Final Fantasy 7....by a non gamer

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Suikoden 2 I would highly recommend but for one thing. It's so rare and sought after that it goes for a very high price. Still though it's the best RPG on the PS1 by a long margin. The story is very moving and a lot more grounded in reality than other RPGs. The battle system is simplistic but extremely fast with no loading times, a rarity for PS1 games. It also looks gorgeous with some of the bets 2D sprite and background art of the era. And of course there's Luca Blight who is up there with SHODAN and Kefka as gamings best villian.

I actually have a copy of this I think, but haven't played it yet.


Does this get me a ban from the JRPG forum?

Ok guys, sorry about the delay in this update. So we started back again while in the middle of Junon after doing the "training" for Rufus's send off. We've gone rooting through the town, finding things like the speed source, which was kinda confusing, and the 1/35th soldier, which was completely confusing.

But we got through all that, and eventually got to the send-off for rufus which was nothing short of comical to watch. As an aside, my gf has never been good at telling her left from her right, and in her defence, it was dark when the captain was shouting which buttons to press. Either way, she got a mighty score of 30 for the presidential mood. She did like the victory pose at the end though, finally making the connection between it and the end of a battle pose.
This gets you the "HP plus" materia which has not left the main party since we got it. Again, something I never noticed due to knowing exactly what to do but if you try to leave that location without going on the boat, RedXIII will call you over and explain how everyone else got on board.

So on the ship, as expected, the first thing she zoned in on was the little materia orb that Yuffie is blocking access to. After a few mins of frustrated failed navigation, we gave up and started moving around and exploring. She genuinely laughed at RedXIII dressed up as a sailor, and it didn't take her long to realise that there was nothing to do on deck. After initiating the conversation to get to Barret, she completed the cutscene and went down to fight Jenova, the first boss in a while that gave her any kind of challenge. it was nice to see her reaction as sephiroth came up through the floor, which she summed up in the single word "....BALLS!", before starting the battle. The combination of Stop and using the laser multiple times in a turn really took her by surprise. However, at this stage in the game, she has most people on around 800-900 HP so it wasn't too hard for her to stay alive to beat him as a boss. She has done a few little things though which are good to see that she's aware of the importance of strategy. For example, she used Barret's mindblow first to take any MP off the enemy (even if it didn't work) and she's finally understood summon materia!

So after Jenova and in Costa Del Sol, she has completed the necessary story to progress to the next part of the game with not alot happening here. I was slightly disappointed she didn't get to kick the ball at RedXIII but she did see Yuffie working at the ice-cream stand and its these little tidbits that are making her enjoy the characters more. So she's heading towards Coral and here we go through the silly little bridge breaking mini game which took me years to get right, and as expected, it didn't work for her either. She's really not sold on these mini games, if you can call these mini games and finds them almost taunting. However, it really got interesting when she encountered her first Bomb enemy. For the first time in nearly 5 hours, one of her characters died, as a result of the Self Destruct move at the end. Here was the optimum chance for her to learn about elemental properties but after 3 or 4 other attemps she simply called it quits and moved on from the area into Coral.

As I'm typing this she's in the Gold Saucer so Barret's full back story here hasn't been realised but she's somewhat emphatic towards him and the reasoning people have for hating Barret in Coral. I'm looking forward to seeing how the rest of the Barret backstory affects her, it is something I find moving, particularly since I became a parent. And she's lost all love for Yuffie after her "He totally deserved it" comment she makes before they get to the gold saucer. That has turned Yuffie in the current scapegoat for everything.

So we're in the gold saucer now and her first reaction is "This sucks". Mainly because she has no GP, and its cost her 3K to just get in the door. I'm pretty sure I've heard the ghost hotel and Cait Sith's theme in the last few mins so as it stands she just needs to find the gold saucer massacre and we're on to the rest of the backstory!

Also, for fun she has classed each of the characters as follows:

Cloud - The sane one (the irony here will be brilliant)
Aeris - The slut
Tifa - The childhood tramp
RedXIII - The pet
Barret - Poor Barret
Yuffie - The Gobshite.

I'll hopefully update you all tonight on our progress!

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

:pac:

Does she know about this Thread?

She knows it exists but I asked her not to read it as it has loads of spoilers