Day #237 Recap (Final Fantasy VII)

Current Game: Final Fantasy VII

Current Play Time: 20:37
Total Play Time - 452:26
Current Game Overs - 0
Total Game Overs: 44

Where I Currently Am: Gold Saucer (Post Rocket Town)
Stuff Did Today: Went through Shinra Mansion, was personally invited to the reunion by Sephiroth... and quickly uninvited. Then I recruited a vampire for my team, went through Mt. Nibel to Rocket Town where we learned why the Shinra space program failed and recruited Cid after a blue-shirt ensign shot down the Tiny Bronco... which we are now using as a boat. Finally, I traded in my Mythril for Aeris's Great Gospel!

Current Setup:

Cloud - Lv 37
HP - 1868 MP - 345
Str - 57 | Dex - 36 | Vit - 67 | Mag - 74 | Spr - 55 | Luck - 23
Atk - 97/108% | Defense - 113/13% | Mg. Atk - 74 | Mg. Def - 55/0%

Limits - Braver, Cross-Slash, Blade Beam, Climhazzard, Meteorain, Finishing Blow

Equipment - Rune Blade, Gold Armlet, Protect Vest
Materia Equipped
Weapon -  Restore, Revive, Shiva, Choco/Mog
Armor - Fire=Elemental, Enemy Skill(12/24), Steal

Aeris - Lv 37
HP - 1705 MP - 380
Str - 40 | Dex - 36 | Vit - 50 | Mag - 80 | Spr - 70 | Luck - 22
Atk - 80/105% | Defense - 96/13% | Mg. Atk - 80 | Mg. Def - 70/0%

Limits - Healing Wind, Seal Evil, Breath of the Earth, Fury Brand, Planet Protector, Pulse of Life

Equipment - Prism Staff, Gold Armlet, Talisman
Materia Equipped
Weapon  - All=Time, Odin, Earth
Armor - Restore = All, Heal, Manipulate

Barrett - Lv 33
HP - 1786 MP - 256
Str - 50 | Dex - 29 | Vit - 57 | Mag - 52 | Spr - 48 | Luck - 22
Atk - 87/97% | Defense - 103/11% | Mg. Atk - 52 | Mg. Def - 48/0%

Limits - Big Shot, Mindblow, Grenade Bomb, Hammerblow, Satellite Beam

Equipment - Drill Arm, Gold Armlet, Fairy Ring
Materia Equipped
Weapon -  Deathblow, Fire, Ifrit, Titan
Armor - Enemy Skill(11/24), Long Range, Seal, Ramuh

Other Party Members:

Red XIII - Lv 34
HP - 1981 MP - 260
Str - 53 | Dex - 44 | Vit - 50 | Mag - 65 | Spr - 48 | Luck - 22
Atk - 121/110% | Defense - 96/15% | Mg. Atk - 65 | Mg. Def - 48/0%

Limits - Sled Fang, Lunatic High, Blood Fang, Stardust Ray, Howling Moon, Earth Rave, Cosmo Memory

Equipment - Seraph Comb, Gold Armlet, Fire Ring
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor - None

Tifa - Lv 30
HP - 1354 MP - 220
Str - 60 | Dex - 36 | Vit - 44 | Mag - 53 | Spr - 44 | Luck - 22
Atk - 98/110% | Defense - 90/13% | Mg. Atk - 53 | Mg. Def - 44/0%

Equipment - Tiger Fang, Gold Armlet, Power Wrist
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor - None

Limits - Beat Rush, Somersault

Yuffie - Lv 30
HP - 1318 MP - 210
Str - 44 | Dex - 37 | Vit - 46 | Mag - 54 | Spr - 42 | Luck - 24
Atk - 80/108% | Defense - 92/13% | Mg. Atk - 54 | Mg. Def - 42/0%

Limits - Greased Lightning

Equipment - Twin Viper, Gold Armlet, Star Pendant
Materia Equipped
Weapon - Throw
Armor - None

Cait Sith - Lv 31
HP - 1796 MP - 228
Str - 44 | Dex - 30 | Vit - 43 | Mag - 58 | Spr - 49 | Luck - 22
Atk - 85/100% | Defense - 89/11% | Mg. Atk - 58 | Mg. Def - 49/0%

Limits - Dice

Equipment - Green M-phone, Gold Armlet, White Cape
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor - None

Vincent - Lv 35
HP - 1778 MP - 282
Str - 46 | Dex - 32 | Vit - 48 | Mag - 62 | Spr - 53 | Luck - 24
Atk - 88/255% | Defense - 94/12% | Mg. Atk - 62 | Mg. Def - 53/0%

Limits - Galian Beast

Equipment - Sniper CR, Gold Armlet, Fury Ring
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor - None

Cid - Lv 36
HP - 2147 MP - 265
Str - 53 | Dex - 33 | Vit - 54 | Mag - 58 | Spr - 53 | Luck - 21
Atk - 97/97% | Defense - 100/12% | Mg. Atk - 58 | Mg. Def - 53/0%

Limits - Boost Jump

Equipment - Spear, Gold Armlet, Jem Ring
Materia Equipped
Weapon - None
Armor - None

Materia Levels:
Restore - Lv 3
Restore - Lv 2
Revive - Lv 1
Fire - Lv 3
Fire - Lv 2
Time - Lv 1
Earth - Lv 2
Heal - Lv 1
Seal - Lv 2
Poison - Lv 1
Lightning - Lv 1
Transform - Lv 1 x2
Gravity - Lv 1
Ice - Lv 2
Mystify - Lv 1
Destruct - Lv 1
Exit - Lv 1
Barrier - Lv 1

Enemy Skill - 12/24 (Frog Song, L4 Suicide, White Wind, Big Guard, Flame Thrower, Laser, Matra Magic, Beta, Aqualung, Trine, ????, Death Sentence)
Enemy Skill - 11/24 (Frog Song, L4 Suicide, White Wind, Big Guard, Flame Thrower, Laser, Matra Magic, Beta, Aqualung, Trine, Death Sentence)
Sense - Lv 1 x2
Steal - Lv 1
Throw - Lv 1
Manipulate - Lv 1
Deathblow - Lv 1

Cover - Lv 3
Long Range - Lv 1
Chocobo Lure - Lv 2
HP Plus - Lv 1
MP Plus - Lv 1
Counter Attack - Lv 1

Elemental - Lv 2
Elemental - Lv 1
All - Lv 3
All - Lv 3
All - Lv 1
Added Effect - Lv 1

Choco/Mog - Lv 2
Shiva - Lv 3
Ifrit - Lv 2
Ramuh - Lv 1
Titan - Lv 1
Odin - Lv 1

Status & Notes:

New Year and some great progress to start, mission accomplished with our first two Level 4 Limit Breaks for Red XIII and Aeris. Also, we're really starting to head towards the meat of the plot of the game. Until now, it has really just been a chase around the continent, upgrading gear, etc. Sure, there's been a lot of plot through backstory and we have everything set up real well, but now we're going to get into the urgency of things. It is amazing though, that I could have been playing this for 20 hours and really not be at a significant plot point... and yes I know I grinded a lot... a lot a lot... but still. Great game, has some interesting pacing issues. We'll deal with that during the review I suppose.

For now, we go onward, ever closer to the end of Disc 1... will I be talking about one of the most important video game moments in history tomorrow??? Let's see how it goes...