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You know, out of all the final dungeons in Trails, the Liber Ark has by far the best vibes. A lot of final dungeons in Trails are some kind of creepy dark castle/ruins but the Liber Ark has this serenity that nothing else in the series comes close to.

You walk through beautiful greenery and go through pristine houses and walk down clean pathways, which look they've only seen a bit of wear, not the literal centuries they've been gone. You really get the sense that this was literal paradise (at least for a while before things went to shit) for the ancestors of the Liberlian people.

There's this sense of wonder as you explore the city, but at the same time it feels very alien to the setting. You feel just as out of place as Estelle and the rest of the party do when you're exploring it, but at the same time there's a sense of familiarity to a 21st century player in terms of the technology that Estelle's party wouldn't get. It combines to create this uncanny valley sort of effect where you can see how this all came about but it clashes so much with the late 19th century to early 20th century level of tech that you've been used to seeing in the Sky games.

The music is absolutely beautiful as well, but as you listen to it you can hear a bit of the Aureole motif (at least I think that's the Aureole motif, I'm not a music nerd), which by this point you've come to associate with danger and threat.

All of this comes together to make a final dungeon that's both gorgeous but also deeply unsettling at the same time in the best way possible. I'll be honest, most of the final dungeons in Trails just have one image each in my mind but I feel like I can remember a lot of the twists and turns in the Liber Ark ages after I've gone through it because it's just that memorable.

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Anyone else get chills when Weissman said this?

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FUCK 'EM UP, TITA!

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The Estelle Bright Pop Up Parade figure looks so good!

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New shots of the upcoming Trails figures. Renne is getting a Popup Parade (color photo) with her Sky design. Kotobukiya also released the prototype figures for Renne's Daybreak design, and Tita from the Sky arc.

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EbiEbiBeam (aka AruAruBeam on Reddit) created Renne Bright cursors! They are amazing and I have already installed them on my dinosaur XP laptop that I still keep around for my Zune. You can find the Reddit thread here or download them for free on their Ko-Fi here.

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"Don't die to protect what's important. Live to protect it, instead."

-Loewe, The Bladelord

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New shots of the upcoming Trails figures. Renne is getting a Popup Parade (color photo) with her Sky design. Kotobukiya also released the prototype figures for Renne's Daybreak design, and Tita from the Sky arc.