The Fi-nal Countdown!

Oh my God!



They killed Cid! You bastards!

Although Cid II is dead, his spirit lives on. As does his fabulous airship, which I promptly nabbed from the dearly departed.

Aww, see, but I'm using the airship for good, not just to pick up Red-Hot Mage babes in Mysidia. See? Look! I'm reuniting Ricard the dragoon with what is presumably his family-- the woman and child who stand in the same spot of their deserted castle all day looking miserable.

Wait, so is this, like, a FF4 reference? (We'll get to that in a couple more games.) Or is "Kain" to the dragoons what "Tyrone" is to black people? Will we ever truly know?

"... but two minutes? Come ON."

Time to start the running Highwind tally! So far in the series, there is 1 character whose last name is Highwind.

That's right, I should have seen that Ricard would die as soon as we found out that he had a kid. I mean, come on. Parenthood is the kiss of death in these games. Maybe it's the corrollary to the "old people never survive" rule?

Now it's time to head into the final dungeon!

You know it's badass because instead of spelling it "Pandemonium", you have an a and an e stuck together. That's because this is fantasy. Why have Eons when you can have Aeons, amirite?

I ran into this fellow in the middle of Pandaemonium, and I hear it is a rare encounter!

Hooray! And I got this for my troubles.

That means there's only one thing left to do. And that is to face off against the hellish demon soul of the power-mad Emperor Palamecia. The battle begins...

... and unceremoniously ends.

And there was much rejoicing! Aparently all this ass-whooping has gotten Maria in the mood. Looks like she put on her special ugly face.

Firion counters this suggestion with his most somber emo-face. Things can never be between the two of them, because her brother is kind of a douche who, you know, enslaved the world for a little while. Did we ever figure out why that happened, anyway?

Translation: Hilda has nicer tits than you.


And here is Hilda herself, to congratulate me on beating the crap out of FF2~

Oh, hell no, sweetie. We've got ten more to go!