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Played until exiting the Evil Forest, whose name is quietly hilarious. An ATE tells us our crew is doing just fine without us (orchestra in thr forest!), and the enemies get progressively bigger as we go from puny Goblins to bigger Fang wolves to something that looks like a giant rafflesia. After a brief resting point (love these!) the actual boss battle is an even gianter rafflesia thing-y that blinds us and does a bit more damage but that doesn't have a lot of HP. Do your thing, Vivi and... Blank? Is that his name?

Blank doesn't last long. Beating the boys results in a chase sequence with battle music override, a classic FF trope I love. Blank dying immediately is a little more stale of a trope but also kind of enjoyable because of how recognizable it is, too. Does this mean all of Tantalus is dead? I hope not, and I suspect that they may be either coming back, or rescued much later in the game - after all, they have the FF staple airship.

And then we're out in the overworld?? For some inexplicable reason I didn't actually see this coming. It took longer to reach (by a lot) then FF8 but shorter (by a lot) than FFVII. I guess I was just somewhat conditioned to expect an FFVII-like (dare I say FFX-like?) amount of being in narrow spaces. But nah, here we are! And we can save at any time on the overworld, so let's just take advantage of that.

This game so far has charm. Glad to have Garnet with us now. But the battles (which admittedly have yet to really get interesting) are kinda reminding me why Pokemon is so popular. There are a million things to do in the battle menu, but due to ATB I don't really want to experiment much, and I also don't want to spend long staying at menus to customize my dudes. Some minor optimization and learning some abilities might eventually happen, though, if I get a hang of how skills work.