Onward with chapter 8, but haven't completed it.

(SPOILER)How awesome would it have been for Hope to of actually had the chance and gone through with killing Snow while he was on the ledge?! Sure it would have changed the story entirely but it would have been massively epic. Definitely more shocking than when Aeris died and that dropped my jaw in disbelief. SE just doesn't have the daring to kill of a main character anymore. Afterwards Snow showed a lot of heart dragging Hope on even though he was struggling after getting hurt. It made me appreciate his character more. Fighting the boss thing after Lightning and Fang showed up was interesting seeing as how I didn't get to set up my paradigms how I would have liked beforehand, though still pretty easy.

I didn't realize the boss at the end of chapter seven had multiple targets to choose from at first I was holding my own just attacking the main but it was taking forever so I let myself die to shift around my paradigms more successfully. Then right at the start I realized my mistake and with the right roles assigned it was pretty easy, 5 stars.

(SPOILER)For those who didn't like Vanille too much because she was always so cheery and carefree I hope you began to appreciate her more in these chapters. I liked her alright to begin with but it was nice seeing the standard SE archetype change and have her with her moments of worry and depression.