#oneaday Day 562: Gettin 'Er Done

I was right not to stay up and try to finish Mana Khemia last night — there was a good five or six hours more to go! I managed to bang it out this evening and finish the narrative writeup though, so that game is done and dusted a little earlier than I thought.

Next up is Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy, which is one of the few games in this series that didn't get a European release. Instead, I was fortunate enough to be able to grab a copy for $40 CAD about ten years ago upon a visit to Canada to see some friends who I haven't spoken to for about five years. Fortuitously, prior to this incidence of drifting apart, I had "borrowed" their NTSC PS2 specifically in order to play Mana Khemia 2.

At the time, I was getting big into the Ar Tonelico series, and picked up Mana Khemia 2 on the recommendation of the person who got me into Ar Tonelico. (A different person to the aforementioned friends.) I didn't know anything about the Atelier series then, and indeed my copy of Mana Khemia 2 has been shrink-wrapped since I picked it up all that time ago, because I'd been saving it until I beat the previous Mana Khemia. (And, as it turns out, the Atelier Iris series.)

Until tonight, in fact, because I just wanted to make sure that NTSC PS2 I "borrowed" about ten years ago (and which the original owners are probably not getting back now) worked properly, along with the aforementioned copy of Mana Khemia 2.

It does. I had a momentary scare when everything was coming out green through the RGB SCART cable I've been using that was supposed to be compatible with NTSC systems, but a quick dip into the system settings and changing the output from Y/Pb/Pr to RGB fixed the issue nicely. So Mana Khemia 2 will be getting underway shortly — looking forward to it! I'll record and archive my playthrough on the YouTube channel again so if you want to see what it's all about, you can — since I'm recording for the purposes of taking screenshots anyway, I might as well share the videos! Plus I believe Mana Khemia 2 can be a bit pricey these days — if you can't afford to add it to your own collection, you can at least experience some of it vicariously!

First up, though, I've got to bash out The Coma 2 for Nintendo Life this weekend, plus record my usual weekly videos. I'm keeping busy, for sure — and I wouldn't have it any other way. The work I do for MoeGamer and YouTube really does help keep me sane during even my bleakest hours, so once again, a sincere thank you for supporting anything I do — it really means a lot.