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(Minigame) 34 . Looking at Notes

This is kind of a "catch-all" category for whenever the game asked you to follow someones notes or polaroids to a place on the map by pressing the left directional button. I want to say every chapter has its own bespoke "note" quest. I think the most memorable of these is Gongaga's, which is the only one that is remotely challenging. The others basically rely on you being able to visualize the map differently. So it was basically just transposing a "bad map" onto a "good map." I think one of Bugenhagen's notes was upside down. So the game does some interesting stuff with this sometimes, but it's still kind of a chore.

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NPC 57 . Weapons in the Lifestream aka "Space Whales" aka ... huh.

It's cool that they're explaining weapons and giving us more of them. I'm not sold on the design of these. I'm sure there's some mythical reference I should be getting with two big fish of light and darkness, some kind of yin yang twins thing. I'm sure Emerald and Ruby and everyone will look different and crazed in the next game, and these weapons are more like "normal" weapons?

Anyway, the new stuff in Gongaga is pretty compelling stuff if you ask me. First, Cloud gets his brain mind-jacked by Sephy, and goes full on Hollow Ichigo on some poor Shinra goons. Then, he gets pissed off at the devs teasing Tifa underboob for THE SECOND TIME this game, and so he attacks her so that she gets swallowed by a whale. Tifa, like Pinocchio before her, is then taken on a magical trip into her subconcious, where she gets to play out some moments for her past. The weapons are clearly associated with the whispers, and together they seem to govern the fate of the current world they're in. However, they're also actively combating Sephiroth/Jenova's black whispers. My current working theory is that Aerith in OGFF7 created a new world when she cast Holy. Sephiroth learns of this new world at the end of Advent Children or something and finds a way to project himself into this one.

Or something. It's fun to speculate on this stuff but also given SE's track history with high concept stuff like this it's usually better not to. It's probably going to be revealed that they're Aerith and Ifalna reincarnated. Anyway, you probably either think the lifestream weapons are hugely important lore beasts or you think they're hokey nonsense.

Hint for character 56: Complete. Queen's Blood. Domination.