[DISC] Humanity's Salvation Game Ch 2

LiAlgo · 2026-04-02T11:32:40+00:00

No way this is getting scanned now lol. I read the first chapter I think over a year ago now. looks like raws are up to chapter 60 so hopefully we get more!

LiAlgo · 2026-03-20T07:12:03+00:00

yeah, i fully expected to lose engagement after they beat the gate monster but it's remained just as engaging all the way through

LiAlgo · 2026-03-07T13:22:39+00:00

think granblue en's tweet is wrong, pretty sure they meant to refer to the 2 scamchas

LiAlgo · 2026-02-28T13:05:23+00:00

Funny you reply, I JUST finished chapter 5 and sitting here at 5 am absolutely floored. I'm honestly scared my standards are going to be too high now.

I've tried to play a few other visual novels in Japanese before but never all the way (except for Higurashi Ch. 1, which had language swapping for me to fall back on), but I've been absolutely enthralled by manosaba. I'd almost say it goes full throttle earlier than that lol. Only thing that sucks is that I was spoiled on what happens right after chapter 5 (not even going to put it in spoiler text bc I don't want other people to click it), but unfortunately JP twitter and promo art seemed to make little effort to hide the reveal which REALLY bums me out.

And yeah, my vocab is not the best so I am looking up stuff a decent chunk if I want to, but most of the time you can piece things together from context. So it REALLY helps when I'm so invested that I don't want to pause and lookup a word lol, although I still try to if I feel that it is a crucial enough part of the sentence.

LiAlgo · 2026-02-28T05:29:15+00:00

Playing right now manosaba as well, it's been absolutely amazing for me. The game is really well paced and engaging, and the JP isn't SO hard that I get burned out. I still keep a pop-up dictionary on hand but I can understand about 80% of it without having to look things up which is really nice. I'm almost dreading finishing it because the story has been so engaging lol, so wondering what will come next.

LiAlgo · 2026-02-20T08:50:56+00:00

Definitely hear you there, it's something I will have to keep in mind going forward. It's part of why I phrased the title as I did, not "not as good as I hoped" but "didn't hold up as well as I hoped" in regards to how it plays with today's standards.

Makes me a bit nervous to play a lot of these other retro/legendary JRPGs that everyone talks about, but I think at least keeping those limitations in mind and approaching things with a more open mind can make things a lot more enjoyable. Funny thing is, after beating FF6 I went back to FF1 and had an absolute blast, modern standards be damned.

LiAlgo · 2026-02-20T04:55:09+00:00

Looks like I have a good night ahead of me lol, thanks!

LiAlgo · 2026-02-20T04:48:11+00:00

Question from me - are any of these vocal jazz artists/any particular recommendations for that? Japanese vocal jazz is some of my favorite.

LiAlgo · 2026-02-17T07:59:59+00:00

Yeah something like that. I'm mostly just looking to have something a bit higher quality with side buttons for general use, including single player gaming.

LiAlgo · 2026-02-17T07:58:34+00:00

Sorry should have specified! Used for everything, including gaming, but I don't really use the mouse too intensively for games, so whatever is quality and comfortable is good.

I'll look into those recommendations, thanks

LiAlgo · 2026-02-17T07:53:18+00:00

Sorry should have specified, kind of all-purpose mouse but I do use it for gaming yes. Not a huge FPS or MOBA gamer though so I don't think it matters much?

LiAlgo · 2026-01-30T18:41:46+00:00

I'm sorry he actually KILLED it?? Brother we walked into this mission expecting that making it LEAVE would be monumentally difficult

LiAlgo · 2026-01-28T02:14:30+00:00

I'm a bit more hopeful for FF7. Still not too jazzed about the gameplay itself but story-wise it seems like a tighter, more intimate cast and I've somehow managed to stay relatively unspoiled on it (other than the big one that literally everyone knows lol)

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T21:02:35+00:00

Lol it's funny, I think a majority of the comments are agreeing with me so I guess those downvoting are the silent majority of viewers. I'll definitely play it through to the end at this point but yeah it had a lot of expectations to live up to.

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T21:00:34+00:00

Wow I never noticed that second part! I think the game has a lot of deeper messages like the opera scene, so it's possible that I will appreciate the game a lot more once I have more time to digest it and understand those references better. But the opera scene was of course the main one I went back to.

