I finish the Shinra Building, which went much better than I was expecting it to, considering we were going to rescue somebody and I was expecting somebody to die to keep my party from going over its max size. Instead we save Aeris and recruit Talking Bobcat. Barret and scrubs kill the elevator bosses, and Cloud gets blasted by a shotgun several times. Then there's the driving segment, which is not what I was expecting in a Final Fantasy game, to say the least.
We get to the world map and go to some hick town and stay at the inn and Cloud talks about stuff I don't really care about (his past, including his hometown burning to the ground). Barret doesn't seem to give a crap either, which makes me like him even more than before. Wandering around some we get to Chocobo Bill's, who tells me that if I'm going to cross the marshes (which means that my next destination should be across the marshes obviously) I should get a Chocobo so the Jacknapes Midgar Zolom doesn't kill me. I ignore his pleas and head to the marsh anyways, where a giant snake visible on the world map attacks me. I use the Sense magic, and learn that its hit points are only 4000, so I decide I can take it on. Then it 2HKOs Cloud, and I load my save from infront of Chocobo Bill's.
EDIT: WTF DO YOU MEAN THIS RETARDED LOOKING MACHINE IS A PARTY MEMBER?!?