Part 94: Attack on Weapon
Chapter 93 - Attack on WeaponSo we have Cait Sith flipping out. This ain't good.
Cloud: "The new weapon should stop him, right?"
Sounds like a mission to us.
There's that.
Here comes something good.
Cait Sith laying down for real. Barret is not a nice man.
I think this is a great piece of dialogue (or monologue if you will). We talked the other day about how many people might have died during the first attacks, even the small subtleties like the destroyed building that was also shown in the opening, with people in the window. There's no way for an outsider like Cait to see the attack as anything other than bad.
I mean, someone had to say it. The guys here have some serious bodycount.
But yeah, I'm gonna have to side with the cat on this one.
Tifa: "What we did in Midgar can't be forgotten no matter what the reason."
"Hey guys I think I just realized we're horrible monsters. Guys?"
Cait's between a rock and a hard place.
Cloud's tired of this BS. There's a giant monster we need to take care.
No non-believers, Cid.
You gotta love the sincerity. Let's roll.
Unfortunately we can't engage on Diamond Weapon with the airship. We're gonna have to wait.
I think it's a good time to use this.
Here he comes.
Any time now.
Diamond takes forever.
Cmon!
So. Diamond Weapon is the easiest Weapon by far. There's not much to say about it, you'll have to see by yourself. The Knights of the Round is an enormous overkill but I thought you guys would enjoy finally seeing it in action.
And that was Diamond Weapon.
"Screw this".
Diamond Weapon pretty much decides not to waste time with us, turns around and walks away towards Midgar. We've been ditched, son.
Making our entire battle kinda useless except for the weapon we stole. I guess we stalled a bit for them to get their cannon ready in time.
Well, it's definitely going to murder a lot of people if it gets to the city.
Now this is one unsettling scene which unfortunately doesn't translate very well to screenshots. This is one of those scenes where the characters are superimposed on a cinematic.
But this time it's very effective as it is really disturbing to see the gigantic monster walking away in the background.
I don't say this often, but this scene would kick ass with modern graphics.
Huh.
We've done our part. I'm outta here.
Oh man.
Whoever made that cannon wasn't really expecting it to see it used so much.
That's one big cannon.
I love some lemonade. Thought you should know.
Shit's getting real.
You know, this is really some mushroom-trip level of crazy going on. These are towering, gigantic world-sucking reactors sending soul juice to a cannon the size of the Everest to shoot down Vaccine-man.
The amount of details in these cinematics impressed the hell out of me back in the day.
There goes Midgar, and the Weapon didn't even need to attack the city.
This is some Citizen Kane level of wreckage.
Not pictured: Reeve hanging himself.
Next Time:
Lasers! Destruction! Find out what happened to the Weapon!