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15/25 doors now

well the fighting door has 3 difficulties and I've only beaten 1 apparently. But I'm still counting it
Time to finish Plane 5. The team is Ries, Estelle, Renne and Richard

standard dungeon crawling, then boss. 3 giant spiders. classic.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/8/AAO9CbAAEsTC.jpg

They fail to see they aren't the biggest predator in the room, though

After an entire in-depth flashback of Estelle catching bugs, you think some spiders will scare her? think again

You have no idea how happy I am to use Richard and Renne's s-crafts against the enemy, for a change

spiders killed. Just put the 3 tanks ahead and give Renne a clock up ex, then watch the fireworks

Estelle learned True Wheel of Time

True Wheel of Time

True

Wheel of Time.

Awesome.

Not the Main Villain shows up and drops a nothingburger speech. Meh

Mid game plot padding in a nutshell.

The crystal releases the ghost of Celeste, the hero who sealed the McGuffin ages ago.

Chapter 5: "Too many freaking party members": beaten

The chapter ending right as she says her name is a nice dramatic touch.

another Kevin flashback, which seems to be preparation for a new action sequence. Likely the one where Rufina dies, I'm guessing. But not much interesting yet

Celeste reveals what the Phantasma is supposed to be. Though she has no idea what it is now. Useful.

Kevin reveals he knows what is going on but he wont tell anyone because we are not there in the plot yet

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/9/AAO9CbAAEsTD.jpg

lots of options

Kevin is mandatory, but Ries is not for some reason. I get to choose 3 whole characters? Incredible.

Going with Agate, Renne and Anelace this time. Agate is the only unused character so far and the other two are great

Plane 6 is multiple areas, each one requiring different characters. Which means a whole lot of time fiddling with orbments at the base, ofc

I swap out Renne for Kloe first, since the later is required

it's that damn school again

a door wants me to pay 50k mira to enter it. Capitalism has breached even the Phantasma

people's weapons have caught up and Anelace's sword is now average. The glory didnt last long

it could have lasted longer but the game dumped a gazillion new characters on me at the time so I wanted to test them

I get tired of not knowing how to progress in this area and decide to pay the stupid door

of course it's Maybelle. I should have smelled the scent of the capitalist pig from the other side

even in Phantasma, she's finding a way to make a profit

Maybelle finds out Lila is dating some dude, so she hires Anelace to spy on the dude. That's certainly a plot.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/0/AAO9CbAAEsTE.jpg

yay for individual interpretation (aka do whatever the hell I want)!

Aaaand we have a classic comedic misunderstanding

and now for some good old LGBT coding

Anelace does make the coding a bit more explicit than I was expecting this game to do, tbh

And I make double the money I paid the door. Nice doing business with you, Maybelle

after an incredibly long time, and needing to check online, I learn that I'm supposed to kill just the black knights and leave the red ones alone. I was starting to spam Death Scream just to make battles end faster

We run into the Raven gang, who is like "uh I don't think i'm real and apparently they summoned me for fighting so imma fight you ok"

this game and the 4th wall just hate each other, don't they

when the butler has one of the coolest (and strongest) s-crafts in the game

The first area was opened with a water altar and we had to bring Kloe. The next one is an earth altar, and I fear for the worst

It's Anelace. Ok, not related to the character's element. Phew.

Olivier door now

Prince Oliviert and Mueller are at the embassy, where Mr. Generic Nobleman aka the ambassador apologizes for not recognizing him sooner. I mean, Olivier was counting on that

Ambassador guy is playing political checkers, and Olivier is playing 4D chess

The ambassador is a cool guy. He is not super enlightened due to being a generic nobleman, but he is a good guy at heart, and being surrounded by LIberians has made him take a liking to them

Olivier and Mueller make plans for future games

And theres the guy from Kloe's door again. Letcher

He's popping up everywhere isn't he

Of course he's also involved in Olivier's plans. It's like a secret society of manipulative clowns

Oh ok he's an enemy. Interesting.

We move to a scene where Olivier meets the Liberl royals and Cassius, and they discuss more realpolitik. I love seeing all those pieces moving, myself.

They are all discussing how the Chancellor of the Empire is an intelligent man who is hard to predict, and then suddenly he shows up out of nowhere. Checkmate.

And here it is, the apparent Big Bad of a bunch of future games. Or one of the Big Bads. Unclear now

He looks properly evil though

The best thing about this scene isn't what the chatacters are saying, it's what they are not

Cassius: "Sup guy who tried to annex my country for no reason other than you are a dick"
Osborne: "Oh hey you are that guy who single handedly prevented me from conquering your country a while ago"

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/1/AAO9CbAAEsTF.jpg

We get a rare sight, Olivier being the no-nonsense guy

Everything will collide at Crossbell

And now for Kloe meeting Lechter

She confronts him over the fact he is now working for Evil. He dodges a bit, but Kloe is a straightforward person. But the scene cuts back to Olivier before he can reply

Osborne: "Join me, and together, we will rule the galaxy!"
Olivier: "I agree the nobles suck, but you are a literal fascist so fuck you"

Olivier implies his actions will lead to world war and he's like "well, duh, that's like phase 1 of my plan"

Back to Kloe and Lechter.

Yeah I don't dig Lechter at all. His entire attitude is that he doesn't care about anything as long as he is having fun. Meanwhile, he's also part of this universe's equivallent of the SS. Guys like this can commit all sorts of atrocities and shrug them off with a "why so serious?". I prefer people who are grounded by something.

Now there are a bunch of ways he could be going. One possibility is that the series may eventually reveal He Cared All Along, and make him turn sides. Or he may suffer a massive epiphany after doing something evil himself. Or he may just evolve into an actual psycho. We'll see.

Apparently he has been watching over everything that happened in the series' so far, though.

Olivier makes the World's Greatest Taunt

Wow ok I loved this door

literally nothing happened but it was just non stop hyping of future game plots and made me enjoy all the characters more.