Spaaaaaace!

Let's get shot!

I made our way to Lunar Gate, which is a terrible name. It's not a gate but a spaceship launch pad. Everything is ready for us, and Rinoa is already prepared, somehow. We'll be frozen for some reason, put into a bullet (which sorta makes sense), and launched into space...for some reason. Edea's stuff is elsewhere, and Zell offers to escort her there. Squall picks a third party member while everyone else takes mom back to Odine. Selphie joins as the third wheel, and Irvine stays behind to be annoying. As Zell leaves NASA, the world starts to rumble.

Something ginormous is approaching Esthar, so we all head to Odine's lab to see if he knows what's going on. Galbadia has procured the Lunatic Pandora, somehow. Odine tries to talk about it, but Zell's more concerned about how to stop it. LP will travel over the city, meaning it's over the ocean right now. How did Zell see it from the opposite side of the country? There are three points where we'll be able to climb aboard. I don't really know why we want to board it, but it's big and scary. Good enough? There is a time limit, but it's oddly wide. I boarded at the first point, so I had to wait around for five minutes. There are random battles in the city now, but why bother? As we tried to board LP, not Wedge and not Biggs attacked us.

Draw Meteor and head deeper in. You'll come to three elevators and should go right first. A lot of the rewards vary depending on how you interacted with them during the time Laguna was here. Things are slightly different, but this is definitely the second Laguna sequence dungeon. There are two hard-to-find transitions right (down and left). You'll end up finding another elevator that takes you back to the center. The left elevator takes you to the end. Draw Holy, find the J-Spd Item, and confront the robot. It'll throw you out, and Lunatic Pandora will carry on to Tears Point.

Because I skipped it earlier, Lunatic Pandora controls something called the Lunar Cry, which I'll get to in a moment.

Squall and Sell will be in space. They'll be sucked in a tractor beam, which works painfully well. They're probably asleep because the g forces on that thing would knock them out anyway. Once we're thawed out, Squall carries Rinoa to her observation bed. We'll then be tasked with finding Ellone. As we leave, Squall gets really toxic with his love for Rinoa. They're not gonna harm Rinoa, and you don't need to threaten them, you creep. Before that, play cards with Piet to get Alexander.

The main room of the space station lets us get a glimpse of something odd. We (the player) learn that monsters live on the moon. Every 100 years, they come crashing down to earth in an event called the Lunar Cry. Guess how long it's been since the last Lunar Cry? Anyway, go see Ellone. Ask her to play cards for Laguna. Afterwards, Squall pleads with her to help him save Rinoa. Ellone says she can't because she doesn't know Rinoa, but Squall brought her with. El joins us to see if she can do anything. As we approach Rinoa's room, her bed opens, and ominous music plays. A guy comes flying out of the room, and we see Rinoa zombie walking toward the main room. We can play one of her victims in cards... Ignore your girlfriend and go to her destination. She'll unlock a seal on Adel's Tomb before leaving elsewhere. Everyone's scared and confused, but we need to keep following her.

There's a hard-to-see room in the hallway before Ellone's room that takes us to space. We see Rinoa wearing a space suit as she heads out, and Squall follows. Three engineers are returning just as Rinoa takes advantage of them opening the door. It closes on us, though. We overhear the engineers expositioning about the happenstance of this event... Return to Ellone to see Rinoa break the final seal on Adel's Tomb. This coincides with the Lunar Cry! Millions of moon monsters form a pimple on the satellite and explode towards the planet, washing the tomb in its wake. Rinoa is thrown away, and the moon base people need to escape. There's a Meltdown Draw point hidden to the left.

Squall is a one note boy and keeps begging Ellone to help fix Rinoa. Despite still not knowing her, she agrees to the request. We witness how Rinoa got Irvine to return to the prison and when she asked Zell to make a replica ring. Finally, we see the aftermath of when we beat up our mom. Rinoa didn't kiss Seifer, but she told him he works for Ultemecia now! Rinoa was possessed by the future sorceress that had Edea under her thumb. This knowledge doesn't really help us. After thanking Ellone, she sends us to "the point closes to the future."

Rinoa is awake, but she's running out of time. Her spacesuit is out of oxygen, and she's floating about in space. Squall can speak to Rinoa, and the power of love, along with Squall's ring, adds time to the depleted live support system. Squall leaves the escape pod and, by holding down the left stick slightly to the bottom left, catches Rinoa. Now they both get to die in space! Suddenly, a red spaceship is seen twirling overhead, and Squall learns how to create gravity.

They board the ship and see that there's oxygen. They remove their spacesuits, and Rinoa asks for a closer hug. Squall doesn't give her one because he's the dumbest character in any video game I've played. To get home, they'll need to navigate this ship back to the planet, but there's a problem. There are several giant monsters onboard, including one that magically appeared between us and the save point. So that's our goal for...

...tomorrow!

You're alone with a girl who, for some reason, is really into you, Squall. If she wants a hug, give her one, you whiny, emo loser. I hate you so much. Also, why were they even in space?