In SaGa 1 news, I found the Red Orb and defeated Seriyu, making me half way through the Four Gods. I'm sticking around here for a moment cause money is easy to acquire and I want to improve my humans for awhile before I move to the higher floors.

In SaGa Frontier 2 news, the game has finally picked up and gone in some interesting directions. Gustave's story remains pretty cool as you witness him expand his empire, deal with family trauma, and kind of fall back into anti-hero status as he conducts a few purges here and there. What's been really interesting is watching Wil's plot finally connect with Gustave's as the two have had a few missed chances of running into each other.

Wil's plot is the one that really improved. His adventures with William ended as well as you expect and now I'm well aware of why Diggers (Wil's occupation) don't try to steal from Megalith's very often. Very spooky places that does things to people. It's weird to describe, but the locations kind of mess with your head. Anima, the source of magic in the world also seems to have some weird effects on people if it goes wild as I've witness two different people get transformed into monsters by this point. Probably the most interesting aspect of Wil's journey is the real sense of progress in his plot. You really do start to see how time passes in the plot as characters start retiring from the biz. I just did what I imagine is my final mission with Tyler, a character that's been in Wil's party since his first chapter as the guy is almost fifty now and is talking about retiring from the biz. Wil has also apparently moved to the kingdom Gustave's initially conquered and started a family even though he's still traveling and trying to hunt down the artifact responsible for his parents death. As it stands Wil's journey has largely seen him lost most of his initial team. Narcisse and Tyler have retired due to age, Cordelia has also seemed to retire, though it's implied in background materials apparently that her and Wil hooked up and started a family, course she decides to do this after the game starts handing me unbreakable spear weapons with rare elemental anima... Labella likely went home after the events concerning her brother. Patrick is still hanging around and we've been joined by Raymond, who is now my third Archer character.

I have also been introduced to a new protagonist. Johan, a former assassin on the run from his own organization. First impressions were pretty good. His health and life pool are criminally low, but he makes up for it by his weapon specialties being the overpowered sword and martial art skills. He even starts with a powerful Hybrid Art which are special skills that combine weapon skills and magic spells. His scenario is also pretty interesting despite his story being a bit cliche. It also looks like he's going to be involved with Gustave's story, so that will be interesting. Beating his scenario unlocked one concerning the General character in Gustave's plot as well, so it's been a real treat to finally get some background on some of the side characters.

Sadly, it looks like I may be at the end of this generational cycle as the three scenarios left to me all sound pretty ominous for everyone involved so we'll see.