the first to admit that this is, perhaps, overly complicated, and relies too much on luck.
BUT THIS ISN'T THE FINAL BATTLE 'CAUSE I KNOW THE GAME HAS MORE CHAPTERS! So. Obviously we do something wrong.
Now Hope only wants to be able to talk to his father! Oh, how things change.
YAY CARGO
It's the Pope?
Code verified! Whoo! (Is it an older code, but it checks out? DID MANY BOTHANS DIE TO BRING US THAT INFORMATION? HOW DID I JUMP TO STAR WARS?) (THEY KNOW AND IT IS A TRAP – well, okay, duh, we already covered that "trap" bit...)
I really, really like being able to pause cutscenes.
Aww, I still don't get to choose my party! Though, this is who I'd've chosen, anyway, at least.
"Something bad's waiting for us"? Really? You are only now just thinking that?!
Not even a l'Cie could survive a fall from up here, Fang declares, as she carelessly dashes along the thin walkways…
HA – knew it. Sazh is fiiine. Er. In that he's not dead, I mean. Physically.
But now everyone is being sad, anyway.
HUNDREDS OF YEARSSS as a crystal. Yeah, I'm sure everyone will be just… waiting around when Serah comes out of it…
FLASHBACK TO DAY 1! Back in Bodhum again.
Yeah, Vanille had a fancier crystal-form, too, so maybe it is just a Pulse versus Cocoon fal'Cie thing. (OOOOR maybe the animators were being lazy that day, but it works out for them, anyway? Do we ever see another Cocoon l'Cie in crystal form?)
TRANSFORM! MAGICAL GIRL VANILLE. Poof goes the clothing.
So Vanille does remember.
Snow, no, their whole point is to stop us. They're not going to run away just because we're coming at that. THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT. THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF HELPING.
So, I was thinking the other night while trying to fall asleep, Vanille keeps narrating, and I can't help drawing a parallel to last time that happened (FFX) and how that ended (bye, Tidus), and now I am all afraid something terrible and sad-making is going to happen.
I do think "Green" is a strange colour for an emergency alert.
BABY CHOCOBO ATTACK AAHAHAHA
We are breaking out!
… For his fourth attack, looks like Sazh's guns connect together? Odd.
CODE PURPLE NOW DOOM DOOOOOOM
SCREW BEING RESCUED! VANILLE IS GOING TO SAVE FANG! From… the ambush! OR SOMETHING.
… Hope. HOPE. They just said "security breach" in the exact same sentence.
YELLOW? BLUE? TOO MANY COLOURS AAA
On one hand, I like checking in on the other group more often, but on the other, it was kind of easier for that stretch when we weren't toggling back and forth.
CODE WHITE NOW. WHATEVERRR.
Uugh, this chapter feels soooo slooooow. It's 'cause the mobs are taking me forever to kill. I don't know why. 'Cause they are strong? 'Cause I am weak? 'Cause I am not paying enough attention? WHO CAN SAY. Not I.
Ha. There were at least 4 of these Vespid things in the scene, but there is only one in combat. This would be unremarkable except that otherwise this game seems to be taking its THIS GROUP OF ENEMIES ATTACKS TOGETHER thing quite seriously.
"We can win if we stay focused," says Lightning, and OKAY MAYBE I OPENLY WINCED AT THAT A LITTLE. Sorry, guys, I know, this is the … fourth? Time I've thrown you against this group of mobs… I WILL PAY ATTENTION THIS TIME.
FINALLY. BOSS BATTLE. SOMETHING INERESTING.
I like Lightning's definitions of "lucky" though, I gotta say. XD
YAAAAY THERE ARE THE OTHER TWO, COMING THROUGH THE WALL NOW! BABY CHOCOBO LEADS THE CHARGE! Well, hey, I would certainly follow that leader.
TOUCHING REUNIONS, HOWEVER, MUST WAIT, 'cause that stupid critter (or his identical twin, whatever) is totally coming for our faces. Again. Too bad! I am not sharing my face.
Okay, now hugs – oh, wow, ACTUALLY HUGS, haha. … haaa, I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU NOW HIKE UP YOUR SKIRT.
I bet you anything they can never, ever "fish" a mob like that while I'm in control of them. (I thought that thing in the pre-game scenes looked a heck of a lot like the ones we fight.)
OMINIOUS WHITE BIRD-CREATURE??
