17 hours in and I just beat chapter 3, god this gameās slow, the lack of aggro indicators combined with like every enemy having a call support art means you canāt walk 10 feet without ending up in a 10 minute battle, and then of course my partyās all around level 28 but even then every single opponent in the entire game has what feels like millions of HP, it just gets tiring. But while the gameplay still hasnāt really picked up, the storyās making good strides. Most of the story and characters are still kinda shrouded in mystery, including Mythra being introduced (didnāt know that was so early) even though we donāt really know that much about Pyra even, but we did get an honestly cool character with Vandham, heās probably my favourite character as a character rather than just as a moe aesthetic piece so far, so thatās cool, dude had a nice sendoff as well. Conversely my absolute least favourite character is Akhos, who leans so fucking obnoxiously hard into hisĀ āhaha stageplays scripts hahaā persona that it completely rips me out of the experience. I donāt care that the game looks more anime, that the characters have more anime-esque designs, Iām not even bothered by some of the uwu anime reactions that some of the jokes consist of. But when your serious villain group in your massive JRPG narrative has this one cunt whoās defined by an unrealistic and over the top character trait that makes him look like heād belong in some shitty comedy anime, I just canāt fuckin get into it. Let me kill him already. Oh I hold Zeke in more or less the same regard from what little time weāve spent with him by the way, dude was just obnoxious as fuck and shoutouts to his character design for doing literally nothing to match his character whatsoever, meaning his personality was a complete shock for me. Cool game.
