- starts you off in a small town - in town you can visit shops, talk to people and accept a quest - the quest puts you in the middle of a volcano - your end goal is defeating the gigantic fire beast Ifrit - team up with a Goblin and Chocobo - fight
multiple enemies, including some unfriendly Chocobo - enemies leave behind loot like recovery items and materials for crafting - by pressing L or R, you get access to four attacks - attack names include Plunder
Slash, Mercurial Thrust and Trinity - charge a power meter and then hit L+R
at the same
time for special movies - one special lets you change into Cloud with very powerful attacks - run with the B - button - camera switching is handled by the D - Pad - info on the upper screen that gives you constant battle updates - bottom screen shows the status of all the characters, plus a map