I guess I could have seen how this was
going to end last time around.
Hoo-boy, this is really starting to
bring back memories of Lufia and the Fortress of Doom.
For reasons I'm not quite sure of, the game kept glitching out on
me, and I wound up abandoning the Text Play right at the end because
one of the glitches wound up wiping my save file. I'm starting to
have similar problems here, now, too. I'll get to that later,
though. I want to talk about what I actually managed to kind of
accomplish first.
When I first
started up, I was going to go into the town of Lindblum so I could
upgrade weapons and armor and that sort of thing, but decided against
it and went straight to Lady Hilda's meeting instead. She explained
that Kuja used his time with her to do the whole overconfident bad
guy thing and spill his whole plan to her. In the course of his
rant, he went on about how he's essentially from another dimension,
where the planet is called Terra instead of Gaia, and he's here
because he's got some grand scheme to make himself more powerful, and
Gaia has something to do with that. He also told her that there's a
way to get from Gaia to Terra, probably on that Shimmering Island
place we were pretty much just at. Unfortunately, we can't just go
there and have done with all this. First we've gotta go to a place
called the Forgotten Continent because there might be clues there.
All we know about it comes from a guy called Ibsen, who tried to
explore the place once a long time ago, and his notes say he saw a
castle and that the coast is all inaccessably high cliffs, so we'll
need an airship to get there.
Even though the
Hilda Garde 2 is out of commission, we're still kind of in luck,
because Regent Cid has pulled an idea for another new airship out of
his ass, using the Blue Narcisis as parts. It'll take some time to
get it going, but Cid's going to help his team with that, so it might
not take so long to get that knocked out.
While all this is
going on, Steiner and Tantalus have teamed up to go looking for
Dagger, who seems to have gone missing. Just as Hilda finishes her
explanation, Steiner returns to the meeting hall to explain that he
can't find Dagger anywhere in Lindblum, even with help from Tantalus.
Zidane figures out that maybe she's gone back to Alexandria for some
reason. Turns out he's right, of course, but we find that out after
Zidane and Baku have one of those encounters with Beatrix that makes
me wonder how people in these games can keep missing one another as
often as they do, given how few options they have to get past each
other.
Beatrix gives
Zidane Dagger's namesake gem, a garnet, and tells him that there's a
special “resting place” that Dagger might be at. Given all
that's happened, though, Beatrix hopes that Dagger isn't there
because seeing Alexandria in runis might actually make her recovery
take longer.
But, as it stands,
Dagger's at this “resting place”, and she's recovered enough to
tell Zidane that she knows the best thing she can do for her people
just then is to continue on her journey with the party, in hopes that
she'll figure out how to be the best leader she can by the time it's
over. She then asks Zidane to hand over his dagger again. When he
does, she takes it and gets a little distance between herself and
Zidane, who runs after her, thinking she's going to off herself with
it. Instead, we get one of those nicely-rendered cutscenes where
Dagger cuts off about half her hair as a way of saying we're going to
be dealing with a new her. Dagger lets the cut hair blow over the
water, and then makes eye contact with Zidane for a second before
heading back to him.
And then the game
locked right the hell up on me. Crashed the system so hard I
couldn't even do a soft reset. I'll have another go at this when
I've got more time again, in hopes that I can actually get somewhere
with it as is. If that doesn't work, I do have this little
dealiebobber thing that's supposed to clean and repair minor
scratches on CDs and DVDs. No guarantees there, either, though,
because I'm not sure how effective the thing was when it was new, and
I haven't tried to use it in ages, which I'm sure hasn't done it any
favors.
So, that's kind of
where we are now. I'll try to keep everybody posted on this as
things move onwards. Until next time, stay safe, have fun, keep
gaming, and DFTBA.
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