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6.5/10

-1 for Wilhelm being a wet noodle primary antagonist.

-2 for everything involving Shion that is so batshit dumb, only Star Ocean 3 tops it for all time stupid. Shion has deadly headaches from U-DO, a thing that only Jr. has any plot relevance to as a concept. She does the about face BOSS FIGHT because Kevin exists. But more than anything, the balls of this franchise to claim the Gnosis, an omnipresent extraterrestrial threat from god knows where, the thigns that have terrorized the party all three games, came because Shion's mom died? Even if it was an alternate reality bullshit explanation to exert some power or control over some weapon or whatever, that is pretty dumb. It also doesn't save Shion goes from overworked and snarky, but likeable in 1 and sorta 2, to completely bitchy and unlikeable in III.

Now that I think of it some more, -.5 points for being forced to resolve EVERY plot thread in about one dungeons worth of a boss rush because "final game of a trilogy." They did a way better job of trying to give everyone stuff to do (cause they had way more game time to actually work with), but fucking hell. Margulis and Pellegri get practically shit on for fuck all they got to do in the first two games. NOPE! We gotta finish the game.