Huh, two things stuck out to me in the very beginning sequence showing stuff across the Empire. Machias's dad getting sent to Ordis and that girl in Alster saying the black wind was coming from the basin. At the very end of CS3, Machias's dad was having a secret meeting with Bardias in Heimdallr so I'm wondering if he's actually in on Musse's Rebel Alliance. Or if the fact that the Gral of Erebos stuff happening just kinda ruined whatever talks they were having - implied to be finding a way to oppose the Mobilization Law. Also wonder if his being sent to Ordis is Osborne being reassigning him to Antarctica by putting him literally as far from Calvard as possible since there was a rift between them growing over CS3. As for the Alster girl, pulling up the map of Erebonia shows that right nearby there is "Osgiliath Basin." I would have thought the source of the black wind (which is apparently still blowing?) would have been the Gral/Karel Imperial Villa but maybe that's where Osborne has set up shop? He was conspciously absent when Vandyck, Rufus, and Cedric were giving that speech (also think I spotted Emily and Therisia from the Lacrosse Club up on the dais with them.) Also did Shirley enroll at Thors? loooooooooooool
OMG Forget the team Lechter and Rean accidentally assembled at the Summer Festival in CS3. We've got a new BEST TEAM right here. oh ya my Estelle/Joshua/Renne/Lloyd/Elie/KeA squad. omg the crew having their original S-Crafts as normal crafts now. but boo at my man joshua no longer going "I will run... no more!" for Phantom Raid. unforgivable nerf. Didn't get the chance to force many linked victory quotes in this short bit but saw a cute Joshua/Renne one where he thanks her for saving him and she replies "What else is family for?"
Oh my, first instance where I wonder if carryover changes a scene and we haven't even seen Class VII yet. After best team leaves and Claire gets a phonecall, at the end she muses she hasn't checked her mail in a while and sees it's a message from Millum from two weeks earlier sending her a picture of her, Claire, and Rean getting ice cream from the Millium Bonding event in CS3 and she just starts breaking down crying. That wouldn't make sense to occur if you didn't take that bonding event in CS3.
Oh damn, Juna got sent to the sunken place. That warped dream world was pretty neat and lowkey creepy once it switched to the dorms and the nameplates are all blank except jarring cases like Ada replacing Tita's at Musse's room. I gotta say though New Class VII looked really good in the main campus uniforms. Gonna be sad that that's probably either a NG+ costume or DLC at best.
Eryn was a pretty nice place. Though if Emma could have just warped to the bottom of the Gral like that it might have helped CS3's endgame if she just sent the full Class VII there to start with! Also, argh Laura's voice change. At times it's just close enough to her original voice that I'm like "well that's probably the best recast they could have got" and then other times it's just off by enough to mess with me. Juna's speech to chew out Old Class VII was great too, loved the emotion in it. Altina had some good moments earlier too when she was remembering what happened.
In the closing cutscenes, lol Vita just casually going into soft recruit mode for Musse. "Well, I'd enjoy meeting the Grandmaster." hmm you know, i think CS3 was the first game in the series where Ricky and Anton were no-shows so i think that theory is tracking more and more as the evidence mounts. Over at Ouroboros/Gnome joint HQ or wherever that was I like to think Celine was just sitting there watching Rean thrash about for the whole two weeks before finally getting fed up and knocking him out with that spell. Also lol Crow trolling Duvalie the legend continues.
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