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Waluigi1 posted...

I've never seen someone use covfefe much

"Negative press covfefe" is just too fun to say, so I use it to describe... negative press covfefe. That's what it means, yes?

So I finally got around to playing a bit tonight, though a lot of it was trial and error fighting the boss. Starting out, Snow admits that Nora's death was his fault and he wants to make up for it however possible - including by protecting Hope and getting the boy home, as he promised. He hands Hope the knife and trusts that he won't be quite literally stabbed in the back. Hope doesn't bother, but Snow is certainly in a lot of pain from carrying him everywhere. Hope actually admits some guilt for wanting to blame someone for his mother's death, and the two... actually seem to be bonding?

Unfortunately some thing swoops in and initiates a fight. Snow can hardly move from his injuries from the fall - something far more realistic than in most JRPGs I've encountered a similar situation in - so Hope fights it by himself. I try to last as long as I can because I quickly know this fight is impossible to win, but I don't know if it's a "survive for X seconds" or a "let it take all your HP out" kind of boss. Ends up as the latter - Light and Fang come in to bail Hope out. We stagger the thing three times, the last of which was one blow before the killing one. This thing was weaksauce.

After this we end up at Hope's place, where his father Bartholomew anxiously answers the door. Unfortunately, all Hope says is "Mom's gone." and we cut to Bart crying on the sofa five minutes later. We don't get to see a full reaction. We don't get to hear Hope describe what happened. We do get to hear Snow taking responsibility, at least, but that's about it.

There are a multitude of scenes here, some with Fang smirking in the background. We get Snow and Light opening up to each other more - she's watching over him, as much as she hates his guts, she knows he means a lot to someone she cares deeply about. He asks her for her real name while she's at it and she tells him to ask Serah when she gets up from the crystal stasis. Snow continues to need rest, however, but he's too stubborn to lay down.

The next scene is the party being talked out of blowing up Eden and assassinating the Primarch. Bartholomew makes a completely fair point that such a thing would affirm the people's fears of Pulse and cause riots everywhere, causing great loss of life and all kinds of bad things. We're about to start figuring out a plan when a terrorist attack occurs on this very residence. The PSICOM thugs are everywhere and break in senselessly, not caring who they kill. It's abhorrent that they treat people like lemmings and use their fear to heroize themselves, when they're nothing but a bunch of thugs.

Snow recognizes all this, of course, and does the ballsiest thing I've seen from him yet. He whips out his jacket, which gets pumped full of lead, and then tells the goon squad to stop firing and let him show himself so they can see what a l'Cie really looks like: No different than them. He puts doubt into their minds about their own actions, telling them that he's lived in Cocoon all his life and wants to protect it, and he's human just the same. Some of them think he's lying, while others actually take this to heart upon seeing him. Amid the confusion, however, Colonel Rosch steps in, introduces himself, and says Snow must be executed to allay the people's fears because his life isn't worth as much as the millions of others in Cocoon. I do not follow his logic. What exactly has Snow done that's dangerous? What exactly has any Pulse l'Cie done that's dangerous? The ONLY thing keeping people afraid is the covfefe, which doesn't even tell the whole story. It's media fearmongering at its finest and this idiot should be ashamed of himself for-

HOLY SHIT WHAT JUST HAPPENED

Rosch is, all of a sudden, deceased, and smoke is everywhere. PSICOM goons are firing at each other and chaos is ensuing. Like WHAT. That is not how I expected this scene to unfold, so it's awesome. Inside, Light tells Hope to tie up Dad, who'll say he was coerced against his will into helping out - the perfect excuse to get him off scot-free. Maybe he'll be Purged, however, because unlike what Rosch thinks the government certainly wants to unload people onto Pulse for no reason. Hope shares one more moment with his father, who tells him that it's his choice what to do in life. He can complete his Focus if he wants to, or live another way if he'd rather. It's great.

And then we have this motherfucker outside. An airship, one that's just a brutal boss with one design flaw. After all that cutscene time, which was necessary, you have this fight, and you're automatically targeting the core when there are four auxiliary parts you need to destroy first. I'd presume most people have to retry this their first time because they're dead before they realize what they need to do, because this thing packs a wallop. It would've been nice to have an auxiliary part as the default target for this reason. It takes until my third try to realize how exactly it's structured, since the first two ended way too quickly for me to be able to adjust. Lots of data to collect. My third - and winning - attempt took out the two turrets first, then breached each side of the hull to reveal the core, which suddenly made this thing susceptible to staggering. I staggered it and finished it off, then it blew up and another one took its place. Then that one blew up all of a sudden...

...another ship kinda like it lands and a bunch of PSICOM goons come out in formation with their guns, but they don't aim them at us. The officer in charge removes his helmet... it's Fang's friend from earlier! The guy who'd been with her when she first met Snow. These are Cid Raines's men, and are thus on our side... for now. Let's be real here: I don't trust Raines, either. I can align with him right now, sure, since that will help us against the Sanctum. But I'm thinking this guy wants to install himself as Primarch and needs the l'Cie to do it, then once he's in charge he can order a bunch of l'Cie executions anyway. That's currently my theory. He'd certainly be better than the current Primarch since he wouldn't Purge people like the plague was happening... when, uh, there's virtually nothing concerning going on.

Hope says goodbye to his dad and Vanille's narration says you don't know "the last time" when it happens. Meaning I don't think Bartholomew is in the clear just yet. But the good news is that this lengthy chapter is finally over, and boy what a ride it was.

Next up: Vanille and Sazh in Nautilus. We finally get to see what those two are up to!