Heya, friends! Here's some ThaaoNET news:

I'm restarting the Romancing SaGa 3 play diary. I originally talked about doing this because I found information saying you could get Young Fang earlier in the game, but the truth behind that is... well, you can get him, but only temporarily. My actual reason for restarting is that I accidentally deleted a bunch of my screencaps. After the most current entry that was posted, I went through a major dungeon and sealed an Abyss Gate, but that's all gone now. I could easily run around that area for a few makeshift screenshots, but I can't re-summon the boss or see the cutscenes revolving around it without starting the game over, so I may as well just do that...

I also have a slightly better understanding of Mikhail's mass combat system, so I might try to go more into that. Before, I didn't do much with it because I just lost every time, so we didn't get to see much of what could really happen with it in the diary. But this time maybe I can get somewhere with it.

I'm also hoping to pick up the Romancing SaGa 2 diary again soon. Been having a hankering to play both of these games.

I also started yet another new diary! Welcome to the pack, Colobocle Station for Girl, also known as Harvest Moon DS Cute! This is one I've been wanting to do since the very beginning of ThaaoNET, so I figured I may as well just jump into it. This is a game that can take hundreds upon hundreds of hours to complete fully, so why not just do it bits at a time alongside the others? Well, that's kind of my thinking for all of these things which is why I have like 10 diaries going simultaneously right now or something lol.

I also divided up diaries into another section on the main menu. On the left side of the home page, the "Ongoing" category has now been divided into the "New" and "Ongoing" categories. "New" is for diaries that have not been finished in any way, while "Ongoing" is for diaries that have multiple playthroughs planned and at least one playthrough has been completely finished. This way if you're only wanting to read diaries that cover an entire play from beginning to end of a game, you can look at the "Finished" and "Ongoing" categories to find those, while "New" will only have completely unfinished things! Convenient, right? It also breaks up the tons of diaries in one category so it looks a little neater.

In my own time, I've been working on getting my Chaos Chao in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, and after almost 300 hours of gameplay, I've finally gotten all three types! Of course, a large chunk of that gameplay time was spent elsewhere; it's not like it took 300 hours to raise three Chao. They're very cute; I named them Right (Angel), Wily (Devil), and Cossack (Neutral). I'll be showing them off over on my Twitch channel some time soon, so follow there if you wanna check that out~

Heyyyyyy friends. Just in case you're wondering, I am alive. I've been having a bit of a Hell Month with my health and other stuff and spending free time just playing Final Fantasy XIII mostly. I've played before but I'm having a blast replaying it. I love this game~~

I still have some screencaps from content I haven't written on sagasca, romasaga2, and unsaga, so hopefully I'll get back to writing those soon (and playing, too). And speaking of, SCARLET GRACE is getting a new version! It's going to be on Steam, PS4, Switch, and mobile, and will have at least two new playable characters. I'd say there's a decent chance of eventually getting a localization for this new version of the game, since a lot of interest has been shown from both sides. But still, I wouldn't hold your breath, and even if it does happen, it will be forever from now most likely. Either way, more SGSG!! I'm excited.

That's all. Just wanted to update after all this time of inactivity lol.

Heyyy everyone~ Been a while since I updated the ol' bloggo. I'm gonna be picking SCARLET GRACE back up because I'm addicted to it again (basically play for 5 minutes and you get like this... soooo good XD) so get ready for some Urpina~~ I actually played through like almost her entire story before but lost my screencaps to a data corruption thing so I'm starting it all over :,)

The unsaga site is going pretty well and there's not as much left to do on it, so I'm gonna be doing more diaries hopefully. I got stuff to write for unsaga, sagasca, sth, and romasaga2 already quite a bit. And then for R2, I actually completed a no-damage run, but I'm so unhappy with it that I even removed it from my YT channel and will be redoing the whole thing from the beginning~ woo~~~

That's about it :) Thanks for reading. It seems a few more people are hanging around now and I really appreciate it~~~ <3 Keep leaving comments; I like talking with you guys :O

Also, I've been having a hankering to play a different Harvey game recently. Maybe after I finish the current ending on Save the Homeland I'll start a different game? StH doesn't seem to popular honestly hahaha. Plus I'm kinda burned out on it already. I can usually only do one or two endings at a time and need to take a break.

Was thinking of doing FoMT or HMDS...? HM64 is pretty popular right now, too.But IDRK, I might just stick with the things I got right now. I'm doing too many games maybe XD

I also said I wanted to get back into gamedev a while back but I keep piling on the diaries and now the unsaga site ;;; I should maybe try to whittle it back down to one or two games and get back into dev?

Hello, friends~ And happy new year. Just letting yall know, I'm super fixated on working on the unsaga site right now, which means play diaries entries will be coming in a bit slower than normal (I realize they are already slow lol). I've been playing and writing to prevent getting burned out on working on the site lol. I did play romasaga2 for a while last night and maaannnn this game is good. This and Scarlet Grace are pretty much the pinnacle of the open-scenario system IMO. I remember when I first heard sagasca was going to be based on the Romancing trilogy, I was a little miffed, because I wanted it to be a new, experimental game... But in the end, it just took the best aspects of the series for nostalgia fans and then was super creative everywhere else.

