LogFAQs > #972325415

while Tita fixes a water pump, Josh and Estelle leave the village to go rescue yet another helpless npc who decided to commit suicide by walking in monster infested place

at least this game is realistic in the sense that it makes clear anyone without superpowers should never leave npc towns (and that in such a world, you'd need said powerful people to escort travellers). But the irony is that those people keep doing anyway

and ofc the girl in question is Ms. Plucky Photographer

Josh and Estelle kill one of the monsters in the cutscene which is lame because I'm not getting and exp or sepith from it

nvm, the actual battle had an extra 2, to a total of 6. Where is Tita when you need her.

Estelle nearly kills the girl after saving her. Final villain material right here

Tita: "Estelle, I have something I want to ask you. Are you and Joshua married?"

Estelle.EXE has crashed and will restart.

this ship is good stuff. Most videogames shy away from doing real romance with playable characters, maybe because they know romance is hard to do well. At most, they just tease and tease and tease. Here there is tease, but it's the kind of tease that is clearly leading to a conclusion, in-story.

I recently read a review for the TV show Andor, praising it for how much it does the hard, dirty, character work. How it builds and builds for a long time before delivering its pay-offs. This game is exactly that. Barely nothing has happened so far, but we are building. The romance, and all other character things. Not many people have patience for this kind of story, but I think the secret is to make the building itself entertaining. And with characters like Estelle, it certainly is.

it also leads to a scene where Joshua accidentally sees Estelle in a hot spring, because the Japanese. Can't. Help. Themselves.

old lady is sharp: "why are you so mad? this unisex poll is made for family members to relax together". I see what you did there.

Estelle and Josh adopt Tita as their sister. This is cute.

the hot spring gives everyone max CP. ok, where do I find a shining pom

The lab OBVIOUSLY got attacked while we were in the hot springs. That's such a basic plot

and Agate is here again, to get mad that the protagonists got there before he did. lol get fucked

and the prof was kidnapped. ofc

military woman asks the bracers to stop investigating and Agate shuts her down mid sentence. Imagine asking Agate not do something

The irony is that the last time someone did that in-game, it was Agate, asking the protags not to investigate the orphanage fire

they kick Tita out of the party because things have gotten dangerous. Well excuse me, weren't they before?

Agate: "TODAY, people". lol. Agate is half the time an asshat and half the time the guy who says exactly what the audience is thinking

So much for having 4 party members, though.