Been playing Sword of Mana as the dood.
I'm almost beat it, I think. I KNOW I'm over halfway.
One thing I hate about it is normal enemies have been giving me more trouble than most bosses.
All the bosses, save the last 2, have been horribly easy.
But, it is still a pretty fun game.
I have never played the original FF Adventure, sadly.
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A friend sent me a cheat patch thing for my SVC Chaos rom.
I can now play as the bosses, particuly Athena and Red Arremer/Firebrand.

Athena is rather loosely based on her old NES incarnation, only not horrible, like that game was. She even wears different costumes during some attacks. She's horribly overpowered, too. I've slaughtered poor old Terry Bogard in what seemed like 5 seconds. Yikes?

Red is not as horribly overpowered, except for his "Exceed" type super attack. It seems to take off one full lifebar (you get 2).
He has no crouching animation, yet he has a few crouching attacks. If I were playing humans this could lead to cheap mindgames, I bet.
A few of his moves summon creatures from Ghosts and Goblins, like a zombie and those burrito things.
He almost seems like a better than average normal character after playing around with him for a while.

CPU Orochi Iori beat me into the ground with both of them a few times.
Still puzzled as to what happened there...


Still waiting until March for Sengoku Musou / Samurai Warriors.

and uh
guess that's it!
"I'd rather betray the world, than the world betray me!" ~Mengde (Cao Cao)