Monday, 01 December 2008

• A Blast from the Past (Or Jenovah, my Old Enemy)

  I ended up listening to One Winged Angel, the final boss theme from FFVII on my way in to work today, and it got me thinking about how much I simultaneously loved and loathed that fight.  The first time I hopped into the crater to defeat Sephiroth,  I was like, okay this is interesting- ooh pretty angels! And then, in a 14 minute long battle, at least 11 of which were his flipping summon, I ended up dying. 
  
  Normally, my motto is "If at first you don't succeed, try and try again (while swearing copiously)"  But the indignity of having to sit through what felt like hours of Super Nova, I say "Nope.", climbed out of the crater and began the quest to breed a Golden Chocobo, which would allow to me acquire two massively powerful materia: Knights of the Round and Mime.
  
  Now, because Chocobos mature in real-time, you would essentially get two excellent chocobos up to snuff by racing them at the Golden Saucer.  Then you have to wait for them to mature; this usually meant for me I would either spend time levelling my characters and/or putting down the controller and going for a walk, cleaning the house, doing homework, whatever.  You mate two great chocobos to get a Blue or a Green one, race that up to awesomeness, mate the parents again until you get either a Blue or a Green chocobo (the opposite of the first one) and race IT up to awesomeness. Also, you better pray you get one male and one female.  Then put down the controller again, because they have to mature before you can mate them.  Mate them to hopefully acquire a Black Chocobo.  Race him/her up to awesomeness, head out to the plains to catch a foxy chocobo mate, race him/her to the S-class of racer at the Golden Saucer, mate them up and pray for a Gold one.  All told, the process takes very little game time, but at least 10 hours of real time.
  
  So that's what I did, because I can't do things the simple way.  I got the Knights of the Round materia, Mime materia and Quadra Magic. Off to the crater, and BOOM. Safer Sephiroth gets two KOTRs to the face, and then four Bahamut ZERO because I was feeling generous.  He didn't get even get a chance to cast Super Nova, which was good, except for the fact that my six summons were of equal length.
  
  Then we get to watch Tifa's CGI chest bounce up and down during the escape cut-scene following Sephiroth's demise. Whoops!
  
  

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