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The game gives me 4 quartz and asks me to match them with the characters. Each character has an empty slot, with restricted elements corresponding to the ones I got. Ah, the illusion of choice!
I mean, Estelle and Josh got more choice in their tutorial.

Lloyd's orbment is identical to Estelle's. Which is the jack of all trades, master of none orbment. I suspect he will be a lot more melee oriented than Estelle was, though, since there are only 4 characters atm and 2 are mages.

Ellie's orbment is identical to Schera's. So mage, with maybe a little melee/support on the side. Will depend on the crafts

Tio gets the same single line orbment as Kloe's, but with 2 blue slots instead of 3. That sounds incredibly OP. But there is a catch. Always a catch with those blue haired girls. They replaced Mind, in the blue list, for Shield. The former being great for mages, and the later being definitely not great
So while Tio will be happy getting an HP quartz, the second blue quartz will be way trickier. None of the options are really satisfying, or they look like they will be available very late. I'm guessing she's still better than Kloe since she can actually have a more varied arts list, even if one of the quartz she's carrying is useless otherwise. So similar to Schera, who had to use stuff like Impede.

Also healing spells seem to have been split between water and wind this time, so it sounds like the two girls will share that job

Finally, Randy is the one with the melee orbment. His is similar to Tita's but with 1 restricted slot instead of 2, so a little better. Probably doesn't matter much, because when someone gets a melee orbment, I just ignore the lines and stick whatever bonuses go well with melee.

They made Mind mirage type now, and they nerfed EP Cut and buffed EP, so it'd really looking like our mages will be carrying silver quartz this time. Overall, the quartz system looks more balanced, but we'll see. Let's go kill some monsters

you can actually read your characters' crafts in the menu now. What is this modernity I can't even
Ellie inherited Kloe's healing scraft. Hmm

We still can't move and attack in the same turn (unless its in a straight line towards the enemy). Im wondering if that will ever change. It's such a dumb mechanic.

Tio has an aoe basic attack, like Tita's. But she is clearly not melee oriented. Thats a bit of a waste. But hey, her weapon is cool

Tio: "I can tank"
Uh not really, your defensive stats are pretty bad

No chest jokes anymore
[uninstalls game]

I'm trying to play on Hard again. This is relevant because I almost just got a game over in a tutorial fight. Everybody died, except Tio. Yeah ok sorry Tio, you can tank.

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Yes. Yes. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

And now its a mission to rescue some kids. Ofc

Having to use Tio's craft just to learn enemy weaknesses instead of getting them for free sucks

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I'm sorry, chest-kun.

We rescue the kids. They are stunned that we aren't bracers. Yes kid, so am I

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Run, kid. Run.

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Dad gets it

We are attacked by a boss monster we can't beat. Lloyd immediately does the shonen thing and announces he will sacrifice himself so the others can escape

But we are then rescued by this guy

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Long hair. Scar on face. Cool attitude. Katana. And a soft but epic tune playing when he shows up. It's THAT kind of character

(basically Loewe from the last arc)

His name is Arios (because characters like this are not named something normal like Bob). The kids love him. I'm guessing he is a bracer

Yep. A-rank bracer. And divine blade. It's that guy. Probably doesn't hold a candle to Cassius (who is a God), but is somewhere close.

We meet the press. The press is kind of a jerk in this place. Well, not everyone can be a Nial

Arios is an alright guy though. He doesn't try to claim he did it all alone.

My guess is that the police, tired of being unfavorably compared to bracers, decided to create a department to do the bracers work. Which is actually helping people. Not the stuff cops are known for. We are that department. That's one convoluted excuse not to just play as bracers, tbh. But hey I suppose it will come with a quests board so I'm not complaining

Why do you need cops to do bracer work anyway? Why, inserting themselves into situations that clearly don't need police and then immediately making them worse is the police's speciality!

We are scolded by the vice comissioner because we stopped to save civilians instead of leaving them to die and focusing on killing things like proper cops

But this vice comissioner lacks a character portrait so I suppose he doesn't have much power here

The guy hates this whole civilian saving division thing. He tries to bribe us with better jobs if we quit. I'm enjoying the fact this game is not even try to show the police as a good institution. Except for the protagonists. So it's B99 all over again. Not 100% copaganda, but not exactly avoiding it either.

We meet two detectives, who are kind of nice but also kinda suck

One of them notices something and I think it is the fact Elie has the same surname as the mayor. Yes I have too. I had read the cast's names before and I noticed it when the old couple in the train mentioned it.