Anyway, I'm also wanting to kind of play unsaga a bit more casually, so I think I'm going to start in on the Korean version a bit more. I keep starting games and then not getting far because Korean is hard and I forget so much of it, but I also am kinda tired of all the screncapping from playing the US version (I'm actually working on Ventus's story now and probably have enough for a couple diaries lol) and making sure I get everything 'recorded.'

I've played a bit more into the second run of Save the Homeland as well; I think I might stop doing the 'letters to Grandpa' thing for the new game+ runs because, well... the majority of the content of said letters would be the same? And I don't want to try to work the oddities of new-game+ into the 'story' I had going with the letters. Not that there was much 'story' there; I was mostly just doing it as an experiment and an homage to my grandfather.

I've also been practicing ROCKMAN WORLD, which I actually played for the first time only recently. When I first started playing it, I was like "ehhhh IDK if I care enough to do a no-damage run of this," but after clearing the game for the first time, I grew pretty attached to it. And it's super short and simple so it shouldn't be too hard to do. And determining a stage order won't be so bad because there's only four stages lol. I remember playing RW2 (the only one of the RW games I've played) on my Game Boy and being extremely underwhelmed with it, but the first one really held up a lot better, IMO.

I've been having a hankering to play Super Mario 64 again (I play through like, at least once a year lmao) so I might do a mini-diary about collecting max coins in every course or something, since I've been wanting to do mini-diaries. I started a video series on max coins a long time ago but never finished it; it's really the only thing in the game I haven't done. I've even done all kinds of glitch-exploiting runs and stuff which are usually not my thing. But man, getting max coins is haaaard. Of course, this is doing the 'legit' max coins without glitches or abuse. Honestly the worst part is probably Lethal Lava Land. Well, Rainbow might be a terror but I've never gotten that far.

I'm also marooned at my mate's (which isn't a problem at all, though I did have to make so many phone calls to cancel appointments like WHY DID I HAVE SO MANY APPOINTMENTS FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF 2018 wtf wtf) so I'm not able to do as much game playing here, but I can do lots of writing and junk. I also want to get back to drawing but my carpal tunnel is teerrrrrrriible these days and my hand goes numb within minutes of trying to draw. It's even bad when using my phone. I've been trying to ice it and do stretches and stuff but there's only so much you can do once the damage has been done lol.

I've also made a backloggery solely for games I want to cover in diaries. I actually managed to score the username 'mustache' which was awesome. I have an old backloggery from when I had a huge game collection, but it's so outdated and I've given so many games away now. And then I tried to make a new one but the confirmation email thing seems to hate Outlook, so I was never able to receive it, so I had to use some weird google email address to make this one. Fortunately I didn't try to use 'mustache' as my username for the one I tried to make with outlook :P

But, uh, yeah, that's it for now XD Have a good 2018. If you can. Hopefully it's better than 2017~~

Hey, friends!! So, Romancing SaGa 2 is releasing on modern platforms TWO DAYS FROM NOW

Of course, I'm super hyped, and I've already started working on getting a Play Diary set up for it. So hopefully I'll get some entries up very soon after it's released! Like, maybe even this weekend?!

This is also making me think about what I want to do for RSG3 -- I put the old one on hiatus because I was thinking maybe I'll just wait for the English release, but... now there's even hints of a SCARLET GRACE English release (?!!!!) so I might end up instead finishing up my current JP playthrough, and maybe do a couple others if I feel like it, then I can always switch over to the Engilsh-language remaster when it comes out, as part of the diary itself :D

I'm not going to return to playing it right away, though. I'm still doing Save the Homeland (I cleared the game the other night and have already started on a second playthrough loll) and ROCKMAN (I'm ALMOST done with the no-damage videos for R2... basically just have to do the boss rush and final boss, which is all easy, it's just about waiting for the luck to line up with Air and Quick). And then I'll be doing, of course, Romancing SaGa 2.

I'm also heavily working on my unsaga shrine/guide, which I hope to be something like serebii.net but for unsaga. I'm making a database with all the game information so I can dynamically create pages about monsters, arts, etc. and use those throughout the guide itself. I'm also going to be doing a lot of stuff like extracting graphics and sounds from the game and whatever to make this the most complete shrine I can. And I hope to eventually do this with other SaGa games in the future, but for now, I just want to get the unsaga shrine done. I'm trying to think of a good name for it -- I was thinking "The Strelitzia Inn" since Strelitzia is the game's symbolic flower, it's the flower of Iskandar, and it's the name of the inn in Vaftom, so... seems like a fitting name for a fan site, right? And it's kind of inspired by Galbadia Hotel, which I thought was such a neat name for a fan site back when it was in its prime, too XD

I also want to do shrines for some of the Harvest Moon games. Ushi no Tane already has great guide pages for most of the handheld games, but information on the console games is scattered around the internet and full of misinformation and rumors. SO I MUST BE THE HERO.

Anyway, get hype get hype~~~~~~ See you guys soon with the end of the Horse Race story in StH, the debut of R2, and the launch of RSG2!