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I like those little crime scene investigations. The seires could have more of those

They didnt need to do it to figure out where the bad guys are, though. It's in the only not yet explored place in the region map!

I like the music this series uses for military bases

Estelle and Anelace have a great dynamic. They have similar personalities, but that just makes them enhance each other's quirkiness. Anelace says some complicated works and Estelle is there to mock her for it. If this was Josh, she would probably be lectured for not knowing them.

I fight a mob of 4 enemies, which is somehow the hardest battle in the game so far. I have to stop and change my quarts setup to get Fire Bolt Ex, or I just cant outdamage them. Rough

a single surprise attack is game over here

I get an explanation on what key items are. Such deep gameplay!

I save scum to see if the boss will be alone or with mobs, so I can decide if I equip La Tear or Fire Bolt Ex, since both is impossible

gone are the days of White Gehenna spam

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Holy shit Anelace.

Yeah scratch that, this guy is the hardest boss in the series so far. By a mile.

He on hard is harder than Lorence on normal, at least

Unlike Lorence, all his stats are gargantuan. He can 3-shot any character, and he is fast enough to attack twice before we can. I looked online and strategy tips range from "spend hours farming ingredients at the start of the game to make damage items" to "use an app that lowers your save's difficulty to normal". That's demoralizing. Internet also says the retry offset feature doesn't work here, though either way I don't want to use it if possible.

But none of those were necessary in the end. The boss is beatable. Took me 3 tries, the first to realize how screwed I was, the second to come up with a strat, the third to improve it. Basically, the secret is he can't outdamage our healing, especially if Anelace uses AT Delay. It's a battle of stalling, carefully healing with Estelle and keeping HP above the 1200 mark. The two reviving acessories I got early help immensely too, especially since one of them gives Estelle a free max dmg Barrage.

Now on Nightmare difficulty? Yeah I can imagine that's going to require hours of pre-dungeon farming. Forget it.

internet also tells me this was the hardest boss in the series except for some guy you meet in the 10th game. In other words... let's finish Trails SC on Hard.

Heh. Knew it was all a set up

and it was frigging Kurt again. Ok I get why you are B rank now

Estelle is frustrated that their argument was sound so she can't even complain

Meanwhile, in some evil looking base, some evil looking green haired kid says evil things.

now that the game has an actual Evil Organization to fight against, we can do one of JRPG/Anime's most classic traditions: the Wacky Elite Henchman Crew. Those 4-6 characters who are the strongest below the boss, get introduced all at the start and slowly go down in sucession as the game progresses.

Lorence (aka Loewe) seems to be their leader/protagonist and Josh, the one who defected

Uh... that Phantom Thief who was stealing stuff for fun last game is Orobouros? That's interesting

Oooh green haired shit is Enforcer #0. He's also the PA to the Biggest Bad of All. That's something

And meanwhile, the sky bandits accidentaly run into Josh (who is wearing a badass scarf to make the point that he is edgy now). Of course.

Actually no, it seems he hired them, or something. Interesting call. They are useful, but expendable.

"Prologue: This Boss Would be Banned on Tournaments" beaten

Meanwhile, Kevin has been hired to deal with the latest McGuffin

Kevin deduces the device is a trail to the real, final McGuffin. Not a physical trail, mind you, but maybe one that runs through the Earth or something. Or maybe...

A trail in the sky (DUN DUN DUN)

Chapter 1: Chasing Edgy Kids begins

I will know only call orobouros Mystery Creepos. Thanks for the nickname, Anelace

The guild npc explains why monsters have become stronger since the last game. I never get tired of those in-universe explanations for RPG cliches

I mean, he doesn't explain it, but he says "the villains dunnit", which is more than almost every game attempts to

Schera and Agate have been tasking with investigating Orobouros. The current "plan" is to just walk randomly until they bump into them. This will be a perfect plan if they add playable characters to the party, tbf

I have to pick Schera or Agate

Now, story wise, I think Estelle would pick Schera. Because Agate is, simply put, an asshole, and Schera is someone she trusts and is used to.

Also, if this was FC, Schera would be an easy pick because she is good and Agate was well, not good. Worse than Tita, even.

But I have heard Agate is a monster in this game. And there is the matter that he was my least used character last game. I wanna have fun with some Agate action. Plus I'm not a huge fan of Schera humor, her alcohol jokes get old fast.

Estelle picks Agate and immediately starts making fun of his fragile masculinity. Perfect.

The biggest loss of the party is Anelace, though. I'll miss her. Quality character.

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Uh...

WHAT

Ha. never mind. She's just asking to be rivals. Amazing.