Oh man, I’m starting to remember why this game left a bad taste in my mouth. Some real unfortunate game play shit going down today.

First of all, I had to choose between Lucca or Marle to bring to the Lizard lair because Ayla is a mandatory character. At this point Lucca is lagging waaay behind in skill levels, but I need Marle’s healing and Ice Magic. So it’s gotta be Marle. Shouldn’t be a long dungeon, right? WRONG.

Man fuck that place; just constant battles every fucking step, an endless grind of those fucking Dinos that take two of your strongest duo magic attacks. And meanwhile Chrono and Marle are getting even FURTHER ahead of Lucca.

Anyway it took FOREVER but I finally beat that asshole dungeon and his boss - who also had a million HP.

Anyway, the whole dungeon left a bad taste in my mouth.

But it’s over, right? So then I find myself in the ice age, doing some cool exploring with Lucca and Marle again. Times are good, I even found a secret speed tab for Marle. All is well.

I fought my way up to the Queen’s room and enter into a boss battle with Golem that is just a *bit* too hard for me, so it’s not apparent you’re supposed to lose, so I ended up throwing a shit load of precious items away trying to fight this asshole. Then he kills me and I’m supposed to lose? Whatever, fine. Some story shit plays, time to go back to the Future. I can get behind that.

Except it gives your entire party 1HP without telling you, and I didn’t realize it, so in my first battle with random monsters they wiped me nearly immediately before I caught the mistake.

Oh FUCK. Where was the last time I saved? Like an hour ago at the beginning of the ice again. Fuckkkkk.

The same shit happened to me thirty years ago, I remember being just as pissed. Anyway, that’s all for today. I’m too annoyed to continue right now.

A lot of good fun, but some extreme bullshit going down here in recent hours as we move to endgame