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I finished Act 2 Part 1 last night. Act 1 was very good and easily high-tier Trails content. Act 2 I am less confident on for various reasons that have to do with the structure of the story and I won't really get into specifics here. Even if my gut reaction turns out to hold true for the rest of the act that isn't necessarily an indictment of the game--every Trails game has had notably weaker segments other than maybe Sky FC (which despite this is in the bottom half of Trails games). It does mean though that the pressure would be on Act 3 and the finale to make something of the story.

Of course I'm also not even halfway through act 2 so maybe it's about to blow up in my face and become something amazing--who knows. I will say that if nothing else, some lore dumps from early in Act 2 have retroactively made me more ok with aspects of Cold Steel 3's plot that I was not so big on before.

Some more thoughts on Act 1--Really loved seeing Juna pick up the scattered pieces following the events of the Gral and unite everyone behind the goals of saving Rean and stopping the war. I think the main strength here is really that there's a clear goal that all of the characters have and that everything the characters do makes sense within the context of that goal. It seems simple but really to me the Erebonia arc has been susceptible to what's felt like aimless wandering through locations where the plot just so happens to be occurring, but this segment didn't fall into that trap at all. Also some great emotional moments and there's some cool NPC interactions but yeah. (Act 1 Part 3 spoilers) Also one small moment that is just really chilling and burned into my head is when they are on the way to Crossbell and they see the Erebonian and Calvardian militaries just flying past each other. The shock and desperation that the characters feel here is absolutely palpable and I love it.
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I didn't do guru this year but azuarc can be in my sig anyways.