First impression of Snow? All talk.
Vanille
Part 1 is done with! Finally. That kinda sucked since I had left my edit up and went to take a nap and then came back to find my computer logged out and my work not saved. The beginning is always a pain and hard to go through. Hope I'm doing good so far. If I'm not then don't tell me and go to youtube and watch a video walkthrough.
Well now what's going on?
Things are still exploding and guns are still being fired. This old idiot speaking is a jackass and just spouts lies and other annoying crap. Thank you person for making that radio shut up, now who are you and where is Lightning and her fabulous hair? (And Sazh's fabulous afro. ;) ) And who is that person with the ridiculous hair? o_0
Snow Villiers
This is Snow Villiers. He acts cool and has a type of HERO act going on. He's a simple man (as he states himself) and doesn't use his brain very often. I don't like him much and find him irritating. It's mostly Serah this and hero talk that from this guy. He keeps talking when he needs to be quiet (which is 90% of the time). This guy is no hero compared to this guy. He's very full of himself :| He also gets thrown around a lot which unfortunately means more of his brain cells die.
Back shot of NORA (excluding Yuj). Yay :D
And who are the oddballs with him? The guy with the crazy hair is Yuj. He's into fashion if you can't tell. Big muscular guy with the flaming hair is Gadot. He's one of our temporarily playable people. The girl is Lebreau, she's also temporarily playable, and the Naruto looking kid is Maqui. Together they are NORA, a resistance group towards the Sanctum. I don't have much of an opinion on these guys. Since Snow is their leader, they also have that "hero" image of themselves. They're as full of themselves as the main hero himself. Can we go back to the lady with the wonderful hair? ._.
No one's dying today!11!! *gets shot*
Now that we have control of hot shot here, go back and get that item to obtain 50 Gil. Continue forward but stop if you want to here what the people say. Those 60+ voice actors worked hard to provide additional voices to this game. I'm a big fan of a lot of them anyway (Travis Willingham ♥). There's a Save Point. Say good bye to Lightning's face and replace it with Snow's. Cutscene time again. It's just NORA being obnoxious. Nothing special.
Did I get 'em? :)
Battle time. The camera stylishly pans our team and notice how Gadot is standing. He's extremely hunched over and gorilla looking. Does it bother you? It bothers me. He keeps yelling whenever he attacks which makes me want to shoot him. Continue to kill the PSICOM soldiers and come to another cutscene. Maqui is whining, Lebreau is being full of herself and all in all these people need to shut up. Yeah, just go with Snow's plan and kill everything. Continue walking and end up in a cutscene. Camera pans a group of people then Maqui trips with a hand full of guns. The people want to fight too. A lady stands and the hooded kid seems worried despite the woman telling him to not worry. She picks up a gun and is ready to go. Moms are tough >:D. There's one last gun. The hooded kid can't do it. Another hooded kid will take it with open arms. Snow is obviously an idiot for giving guns to children. The peppy girl fakes a shot at Snow and he plays along. First impressions out of the way, Snow tries to motivate the team! It failed.
Anyway, we're in control again. Take that item. It contains an Iron Bangle. Equip it to hot shot since you can't do anything to the other characters. There's also a Save Point ahead so save. There are more groups of PSICOM military. Like I said before, you don't grow stronger from these people so try to skip them if you wish. It saves you a head ache from Mr. Gorilla man's constant shouting.
Activate cutscene and bring in the Beta Behemoth. "Heroes don't run from fights!" Hehe, thats a lie if you've been following my advice.
| Beta Behemoth |
Repeat Auto-battle. Don't worry about healing because Lebreau has that taken care of. Beware of the behemoth's Heave although I don't think he'll live long enough to use it. Yeah, that's about it... |
Theres some intense gunfire and some soldiers get shot. There's even more drama when they bring out the Havoc Skytank. We've got trouble and Snow sees a gun just lying there. For some stupid reason he must see it as important so he runs towards it and does a slow-mo dive but misses. If I'm not mistaken, Nora had a gun with her...and even if Snow didn't want to take it from her, there were probably more guns closer to him from the people that were shot down. I don't think a gun would do much in this situation anyway. You're stupid, Snow. Cocky idiot. Now he's about to be blasted to bits but then Nora comes to his rescue with a Bazooka. SEE!! She never even used the damn gun! The skytank blows up the bridge and people are falling to their deaths. Quite a sad scene to behold but it also doesn't make much sense. Snow falls and Gadot was on the other side of the bridge where people were rolling down to their deaths yet they survive. Thats what happens when you're important. And the poor kid witnesses his mother's death. Aww. :( Well atleast we don't have to deal with Snow and his group again. *insert Excalibur face here*
Wonderful hair? :D
Recycled picture.
Yay! Lightning and Sazh! We come back to a conversation on the true motives of the Purge. We are then thrown into a battle with a Myrmidon. There's really nothing to this battle. Attack and fill its Chain Gauge to stagger it. Use a potion when necessary. After that, we sit back and watch a beautiful high quality FMV. Then we come back to Sazh and Lightning. Lightning continues to ignore Sazh and jumps off the platform, snaps her fingers and lands like a badass. Awesome. If she can do that, so can Sazh! Sazh, you're doing it wrong ._.
Semi-backshot of NORA (Yuj included).
We're back with Snow and Gadot. So soon? Yes :/ They're still alive cause they're important to the game. There's talking and then bride-to-be pops up in the conversation. Snow is engaged. To who? Someone way out of his league ¬_¬ awesome D:<
Is that why we're here? To save Snow's 'princess'? Yeah. That Treasure Sphere up ahead contains a Power Circle. That is one of Snow's weapons. Equip it to him to increase his strength by 8, but lower his magic by 2. There is also a Save Point. Continue forward and battle/try to go around those Pantherons and PSICOM Aerial Recons. You can hear an Item Sphere hovering just behind that wall. It contains 100 Gil. Go past Gadot, who seems to find something funny, and take down those PSICOM soldiers, then examine those airbikes. Watch the cutscene. It's just Snow and Gadot reuniting with the rest of the gang. Hope targets in on Snow because of the death of his mother. Then all of the sudden "The army's no match for NORA!" *lame pose* Eww >.> Anyway, Snow leaves and Hope misses his chance to piss of at him. Since Snow left, that means we don't have to deal with these nuisances anymore! :D Let's go!