Summary: Because the developers for FFIV: The After Years believe that every time they cliffhanger me a puppy is born, we totally switch perspectives to THE MOON. Golbez. This is awesome. Golbez wakes up from his lunar hibernation pod, and senses something is wrong. He makes his way up from the core to the palace via the Lunar Subterrane, and finds the crystals are blood red. Fusoya agrees that this is probably not a good thing. The two of them set out to learn more.
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-Wow.
-I did not expect this.
-Like, at all.
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Baron
-Cecil’s bedchamber. No idea when this is, or even if it’s Cecil instead of Evil Moon Cecil. “The After Years” has made me super distrustful of appearances. I find myself going into work and wondering if my colleagues have been replaced by evil moon versions. I’m hoping this game will help advise me on how to test this.
-Cecil and Rosa, worrying about “him,” how “he” is faring. Ceodore or Kain? Probably Ceodore. This also confirms that it’s not Evil Moon Cecil we’re seeing.
-Yup, Ceodore.
-Ah! This is right at the start of Ceodore’s tale. “I wouldn’t be concerned. He has Biggs and Wedge with him.” MISS U GUYZ
-CECIL: “Ceodore understand.. that destiny is something you create for yourself.” Is it just me, or does Cecil sometimes speak super-pretentiously? Like, I can’t ever imagine someone expressing their worry for someone they love to me, and my response being about the role of destiny.
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Adamant Isle (I think? It’s the place where Ceodore’s Tale starts.)
-Observation room. An astronomer named Corro and his apprentice. They’re freaking out at the second moon.
-“The Lunarians’ Tale: The Blue Planet That Was” YES GOOD
-OH MY GOD
-WHAT IF
-Ok, calming down. What if part of this is, like, “Evil Moon Girl’s Tale”???
-NOT CALM ANYMORE THAT’D BE AWESOME
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The Motherfucking Moon!
-Crystal palace. Boss fight!
-…As Golbez vs. Cecil?
-This is Golbez’s perspective. Cecil kills him, despite Golbez begging him to stop.
For those who hibernate with a heavy conscience, the nightmares must feel endless.
-Aha! Dream. Golbez’s dream. YES I WAS RIGHT! He’s the Man in Black! Same portrait!
-He’s waking up from his hibernation chamber thingy.
-All the Lunarians have green hair. I hope Golbez doesn’t dye his green just to fit in with the cool moon people.
-FuSoYa is missing from his pod thing.
-LOL – a Namingway-looking vendor is sleeping in a pod, but I can wake his spirit up to buy potions and crap from him.
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Lunar Subterrane
-B12. This is DEEP in the moon.
-Oh! It’s right past where we killed Zeromus. Golbez starts walking up through the Lunar Subterrane. It’s very weird going through this beautiful crystalline area without thinking of it as a final dungeon. Instead, it’s home. As safe and comfortable a home as Golbez has probably had in a long time.
Home of a Lunarian.
-Fight! Against… turtles? Not an Evil Mask at least. Those were the WORST.
-He senses something is wrong with the crystals in the palace, so heads up to the surface.
-Really loving the music.
-Still easy to get lost, but fortunately the game stops me this time from going down useless paths.
-Everything turned red for a few seconds. Maybe resulting from an infection from the crystals?
-One of Golbez’s combat abilities is a stun called “Pressure,” and his character looks pretty hilarious when casting it. Like a lead singer in a death metal band firing the crowd up.
HELLOOOO CLEVELAND!!! ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?!?
-“The crystals! They’re the color of blood!” Probably this is a bad thing.
-The crystals each speak, in very vague terms, about some infinite thing that possesses them being found finally, a “light at the end of the tunnel.” I have no idea what’s going on.
-Fusoya is in the crystal chamber too. He noticed something awry. Neither of these two, Golbez nor Fusoya, seems to know exactly what’s going on, but Fusoya is too cryptic for me to be sure.
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Next time: Golbez (heeeeeee we’re really playing as Golbez!!!!!) and Fusoya venture out on the moon to learn wtf is going on with the crystals.