AND MORE NARRATING. VANILLE DON'T BE DEAD / GONE / RECRYSTALIZED I'LL BE SAD.
I can choose my party members now?! … Part of me goes YAY and the other part goes CRAP HOW AM I EVER GOING TO DECIDE?!
Hmm. Well, for now, it's been a while since Sazh and Vanille were able to, you know, destroy the hell out of things, so I'll throw them in for a while.
Yaaay, we finally made it! And there's that bird-thing again.
Haaaar, he's a l'Cie? ACTUALLY, I bet you anything he's a fal'Cie. Just a l'Cie is too easy, and then he'd have a Focus and, thus, a time limit, and he's looking a little too old for that to be a real possibility.
Cocoon is a factory, not a social experiment? Alas. (WHAT IS THEIR AGENDA? ARGH.)
YEP, fal'CIE!
A rather creepy looking one, at that!
… Lightning, I swapped the party around for a reason. Stop walking backwards into the wide-range magic spells! … Or don't. Okay. AGAIN.
Honestly, guys, I don't even know why I bother attempting strategies. You'd think by now I'd've figured out that all I need to do is smack it until it falls over, BUT NO. I always have to try and be CAREFUL and be CLEVER and be all, oh, well, let's try this set-up! And it invariably always comes down to straight melee with the occasional potion toss.
Man, no wonder this place is so screwed up…
WHY IS HE GIVING US THIS ANSWER SURELY IT IS NOT JUST EXPOSITION AAAUGH do they want Ragnarok?
Orphan? Ah. The battery.
… But, Fang, you don't need to worry about your Focus, right…? (… Did she try that already? Is that why her mark is weird and how Cocoon had a hole blown in it? If so, why wasn't it completely destroyed…?)
SNOW'S WORLD IS SHATTERED.
Seriously, though, why is he telling us this?
Hope has ESP or something, he is always knowing when something is coming before everyone else is…
Hey, Yaag, I figured you'd survived the craziness in Palumpolum.
DSCORDANT MUSIC ALSO WTF IS THIS RUNAWAY SHIP WE ARE FLYING THROUGH THINGS I AM CONFUSED AND MILDLY ALARMED.
THANK YOU HOPE, I was thinking that, too! So bizaaaarre. What is the purpose of Cocoon that they all seem to want it destroyed so badly.
Ah, leave him alone, he's being sad and he's allowed.
Anyway, Chapter 10 now.
We recap, establish that we're in Pulse ruins hidden beneath Eden, and move on. INTO RED LIGHT OF DOOM everyone grabs at their mark and, in some cases, their head, as well.
NOW EVERYONE CAN DO EVERYTHING! WHEE. So I am not stuck with always having either Hope or Vanille in my party forever. (SURE, SURE, Lightning can also be a Medic, but you know what? Playing the Medic is boring. I would much rather watch her smack things around.)
We are in an Ark! NOT THE ORANGE THING. Or the wooden thing. "A Pulse armory", they tell us…
We are HERE because they are also used to force l'Cie to learn and master their new abilities. So basically YOU WILL FIGHT NOW OR YOU WILL DIE A LOT.
… The datalog tells me that if I master enough roles, my choice of paradigms will expand significantly, but … I am not sure how that works, exactly, since if I swap characters around, I can already set up anything I darned well please. …Or maybe they mean I will have more slots for more paradigms. That would make more sense.
Woah, learning skills in the new roles is expensiiive.
Bart-an-dealio whatever guy? Is that what you just called him? … THAT IS HIS NEW NAME NOW FOR EVER.
So. Everyone's learned everything that opened up in their pre-established roles, so I've branched into other ones. No one's really learned anything (not true – Hope has Ruin and Snow just got Cure), because it is very slow going, but, I decided, WHAT THE HECK I DON'T NEED A SYNERGIST – sorry, Sazh, you are still cool – and swapped in Vanille, so now I've got Lightning, Vanille, and Fang, and I'M SORRY WHAT WAS THAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER HOW AWESOME MY PARTY IS.
Raaaines. LIGHTNING AGGRO.
Oh, wow, okay, I didn’t see him being a l'Cie coming. BUT I WAS RIGHT HE WAS WORKING AGAINST US … sort of. He was working against our plans for us, whatever.
The Maker?
WTF does the Maker have to do with Cocoon being destroyed?
