07B: No Way to Live

07B: No Way to Live

Humanities place in the Universe

At the next platform you get another CS with the fal'Cie that fills in some of the information on what they actually do and where humanity fits into the big picture.  Yes, we are pets.  How cool is that?!  Yeah I did not see this coming either, but epiphany can be like that.  Hope has a confused take on the whole issue, but that makes sense, he is a kid.  Lighting on the other hand really has no excuse. 

Fight the trio of Flanitor and then grab the Warding Talisman from the Treasure Sphere before you continue along the path and then run along the next platform for yet another CS in which the previous conversation continues.  Lightning explains her position - or lack of one - and then Lightning does what most adults to, compares herself to the youngster, as if that sort of logic ever worked before!  Add into the mix another memory of Serah and Snow, and then Hope has a mini-freakout...

Use the controls to call the lift and ride it over to the next dock, and hit the save point there hard.

Just past the save point is another CS in which Lightning tries to bring Hope around to her way of thinking - starting by encouraging him to see his father...  She keeps underscoring the whole Hope and hope thing, and then you jump on the lift and head on up.  Perhaps Hope is coming around to the idea that Snow is not really a monster - who can say?

At the top of the shaft as you step off of the lift you hear and see a news broadcast and are suddenly confronted by an army of solders, mech's, and that dork Colonel.  Lighting tells Hope to start running and then Snow turns up - and unleashes his Eidolon on the troops!

As they ride along the crystal highway that Snow generated they end up taking out the majority of the troops, and then reunite at the bottom.  Lightning throws Hope into Snow's arm and Snow tries to convince Lighting to come with him - but that does not work, and then more troops show up.  Snow puts Hope on the back of his bike and they have them an escape, and you get your first opportunity to play with an Eidolon in Gestalt mode.

I ended up doing crystal donuts, which is a good way to take out a lot of troops when you are surrounded, but sadly once you take control of the bike the meter is running, and you do not have all that large a Gestalt capacity at the moment.