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I reload my save file and head to Norjeezer. I talk with the merchant there to get the Key of Board 8. After that, I head to Aenima Village and break the seals and head down the stairs. There's an entire town down here! I hit up the item keeper Janus_5000 who sells Megalixers. Dark Silvergun, TomNook7 and LastFencer920 sell armors and weapons. There are a bunch of NPCs around town. How many do you recognize?

There's wowthisishard, SA2Tails, Da_Guardian, Voldoman, X_Dante_X, Maniac64, Vengeful_KBM, Inviso (a female catgirl), SirRonaldWealey, mccheyne, CrimsonOcean (queen of Board 8), BlackMageJawa, stingers, Gadget_King, paperwarior, 1337, RougeAshaman, Bokonon_Lives, someone, GrandFool, calvinball06, Redtooth, RappinHobo9292, neonreaper, BlondeAfroHero7, WVI (a promiscuous dragon), DpObliVion, Lady Ashe, ThisIsAnOddName, Generic Loser, andymancan1, XIII_Rocks, Mershiness, Big Bog, Enoph, FigureOfSpeech, LambdaMax, Link the Midget, kangle541, MechaSolidSnake, ShadowAvatar87 and yazzy.

"Difficult-but-doable" boss Gadget_King has an attack that does 40000 to my entire party with no way to stop him.

There's a sign in town that lists fads that are no longer funny:
-Shadow Ryoko is a whore jokes
-Rickroll
-LUESHI
-jp is fat jokes
-*batteries die*
-CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
-Because you touch yourself at night.
-Pretentious people telling you what's funny and what isn't
-Nope, unicorns
-Resident Evil Gaiden

Can you guess what year this game was made in?

FigureOfSpeech is the mayor of the town. He gives us a key to the bottom right house in the town. Let's see what's inside.

-LusterSoldier-: "So someone has finally come! But you are too late to stop me!"
-LusterSoldier-: "I have found a way to create and unholy unity of durango and SDragonRocker5!"
-LusterSoldier-: "With their power, I will rule Board 8!"
durango: "Come on! This isn't fair! I'm not even that annoying anymore."
-LusterSoldier-: "Oh well! I've already chosen the name, and I like it! Rangorocker is and awsome name!"
SDragonRocker5: "Hey man, where are all the fine church hunnies you promised?"
-LusterSoldier-: "Silence, buffoon! You are going to be fused and you are going to like it!"
-LusterSoldier-: "Begin process!"
-LusterSoldier-: "Now, Rangorocker! Destroy them!"

It's an easy battle

-LusterSoldier-: "Nooooooo! I hate being a throwaway joke villain!"
"And so, the party was heralded as the saviors and heroes of Board 8, and given many parades and parties."
"At leats until next contest, when everyone forgot about them."
TRUE END

That's all there is. The game's story is as good as I remember it being. It feels like it takes a lot of cues from Earthbound but I guess that goes without saying when one of the towns is called "Winters". The third act felt pretty rushed. There was lots of text but no meaningful dungeons and the boss battles were largely jokes in terms of difficulty. Not sure if the game ran out of time, budget or the "Developer got bored". The God of Creation had barely shown up before getting his ass kicked. I'm not even really sure Susa needed to do that. The GoC felt mostly indifferent to the current world. If Susa just went up to the soul orb to break it, I don't think the GoC would have had much of a problem. He doesn't need those souls anymore since the God of Destruction is gone.

Al totally got screwed over. He was only trying to kill Susa because of the prophecy and killing Susa was unfortunately necessary to save the world. If Al doesn't do it, the world will die the same way as during the bad end. Also, the Bad End showed that Al wasn't really a threat to anyone after the prophecy was fulfilled. The party didn't need to attack him like that.

One thing I wondered is if there was more to Elena or not. Like we don't even find out what town she was abducted from and we don't meet any NPCs looking for her. It's rather sad if it turns out the people who knew her had their memories wiped (or more likely Flux killed them).

I liked Karin well enough. Her backstory about not being able to use non-thunder magic being resolved by finding magic items that instantly teach non-thunder magic wasn't really satisfying, though. It feels like there might have been more planned around her brother that didn't make it into the final game. But, I guess this isn't really her story. I did enjoy seeing her grow over the course of the game and how she went from Team Al to Team Susa.

Poor Susa. He got screwed over by life (aka the game's developer) right to the very end. Susa felt a bit too perfect a lot of the time. Like he decides where to go after the party initially leaves Norjeezer and it just so happens to be the right choice. Susa tends to get power boosts to always be just powerful enough to beat his opponent (except that one time Flux killed BP which didn't stick anyways). I think the one that stood out to me was when Karin accidentally killed Elena. Susa's like "No biggie, it's Flux's fault anyways". That's a bit too understanding! With that said, he was a fun character most of the time and had a lot of good lines. I hope the main characters in your future works have at least a slightly happier ending!

P.S. The best flavor of Starburst is not pink. It's orange!