Ah. BLOOD SACRIFICE. WE WANT OUR PARENT TO COME HOME. LET'S KILL EVERYOOOONE!!! THAT WILL MAKE THE MAKER COME BACK! Fal'Cie are crazy. Okay.
… Man, Snow is having a bad few hours. MY FRIEND IS A LIAR MY GIRLFRIEND WAS WRONG AAAUGH.
Why does everyone but us know so much about all this, anyway. IS THIS ANOTHER PULSE VS SANCTUM l'CIE THING IN THAT THE SANCTUM fal'CIE TELL YOU THINGS AND THE PULSE ONES ARE JUST LIKE "FUCK YOU GO FIGURE IT OUT ON YOUR OWN"?
He will stop us! He will set us free! WITH DEATH.
… But instead of letting him stop us, WE KILL HIM.
Alas, Cid. I am sorry it came to that.
… I'm confused. If he didn't complete his Focus, why did he poof into a crystal? … Oh, but then he evaporated. Or… something. That was odd and I didn't entirely understand it. You don't actually need to complete your Focus as long as you're doing what you-as-a-human want to be doing, I guess. Which is kind of nice.
Pulsework Knights and Berserkers are annoying and my awesome party and I wish to be done with this place now, please and thank you. Stupid maze. Ugh. Go away.
SAZH IS FREAKING OUT. I AM WITH HIM. Snow, shut up, honestly, no one cares. I totally thought for a second that he'd thrown that tear over the railing instead of just up into the air. This may be a function of me being tired. Blah blah blah protect Cocoon. BABY CHOCOBO APPROVES but we have gone over this so many tiiiimes, ugh.
Fang is all angry at us. FINE. IF YOU WON'T BLOW IT UP, THEN I WILL.
Oh, must be time for another Eidolon. Or… something. Fang's, obviously, though I guess they'd already be acquainted. Maybe. Something.
So, is your party Fang, Vanille, and Lightning, regardless of what your set-up was before, and I just managed to already have the party put together (albeit in the wrong order), or do they just change your leader to Fang? …The things I wonder about.
WAIT. SWEET. FANG GETS BAHAMUT? Not that I ever use these things, but whatever.
AND REGARDLESS I WILL GLADLY TAKE BAHAMUT (OR ANY EIDOLON) OVER MORE OF THAT PLACE
Nice of them to come put us out of our misery when we get all indecisive, though, really… (Really? Really? You expect me to believe that's why they show up? THEN WHY DID ODIN ATTACK HOPE.)
… oh! Pulse airship! Neat! … AND A GATE? WE ARE GOING TO PULSE NOW??
GLEE. (Ha, I didn't know until recently that we went down there at all, though I felt reasonably confident that we would. And apparently the manual tells you as much, but I mostly only skimmed the character pages.)
… Sazh is dying of not breathing now, what.
Woah, Snow's tattoo is really far along. (We can't see anyone else's, so I don't know if it's everyone or just him.)
PULSE IS HELL, Hope proclaims. I HAVE TOTALLY NEVER BEEN THERE. But I totally want to go! Or maybe he just didn't like the violent gleam in Fang's eyes when he said it was hell. (He was building up to that, anyway, I know, I know, I'm just being silly.)
FLASHBACK TO EVERYONE WATCHING FIREWORKS AGAIN
NOW WE ARE OUTSIDE!
FOR THE FIRST TIME!
EVER!
SO EXCITIIIING holy shit we just almost got maimed by a giant flying thing of doom.
AND EVERYONE IS FLYING OUT THE WINDOW AAAA QUICK JUMP AFTER THEM wait what.
Summoning Bahamut for the win! I love how blasé Vanille is about plummeting to her death. I mean, the others jumped out, so of course they have a plan, but she and Hope were, you know, knocked off.
YAY CHAPTER 11
Everything is huge. Wow. That or they're being tricky with the camera angles AAAAUGH WHY ARE YOU SHOWING ME A CHOCOBO BEING KILLED FOR DINNER I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU GAME
Herd of wild chocobos. ♥
…. GIANT ROCK-MOUNTAIN-MONSTER THING OMG WHAT WAS THAT IT JUST ATE A GIANT HUGE… TURTLE-THING.
And then Hope attacked the tree! GIVE ME YOUR FRUIT.
Vanille is talking this whole time, musing about fal'Cie and l'Cie and making things and … stuff. But now she is awake.
