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time for a schera door. its another moon door so I'll be back in 2 hours!

we start with another "fun" scene where Schera and Aina try to make Olivier, who just woke up after passing away from too much drinking, drink more. Everyone laughs. Hahaha.

the scene is an excuse for an even older flashback, though

wow did they make 3 separate sets of sprites for Schera (one for FC/SC, one for 3rd and one for flashback)? I'm impressed

this is also the Aina flashback

Schera was kind of a jerk 5 years ago, huh

Aina asks her to be a city guide and Schera is like "wtf we are bracers we don't do menial stuff"

FC/SC's sidequest system hard disagrees

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Kurt arrives and tells her to do her fucking job

I love how he doesn't even know what the job is. Hes just making her do it because bracers don't refuse jobs, period

lol Schera is lv 10. so cute

We talk to Kurt a bit more and learn some Kurt Facts. Apparently he once bumped into a wanted monster while being late for another appointment so he just killed it in one hit and kept going without even slowing down.

I wish Kurt was playable in this game, he's alright

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Is this young Dorothy?

Aina is being hunted by some MIBs and we have to protect her

for some ungodly reason, Schera has no arts

Aina almost does my job for me by attacking the enemy with her briefcase. Who needs arts amiright

oh ok Aina is a heiress and bad people are trying to grab her fortune. Basic

We escape into the sewers.

...

Freaking Grancel sewers. Will the torment never end?

Aina is a badass though. She designs smoke bombs

the place is even more dangerous than usual because we only have 2 characters and one is an npc with poor stats and a "game over is knocked out" condition

and no orbments

though enemies have been properly nerfed in return

and now we get a flashback within the flashback within the flashback

the flashback is pretty dark

Schera is a great character when shes not trying to be funny. This was some good introspection. Better than the Kloe stuff

lmao at Schera deciding to take another route because Nial looks like a criminal

I go to the church and theres a woman going on about how she thinks nuns are awesome. I look online and apparently shes a nun in the present. Nice continuity

theres a scene hyping up some blind guy, Nielsen. Let me guess. Major character next arc.

A moving box? Whats this, Tom and Jerry?

oh sure its a cat. So just Tom

We get surrounded by MIBs, but Kurt shows up and destroys them all with an s-craft

As well as someone named Gundolf

the boss battle against the goons is kind of tricky. The key is to use the zeram powder you get from the sewer to kill two enemies with scrafts immediately and reduce their numbers since they can just deal more damage than you. But took me a few defeats to figure that out

Aina inherits billions, then donates it all to charity and goes live life as a guild cleric and torturer of poor bards

back to the normal game, with the final area of plane 4

theres a bat enemy here that drops 50 time sepith every time you kill it. I'm so going to farm it

an scraft crit from Anelace just dealt 10k damage on an enemy. I think that's a new benchmark

this dungeon has an interesting mechanic with switches that make colored bridges appear/disappear but I dont feel like it really uses the mechanic to make good puzzles. So far the solution has always been "take the long way around"

people don't think about it much since nobody plays rpgs for puzzles, but I guess it does take some craftiness to make good ones. Alas, many games don't even bother. Trails is one of the later.

Dungeon crawled, Agate clone defeated and real Agate rescued

ok the Agate x Tita thing was fine when it was not in the game and was some dumb fandom thing but now the game's dialogue is actively stating it and WHAT THE FUCK?

He is 25, and she is 13.

The age gap does not "make it more endearing", or whatever crap the characters are saying.

Seriously, burn Japan down.

we go to the chapter boss, who uses cutscene hax to trap us. Just so Ries can show up and save the day

I'm here thinking she is going to take some support role while we fight the boss, but she goes "don't worry I'll solo the boss"

and for a while she does, but the boss teleport behinds her and sucker punches her.

Meh. I was totally ok with having an npc solo the boss, it was looking cool. Now let's get to work

Kevin activates another subeset of his power he was hiding from everyone and gains a new scraft

Kevin's original s-craft: "may the holy chalice protect my buddies etc"
Kevin's new s-craft which he unlocked when someone hurt his girl: "MAY THE HOLY DEUS VULT TURN YOU INTO SWISS CHEESE, MOTHERF-!"

Big Bad shows up and says Big Bad stuff. Kevin asks him to show his real face. Big Bad: "lol are you sure? seeing my face will force you to do character development"

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The best girl has returned

Kevin faints and apparently Ries is now the MC

I'm not necessarily complaining. Ries is great.

Chapter 4: beaten

Flashback time

Sad Kevin: kill me
Kevin's master: lol you belong to the church now, you only die when we want you to

This is some dark shit

possibly the darkest game so far, if not in terms of actual events, but in terms of tone

Joshua was broken, alright. But most of it was hypnosis. By the time we got to work on him, he had years of Estelle/Cassius love piled up on him so he was mostly ready to recover.

Renne was creepy as hell, but she was more of an issue of lacking a good direction to go on. When it got shown to her, she started questioning herself rather quickly.

Now Kevin? THAT is a complete mess. He is depressed. Hates himself. Can't connect to anyone. Is content with being a murder knight

I wanna see how they fix him cuz it's gonna be tricky as heck

we get exposition on Kevin being one of the 12 digidestined

Last chapter it was Kevin and Joshua as the mandatory party. Now it's Ries and Estelle