Final Fantasy VII Part #93

Part 93: Hope

Chapter 92 - Hope

In case you got confused - last chapter we went into a secret underwater side-area, the Gelnika (that big airship we saw twice in the Junon Airport). There are only four rooms in it mostly containing items and a boss fight.

Anyway, we're going back to the Lucrecia cave. You don't need the submarine for that as long as you have a Chocobo that can cross mountains.

If you return to the cave after a couple of battles (which we did at the sunken ship) you get two items:

Chaos which is Vincent's final Limit Break. We'll get to see it eventually. In far more detail than you would like.

And Death Penalty, Vincent's Ultimate Weapon. Its power goes up with the amount of enemies Vincent has killed. It can result in hilarity by integer overflow because if you kill enough monsters (65,535) the game will go crazy and every single one of Vincent's hits will kill the enemy.

Now that we have the Key and we're done with underwater Shenanigans (well, almost done...) let's get back to the City of Ancients.

That is one ugly key.

This is a big moment. We are close to figuring out the secrets of this place.

Here we go!

This is the Rube Goldberg of the Ancient Mysteries.

I feel like Charlie the Unicorn being lured here.

Right.

Let's see what the first dreamachine in History can do. Impress me.

Probably not good for Cloud's PTSD.

This is a scene we're familiar with, except...

...we now get to see what happened underwater, after the materia fell.

Holy's final moments.

Bugenhagen: "Ho Ho Hooo!! It's pale green!!"

Cloud: "That was Holy... That's why she had the White Materia. Aeris knew about here... and what she had to do."

That's always depressive as fuck.

But at least now we know Aeris' sacrifice wasn't entirely in vain.

Cloud: "That's why it took so long for me to find out... but, Aeris... I understand now."

Cloud: "Aeris... I'll do the rest."

Thank you Vincent.

Cloud: "But... how about Holy? How come Holy isn't moving? Why?"

And it's easy to know who.

Well, we have to stop Sephiroth from preventing Holy from saving the planet from the Meteor.

But first let's advertise some good 90's phones.

"I told you not to call me at this number. I'm at work!"

Wait. Cloud got it right. What the hell?

How do you even move that thing? Does it have wheels? I genuinely want to see a CGI of that thing being moved. Come on Square-Enix.

How much does that thing weigh anyway? Maybe a bunch of Gelnikas carried it.

Maybe it floated all the way to Midgar on water. Screw Sephiroth, any company that can move that thing from one city to another got this shit covered.

Cait Sith: "To a place where Materia... no, where Mako is gathered."

Elementary, dear Cloud.

Look at the moon being lit by the Meteor. The scale of that thing is way off. Such wicked work of magic is only present in one place.

That must mean... the cannon moved to...

The one city in the world where scale means jack.

Midgar.

I think at this point Shinra just gave up on running Midgar as a city.

Reeve is just hopeless.

I know my Engrish is bad and all but this is weird.

Let's drain a lot of the Planet's energy and throw it at the one man whose objective is to absorb all of the Planet's energy. It's such a crazy plan he'll never expect it!