The Chrono Campaign Has Begun

[Forsaken Lover]

Holy bucket of info, Batman! This scene with Fargo and the mermaid in Home:
1. Fargo was in love with her sister.
2. her sister had a daughter. A daughter named Marcy.
3. Luccia was taking care of her daughter. Luccia, the character I saw for....five minutes in Another World and that's about it.

So Marcy has vaguely more plot relevance than I realized and same for Fargo. I'm actually pretty intrigued by the Demi-human subplot and I would be happy to do his sidequest whenever it comes up. These poor people haven't had it easy.... And to think, they were all so happy after we went back and offed Ozzie. Now look where they are, slave labor on a ship for rich assholes.

Anyway, that scene wasn't THAT important I guess...it just had a lot of little things all said at once ya know? I wonder if Another Fargo was a bitter man too and lost his love and that's why he was a pirate there.

So I hate Fargo. When I lost the first time I figured the game was rigged but I kept trying it anyway and of course I kept losing. Sure I had seen the little event with Sneff and I had seen the little event with the guy in the Inn and his cat but no, I did not actually expect being changed into a cat was the answer to fixing all this. And so that was really bizarre.... And then right on the heels of this craziness, Nikki pops up and has a scene with Fargo about how Fargo is his father. Talk about tone whiplash. The scene itself was pretty abrupt in general... Maybe it would have been better had I actually seen Nikki before this but this is actually my first cutscene with him at all.

And gah, boss fights are becoming a challenge again. First Garai and then Miguel

Okay, first things first, Garai wasn't so hard once I figured out he attacks in a pattern. Well, so did Miguel but I'll get to that. As long as you were prepared for his Will....Will-something move I think it was, you weren't in too much danger.

But frickiin' Miguel...there was NOTHING I could do there. His combo of WeakMind and HolysomethingSwd is guaranteed to do over 300 damageE. Norris and Radius have less than 300 HP. Towards the end of the fight I spent more time healing than attacking and I finally had to revoke my No Stars Left Behind Rule because I had already run away from the fight five times and I was seriously crippling the atmosphere. Lynx dead, Norris dead, Radius with less than 100 HP and I pull out a victory. smurf you game.

ugh.....okay, STORY. Who cares about gameplay. This is a video game, it's about the story.

I really liked the music in the Dead Sea world and the Tower of whatever. I was obviously wondering "what the hell is all this?" right up until I found the Enertron thing to heal up my party. HOLY HELL, are we in 2300 AD??? And then Miguel showed up and I think I get what he was laying down. Basically, by saving the future of one timeline, we negated the future of another. True,
in 999 years the world would have more or less ended anyway but by altering history we undid all the lives that would have been born up to that point. We saved billions, killed trillions. Sounds good.

Goddess of Fate huh? I think the DS ending of Trigger kinda spoiled me on that one maybe.

But anyway, good times, things are happening. The whole bit in the Dead Sea other world was very emotional and apart from the fact he kept annihilating me, I liked the Miguel fight and the fact they kept the somber music for it.

And man I'm tired... We're FINALLY about to go back to "Another World" and be reunited with Kid hopefully. Her being poisoned didn't take her out of the party for half as long as all this crap has. I just want her back... And maybe my third party member from now on should have a lot of HP.... Ugh.

I might have more to say once I'm less sleepy and no longer fatigued from the stress of the Miguel fight... Seriously, gameplay can utterly ruin a game's plot. You just stop caring when it becomes too challenging and you think more about battle strategy than the plot. After all the fights with Miguel he could have told me radioactive cockroaches caused everything and I would have been like "sounds good."

Oh yeah, sucks to be Home Dragoons and Viper. They chose....poorly.

EDIT:

Oh I forgot, I think PuPu joined our party. Maybe I should have brought him to fight Miguel.

EDIT 2:

Looking it up, I think I should probably start using Diminish... I just haven't really bothered with buffs or debuffs this game because I have no idea how long they last. Diminish reduces ALL Elemental damage, including the damage you would be inflicting, correct? That is why I avoided using it.