SaGa Franchise

[Wolf Kanno]

Not a terribly productive night...

SaGa 1 - I crawled back into the Ruined Tokyo world and fixed up my party with more weapons and some healing items. The trek up to the big bad has not been pleasant due to a combination of high encounter rates, several enemies having access to instant-death abilities, and my own lack of Revives. Due to the heart mechanics which gives my party only three lives and the fact I have revived a couple of them a few times before, I've been needing to reset when death happens cause I don't want to lose any of my party.

SaGa Frontier 2 - Ugh, the Megalith Beast is not sparking the skills I want and every-time I try to fight this one rare monster in duels, the damn thing is so overpowered it kills me. I may have to just throw in the towel and just bum rush the final dungeon. It's becoming more and more apparent that if I really need to have some of these skills, I actually have to grind them in Gen 1. There are just not as many opportunities in Gen 3 to get good skills since most of it relies on Normal Battle sparking and duels are the way to go.

Romancing SaGa - Rescued Constance and Albert is now an "Honorary Knight" which is as useful as it is in real life right now. Finally reached the location I was suppose to be going and got some interesting story bits and some great music. I am now heading towards Crystal Lake to figure out who is killing all of these teen... I mean I'm going there to retrieve the Aquamarine, which is one of the McGuffins I need for the overarching plot. I was doing pretty well, I have Albert leveling a Steel Sword (Gustave would be proud) while Sif levels up a basic Punch. In typical Square fashion, monk fighters are OP. Unfortunately, despite doing really well overall, I ran into this Cerberus enemy in a regular encounter who completely thrashed my party by doing 200+damage to me, when neither character has reached 300HP. Sucks, but whatever. I'd probably be strong enough to deal with him if I bothered to grind.