Long chapter is loooooooooooooong
Cross-map sidequesting! I was having problems navigating the maps at first, lol. I don't think they're very intuitive (clicking back and forth on the map is kinda confusing and information is sort of small when it should have been bigger and too big where it should have been small?) and so pair that with the lost Chocobos map and I had to think for a second until I knew what they were getting at. (Boyfriend and I had to have a serious conversation about the Midgar layout in order to fully understand the combination mako reactor number and sector number, and I don't think you should have to understand it, I never had to in the original.) The maps are not the most intuitive imo, could have used some more colour use - they can't be universally designed for shit. (The fact that I was hung over probably didn't help
) Then I mistook Miss Orphanage's quest for another kids fetch quest; didn't realise until the Corneo stash quest that it was actually a fight-the-monster quest. At that point I was getting tired of figuring out everything for myself, and since I know chapter 15 is a point of no return chapter, I just decided to start looking things up. So I knew I had to continue with story to get back into the sewers (boyfriend had to remind me what follows the sewers is the Train Graveyard chapter, I think I wiped that thing completely from memory lol) but the thing is, I had a distinct memory of a closed door and thought that was Don Corneo's stash, but turns out that's just a regular door you open with the other key. (?) Anyway... doesn't matter, I found the stash and would have figured out how to drain the water if I hadn't already read it.
That Leslie character looked completely out of place to me. People complaining about Chadley; to me this dude is worse. He's straight out of XV. I later learned he's already a compilation character which I guess helps a little, plus he's a likeable character, but still. My immediate thought was 'Noctis left one of his bros in the VII Remake' X)
I did pretty much everything there is to do. I liked Bahamut Type 0 or what his name was, that was a fun fight.
The last things I did was Betty's music quest and almost all of the Colosseum battles. Couldn't be arsed with two of them. Oh, and beating Andrea in pull-ups - but at that point I was so tired I decided to leave it at that. I started playing the start of chapter 15, which so far is a copy of XIII's Leviathan chapter, but more about that in the chapter 15 thread I guess.
Oh and I got the Tifa scene.