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Intermission. The bracer guild receptionist is talking to Arios. He says the HQ wants him to promote to S-rank (I think), but he refuses cuz he doesn't think he's as good as Cassius. Huh.

Arios is a perfectionist. If he doesn't do a perfect job, he is not satisfied

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Hellllllllllll yeah! The cast of this game just got twice better

Imo scrap Lloyd and let me play with those two again, maybe with Elie/Tio/Randy taking turns as the rest of the party

Hearing they talk in Japanese is kind of weird. Although the voices aren't super different

Chapter 1: "Just step aside and let Bestelle do the work": begins

Randy meets his former boss and freaks out. It's a woman. Considering why he was fired in the first place (sexual harassment), I can imagine why
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She needs detectives to investigate some monster attacks. But since all detectives are busy, the only one left is Lloyd, so he'll have to do. Ouch

Reading the Crossbell Times: "The SSS solved the case, but evidence suggests they were more lucky than skilled".

Wow Grace, that's mean!

Randy: "THE REAL CULPRIT IS YOU!"
Party: "uh what"
Randy: "Come on guys, I'm a cop, I wanted to say that at least once in my life!"
I understand

We go to the bank for a quest, and meet Roberts, aka the jackass who has been dropping Tio's weapons in the item shop instead of giving them directly to her

he doesn't explain why he is doing it. Of course, he's doing it because this is a JRPG so weapons have to be sold in shops even if that doesn't make sense. But it's funny the game is lampshading it

Funny npc plotlines: the father who buys his daughters books about tech to manipulate them into becoming engineers

I just realized the pink haired solider we met at the start of the chapter is sisters with the CPD receptionist. Because theres this npc who says she is a mother of two girls who work in each place. Wonder if this will come up in the main story

we try to take the bus to the next city, buit we miss it. Of course. When has a JRPG character ever been allowed to take a bus to an area they are visiting for the first time?

unless it's Earthbound I guess, but that one is just weird

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the hacker girl is proposing we walk. You should all feel ashamed of yourselves

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If Estelle was here and she heard this she would hit this guy in the head with her staff. And it would be earned

Team rushes are absolutely broken to the point I'm questioning what the devs were thinking here

I'm getting a lot of them since I'm using Elie to trick advantage battles from a distance

the scenery in this road is rather pretty, ngl. I mean the graphics aren't anything to write home about, but the game makes it work by moving the camera so it focuses on the horizon

and it turns out both girls are actually tired. which I guess makes sense since both Lloyd and Randy have military training, while the girls don't

also this is one long overworld area, tbh

Randy is an outdoors guy, but hes alone. Those kids should try to be bracers some time. Actually, that's kind of what they are doing.

when the characters said it would take an hour and a half to get to the other town I didn't think they meant "in real life"

after what... 8 screens? we finally get to armorica village. The first out of 3 destinations we have to investigate

the party went from lv 5 to lv 11 just in this trip

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We go visit the village chef and he's talking to one "kind looking man".

yeah ok this is the villain calling it now

we learn some lore about ancient divine wolves, and I think there was a wolf in the game's opening too? anyway, wolves = important

I have been recruited into fishing. Another trails protagonist has fallen

We get a rather cute scene where Tio hears some howling with her sensors and shes just happy that the other party members don't think shes lying

Mr. "Totally The Bad Guy" gives us a car ride back to Crossbell

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is it just me or this car is huge?

A wolf is following us, but we still have to investigate two places before we get to unlock the main plot thread

Well the guy does give us a town map, which unlocks fast travel, so his evils are excused. for now.

Bank guard: "our security is impenetrable"

And that's how you know there will be a bank robbery at some point of this arc