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I play more poker, which is somehow even worse in this game (and I don't even touch blackjack, which stopped being playable a few games ago). I estimate by the time this series ends, the casino minigames will be just showing two cards to the player and asking them to pick which one is higher, with a 100 mira payoff for each right one

Seriously, it's amazing how consistent this series is at making its card minigames worse every installment

my gambling spree is rewarded with a scene where Lloyd and KeA bond over the stuff he just decorated his room with

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these imaginative devs

time for a chat with Arios

we learn Randy's uncle is the real deal since Arios is praising him, though Arios is the humblest character in the series so you can never be sure

Nice lore here. So both Kilika and Lechter are helping their governments plot with respective criminal syndicates

lots of lore hints. the game presents what the likely upcoming conflict is but at the same time hints that it's all a red herring

Of course it is. The Orobouros part of the puzzle is still unaccounted for

there is a tense sequence where the party is returning to HQ for building and you just know something is about to happen. Fortunately, the building doesn't explode like I'm expecting. There's just a mercenary girl sitting on the living room couch, waiting for the party

I love Lloyd telling Shirley that she's sitting on a taxpayer funded couch

Lloyd is the coppest cop who ever copped. Sometimes that's obnoxious, but sometimes it's just cool

Lloyd and Wazy just take control of the situation, cool MFs they are

I love those little scenes where Lloyd an co. question bad guys. It's always super tense but Lloyd always manages to get something from it

Eyepatch just goes and almost breaks Randy by revealing some bad stuff he did

I'm supposed to guess what the jagger's goal is and I guess assassinating the president. The game tells me that can't be it because the price of 100 million would be too low

what, I'm supposed to know the relative worth of trails currency now?

meanwhile...

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The greatest returns

Well not THE greatest, because that's Estelle. But the next best thing

This series is gonna get fabulous again

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See above

Olivier laments Estelle isn't coming. I understand

We also move to an airship, where a somewhat less great but still solid character is watching the sky

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these Crossbell cast members better raise their game because good characters are arriving

basically the entire Sky cast is plotting together to use the Crossbell cast to achieve their goals. Fitting

We then move to the Geofront, where we learn Campanella is now using Jona's abandoned computer terminal

should have burned the whole place down

considering what i'm used from this cast, Campanella is probably a hacker too

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When you hack things, "mission complete" appears on the screen

We see a montage where a bunch of world leaders arrive for the conference

Calvard president looks goofy

we see everyone's faces, except the prince of Remiferia's

Sorry bro, but your country is unimportant. It doesn't even have its own game, except for some JP-only gacha spin-off no one played

I think it's funny how this duology doesn't give characters portraits unless it's absolutely sure it's needed. But I also think this is bad game design. It makes the plot a little more predictable, and breaks immersion a little. Because there are characters who do seem important to the setting, but don't get portraits since the writers know they aren't actually, and they aren't trying to hide it. I feel like Sky wasn't so cheap with portraits like this. People like the mayors and the guild clerks all got theirs. Even the orphanage kids did. So if someone like Mary ended up being important, it was a surprise.

I just love Crois's voice acting. It's a mix of goofy and imposing

I dunno about you, but I feel like Orchis Tower is the name you give to an evil lair, not to the setting's Empire State equivallent

Did they really do the entire construction of this thing under a huge blanket?

Kloe: "Meh, SC's final dungeon was taller"
Yes Kloe, I know JRPG final dungeons are huge, but try to be a little more sporting, ok?

Lechter: "Imagine going to the roof, man"
New ship: Lechter X Roofs

KeA is getting dejavu at the huge tower. The plot thickens

Some fun sounding quests for the next day, including one to find Olivier. Heh.