The Corner of Insanity

I cried like a baby. I knew what was coming, and I still cried. When Zack cried over the Angeal monster clone's death, I cried.

I ached for Sephiroth, so alone and unable to reach out again after Angeal vanished, and for Cloud, when he curled up on the bed in the Nibelheim inn, not wanting to talk about why he didn't want to see anyone in his home town, and again when he was dragging the Buster Sword across the wasteland.

There are parts of the story I still don't know. Why did Lazard hate Shinra? And why did he turn into a Angeal clone?

But I will definitely be replaying it eventually. I only got 40-ish % of the missions done, and did not complete either the Wutai spy or the Seven Wonders of Nibelheim subquests. I also didn't mess around much with materia combining. I never seemed to get anything decent out of it, so I quit doing it after sacrificing my Steal materia (won't be doing that again).

My biggest complaint is with some of the English voice acting. Genesis and Angeal were fine, and I did eventually get used to Gippal/Zack. But George Newman needs to be dumped. He put so little emotion into Sephiroth that several of the more important scenes lost some of their punch.

My "What-if"-o-matic is working overtime, from beginning to end, with all kinds of "Well, what if they forced Sephiroth to go?" and "What if Cissnei and Zack hooked up?" I'm sure they'll show up in prompt communities across the internet. ;-)


Short version: Yes, you want this. You may know how it ends, but the trip there is incredible.