Trails 3: Yeah, Star Door 15 handles its subject matter well, but man, even when I was broadly aware of the topic it was going to broach, you just aren't really ready for it. That door was heavily censored in the PSP version in Japan. dowolf pointed out the differences when I was playing, and IIRC it was that they just largely omitted most of the door. Star Door 14 is really cool, love the glimpse into Ouroborus and the Anguis/Gradmaster. Also lol at a couple of the Anguis just calling out Weissmann for being an awful person when the Grandmaster feels guilty about how everything turned out.
Re: The Aureole at the end of SC. Do you mean when Weissmann went final form (The Merciless Savior part of the fight when it "upgrades" him further) or when it peaces out after? I don't recall an exact explanation from the games and only vague ideas that I think I heard elsewhere that I can't attach proof too. That said, I will say that the Aureole clearly did have a will of its own based on what it was doing with Liber-Ark so I don't think we can rule out it just started acting on its own, first turning Weissmann into its personal defense system and then later just bailing when that didn't work. Although, since it was apparently always in Weissmann's staff maybe that had something to do with it, since the staff was provided to him by the Grandmaster.
aww yes Phantasmagoria so good. Love the music there so much. Also, the chest messages are really great and emotional, especially after they were intentionally silent during the whole Gehenna portion of the game.
No Nightmare Arena though? =(
I was talking about when it disappears after the last boss fight.
oh right I totally forgot about doing the Nightmare Arena 'whoops'
