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He unleashes some fire on them and Rean's ready to give up and call Valimar, but Laura's dad appears out of nowhere to save us this time. He was hyped up to be Cassius level, so I guess he should be able to put up a fight with Mick. I'd guess Mick's a bit stronger, especially with his demon form but I guess we'll see.

I'm just realizing that I didn't bring any characters along to have a showdown with Mick, but I also think nobody really fits the bill. It's probably just Rean since they're demon buddies so I'm sure it's okay.

The two powerhouses get to fighting though, so Class VII ascends the elevator. There's only one final stratum, which is a simple spiral staircase all the way to the top. Interspersed with some decently tough fights, for random encounters, since you want to conserve your resources for the boss fight at the end. There's a Zemurian Ore shard on the way up which just happens to be my 4th, so I go and get the ultimate weapon for Rean as well.

Eventually you reach the top and in true JRPG fashion Rean says that we must gather everyone before proceeding to the end. What if there was no teleporter here Rean, were you going to just walk all the way downstairs to get everyone? Say hi to Mick and Duvalie and everyone on your way down and hope they don't mind? This guy...why the hell weren't they all with us to begin with anyway? RPG logic man. At least, with everyone being here the conversation will flow more naturally since they don't have to write in a bunch of optional dialogue. That's always nice.

The finale begins and they start off with the unavoidable Crow/ClassVII reunite scene, bullshit nobody cares. I have to imagine Vita and the rest are just falling asleep while these kids chat away about friendship for 5 minutes. Eventually Duke Cayenne is like ? Guys? We have shit to do? And starts monologuing about how he's descended from the old emperor that Dreichels overthrew, and wants to restore their family's former glory...right. History has you as a second place loser buddy, you think it's going to go your way now? This whole game and Erebonia arc has been hinting at some Nietzschean eternal recurrence shit going on with the War of the Lions, but you think that's all just gonna stop now so you can win, right? Some people don't have a lick of sense man. Read the writing on the wall.

Eventually we get bored of talking and Crow and Vita challenge us to a fight. Okay so I have to win this, then an easy mech fight with Crow, then probably have to take on the black gear in the back. Hopefully on foot because hopefully the designers realize that nobody likes their mech battles. Let's see if I'm right!

Vita and Crow have a combat link which is cute. They also have a status effect that disables your combat links, which is pretty interesting. Seems like a fitting thing to introduce for a final fight. However it's not enough to save them, and unfortunately I kill them both before I'm able to see any mystic artes from them which is disappointing, but what can you do. Part 2 starts and yep it's robot time. Rean calls for Valimar and we get a cutscene of him just flying up to the top of the castle. OKAY if you could do that then why didn't we just chill at the bottom, wait for him to recharge, and just fly our asses up here instead of doing all that fighting? Would've avoided a lot of bullshit and potential death. Stupid Rean.

After the robot fight hits a halfway point they get a cutscene where everyone starts glowing and Crow's HP is restored to full. UGH do you have to prolong this robot fight, ffs. This shit takes forever, and I never upgraded shit so Rean does no damage lol. Crow actually managed to get my HP into the red once for probably the first time all game, so this can take the mantle as hardest robot fight. Woo. Man, that first robot fight in the series at the end of CS1 was so bullshit I had to retry at least 50 times before I finally managed to beat it. I know someone back then said it was tied to your character level and I guess mine was too low so the fight was almost impossible. How far we have come since then...I guess I used up every robot fight retry I'll ever need in that one battle.

In the post battle cutscene, Rean talks about how he felt like he was dreaming and was just acting without thinking. My boy was able to reach Flow state, what a beast. Rean says he thinks he could never act like that again, clearly not knowing that flow state can be achieved by anyone who is under intense concentration while also having mastery of their craft. I'm sure the ending of CS3 will be able to push you there buddy. Who knows. Maybe he'll just die and CS3 and 4 can be the story of how Millium and Altina learned to be human. I'm sure that would be just as good. No spoilers please.

Crow apologizes to Vita for letting her down, but Vita laughs and says that she's okay with happy endings. I guess Ouroboros really doesn't care about any of this crap going on lol. Their master plan is so weird and far removed from the events that seem to happen in every game that I really don't know what they're up to. I guess we'll find out at some point...probably not. They will just dangle it in front of our faces for 50 years until all the writers die and they end the series on arc 17.

Rean gets surprised at Vita's nonchalance, clearly slow on the uptake. And Duke Cayenne is understandably upset, since he's probably assuming they're actual allies and not partners of convenience. Cayenne ends up summoning that black gear for good by forcing Cedric to go inside and pilot it, which paves the way for part 3 of our final boss fight. We get some pretty epic cutscenes of it siphoning mana from people all over Heimdallr by unleashing some ghost tentacles and absorbing their life out of their bodies, so that's pretty cool. When we get back to the castle Vita screams at Cayenne saying that she forbade him from doing this. I suppose this must not have happened 250 years ago? But I mean, you basically left him out to dry so why would he listen to you now? Rare circumstance of Vita not thinking things through. Gotta plan ahead mate.

The fight here starts off with my entire backup team of Elliot, Emma, Millium, and Gaius on the front line. Oh man, I didn't realize it was going down like this. I'm probably going to have to reload and split the strength between the two parties but I'll try it out and see how far I can make it with these useless fucks. It's only got 300k hp so it can't be that bad?

OK I did manage to finally beat it on my third try. Elliot, Emma, and Millium are nobody's idea of a dream team but they were able to pull it off with some clever reflect usage and some clutch healing from Emma and Elliot's crafts. It's a good thing I had upgraded everyone's equipment earlier or this probably would've been impossible. They were all running some bare bones, throwaway orbments and half of them didn't have accessories. The ones that did were ancient ones from act 1 lol. But nothing is impossible with friendship and strategy~

Part 2, I just powered my main team to 50% str and almost one shot the thing lol. 450k HP gone in an instant. Final boss defeated!

Crow and Rean summon their divine knights to deal a final blow. You get to hear Crow's gear talk for the first time and it sounds...weird. Like some kind of raspy pedophile voice. Not a fan.

You then have to fight it with Rean and Crow together in mech mode so I guess the final boss is not yet defeated, they had to ruin it again. Oh well. At least Crow being here makes things a LITTLE more interesting. But then a little over halfway through the fight I realized...they removed your option to heal. Oh crap. I was able to get him down to about 80k HP but he knocked me out...my first mech fight retry. Without having healing as an option it takes some actual thought, so time to strategize for a bit.