Part 19: Out of Darkness, Out of Mind

Chapter 19 - Out of Darkness, Out of Mind













Haha



This is the first time we see Rufus and I'm already loving him.







I mean, it's like the dude is a James Bond villain and he's loving it.



The charm about FF7's blocky models is that you need to think of them as lego dolls.



It greatly improves the enjoyment of the game.



I wonder in how many alternate universes the world is ruled by a simple megacorporation like this.







Now, that guy is an asshole.



Hahahahaha.



Cloud gets the very right idea.



In a way, this is the moment where you realize how fucked up everything truly is. The president of the company that you took as the villain during this first part of the game is dead - and someone much worse is replacing him. Your whole party is composed of fugitives in a world where that single government that wants you dead controls everything. And apparently, the "enemy of my enemy" is someone the protagonist is terrified of, and everybody so far has been saying he is "brilliant, perhaps too brilliant".

The protagonist has psychotic breakdowns and his also wanted date hears voices and was in a lab being forced to breed with a talking dog.

I mean, seriously.





This is another good instance of Cloud not being the "silent protagonist".



If you think a lot about it, this entire sequence is a mess, in a good way. Everything is simply too fucked up.



We get the chance to remove the items from Tifa and Cloud to equip on Aeris, Barret and Red.



Our Hypers, sadly, are running low.


At any rate, we equip our characters and go to the elevator, because iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's

BOSSES TIME

That's right, it's plural and good God, is it plural.



Our first fight is a double fight on the elevator, Hundred Gunner and Heli Gunner. Because the two enemies come at the same fight, I'll treat it as one fight.

Both bosses share the same gimmick - they enter a "Berserk mode" when their HP is low which makes them do special attacks that hurt. Also, I'd like to point this - this fight is a jump in difficulty compared to the previous bosses.

These bosses deal extremely large amounts of damage very fast and you can't reach with normal attacks (well, Barret can). Heli Gunner also puts Sleep and Poison and strikes twice in the same turn, so even with Aeris 1-1 limit it's possible to lose if you're not paying attention.



To beat them before they do anything stupid we do a double-limit attack to kill Hundred Gunner before he goes into last phase (remember, Limits have priority over any action), refill Barret and Red's bars with Aeris' Fury Brand and do the same to Heli Gunner.







Meanwhile, Cloud gets to fight Rufus. Really, I know I should be showing off the fights in their entirety, but what the hell can I say? Rufus has 500 HP. We've fought trash mobs with almost as much as that. And he has a panther called Dark Nation. It always puts wall (reduces damage and magic damage) on Rufus in the first turn. I think you can hold attack and win this battle.



If you guys really, really want, I recorded the fight with me just spamming Fire until they die, so you can see their attacks. For now, let's move on.






No shit, son, you just attacked the president of the new world order and all your friends aren't doing much better either.



It's like the shittiest situation.







It's not like they didn't just invade this place to rescue you.



Red is the voice of reason, he's the one who genuinelly don't give a fuck about our group and just wants to get out.







Meanwhile, Tifa comes down the stairs with a solution.











GRAND



THEFT



AUTO







BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORN TO BEEEEEEEE WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILD



What else were the guys to do?

Also notice how they actually animate Tifa's breasts bouncing.

Also man look at that music oh god the music MY BLOOD IS PUMPING



TUM DUM DUM



OH GOD THEY ARE SURROUNDING US



YEAHHHRHH



You can either beat them with the sword or crash them against the walls.



END OF LINE



MONSTER TRUCK IS COMING



FUCK YOOOU MONSTER TRUCK



BOSSES WHO HAVE DONE SHIT AGAINST US: 0/8

Ok, sorry for all that, it was just too much adrenalyne.

Back to the routine.



The score... for what?



Cloud: "Seems like it."

Barret: "Awright, I'm going!"





Adeus Midgar, we're gonna miss you.

Well, that was fun.



Now you get to see why this screen exists.



You're a crappy parent, you don't even know where your daughter is right now.



I mean, as far as bad parenting goes, Barret takes the cake.



Midgar, as a poster said, is a great game in on itself. It's large too - granted, I'm slow as hell, but the city took us almost 20 updates.



Red is pretty sincere about his intentions. But I'm not one to complain.







Cloud still wants his date :arg:



God no Barret we don't want to die in another city crash.



Tifa is pretty bitter and passive-agressive about it. As always, we can't blame her. The only reason she got in this whole mess was to get laid with Cloud and all that it got her was an arrest warrant, dead friends and Cloud getting himself a date.





WHAT IS THIS INSANE ANIME LOGIC, WHY DON'T YOU ALL GO TOGETHER



WHY IS IT TOO DANGERSAHRRGHHRHHHhsdefdf this makes zero sense to me.



Cloud can finally fulfill his most repressed fantasies.







The ladies of course find that incredibly strange.

I'm just kidding though.



Back to FFX-2



Haahahahah



HOLY CARP WE'RE OUT and good lord look at that pollution, everything around Midgar is a wasteland.


NEXT TIME:

Exploring! Enemy Skills! New Cities!




Chapter 19 - Bugs & Bytes

Vehicles



FFVII, as you may have noticed by the Shinra Ads CGI, did put some effort into the vehicle designs. The motorcycle Cloud uses is called Hardy Daytona.



Notice how Cloud is using the Hardedge in the artwork.



The automobile the others use is actually a Tricycle.



Notice the Engrish MIDGAL'S on the truck. If you look closely, you can see that it's there in concept art below. A lot of you should know why these things happens, but it's because Japanese doesn't distinguish between L and R, so things get lost in translation even when the source is an occidental word (Midgard to Midgar to Midgal).



The style is still interesting, all things considered. They have a classic american vibe to them.


Awesome Music we've listened to in this update:


Chase - The only redeeming thing about a bad minigame.