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id probably give the game an 8/10. i dont think it hit the highs that crossbell did, but I recall feeling similarly less-than-thrilled with sky FC. It seems to be in the falcom wheelhouse to take the first entry to go hard on worldbuilding, and start expanding the plot in the later entries. so I get that it didn't really seem to go anywhere. I do think Zero did a much better job as a first game then this one did, but that's okay.

In general I'm not a huge fan of the anime levels rising. The power of friendship was turned up to 11, you're in high school, harem shit means that no actual romance will be written in. I was kind of fine with it in Crossbell because I felt like they handled Lloyd and Elie's relationship pretty well even if they don't ever make it 'canon', but in this game it feels like there's just nothing on that front.

Rean is definitely too perfect but it is what it is, that doesn't bother me too bad. What does bother me is the generic white hair anime demon powerup shit that he gets but maybe they'll make it less generic in the later entries. Probably not, but hopefully. It would be nice if it wasn't in the game at all but WE'LL SEE WHERE IT GOES

as far as good things, the non-PC characters are for the most part, likeable. Sharon and Claire are definitely my new crushes and finding out that Sharon is in Ouroboros was crazy and it seemed like they really brushed over that way too quickly! I feel like they could've made a bigger deal about it, but also I assume they are just respecting new players that don't know anything about the backstory too much so they didn't want to dive into that yet.

the battle system getting off the grid is nice too, trying to position your skills to hit as many things as possible is a little bit more fun when it's not tied to a grid. also the link aspect didn't add too much to how you have to actually strategize, but I enjoyed it still. it is fun to link people together even if there aren't huge effects from it. removing the whole quartz system was pretty different, it definitely dumbs down your decision making but I didn't mind it too much. I am still confused on what the point of having different paths on the orbments is now though, because as far as I can tell it made 0 difference where you put what.

wishes for cs2 will be that they get less anime, and they have canon romances. I feel like I won't get either of those wishes, but thats okay.

series ranking so far for me is azure > sc > zero > 3rd > cs1 > fc

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