Oh hey, it’s Story Time with Mister Gray Narrator Person Guy!

Mister White Narrator Person Guy is not impressed, however.

Because you couldn’t find her before the mission.

Suddenly parade music!

“And lo, behold the work of Mista Tea, who has changed the impure and polluted water into refreshing iced tea! Gaze upon this miracle and rejoice!”

We should tell those crazy kids to turn off that racket and pull up their pants.

…Actually, come to think of it, do people still wear their pants loose? Or has that gone the way of the popped collar?

On the bright side, it’s easier to sneak around when there’s a lot of noise to obscure the sound your movement.

How did she get ahold of the summon-icy-death Materia, exactly? And does she call it “Mr. Materia”?

And very nearly did.

By what means, I’m not sure. I mean, he’d have no problem taking over a Shinra ship, but doing so unnoticed is another matter, especially since he’s clearly making no effort to cover his tracks.

If I levelled the Elemental Materia up to level two, it would grant full immunity to electricity, not that it would be accounted for here.

Yeah, I guess MMMMMMMMM’s the best choice here. I mean, it’s not like we have a master of acrobatics around, like a ninja or something.

And then, whistle blow.

I think the polluted water mutated it into a super-dolphin. After this, it’ll go deeper underwater and fight crime.

And then heroically lands on a ne’er-do-well.

*facewings*

You have to be lined up properly with the pole to land on it. The game isn’t very forgiving in this regard.

At least it’s less annoying than the jump at the Golden Shiny Wire of Hope™, because you can try again very quickly each time.

You’d think Rufus would have come in on this thing, theatrics and all.

A minor note, this elevator movement scene, except for the model of MMMMMMMMM, is an FMV sequence. Again, I like their mixture of FMV and normal overworld models.

“You and your wanted-criminal cosplay!”

I rather like that bit of characterization, there.

One nice thing about working in a low-polygon system is that the developers can just use the standard infantry model for the disguised MMMMMMMMM and nothing looks out of place. I kinda doubt they’ll be able to get away with that in the remake.

Were you two creepily eavesdropping this whole time? I mean, clearly you didn’t come in here to change clothes.

Why all this wind-up time? Aren’t we supposed to be in a hurry?

Doesn’t explain it much in gameplay terms, which certainly made me not very confident about the whole thing, first time through.

Um, sir, MMMMMMMMM isn’t a tulpamancer. You are addressing only one person. Or are you breaking the fourth wall and addressing my online audience?