Pumpkin

yesssss. yesssssssssssss.

I'm in the process of replaying FF7 for the first time in a decade as well, so this is of interest to me. (I started a while back so I'm waaay ahead of you though, so no concurrency)

I like the dry humour.

Yay! A Let's Play essentially!

I love these.

Today on Final Fantasy VII, Cloud dressed like a girl and I may or may not have had sex with a man. I spent way to much money on a vending machine and got a tiara. I also got myself a silk dress and a wig and some lingerie. Also, I have decided that Cloud makes a better woman than man. Aeris and I went to rescue Tifa and there was some leering and hip thrusting and threats to private parts and other questionable humor. The Don revealed to me that they were planning to destroy sector 7 and then he asked me why he would reveal this information to me. Then I correctly answered because he thinks he's won. But instead of winning a prize, I got dropped down from the floor :/.

I ended up in a sewer and fought some sewer...thing... and then proceeded through the sewer and then ended up at the train graveyard. I fought some stupid ghost things that vanish. it isn't so bad if there's a few of them and you can rotate, but it's very annoying when there's just one of them. It's basically Attack, wait. Wait. Wait. Attack again, wait. Wait. Wait. And repeat if necessary.

Then we rushed to sector 7 and Aeries finally left and made herself useful by going to get Marlene and there was some shooting going on. I dunno. Where does Beret keep all of his ammo? Anyways, I rushed up the stairs and I was as nice as I could be to the dying members of AVALANCHE. I sadly had to step on Jessie on my way up the stairs and I felt bad . SHE'S DEAD . Then I was forced against my will to fight Reno, who put me in a pyramid, which I then had to attack to make go away. I may have accidentally hit Cloud more than necessary . After the super awesome Reno ran away, not at all cowerdly, we headed to Aeris house to rescue Marlene. According to Tifa, apparently Aeris said something about Marlene being safe. I don't know, I don't pay much attention when Aeris talks.

So we head to Aeris' house and we are greeted by her "mother", who criticizes Berret's parenting, and find out she's ADOPTED!!!! GASP!!! Oh, and something about being an Ancient or whatever. Poor Aeris' mom lost her husband. Makes me feel bads. We find out that Aeris gave herself up to the Turks in order to save Marlene. Berret goes to see his daughter and makes me feel like if he wasn't such a potty mouth. Cloud goes to leave the house and Tifa asks Cloud if he's going to rescue Aeris, and I say no, but Cloud says yes, and apparently we have to do what he wants so off we go to her rescue.

Does anyone else think the game would be better if you played the Turks. this game has so many spin offs, why can't that be one of them?

So we head back to Pervert Land and i get some batteries and climb some wires. Cloud tells you at that jumping point to not wait until the rope gets too close before jumping, but he lied, because you basically have to jump when it's right in front of you. So up we go until we finally arrive to Mt-Shinra. They give you the option of sneaking in or busting in. I had never chosen the sneaking in option, so I went with that one. Apparently, sneaking in going up the staircase, which for reasons I don't quite understand is unguarded. So up we go and even though I often passed Tifa and Berret on the staircase, when we would enter the next screen, they for some reason were ahead of me!

So we finally arrive and there is some more weird set ups with the guards, as they left an entire area of a floor with no guards in it, and obstacles to block the other guards from seeing you if you time it right. I did not. After a series of fights, the game gave up on me and let me continue anyways. I went up some floors, and talked to some people who never thought to call security on me. I replied "......." to one random employee who assumed that meant I was a repair man(?) and gave me a key to a restricted floor. Shinra knows how to run a business. So Shinra destroyed sector 7 and pretended AVALANCHE did it and some other corrupt big business stuff. Money.

Anyways, I ran in to the Hojo who was holding Red XIII and Aeris and was I think trying to breed them? Berret shot some stuff (but not Hojo, as per my recommendation) and I freed both Red XII and Aeris.

And that concluded today's exciting adventure in Final Fantasy VII land!

Aeris was trying to help Marlene! She's not worthless!

Did you make sure to get Cait Sith's weapon out of the Shinra building? I always loved how you're fighting security in the halls of the Shinra building, but apparently none of the scientists hanging out in the labs hear this, or seem at all concerned.

I'm betting that this is going to get extra hilarious right around date-at-the-Gold-Saucer time.

