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All the SCARLET GRACE hype and the fact that I've been talking about UNSaga a little bit both on Tumblr and GameFAQs, I kind of want to drop Innocent Life (I can't find an answer about the completion thing so I am starting to think I'll have to restart if I want to 100% it anyway) and Setsuna (this was pretty much already dropped because I haven't played it in a long time XD) and play through unsaga or minsaga or something? I have kinda been having hankerings to play one of them recently anyway but now I realllllyyyyy wanna play.

I also realized last night while playing Dragon Age that it is not a great game to play when I have too much to think about or too tired because it's too hard to RP Isky. I was just kind of clicking whatever and Isky did some stuff I don't think he would really do XD But Isky is also tired and confused and there's quite a sense of urgency so maybe that's also why he did it XD

I don't really have any of my old save data, so I'd have to start completely new games in each minsaga or unsaga. I mean, I would be starting a new game anyway, but I mean I won't be able to use my clear data. I still have never cleared all characters with clear data in either >_>

In minsaga, you get just a little bonus scene for doing it, but also there are a lot of important bonuses for continued clear data usage, importantly increased jewels rewards XD Building your clout over multiple games is nice, too. With unsaga, there's not really much reward between plays... your market rank is kept between plays, but I kind of like starting with a low market rank? Having mostly expensive items available from the start is kind of useless, since you don't get money any faster, plus there are some cheap items that are nice to collect up early like copse and mullock, since you can use them in blacksmithing. You do get a cute bonus credits roll for clearing all characters with clear data, though.

I think if I did unsaga, since I always start with Laura when I'm going to 'play them all!' again (which I never end up finishing more than like 4 characters XD) I might start with someone I haven't finished like Ruby or Mythe, and do a no-shopping run. This will keep the market rank at minimum XD Plus it's a really fun challenge... I've done a LLG and a SCC, and I don't know if there's anything else really challenging I can do besides no shopping (shopping is a huge deal in this game XD). No shopping and no smithing would be REALLY interesting, but perhaps a bit too boring since you'd probably just end up doing nothing but martial arts. I've considered doing no repairing, which seems significantly more interesting, because you can still use materials and weapons you found to make other things... though you can kind of circumvent this by just creating new weapons twice in a row (not going to explain this lol). Perhaps not being able to use weapons as the base ingredient would be a good rule? That seems to prevent you from repairing AND from cheesing it by using the broken weapon as a material to essentially recreate the original weapon. This would also allow Damascus, though. But I think that would be okay since getting Damascus without shopping is going to be pretty tough. I'd have no save-scumming, too. Actually, now I really wanna do that XD So I might start unsaga soon... XD

Oh, though you still have the whole OP martial arts thing. Maybe also ban martial XD;;; Or at least martial panels. Actually, that sounds good. You can use martial, just not the panels. You'd at least have basic Throw, but it would be way less OP than the high-level throws, and you wouldn't have access to Sinker and stuff, so you'd have to use staffs more...

I really wanted to do an all-characters run where each play was a challenge run (except the last one), but I already started that and now don't have the data anymore X_X;;; And I did SCC and LLG for Laura and Judy respectively, and was pretty far into a no-shopping with Ruby, too... I don't want to redo SCC or LLG because the final bosses were pretty much just replaying 100s of times until I scraped by the RNG. It's not something you can just do to win with a bad setup (if your characters are bad you cannot win) but both of those runs put me in a situation where I pretty much had to get the RNG planets to align in order to win.

Minsaga I have no plans for challenge runs as of yet; it's fun enough for now just playing regularly. Maybe because the only character I've ever cleared is Albert (albeit like 4 times or something now because I always feel like I want to start the whole clear-all-characters from the beginning every time I play, and I always feel like I have to start with Albert lolol)

Speaking of SaGa and challenge runs, even though it's not SaGa, I really want to do another run through LegLeg limited to using only Staff, Martial, and Charms... I actually started one but I had just finished two runs and got kinda burned out.

Or maybe I should play The Last Remnant XD But I think I really feel like playing unsaga? I also thought of playing SaGa 2 but honestly as much as I love that game in theory, I just can't get through it? It's way too tedious. I used to think I liked it better than SaGa 1 but I can play SaGa 1 multiple times through but I've never finished SaGa 2 even once... It's not as bad as SG3 though XD

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This reminds me of Romancing SaGa. I only ever played it once, but I intended to go back and play it with everyone. I felt really confused when I was playing though, like all the time. I loved the art style and the music (I still 'Passionate Rhythm' on my phone), thought the world building was really neat, and even liked some of the characters, but...yeah. I was crazy confused.

I've also got Unlimited SaGa which I bought because I found it in almost perfect condition in a local used game store for like $12. I thought of you instantly when I saw it, and that's what made me get it. But I've yet to actually play it haha.

Hmm...maybe I could try to play through Romancing again before FFXV comes out. It's a thought, at least.

Yeah, I was really confused my first time, too. I think SaGa games are just like that. For me, though, that's part of the fun, in a way. And they do tend to share SOME similarities, so at least when you play a second game in the series it's not as bad. Unless it's UNLIMITED:Saga because that game is a hot mess and nothing makes sense at all in it lol. Like good luck even figuring out how to navigate menus and stuff LOL But once you get used to it, it's not so bad, and very fun... but it's a LOT of getting used to and learning.

Anyway, some of this I actually was talking about Romancing SaGa -- when I say minsaga or Minstrel Song, that's what I'm referring to. Because there's two games called Romancing SaGa. The original is on SNES, then the PS2 one is a remake. In Japan it was called Romancing Saga Minstrel Song, but in the US they just called it Romancing SaGa since we never had the original anyway. Sometimes I will just say "Romacning SaGa" to refer to the PS2 game but I do actually play both (don't play the original; it's awful) and these days talk to people who know both so I tend to try to call the PS2 game Minstrel Song but I don't always XD

Anyway, UN:Saga is great!! Though super confusing so if you ever do play it feel free to ask me questions or ask on the GameFAQs board or something.

I'd love to hear of another run through Romancing XD I actually would suggest doing many blind runs before using guides if you're up to it, or only using some basic guide help (like to learn more about the systems) for example. Whatever you think would be more fun, though. But I feel like it's meant to be discovered over multiple playthroughs. But it can get pretty tedious as most of the game is the same between characters. But also spoiling it all will mean every play is the same between characters, too, so... XD

But yeah whether you play it or not is up to you so don't be influenced by me XD