So, about the plot. Major -spoilers-, all the way to the end. Beware and such.
I hesitate to make this at all. It is not made out of hatred, though feel free to hate me or the game or both because intense hate posts are funny. I genuinely make this so someone explains the end to me.
I just beat it yesterday. Frankly, I don't understand much of what happened later on. I have only played this game beginning to end once, but...
Well, I understand ol' Bart wanted them to be stronger. He says he does this and gives us presents and fights us sometimes for the LOL so they can destroy Orphan. Fal'Cie can't do it, but Pulse l'Cie can. Like, Cocoon is full of silly hippies and were crafted to die for some Maker to return and be awesome, or something. He wants one of them to become Ragranok, destroy Orphan, and condemn Cocoon to destruction as sacrifices. At least, that's how I caught it all.
When they return in the last act and come face to face with Orphan, they seem to be giving another speech about choice, there's some talk about saving the world, and then they stab the crap out of him.
Weren't they told this was bad many times? When they kill the shiny ugly face, the whole Death Star falls towards Pulse on a huge crash course. They all hold hands while falling through the air and look rather distressed when Fang and Vanille separate. Those two decide to scissor into Ragnarok and use it to create a pretty pillar that saves everyone. What was the plan B had Vanille and Fang not done this? What exactly were Lightning and her sidekicks doing that saved anyone?
Fal'Cie control is presented as less than desirable in the long run. That's great, but they still just knowingly killed the battery that keeps their home afloat, didn't they? Perhaps they were in such a lose-lose situation and all their talk about destiny made them decide they should all face consequences of their own volition instead of be controlled so much? The citizens wouldn't listen to them or change their minds anyway, so just kill Orphan because smurf it all? Or, well, there was also some talk about future visions of laughing and smoking pot as a big group. Maybe they had felt tricked so many times they thought he was messing with them about everything and anything.
I don't know, the overall goals of everyone is confusing to me. I feel as if I am missing something.
One more! At a certain point, it looks like Fang was going to kill Vanille before being stopped by the others. Vanille made it clear to me she would not chew up Cocoon and never wavers from this as far as I can tell, so what's up with that. Unless I highly misinterpreted what was happening.
I'm left with this:
- I only played it once, forgot a lot, and didn't put it together correctly.
- The plot is easy and I am merely too dumb to understand it.
- The story is just illogical and doesn't make sense.
- It was all a Moogle's dream.