ALL RIGHT FINDING BLOODYTHIRSTY WILDLIFE AND CRUMBLING RUINS. Though, I wonder what happened to the people, if no one is around. Monsters overran them, maybe? That is sad, if so! (Maybe the Sanctum fal'Cie sucking up all their stuff to repair Cocoon helped with that.)
… Vanille speaks chocobo? SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG WITH HOPE? (Don't you dare name the chocobo Lassie, I swear, I will murder something.)
… Also, datalog says we've been here for days. Wow.
I am pretty sure we about to have to go fight Hope's Eidolon, but I am very tired. BUT I WANT TO GO FIND OUT.
Tired?
COIN FLIP??
I LOST.
Flans look kind of fish-faced to me…
Hope fell in the riverrrr. Somehow. And is passed out now while we yell and then talk about other places to look for stuff.
Oerba? He's apparently not all that unconscious. Now we must leave him. NO. FIRST WE MUST ENDURE A GROUP HUG.
Okay, there's the Eidolon come to destroy him. Us. EVERYTHING. Fang and Lightning land on their feet, so I guess they'll be my party.
Whew! That was mercifully easy.
GOOD JOB, HOPE!
NOW I REALLY AM GOING TO BED.
Oh, really? You think they really come to snap us out of our slumps, not kill us? WHATEVER GAVE YOU THAT IDEA? (Game. GAME. You can't tell me that and expect me to believe it when neither the first nor second ones to show up – the Shiva sisters and Odin – didn't target Snow or Lightning, respectively. Heck, Lightning and Sazh both had to jump in front of theirs.
Fang is sick of people calling Gran Pulse hell! WATCH IT, SAZH. (Can I please have a save point?)
(PLEASE?)
… YAY, FIELD FULL OF MONSTERS. (NOT WHAT I WANTED TO SEE.)
AAA STONE ATTACK
Oh, it's a Cie'th. In it's last stages? …They lose their will to go on and turn to stone. WE MUST SAVE THEM ALL. @_@
WHERE IS MY SAVE POINT.
… woah, wait. Datalog says Vanille already turned into Ragnarok once? I figured it would've been Fang, which was why her brand is all weird. Though then I had no explanation for why Vanille was also a crystal. I don't know, I don't know.
SAVE POINT. THERE YOU ARE.
AND NOW RUN AWAY! (Because this entry really needed more capslock...)
Snow wants a plan now! WHAT HAS THE WORLD COME TO.
… I cannot help but think that Cid could just be pretending to be our ally to as to ensure we all end up in the same place where we can be easily trapped and killed in front of everyone, after our obvious attack that really does make us look like the terrible threat they think us to be! I'll be the first to admit that this is, perhaps, overly complicated, and relies too much on luck.
BUT THIS ISN'T THE FINAL BATTLE 'CAUSE I KNOW THE GAME HAS MORE CHAPTERS! So. Obviously we do something wrong.
Now Hope only wants to be able to talk to his father! Oh, how things change.
YAY CARGO
It's the Pope?
Code verified! Whoo! (Is it an older code, but it checks out? DID MANY BOTHANS DIE TO BRING US THAT INFORMATION? HOW DID I JUMP TO STAR WARS?) (THEY KNOW AND IT IS A TRAP – well, okay, duh, we already covered that "trap" bit...)
I really, really like being able to pause cutscenes.
Aww, I still don't get to choose my party! Though, this is who I'd've chosen, anyway, at least.
"Something bad's waiting for us"? Really? You are only now just thinking that?!
Not even a l'Cie could survive a fall from up here, Fang declares, as she carelessly dashes along the thin walkways…
HA – knew it. Sazh is fiiine. Er. In that he's not dead, I mean. Physically.
But now everyone is being sad, anyway.
HUNDREDS OF YEARSSS as a crystal. Yeah, I'm sure everyone will be just… waiting around when Serah comes out of it…
FLASHBACK TO DAY 1! Back in Bodhum again.
Yeah, Vanille had a fancier crystal-form, too, so maybe it is just a Pulse versus Cocoon fal'Cie thing. (OOOOR maybe the animators were being lazy that day, but it works out for them, anyway? Do we ever see another Cocoon l'Cie in crystal form?)
TRANSFORM! MAGICAL GIRL VANILLE. Poof goes the clothing.
So Vanille does remember.
