Chapter One Discussion - ***Chapter One Spoilers Inside***

[Loony BoB]

In this thread discuss chapter one. You can discuss anything that happens in chapter one without marking it as a spoiler. That means if you haven't completed this chapter, you probably shouldn't read this thread...

Anything that happens in chapter two and onwards should be marked with SPOILER tags like so...

[spoiler="Chapter Two Spoiler!"]Something happens![/spoiler] 

...which results in something like this (click it): Chapter Two Spoiler!Something happens!

[Loony BoB]

So I just watched the opening scene of the game and I am already overloaded with so many feels.

[Aulayna]

Cid's voice acting is the best.

[Loony BoB]

Yeah he's voiced really well. Just finished chapter one now. Wait, what, an Ultima Bomb? That sounds terrifying and just a little funny at the same time.

[Psychotic]

I don't know, I thought Cid's voice acting was kinda lame

The stuff with Chichiri was sad, and his rider (forgot his name already, it began with an I) not wanting to die was depressing. But then we didn't have much context as to why we should care if the Rubrum was being invaded or indeed why we should hate those doing it.

THEY USED A L'CIE AND A JAMMER, THOSE MONSTERS!

Well, uh, okay. How... awful? I guess?

Loved getting to unleash Odin though! I died the first time I took over as the cadets in that fight (shut up ) and second time around the Odin section of the fight lasted three seconds with a mighty Zanetsuken landing a 1HKO

[Loony BoB]

Yeah, it was kind of hilarious being Odin and ending the fight before it even begins. Died with the cadets first time as well, learned quickly after that. It doesn't tell you what to do in this game to a major extent, but it's pretty easy to catch on regardless.

Chichiri and Izana (I think that's right) was just the saddest opening of a game ever for me.

[Psychotic]

Ah, yeah, Izana. At one point that got depressing as hell, but then they kind of Lord of the Ringsed it by repeatedly fake outs. Also what was the "Ace! I NEED ACE!" "Yes hello I'm Ace. Well, off I pop, have fun dying!" business all about?

[Loony BoB]

I think they would have spent time mourning if it wasn't for the fact that they had soldiers pointing guns at their heads every five seconds. War's a bitch.

Although Chapter Two spoilerwe do find out that they seem to have some kind of massive lack of feeling towards death and that they apparently forget people fast or something like that, so I imagine this is a large part of why they were so blank-faced about it all. Although it does leave me really wondering about Izana, and what got him to the point that he had so many feelings about his death. I get the feeling death is going to be a huge theme in this game after the cemetery scene.

[Psychotic]

He wasn't even dead at the time though! Get the wounded out! And all that!

[Loony BoB]

You heard them. It was too late. If they spent their time trying to carry out the wounded they'd have inevitably been easy pickings for the enemy.

[Aulayna]

I've just started Chapter 4. That fight after Odin, with the Cadets vs the l'Cie machine, is the hardest thing I've done in the game so far. The laser is so faintly telegraphed in that fight and if you get hit by it once you're pretty much dead due to it knocking you down 90% of the time.

[Loony BoB]

Feel free to start threads for the other chapters Aulayna! I would start one for chapter two but I don't feel I've gone far enough into it.

[Aulayna]

That Odin comment was in regards to the bit in Chapter One! Just saying it's the hardest thing I've done so far xD

[Loony BoB]

Oh, yeah, I'm just looking forward to catching up and then being able to see all these posts from people who beat me there so I can react to their reactions.

[fat_moogle]

I thought Ace would have stayed with Izama whilst he was dying. Cradled him or something. But they were like "nope, too late!" Then whilst they turned their backs Izama went through a whole monologue without them presumably hearing? It could have been more powerful than it was.

But then...

...do Class Zero even have any emotions? Seeing how (SPOILER)they were "created" by Al-Racia or whatever she's called? Well, at least we know now why they're named after cards...they're just puppets :O (Just got to chapter 2 and not sure if that was mentioned at the beginning of that or the end of 1)