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6
The first half of the game is decent. It did a lot of pretty standard-ish JRPG stuff with its plot and goofy characters, I liked a good deal of it (I didn't even mind the character everyone hates, but no, they weren't great), but loved almost none of it, it was alright. The conclusion sort of works as an ending albeit one that leaves a lot of the character threads unresolved. But that's what the second half is for.

The second half no longer has English voice acting for the story scenes outside the brief anime sequences, which is a shame, though it does have voice acted skits which Symphonia and Abyss's western versions didn't. It mostly focus on character development. I guess it makes enough sense that the non-main party members would wait until the big threat has been removed to focus on their personal issues and drama rather than drag everyone else in while there are bigger fish to try. The explicit sectioning off of these was maybe a little on the nose but whatever, these were generally good enough too. There's not really much there to tie the whole thing together though.

And really, if you're already going to commit the main plot of the first half so hard to a weirdass anime Not Blood Related sibling romance, you might as well actually go for it. This thing they do in the second half where they're still not really in a relationship YET despite all the stuff in the first half and having time now was just kind of eye-rolling but might actually be even MORE anime.

Unfortunately the story arc the second half ends on is pretty bad. It's using a lot of standard JRPG end-of-game themes and ideas, except executed poorly and without compelling context to differentiate itself. And then after it's resolved the game just...kind of ends. That's sort of sensible here given that between chapters the characters have been living their life mostly at peace for like months by that point and presumably will continue to do so with occasional adventures. But it's just not very satisfying in itself and particularly after a meandering second half and poor final arc it doesn't feel like ~60+ hours of game added up to nearly as much as it should have.

I did still like a lot of the game though so 6. This game doesn't have the best reputation and the story definitely isn't great but I feel the gameplay was a much bigger problem..