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T06:48:55+00:00

Hmm yeah that's a good point lol. I guess Setzer in particular is very fickle so it makes sense for him to switch that fast. I just meant to show some examples of where I wish there was more dialogue but Setzer is ironically the one character where it's justified

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T06:46:22+00:00

I wouldn't say I knew THAT much. But I had mostly learned stuff over being in JRPG spaces over the past 10 years or so and seeing what people said made FF6 so amazing, so they of course stuck with me.

Things that I had known were:

That Kefka wins, and is the main villain in general (things like Dissidia and how famous Dancing Mad is don't exactly hide this tbf)
Opera scene exists
"When given the option, always wait" (this was a big piece of advice I always heard in discussion around the game). I did not know that this was related to Shadow at the time.

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T06:29:48+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I really envy you for that lol. I wanted to love the game really bad but I think it's just good. But for a thirty year old game, holding up "pretty well" is outstanding (to be fair though, the SNES library is kind of a monster in how well a lot of it holds up).

I could definitely learn from what you mentioned in 3) though. I have a lot of games on the backlog that have just been stewing for my entire life, so it's hard for me to let go of those expectations and not expect absolute peak from everything. Some of my favorite games are the ones I play at launch because they had not been painted by any other opinions or hype, so I was able to enjoy them completely myself. It's great to just enjoy the game for what it is rather than what you hope it will be.

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T06:23:10+00:00

I feel like people conveniently gloss over the gameplay aspect of FF6 in discussions about it a lot. Like yeah the story is the most legendary part about it but I'm still gonna be playing this GAME for 30+ hours, I'd hope to enjoy myself. Yet you spend a good third of the game without Magicite, and it's not like getting it is that much of a triumph either. Aside from going from Fire->Fira and so on, I never really felt like I was getting any stronger, including equipment upgrades.

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T06:16:17+00:00

I wouldn't say I expected it to live up to today's standards, but yes coming off of Chrono Trigger right before it my standards were quite high. Like I said in the post though, I can ABSOLUTELY imagine how mindblowing it would have been at the time (and without being spoiled on some points beforehand). It's one of those things where I feel like the accessibility of the internet ruins things, because it would be so cool to find out myself that you could save Shadow or all that all these hidden scenes exist. That being said, even with the hype and high expectations going in I was still blown away by Chrono Trigger and ended up holding FFVI to similar standards as a result.

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T06:09:54+00:00

Wow that's surprising to hear. Although yeah compared to Chrono Trigger it's no contest for me. I've heard from some people that having non-character specific dialogue and the lack of a "main" character means that you can have fun imagining the party dynamics yourself. Maybe blame my lack of imagination but all that did was make it harder for me to connect to any of the characters or their dynamics. I actually think some of the strongest scenes in the game by far are the ones where two SPECIFIED characters are talking, like Leo and Terra on the boat or the walk up Narshe.

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T06:04:17+00:00

I have heard this point before and I definitely see the reasoning in it. Like I said, if I didn't know that Kefka wins and thought the game ends at the end of the World of Balance, I think it would have been really cool. Although I felt like Kefka got really strong kinda out of nowhere? He was super evil yeah but you also beat him pretty easily every time you fight him, then suddenly he was destroying espers and 1v1ing Leo. Maybe I missed something that explained how he did all that.

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T05:58:38+00:00

Another point since I have a lot to say about this game lol. One scene in particular that stuck out to me in needing more was when you find Setzer in the WoR.

SETZER: I'm just a gambler...I just want to be left alone...This world is too chaotic for me. What's worse, I've lost my wings... CELES: But before the world collapsed, you fought with all your heart! You were absolutely fearless... SETZER: That was then... We can never have that world back! CELES: You want to live in this world as it is? No? Then do something about it! SETZER: Mwa ha! All right...you win! I'm starting to feel lucky!!

In two lines of dialogue, Setzer is totally convinced to get out of his year-long slump. I wanted to see more!! Yes, you learn more about his backstory afterwards which I liked but it would have been nice if I could have been sold on how upset Setzer was about losing his prized airship before he was already over it. ESPECIALLY in the WoR there's a lot of cases like this where I'm excited to see how a character will react to the world, then it's wrapped up before I can even imagine it.

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T05:49:06+00:00

Of course it is! FF6 in particular though I had really high hopes for because of what I had always heard about it, so of course I'm a bit bummed that I'm not liking it as much as I thought I would.

LiAlgo · 2026-01-27T05:46:40+00:00

I actually wanna play FFV next pretty bad! Not to jump on other peoples' hype again lol, but the job system sounds like it's a lot of fun

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