Still in 3-2, checked out the bonding events and did some (but not all yet) sidequests which were excellent.
Bond Events: what polar extremes we had here. Ash's was absolutely fantastic even if it shot down my Gilvan theory. Fie's was a great epilogue to 3-1 and Rutger. Crow's was also great with his getting closure for the ILF and the surprise Scarlet "appearance." Duvalie's was a nice event. Alisa's was alright. ...And then on the other side of the scale, Elise's was the natural result of what these 4 games have led her character to. "Um... is this a joke?" lmao Rean maybe but one on the player. But the real disappointments here were Emma and Juna. Emma had an excellent first bond event so the bar was high and then it utterly failed to meet even a low one. But Juna's... oh man this one. Juna has been an amazing character in CS3 and CS4, especially CS4 Act 1, and this is what is done to her. At least most of the special memory bond events have a good chunk of them that is not related to romance and is usually actually quite great. But this? This was just straight-up just "Instructor, I like you!" not like this, falcom, not like this.
Altina's gets its own paragraph because aaaaaaaaaaaarggggghhhh. Just like before, this was shaping up to be an absolutely fantastic bond event but then. then. "Is this familial affection? ...Camaraderie?" YES. THAT'S ALL IT BETTER BE FALCOM. WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? WHY? STOP. please stop. Seriously, dammit you were better than this once, Falcom. Getting more curious about that machine in the bond event they briefly stop at it. It was curious in Fragments when we were really here and it was brought up again as Rean and Altina passed it.
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