This rescue smells like poo-gas.

So after staying at the in the team gets word that their pirate friends are going to be executed first thing in the morning, so we sneak into the sewers to get to the coliseum where the executions are goin to take place. This game has a lot of random encounters, about every minute or so while running through the sewers the group was attacked, and that's about the rate everywhere in the game.

After getting through the sewers I had to go through 3 boss battles in a row. First I had to fight a giant blob that lived at the bottom of the coliseum, feeding off the dead fighters i guess, but it didn't attack hard so it was more just a grind to fight. Immediately after that fight I had to fight the executioner and his two mages, this was a much harder fight and I used up all my magic and healing items to finish it. There was then a short run back through the sewers and then along a train, random encounters all the way, before the third boss battle against two train guards. This fight would have been easy but by now my party was low on health, magic, items, and the strongest member was gone, so I just barely made it through.

Finally there was another ship to ship fight, but since we now had the super harpoon cannon, it was just a matter of surviving the fight long enough to charge up and fire it.

After that all the pirates were rescued, the girl from the first part was rescued again, and the main plot is explained. Turns out that there are 6 nations, one for each of the magical moon, and the girl we keep rescuing is from the technologically advanced Silver nation. She explains how thousands of years ago all the nations built super magical monsters with the moon magic and had a huge war with each other until the moons pelted the planet with rocks, killing near everyone. The evil empire now wants to find these 6 magical monsters so they can rule the world (of course!), so it's our job now to find the 6 magic moon crystals that power the monsters before they do.

And the girl has a flying silver animal thing that changes it's shape into her bracelet, just to remind the player that it's a JRPG.

Off the topic of the game, at a video store today I found a copy of the PS2 collectors edition of "Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love" with all the extras for 8$. So now I have both versions for less than the price of the PS2 copy normally. I got it more for the bonus items than to play it since I already have the Wii version on my line up.