Lurker > Arti

• Reach Star Level 9 with a character
• Max out a character's stats (I had Yuffie reach both star level 9 and max stats)
• Finish 20 stages in an Endless World run (Actually got to stage 22, the mission at 20 was a complete joke)
• Get 1,000 different CollectaCards (With every song having a card drop of its own makes this easy to finish up)

• Get a Luminiera Blade Omega in RPG mode, which either you can get through using draw tickets at an extremely low chance, or play the story mode on Hard up to the final chapter to get the necessary materials to craft one. I was not lucky enough to draw one from the gacha, so I had to play through Hard mode, which with a max level character wasn't that bad.
• Four mission trophies dealing with combos and other tasks. Luckily for combo trials you only have to do 10 and they can be from 10 different characters if need be. The hardest ones are ironically the basic missions, since you have to complete all of them with at least a C rank.
• Use a skill from each character ten times - which is almost always the Super Skybound Art which requires a full special gauge, be under 30% health, and the opponent needs to survive the first hit to see the full animation of the skill. The last part being the most annoying, as usually by the time you can use the skill the enemy usually has a lot of damage as well.

I also heard the recruitment system in SD is very dumb

My eyes still can't tell the difference between 30 and 60 fps

Hi board 8 how are you all?

every single time i hear anybody describe why they like these games i am put off them more

This game has you control someone traveling through the entirety of the US sometime in the early 20th century, collecting stories and then telling them to various characters at campfires. Each one of the 16th named characters has a separate story to tell, and all of them are fully voiced. Even has a random appearance by Sting, who voices one of the game's characters. The game is rather short - even with the slow walking speed you'll probably be finished around or before the fifteen hour mark, with another five cleaning up any loose stories lying around. (My PS5 said I finished the story at the eleven hour mark, but I had 30+ stories left to find.)

One thing I would have liked to see is how the stories evolved throughout the game - it just tells you that the story changed to another one, but not really saying how the story changed. There's also some annoying bugs where stories fail to appear. I managed to get around that by simply reloading the game, but it seems to have affected many people on the Steam and PSN copies. As for the visuals and music, they are some of the best I've seen in an indie game, and I'm probably going to nominate a few tracks when VGMC starts up in a few days.

It's a shame that the creator said that the game was a commercial failure, so we probably won't see another game like this one from him. I did enjoy it though!