Snow, no, their whole point is to stop us. They're not going to run away just because we're coming at that. THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT. THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF HELPING.
So, I was thinking the other night while trying to fall asleep, Vanille keeps narrating, and I can't help drawing a parallel to last time that happened (FFX) and how that ended (bye, Tidus), and now I am all afraid something terrible and sad-making is going to happen.
I do think "Green" is a strange colour for an emergency alert.
BABY CHOCOBO ATTACK AAHAHAHA
We are breaking out!
… For his fourth attack, looks like Sazh's guns connect together? Odd.
CODE PURPLE NOW DOOM DOOOOOOM
SCREW BEING RESCUED! VANILLE IS GOING TO SAVE FANG! From… the ambush! OR SOMETHING.
… Hope. HOPE. They just said "security breach" in the exact same sentence.
YELLOW? BLUE? TOO MANY COLOURS AAA
On one hand, I like checking in on the other group more often, but on the other, it was kind of easier for that stretch when we weren't toggling back and forth.
CODE WHITE NOW. WHATEVERRR.
Uugh, this chapter feels soooo slooooow. It's 'cause the mobs are taking me forever to kill. I don't know why. 'Cause they are strong? 'Cause I am weak? 'Cause I am not paying enough attention? WHO CAN SAY. Not I.
Ha. There were at least 4 of these Vespid things in the scene, but there is only one in combat. This would be unremarkable except that otherwise this game seems to be taking its THIS GROUP OF ENEMIES ATTACKS TOGETHER thing quite seriously.
"We can win if we stay focused," says Lightning, and OKAY MAYBE I OPENLY WINCED AT THAT A LITTLE. Sorry, guys, I know, this is the … fourth? Time I've thrown you against this group of mobs… I WILL PAY ATTENTION THIS TIME.
FINALLY. BOSS BATTLE. SOMETHING INERESTING.
I like Lightning's definitions of "lucky" though, I gotta say. XD
YAAAAY THERE ARE THE OTHER TWO, COMING THROUGH THE WALL NOW! BABY CHOCOBO LEADS THE CHARGE! Well, hey, I would certainly follow that leader.
TOUCHING REUNIONS, HOWEVER, MUST WAIT, 'cause that stupid critter (or his identical twin, whatever) is totally coming for our faces. Again. Too bad! I am not sharing my face.
Okay, now hugs – oh, wow, ACTUALLY HUGS, haha. … haaa, I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU NOW HIKE UP YOUR SKIRT.
I bet you anything they can never, ever "fish" a mob like that while I'm in control of them. (I thought that thing in the pre-game scenes looked a heck of a lot like the ones we fight.)
OMINIOUS WHITE BIRD-CREATURE??
AND MORE NARRATING. VANILLE DON'T BE DEAD / GONE / RECRYSTALIZED I'LL BE SAD.
I can choose my party members now?! … Part of me goes YAY and the other part goes CRAP HOW AM I EVER GOING TO DECIDE?!
Hmm. Well, for now, it's been a while since Sazh and Vanille were able to, you know, destroy the hell out of things, so I'll throw them in for a while.
Yaaay, we finally made it! And there's that bird-thing again.
Haaaar, he's a l'Cie? ACTUALLY, I bet you anything he's a fal'Cie. Just a l'Cie is too easy, and then he'd have a Focus and, thus, a time limit, and he's looking a little too old for that to be a real possibility.
Cocoon is a factory, not a social experiment? Alas. (WHAT IS THEIR AGENDA? ARGH.)
YEP, fal'CIE!
A rather creepy looking one, at that!
… Lightning, I swapped the party around for a reason. Stop walking backwards into the wide-range magic spells! … Or don't. Okay. AGAIN.
Honestly, guys, I don't even know why I bother attempting strategies. You'd think by now I'd've figured out that all I need to do is smack it until it falls over, BUT NO. I always have to try and be CAREFUL and be CLEVER and be all, oh, well, let's try this set-up! And it invariably always comes down to straight melee with the occasional potion toss.
Man, no wonder this place is so screwed up…
WHY IS HE GIVING US THIS ANSWER SURELY IT IS NOT JUST EXPOSITION AAAUGH do they want Ragnarok?
Orphan? Ah. The battery.
… But, Fang, you don't need to worry about your Focus, right…? (… Did she try that already? Is that why her mark is weird and how Cocoon had a hole blown in it? If so, why wasn't it completely destroyed…?)