Reno shows up. I am happy because I like Reno. I kind of want to hand Aeris over to him.

I approve.

Extra hilarious hopefully at least implies that it is somewhat entertaining to read? I hope so. I'm having fun blogging my progress.

Today/last night on Final Fantasy VII:

Aeris and Red 27 were rescued from Hojo Jojo. Cloud got on an elevator and was stopped by the awesome Turks. The group was imprisoned. After some talking and sleeping, Cloud awoke to find his cell door unlocked and the guard dead. We searched the guard and found the key (apparently we found two, because Tifa and Cloud both unlocked a door at the same time) and rescued my friends. We exited to find a really creepy train of blood and for what ever reason, decided to follow it. Also, the Jenova specimen was gone. We were lead upstairs where we found president Shinra dead with a sword sticking out of his body. One of the higher up Shinras told me that it was Sephiroth. We had already figured as much.

On our way out of the building, we were stopped by Rufus, the dead presidents son. He told us about his plan to rule with FEAR because his fathers way was too expensive. A man with a plan. You gotta respect that. Cloud told the others to leave and they did so Cloud fought Rufus mano-a-mano. Once the fight had progressed enough, Rufus grabbed on to a helicopter, one armed, and rode off. Because he is BAD. ASS. Except for his name. Best CEO ever.

Tifa decided she would wait for Cloud, so Aeris, Berret, and Red 33 headed on without her. There was a boss fight on a never ending elevator, where only Berret could physically attack him with his gun arm. For some reason, no matter how long the fight lasted, the elevator never landed, so that my others could walk over. After these incidences and some other action packed stuff, Cloud got himself a motorcycle and made his friends ride some ugly blue truck-like thing. There was a scene involving attacking some motorcycle guards while Cloud himself was on a motorcycle, and swinging his sword around.

Once this cheesy action fight was over, we finally decided to leave Midgar. We headed to a small town, which I think is called Kalm(?) and headed for the Inn. once up there, Cloud decided to flashback 6 years and tell us of his experience with Sephiroth.

Him and Sephiroth were brought to Cloud's hometown of Nibelheim to investigate the mako reactor. They first ran into a dragon, which was quickly cut down by the level 50 Sephiroth. After they got to the town, Cloud wandered around, checking out some stuffs and some peoples. He had some trouble remembering certain moments. The next day, he and Sephiroth, guided by Tifa, went over to the mako reactor. Tifa was instructed to stay outside. Cloud and Sephiroth went in and saw some mutant people in these tear shaped pod things. Oh also, best music in the game so far, in that reactor. You learn that those mutants are experiments made by Hojo Mojo. Sephiroth begins to wonder about his mother being named Jenova and the Jenova cells. When they get back to town, he heads to the Shinra mansion to read up on the ancients in the library in the basement.

Cloud goes to check on him, in the really creepy mansion, and Sephiroth babbles on about the ancients and how people took the planet from them and he is an ancient and him and his mother are going to take back the planet. later on, he sets the town on fire, killing many innocent people, including Cloud's mother and Tifa's father. Cloud follows him to the mako reactor and gets there to witness Tifa being struck down after trying to confront Sephiroth about the death of her father. How she survive? We aren't supposed to know yet. Then Cloud stands off against Sephiroth, but can't remember what happens, so instead you're left with a scene flashing back and forth at an accelerated pace, until someone has an epileptic seizure.

Everyone finishes listening to his story, and after some 'wow, that's deep' moments, they decide to head on their way. We go to a swamp, get our asses handed to us by a snake, and go instead spend large amounts of money on chocobo supplies, to cross the swamp alive. I went back and beat that stupid annoying jerk snake after several attempts today, and got Red 49 the Beta spell. Also, did I mention that Red coloring 11 is awesome? Because he is.

So with that done, we head through the cavern and meet Rude (who actually isn't all that rude) and Elena, the newest member of the turks and the other guy. Can't think of his name. He told me to say hi to Aeris. Elena shows her adorableness and blabs their plans to me and Rude tells me reno can't wait to see me again. I'm so glad, I've been thinking about you too, Reno.

Once this is done, I head into the forest to recruit the adorably spunky Yuffie, who I have yet to actually use.

And that concludes today's long adventure in Final Fantasy VII land!

I don't know why, but I found the flashback scenes really boring and they dragged on... and on...