# 25

[temples]

I was wrong. I am covered for a doctor's appointment. I guess I really do have no excuse now!

ANYWAY. sincere made the whole video game liveblogging/liveplay thing seem so cool, I had no choice but to be a sheep. So here it is.

Liveplay! Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.

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Where I last left off!

[temples]

+ Pretty opening scene-- Zack why do you have to ruin it by talking

+ Surprise Sephiroth, training simulation

+ Mission? Genesis?

+ HEY ZACK LET'S GO TO SECTOR EIGHT OKAY NOW THAT WE'RE HERE I'M WALKING AWAY BYE

+ Angeal went missing, apparently crushed his mother the weight of his enormous honour, then we blew up a town :D

+ Jes decided that this game is dumb

[temples]

I didn't do one of these when I first started.

I should have.

[temples]

I go to the training room!

Some grunt is literally all, "top secret experiment, but I'm scared of you, so I guess you can go in if you want to."



I'm totally going in.

[temples]

> Validate Hojo's data?

>> I'll show you what SOLDIER is made of!
>> Fighting against data can't be very exciting...

I got distracted by the capital letters.

[temples]

"Now, my precious data... destroy this study sample and prove my greatness!"

He means Zack, by the way.

Zack is the study sample.


Awesome.

[temples]

I kicked ass.

Hojo thinks it's a fluke.

Zack thinks it's his natural amazingness.

I think I rock at the combat system.

Re: Where I last left off!

[mydarkrosaline]

Angeal went missing, apparently crushed his mother the weight of his enormous honour

i'm dying

DYING

[temples]

HE CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY I KEEP WINNING THESE SIMPLE BATTLES.

The settings are off, you see.

[temples]

My work here is done.

[temples]

Oh, okay

He didn't know Zack was in SOLDIER

Even though Zack says, "I'll show you what SOLDIER is made of!" like ten seconds ago.

I see.

[temples]

I killed two more easy monsters.

Hojo has commenced panting over Zack. He wants to make him a "study sample". You know, the thing he called him in the beginning.

I hope it involves candlelit dinners.

[mydarkrosaline]

He didn't listen

he's a jerk like that

[temples]

Now Hojo is tilting to one side to tell me about his EXTRA SPECIAL PROGRAM.

I assume it's in his pants.

[temples]

And then I died.

It wasn't in his pants after all.

[temples]

I am abusing the random icon button for these, by the way.

[sincere]

Random icon button! I wish they existed on IJ so we could do a random button meme where you have to random icon and then write a tag that goes along with the icon, and then the person you tag has to random icon and then write a tag that goes along with that icon.

For instance, I apparently regret wishing this!

[temples]

I think that would be the greatest and most beautiful meme ever.

And my random icon agrees with me!

[sincere]

My random icon responds with a boobsquish.

[temples]

The characters may only say a few words, but their lips keep moving until you press X to continue.

Why?

Because!

[temples]

My random icon responds with patriotism.

[temples]

I did the first three easy battles, now I'm trying to get under Hojo's lab coat again. I mean-- EXTRA SPECIAL PROGRAM :D

I'm going to kill it twice as hard because it beat me the first time.

[temples]

or not

[temples]

I'm going to do a few more missions, level up, and then kick YOUR PROGRAM'S ASS, HOJO

[temples]

Zack has agreed to go on a mission with babby Cloud.

I mean, with SOLDIER 3rd Class Level 1.

[temples]

Kunsel, what is your deal.

I mean, seriously. You're lower on the totem pole than Zack, right? It would have been much smoother, story wise, to introduce Kunsel as the rookie Zack had to explain everything to. The player would have still learned the vital parts of gameplay. But no, Kunsel is Mr. Exposition for Zack.

Sigh.