I’m almost finished with SaGa 3. I just have to go to the final mountain, hack my way through the weaklings and wipe out the final boss, who should be a pushover like all the other bosses before him. This game is way, way easier than SaGa 2, at least on the Normal setting. It’s got an Easy setting as well, which must be on the Ar Tonelico-level of easiness because nothing could be easier than this so-called Normal.

Come to think of it, SaGa 3 would be a good game for Square-Enix to bring over. Not too hard for Westerners, fun gameplay, lots of sidequests, story is decent (and time travel is all the rage these days), and the party interactions are awesome. Some of their snide comments actually made me laugh out loud.

I’m mad at the game, though, because I had no idea that doing certain sidequests “correctly” would unlock the “True Ending,” with a true boss fight after the last one. Not knowing this, I just did the sidequests anyhow I wanted to without checking a FAQ. That’s how I usually roll. Then right before the final dungeon I thought I’d take a quick look and make sure I hadn’t missed anything. There were, and still are, a number of gaps in my Free Scenario (sidequest) notes, but since most of the sidequests weren’t that rewarding, I wasn’t going to bother. But I took a quick peek at a Japanese FAQ just in case and WTF?! True Ending?! And if you choose the wrong option in three particular quests, you won’t get it?! You mean I’m screwed?! Whaaaaaat?!

Looking back, maybe I should have seen it coming. I started this game shortly after Radiant Historia, after all, which may have been some cosmic warning “Watch out for the sidequests!” But at least in RH you could go back and fix your mistakes. In SaGa 3, once the quest is cleared, there’s no turning back. Even if you go back into the past, it will always be right after you finished the quest, and somehow you can’t use the Time Gear to go back in time and stop yourself from making the wrong choice. Btw, I won’t spoil the sidequests you need to get right, but they involve Dior, Nemesis and Freya so be careful when doing any quest involving them.

Man, I’m so mad. I’m mad at myself for not doing enough research and I’m mad at the game for being a time traveling game that doesn’t let you fix your own mistakes. Most of all I’m mad that I’d have to spend another 30 hours replaying this game, fighting all the battles, killing all the bosses, doing all the random stat level ups, if I want to see the true ending now. Rubbish. I’ll just wait for it to pop up on Youtube. (EDIT: New Game+ lets you carry over your levels and items, but you still have to play again from the start. =.=)

Right now I have lost any and all will to do the other sidequests so I’m just going to stomp a mudhole in the last boss and call it a day. Most of the bosses are so weak, they barely survive long enough for me to take my anger out on them. Don’t disappoint me, Laguna!

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