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everyone is unhurt, but the ship is somewhat damaged. They all comment on how Loewe purposedly attacked the ship in a way not to kill everyone. Thanks, Loewe!

The plan is to find some means of transport, because this final dungeon is so huge it has to be explored by car. The party?

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I haven't had so many choices since I played FF6

Other than "slightly-magic oriented balanced MC", and "slightly-melee oriented balanced MC", we also have to pick two, among "melee guy who trades HP for damage", "balanced fighter/caster who can give teammates extra turns", "healing oriented spellcaster", "all purpose spellcaster", "one trick pony mob control everyone uses because it's just fun", "meat shield" and "guy with shit stats but some of the best support crafts in the game so he's alright"

Olivier is criminally underleveled while also being the best character gameplay wise and maybe the best dialogue wise too. He's an easy third

Kloe is also rather undeleveled and I after a whole chapter saving up magic, I wanna abuse it a little
Josh secretely goes somewhere with Kevin to get some sort of... magical buff. Which will probably save everyone when we need the most.

Holy shit

This place's music is so good

I normally type this from my pc but Im now doing from phone because I dont want to minimize the game window and stop the music

I love how newspapers in this game are usually bombastic news. If I were a random citizen, reading papers would make me very anxious. There's always a national crisis going on! And here the crisis are actually real!

Living in videogame worlds is dangerous af

spend another half hour gearing up my party. Most is the usual stuff, the biggest news is Kloe is finally getting Cocytus (infinite AoE freeze) and Olivier is getting Zodiac (attack/def boost to the whole party). So she is more offensive, he is more support (kinda needed since his level is low, at least for now). Estelle is the usual frankenstein, Josh is the usual Dual Strike machine.

this ancient city has internet. I now know what was probably the downfall of the ancient civilization

we find the city's rail system, but stations have to be opened one by one. So it's all just a shortcut. We have to go through the tunnels, which I suspect are the dungeon sections

Olivier and Kloe's physical attacks are dealing zero damage to even normal enemies. The way this game optimizes stats means each character is going to be useless at something. You can make a mixed build, but then they will just be mediocre at everything.

I find an Onyx Gem, actually Action 5. Lowkey the best quartz there can possibly be, given how Action is good in this series

Kloe has finally learned an offensive s-craft. it probably looks cool. It also probably hits like crap, for the reason mentioned above. i'm gonna stick to her universal healing, thanks

Estelle has learned Wheel of Time. Now that one probably hits like a rocket

on hey Kloe's offensive s-craft isn't half bad. It's good for mob control, at least

and Olivier has learned one called Requiem Hearts. this is when we get all the endgame s-crafts, apparently

Houses in the ancient city have chests in them. Why did the houses from the regular cities not have those too? Would have made exploration so much more fun

Estelle's Wheel of Time is very flashy, unecessarily complicated, hits like a nuclear bomb and looks awesome.

We meet Josette. Her two brothers were kidnapped by bad guys. She joins the party!

According to the internet though, she is the worst playable character to ever grace the universe of playable characters. Won't stop me from testing her, though. They said the same about Tita and I managed to find her niche

uh...
Does Josette have no s-craft
WTF
[cheks faq]
OK she does but I have to do an entire part of the final dungeon to unlock it. That's BS

the information from the data crystals we recovery gives us the direct lore on how this civilization
ended, but the crystals take a while to be decoded. meanwhile, other terminals we find around the city give little hints. Crime started going up and nobody undertood why. Population started going down. Etc

ok Josette is literally unplayable

no s-crafts, low attack and ATS. Her "support crafts" are a single target defense reduction (ok against bosses but after the first turn, what else?) and a thing that always causes faint but has low range and is also single target (so no point using on mobs, and anything that matters is immune to faint). Her orbment geometry is somewhat worse than Estelle's, which is already kinda bad in this game compared to FC. She is earth, like Zin, but doesn't have taunt to really tank (and even Zin is having difficult pulling off taunt these days).

You could give her a time gem and make her a earth wall spam machine, but then again anyone else can do that while also having more useful crafts and whatnot (like Kevin).

Also apparently there's a section coming where i'm forced to use her and as soon as she gains her first s-craft, she stops being a mandatory character. That's... evil.

honestly the time gem thing means she is actually playable but like, anyone else is preferrable

we open a door by inputting the name of Kloe's ancestor and tricking the computer into thinking Kloe is her. Having a royal family members with the party has its uses. Gotta bring Olivier when we do the equivallent of this in Cold Steel, I guess

I find a shining pom

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So this is the hard limit for how much xp you can get in one battle, huh

Kloe and Agate gain 7 levels each. Nice.

Tunnel 2 done. Not much to add, my party is OP, etc