Yep, finally finished Crisis Core today. I decided to hell with the rest of the missions, it's time to finish this puppy. The ending sequence was over 30 minutes long, and I cried for most of it. Yes, I knew Zack was going to die, but I had no idea how much of his death they would show. That wasn't the only or most heart-wrenching aspect of it, but you'll have to play it yourself or catch it on YouTube to see all the details.

The story was absolutely wonderful, but the final bosses were a complete let down. I'm not sure I even needed the last accessory I obtained. I defeated the final boss in less than five minutes. I cast three spells, and he went down. I didn't even complete 60% of the missions, so I know my final level wasn't extraordinarily high. I can't imagine how easy the game would be if you actually completed all the missions. But really, that's par for the game. I never really pushed myself in doing the missions throughout the story, because a lot of the missions are HARD. Most of the time, you have to re-equip your accessories and materia for each individual mission, and that got to be a pain in the butt for me. I don't want to play a mission, get killed in one minute because I didn't have this one accessory equipped to block a Stun spell because I was still equipped with the accessory to block the Death spell that was necessary at the last mission. Sometimes it doesn't matter if you have the right accessories. This is particularly true for the missions tagged as "Very Hard." However, because the missions were so hard, the story seemed so incredibly easy. Or maybe it really was. Or maybe the missions level you up enough to make the story easy. Either way, missions hard, story easy.

But that's really my only gripe. I loved this game, and it's definitely one I will play again. I cannot wait to play the original Final Fantasy VII game now.

Well I finished one game, so let's see if I can finish another this week...