SNOW'S WORLD IS SHATTERED.
Seriously, though, why is he telling us this?
Hope has ESP or something, he is always knowing when something is coming before everyone else is…
Hey, Yaag, I figured you'd survived the craziness in Palumpolum.
DSCORDANT MUSIC ALSO WTF IS THIS RUNAWAY SHIP WE ARE FLYING THROUGH THINGS I AM CONFUSED AND MILDLY ALARMED.
THANK YOU HOPE, I was thinking that, too! So bizaaaarre. What is the purpose of Cocoon that they all seem to want it destroyed so badly.
Ah, leave him alone, he's being sad and he's allowed.
Anyway, Chapter 10 now.
We recap, establish that we're in Pulse ruins hidden beneath Eden, and move on. INTO RED LIGHT OF DOOM everyone grabs at their mark and, in some cases, their head, as well.
NOW EVERYONE CAN DO EVERYTHING! WHEE. So I am not stuck with always having either Hope or Vanille in my party forever. (SURE, SURE, Lightning can also be a Medic, but you know what? Playing the Medic is boring. I would much rather watch her smack things around.)
We are in an Ark! NOT THE ORANGE THING. Or the wooden thing. "A Pulse armory", they tell us…
We are HERE because they are also used to force l'Cie to learn and master their new abilities. So basically YOU WILL FIGHT NOW OR YOU WILL DIE A LOT.
… The datalog tells me that if I master enough roles, my choice of paradigms will expand significantly, but … I am not sure how that works, exactly, since if I swap characters around, I can already set up anything I darned well please. …Or maybe they mean I will have more slots for more paradigms. That would make more sense.
Woah, learning skills in the new roles is expensiiive.
Bart-an-dealio whatever guy? Is that what you just called him? … THAT IS HIS NEW NAME NOW FOR EVER.
So. Everyone's learned everything that opened up in their pre-established roles, so I've branched into other ones. No one's really learned anything (not true – Hope has Ruin and Snow just got Cure), because it is very slow going, but, I decided, WHAT THE HECK I DON'T NEED A SYNERGIST – sorry, Sazh, you are still cool – and swapped in Vanille, so now I've got Lightning, Vanille, and Fang, and I'M SORRY WHAT WAS THAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER HOW AWESOME MY PARTY IS.
Raaaines. LIGHTNING AGGRO.
Oh, wow, okay, I didn’t see him being a l'Cie coming. BUT I WAS RIGHT HE WAS WORKING AGAINST US … sort of. He was working against our plans for us, whatever.
The Maker?
WTF does the Maker have to do with Cocoon being destroyed?
Ah. BLOOD SACRIFICE. WE WANT OUR PARENT TO COME HOME. LET'S KILL EVERYOOOONE!!! THAT WILL MAKE THE MAKER COME BACK! Fal'Cie are crazy. Okay.
… Man, Snow is having a bad few hours. MY FRIEND IS A LIAR MY GIRLFRIEND WAS WRONG AAAUGH.
Why does everyone but us know so much about all this, anyway. IS THIS ANOTHER PULSE VS SANCTUM l'CIE THING IN THAT THE SANCTUM fal'CIE TELL YOU THINGS AND THE PULSE ONES ARE JUST LIKE "FUCK YOU GO FIGURE IT OUT ON YOUR OWN"?
He will stop us! He will set us free! WITH DEATH.
… But instead of letting him stop us, WE KILL HIM.
Alas, Cid. I am sorry it came to that.
… I'm confused. If he didn't complete his Focus, why did he poof into a crystal? … Oh, but then he evaporated. Or… something. That was odd and I didn't entirely understand it. You don't actually need to complete your Focus as long as you're doing what you-as-a-human want to be doing, I guess. Which is kind of nice.
Pulsework Knights and Berserkers are annoying and my awesome party and I wish to be done with this place now, please and thank you. Stupid maze. Ugh. Go away.
SAZH IS FREAKING OUT. I AM WITH HIM. Snow, shut up, honestly, no one cares. I totally thought for a second that he'd thrown that tear over the railing instead of just up into the air. This may be a function of me being tired. Blah blah blah protect Cocoon. BABY CHOCOBO APPROVES but we have gone over this so many tiiiimes, ugh.
Fang is all angry at us. FINE. IF YOU WON'T BLOW IT UP, THEN I WILL.
