Finally, time for Digital Devil Saga!
I had an old save (played a bit about half a year ago), right after the Citadel, starting at the Embryon Base. Of course, I had no idea where to go next anymore. So, I ran around like an idiot.
And then I finally found the right way. Back to Manipura! And there I got a new party member, but I forgot about that again right away. A big mistake as I had to learn soon thereafter.
But first I had to go through the dungeon again and follow a bunch of people you can see on pictures as a blurry mess (really, you have to look closely). At least all enemies you encounter run away as soon as they can. Makes me wonder why they didn't simply turn off random encounters.
And of course I ran right into their trap. A boss fight is coming up and then I remembered "Wasn't there this NPC right at the beginning of the area, telling me about one-hit death spells", it might have been important. Nah".
Crap, Mudo! Of course, after the fight I knew that my new partner member could cast "Void Death" (but I didn't switch him in) and that my main character also knows "Void Death" (which I didn't set). I lost a lot of revival items during that fight.
But bit by bit they went down as my party went up again. I really had that "Rage" magic the bat can cast, which gives him two additional turns. I thought about redoing the fight to save my revival gems and beads, but in the end I didn't bother.
Characters not currently in the party also don't seem to level up with the others. There's a big potential for future screwups.
Well, basically what this means is: I have to go back again.
But this time it won't be that easy. Especially these annoying "mini-boss" fights where you have to fight hordes (about 10 of them) of normal enemies. At least by the time you have to fight most of them, you already know their weaknesses, so they won't be very hard. It's just long.
Much more dangerous are the random encounters. Like this one. The first attack was Marin Marin on my party and it hit everybody. I was very close to a game over here.
More fights. But this time I learned from my mistake before. Void Death!
And the last of the mini-bosses. These apes are more annoying than strong. Especially if it's just them.
This is something I was wondering about in the end. After the boss fight, I started in the room left from where I am now. I then went counterclockwise around the whole map to get where I am now. Couldn't I just have just the door I'm standing in front of now? I at least now I used that save point right after the fight.
Time for the real boss fight!...and my first Game Over today. Basically what killed me was a powered up Maragi (or something similar) attack. The one character left standing couldn't survive very long after that. But the most important thing is, I know about that attack now, so attempt #2:
I'm prepared!
Well, right away, I'm off to a good start. Everybody's stunned, what more can you wish for? I didn't remember him using this attack very often on my first try. This time he used it five rounds in a row.
But the important thing is: I have Void Fire now, so his magic won't hurt me. So aside from being stunned in the beginning the fight went very well. Luckily his Executioner move never completely killed me (but often enough I had only single digit HP left).
So now that I'm outside again, it's time to head back to the base....
...and save!
