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(Minigame) 27. Playing/Praying as Aerith

I really like the idea of everyone having their own "take the lead" section in the game. From a gameplay and story perspective, it just works to throw in this kind of variety. I also like when games "force" a split party but I've liked that since the first time I played Final Fantasy VI.

Some results are better than others. Only two would qualify as "different" enough from the main experience to count as a minigame. Yuffie's section is not a minigame. Red's is not a minigame because you can climb on walls. The two that are minigames are the much maligned Cait Sith section and the less discussed but even worse Aerith section in the Temple of the Ancients.

More on Cait Sith gameplay eventually. Aerith's unique gameplay mechanic in the final dungeon is cool from a storyline perspective but a pain to actually execute. It simply involves holding triangle to suck up green dots around you. Imagine if in Kingdom Hearts you had to hold triangle for two seconds in order to pick up Munny, instead of it just automatically being sucked into your body. Just let me walk over it, or at the very least, let me pick it up with a single tap rather than a hold. There's just no reason!

After you pray, you then have to redistribute your gathered up green juice/lifestream energy into containers by rotating the control stick in a circle for a surprisingly long amount of time. I guess this is to simulate waving a wand/staff around, but instead of adding to the immersion it has the opposite effect. Everything's just too slow. So: cool idea, bad execution.

Hint for NPC 43: Jiggle physics at their finest