LogFAQs > #980422886

It's more the fact they learn, "Hey, Ellone's there." and then the game immediately says, "You better get to Lunar Gate now." Considering they just had gotten into this massive fuck off Futurama city, you'd think there would have been a little story breathing room. Maybe spend a few minutes looking for party members and say, "Hey, what do you think about going in space? Is it dangerous? What's the ramifications here?"

Outside of spending time going around to Tears Point and some other things in the region, you're pretty much plopped into the "WE"RE GOING TO THE MOON!" Nothing like, "Hey, Adel's there, and we're guarding some giant ass problem. In case shit happens, maybe you should go up there to protect the crew if monsters show up."

nope. Just, "Get in the capsule and go, you dip." They wait until later to explain why Adel's even up there, what the Ragnarok are, and other subsequent things in the Laguna meeting. I don't know, but waiting until after I've just hopped to the fucking moon and seen shit go sideways seems a little late to explain the severity of the problem here. FF4 doesn't do the greatest job or anything, but they reveal pretty early on, "Hey, you're going to the moon someday. The big bad or something other messed up shit is up there." You get a few hours of other things to do in the meantime. FF8 asks you to do it in 5 minutes.

It's not as ridiculous as the weirdness that was Garland's monologue and plot dump in FF9, but PSX era FF sure did love to just do weird shit and hope there was enough context clues that people weren't confused.

*Sees final boss of FF9 and the reaction to it*

Nah. Not everything works out just because the writer understands it.