I definitely enjoyed it though! Lots more mysteries (Why hello there Sharon who is this "second master"?), lots more hinting, and interrupting the boss by blowing up his ship was hilarious. He was also easily the hardest boss of the run, but he proved defenseless when... Well, when I respec'd my party so everyone had a minimum 20% chance on attack to inflict a status he was weak to. Plus 20% chance to delay him. Plus double speed down. Plus that beautiful 45% net chance from Angie. Plus Lvl5 juggler, which is stupidly broken holy shit--50% nightmare, which he's weak to, and 90% random something else yes please. .
For the bike trip, I chose Emma, which I think was pretty prescient given that I'm pretty sure her chasing after the blue bird like that is something only she does, and that everyone else sticks around for Misty. It also gave me the amazing line "I guess she's just secretly been a bird watcher all this time" (REAN HOW CAN YOU BE MORE OBLIVIOUS THAN LLOYD) so yeah.
Speaking of, Rean is basically Lloyd 2.0. This will make sense to the 1.5 of you who've played the Crossbell games, but yeah >_>
Misty's hinting that she knew Crossbell was going to declare independence was very interesting. I don't remember her from the Crossbell games, but given that we've already met her in two "forms," a third wouldn't be that out of the blue. I also really like some of the random references, like Bond popping up, and people mentioning the IBC freezing all assets, etc. Which means we're getting close-ish to the end of Ao. That's interesting in its own right, since it reinforces the feeling I've had that we're basically being allowed to meet Class 7 during a (relatively) slow time that precedes the moment a number of very... interesting characters just happened to make their departure from Ao with the comment that they were heading to Erebonia.
And speaking of spoilers I know from Ao (presumably anyone who's played CS will know this, but...), I'm increasingly curious if this game is going to end with Osborne getting shot. That does seem like the obvious break point.
And yeah, thanks for that info. Like I said earlier, I may or may not have hacked my save file to give myself more bonding points, so I should be good on that count >_> ---
Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius