The hell's going on here, anyway...?
I'm going to be keeping these FF8
issues short for awhile, I think. If the little bit I played just
prior to writing this is how the rest of the game is, I really hope
the save points aren't more than a half-hour apart, because I fear my
head may explode from trying to keep things straight if I have to go
longer than that.
So, anyway, where I'd left off was with
Laguna, Kiros and Ward getting ready to go back into the research
facility to confront Odine about where Ellone is. When they go back
into the first room on the main floor, they see that Odine has
buggered off someplace. Makes sense, after all, as the guy's at his
job and probably has work to do. But there is the very first issue
of Weapons Monthly on the floor. Funny how these things just get
left laying around, considering how valuable they are. These folks
are worse about that sort of thing than I am. This issue of Weapons
Monthly has articles about the ultimate weapons for Squall, Rinoa,
Quistis and Irvine. I guess that's as good a way as any to start off
a magazine.
Seeing that Odine's not where he was
before, Laguna and his guys go down to the lower level and find Odine
working on something. Laguna asks him where the girl is, but before
the mad doctor can answer, some guards show up with one of the
laserball monsters and try to beat up the party, rightly calling them
morons for coming back.
After the fight, Odine pretty much
flip-flops instantly on knowing where the girl is. At first he says
that he's never even heard her name before, but then turns around and
says yes he does but won't tell any more. Kind of like that whole
routine where somebody confesses to being a liar and then says
they're lieing to you about it. After he does that, he runs past the
party to get on the elevator. Where he waits. For the guys he knows
have guns and knives and spears to get on. With him. Of course he's
not scared. Why would he be? It's not like these guys could kill
him or anything.
Instead of threatening him for the
information, they just follow him as he runs to a car that's pulling
up outside. Odine then tells them that Ellone's at someplace called
the 0 Lab, which the assistant says means Odine's Laboratory. When
Laguna asks how to get there, the assistant says, quite literally, by
going over here, then over there, then over here again. Seriously,
that's the best he can do? I guess it's not like Laguna would have
been able to remember anyway, but all the same, why no minigame for
me to play? Or do I not get
to do that right now?
But I
guess Ward knows the way, so the guys hop in the car to go to
Odines's other lab
while the man himself goes back into the one they're already at.
Maybe it's that I'm playing late after a long day at work, but this
just doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense to me. So, anyway our
heroes jump out of the car before whoever's driving stops. Makes me
think the car wound up crashing, because I thought Ward was driving.
Once
our heroes actually get into the place they were going to, they
perform a scene from the Three Stooges short The
Uncivil Warriors, when the
Stooges reach their destination. Curly's assessment is that he
reckons they've found the place because there's no other place around
the place, he reckons.
Since
there's a save point here, and as I've said before, my head hurts
just from the little bit I've tried tonight, I'm gonna wrap this up
here and try to sleep this headache off.
My
final thought for this issue is that for the good moments this game
has had here and there, there are as many or more moments like this
that make me think that the people in charge of the story part of
this game had either forgotten how to write a decent story somehow or
were very new to the process. Either way, I can sympathize, because
I've written actually quite
a lot of fiction in my time, and doing it even as well as I do is
not an easy task, by any means.
For
now, though, it's time for bed. Hopefully, I'll be back soon, able
to take more of the WTF-ery this game seems to have for me. Until
then, stay safe, have fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA!
No comments:
Post a Comment