We don't talk about Peter.

I just want to do what I can in this playthrough, since I'm not sure I'll even try playing the game a second time, and these two tasks are stopping me dead in my tracks, and I can't get help for them anywhere, and I'm sick of it all, and I don't know if I can keep banging my head against this wall.

The worst part is that I don't WANT to do Fort Condor because the whole thing reeks of Nomura's scrotum and his whole "I'm the writer so I can do anything I want" bullshit that's already ruined the emotional heft that so many of us loved the original Final Fantasy 7 for.

I can't even find videos or webpages to help me. Search "final fantasy 7 rebirth fort condor battle 4 location" and you'll get LOTS of information on how to win the battle, but NOTHING on how to get to the location to start the battle.

It's like trying to do a 2-D maze, but there are invisible walls on top of the walls you can see, you can't lay a trail to let you know where not to go again, and you have to keep rotating the maze every couple of seconds because that's how the map mechanic works.

If the game is going to have a "vertical elevator" movement mechanic like the one the mountain chocobos provide, they need to do a MUCH better job on the map of showing what places you can and can't get to from your current location. I can't figure either area out.

Even as a "victory lap" ending, every moment somehow seems to arrive just when you need it, in terms of the different emotional responses. I always cry at least twice, and in my recent playthroughs, the crying has been even harder than I cry at the swell of "To Good Friends" in Chrono Trigger.

The sweeping strings of "To Good Friends" used to be the video game moment that made me cry the hardest*. Now I think there may be TWO parts of the SLARPG ending that top it. * The end of disc one of FF7 is excluded here, since that hurts too much for me to cry as much as I want to.

I'll take "Pictures that you can hear yourself sobbing to" for $200, Elly.