Oh, must be time for another Eidolon. Or… something. Fang's, obviously, though I guess they'd already be acquainted. Maybe. Something.
So, is your party Fang, Vanille, and Lightning, regardless of what your set-up was before, and I just managed to already have the party put together (albeit in the wrong order), or do they just change your leader to Fang? …The things I wonder about.
WAIT. SWEET. FANG GETS BAHAMUT? Not that I ever use these things, but whatever.
AND REGARDLESS I WILL GLADLY TAKE BAHAMUT (OR ANY EIDOLON) OVER MORE OF THAT PLACE
Nice of them to come put us out of our misery when we get all indecisive, though, really… (Really? Really? You expect me to believe that's why they show up? THEN WHY DID ODIN ATTACK HOPE.)
… oh! Pulse airship! Neat! … AND A GATE? WE ARE GOING TO PULSE NOW??
GLEE. (Ha, I didn't know until recently that we went down there at all, though I felt reasonably confident that we would. And apparently the manual tells you as much, but I mostly only skimmed the character pages.)
… Sazh is dying of not breathing now, what.
Woah, Snow's tattoo is really far along. (We can't see anyone else's, so I don't know if it's everyone or just him.)
PULSE IS HELL, Hope proclaims. I HAVE TOTALLY NEVER BEEN THERE. But I totally want to go! Or maybe he just didn't like the violent gleam in Fang's eyes when he said it was hell. (He was building up to that, anyway, I know, I know, I'm just being silly.)
FLASHBACK TO EVERYONE WATCHING FIREWORKS AGAIN
NOW WE ARE OUTSIDE!
FOR THE FIRST TIME!
EVER!
SO EXCITIIIING holy shit we just almost got maimed by a giant flying thing of doom.
AND EVERYONE IS FLYING OUT THE WINDOW AAAA QUICK JUMP AFTER THEM wait what.
Summoning Bahamut for the win! I love how blasé Vanille is about plummeting to her death. I mean, the others jumped out, so of course they have a plan, but she and Hope were, you know, knocked off.
YAY CHAPTER 11
Everything is huge. Wow. That or they're being tricky with the camera angles AAAAUGH WHY ARE YOU SHOWING ME A CHOCOBO BEING KILLED FOR DINNER I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU GAME
Herd of wild chocobos. ♥
…. GIANT ROCK-MOUNTAIN-MONSTER THING OMG WHAT WAS THAT IT JUST ATE A GIANT HUGE… TURTLE-THING.
And then Hope attacked the tree! GIVE ME YOUR FRUIT.
Vanille is talking this whole time, musing about fal'Cie and l'Cie and making things and … stuff. But now she is awake.
ALL RIGHT FINDING BLOODYTHIRSTY WILDLIFE AND CRUMBLING RUINS. Though, I wonder what happened to the people, if no one is around. Monsters overran them, maybe? That is sad, if so! (Maybe the Sanctum fal'Cie sucking up all their stuff to repair Cocoon helped with that.)
… Vanille speaks chocobo? SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG WITH HOPE? (Don't you dare name the chocobo Lassie, I swear, I will murder something.)
… Also, datalog says we've been here for days. Wow.
I am pretty sure we about to have to go fight Hope's Eidolon, but I am very tired. BUT I WANT TO GO FIND OUT.
Tired?
COIN FLIP??
I LOST.
Flans look kind of fish-faced to me…
Hope fell in the riverrrr. Somehow. And is passed out now while we yell and then talk about other places to look for stuff.
Oerba? He's apparently not all that unconscious. Now we must leave him. NO. FIRST WE MUST ENDURE A GROUP HUG.
Okay, there's the Eidolon come to destroy him. Us. EVERYTHING. Fang and Lightning land on their feet, so I guess they'll be my party.
Whew! That was mercifully easy.
GOOD JOB, HOPE!
NOW I REALLY AM GOING TO BED.
Oh, really? You think they really come to snap us out of our slumps, not kill us? WHATEVER GAVE YOU THAT IDEA? (Game. GAME. You can't tell me that and expect me to believe it when neither the first nor second ones to show up – the Shiva sisters and Odin – didn't target Snow or Lightning, respectively. Heck, Lightning and Sazh both had to jump in front of theirs.
Fang is sick of people calling Gran Pulse hell! WATCH IT, SAZH. (Can I please have a save point?)
