I am happy to report to you all:
I BEAT DISK ONE!!!!

The ending was supposed to be really sad...am i a bad person for not carring? i guess i would have been really sad if she left for good with all the awsome materia i kept putting on her, i mean really, the physical attacks she disked out were 500-575 at BEST! At least now i can definatly feel good, because i recorded the entire FMV using a video capture card on my computer.

That particular FMV was really really good! hell, it was equivalent to something you would have seen as a really good looking cell shaded 3D game like...uh...um...Viewtiful Joe or Cowboy beebop (when it comes it...unless it already did?)

my cloud is a level 52 leaving disk one, tifa is 47, Cid is 48, and Yuffie is 46. These being the only four character I plan on using the rest of the game, i suppose they are well suited for the job. Red XIII, Barret, and Cat sith can kiss my arse. Barret is just weak, and the others look gay in battle. stats and specialties be damned! Yuffies little victory dance is really cute, and cid is just bad ass. One of his limits is to take out a stick of dynamite and light it with the cigarette he is perpectually smoking. how badass is that!? The only think that could make that more badass would be to have him in a higher resolution with more detail, alas...halo 2 it is not.

I have two enemy skill materia as well, and i guess whenever i pick up the game again i will be sending Cid with his E. Skill materia to fight the Zolem to get beta, and i will also pawn off the elemental summon monsters shiva, titan, (lightning dude), and Irift because i can replace them all with three really neat ones i got. Is there a chart somewhere that shows how good all the summons are in relation to each other? i really want to know, i mean they do all kick arse in their own way, but i want to really dish a beat down ya know? I can't remember who i have off the top of my head, but yeah, they're good.

and i can't beleive that i almost let aeris leave with Two of the three awsome summon monsters i got! I reset the game back to just before the big wall fight before leaving the temple of the ancients just because of that!

But yeah, disk one completed...now i can *finally* set the game down for two or three weeks, i have to get some REAL work done for my life and school etc.

what do you all think of my progress so far? i completed the yuffie side quest, and beat wutai tower, i also got vincent from the mansion and stuff.