(PLEASE?)
… YAY, FIELD FULL OF MONSTERS. (NOT WHAT I WANTED TO SEE.)
AAA STONE ATTACK
Oh, it's a Cie'th. In it's last stages? …They lose their will to go on and turn to stone. WE MUST SAVE THEM ALL. @_@
WHERE IS MY SAVE POINT.
… woah, wait. Datalog says Vanille already turned into Ragnarok once? I figured it would've been Fang, which was why her brand is all weird. Though then I had no explanation for why Vanille was also a crystal. I don't know, I don't know.
SAVE POINT. THERE YOU ARE.
AND NOW RUN AWAY! (Because this entry really needed more capslock...)
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TRANSFORM! MAGICAL GIRL VANILLE. Poof goes the clothing.
lolol I made exactly the same joke at this point.
haaa, I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU NOW HIKE UP YOUR SKIRT.
XD yessss. It is so nice to play a game where there is so much slashiness between ladies! It is hard enough to find games where ladies even talk to each other, let alone have arguments and hugs. And undressing each other "to check on your brand", yeah right Fang.
Bart-an-dealio whatever guy? Is that what you just called him? … THAT IS HIS NEW NAME NOW FOR EVER.
roflrofl who called him that?
I'M SORRY WHAT WAS THAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER HOW AWESOME MY PARTY IS.
YESSSSSSS
Fal'Cie are crazy. Okay.
This is like, the whole plot of FFXIII boiled down to its very essence.
IS THIS ANOTHER PULSE VS SANCTUM l'CIE THING IN THAT THE SANCTUM fal'CIE TELL YOU THINGS AND THE PULSE ONES ARE JUST LIKE "FUCK YOU GO FIGURE IT OUT ON YOUR OWN"?
hahahahaha
I never really got why Cid poofed either. Maybe by ...dying and not impeding the group, he achieved his Focus?
Fang is all angry at us. FINE. IF YOU WON'T BLOW IT UP, THEN I WILL.
Fang is a badass. But seriously, she might be conflicted but she's totally determined to complete her Focus! So Bahamut attacking there doesn't really make sense in terms of ... Eidolon theory or whatever. Somehow I remember it making more sense to me in the game, but now I'm confused.
I'm pretty sure that whatever your party was before it's changed to Fang, Lightning, and Vanille for the Eidolon fight. ~AWESOME~
NO. FIRST WE MUST ENDURE A GROUP HUG.
ROFL
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Did anyone not make that joke? I mean, come on, Square, you had to know we'd all think that immediately.
Seriously, I am just... blown away by how amazing the female characters are in this game. I mean, the guys are great, too, but that's not anything especially new or exciting. BUT THESE THREE. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.
(And undressing each other "to check on your brand", yeah right Fang.
... wait you don't believe that they're totally just friends, either? Darn it, didn't we fool anyone with that story?)
"Bart-an-dealio whatever guy" was a Sazh-ism. (I like having him in my party because he makes the best comments while we're all just running around, but he's not the greatest in battle, and he is not as AWESOME as Lightning, Fang, and Vanille all are, so I don't really keep him around that much now.)
The major events of chapter 10 all left me a bit confused. Why is Cid a l'Cie/a crystal/evaporating? BECAUSE WE NEEDED BOTH EXPOSITION AND TO GET RID OF HIM SOMEHOW AND WE DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE A MODEL FOR THE MAP. (I bet you don't get better from ...disappearing as a crystal. Bummer.) Why is Bahamut here? BECAUSE FANG NEEDS AN EIDOLON AND THEY ALL NEED A WAY OUT AND WE WANT TO BLOW UP THE SHIP AND NEED A WAY FOR EVERYONE TO NOT DIE. Maybe Bahamut showed up to be all like "DON'T GO OFF ALONE SOLO PARTIES ARE NO FUN here if I try to kill you, everyone will stick together. Am I an awesome planner, or what?" In which case, uh, well played, sir.
...THIS GAME MAKES ME CAPSLOCK A LOT HAD YOU NOTICED
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*AIR GUITARRRRRR*
BECAUSE FANG NEEDS AN EIDOLON AND THEY ALL NEED A WAY OUT AND WE WANT TO BLOW UP THE SHIP AND NEED A WAY FOR EVERYONE TO NOT DIE.
Haha, this is the best justification for any plot point ever.