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I WILL NOT BE USING SPOILER TAGS BELOW THIS LINE.

Wow, I love the options menu on the launcher, which is not a sentence I thought I would ever write. But in letting you choose all the different graphical settings, finally a game *shows me WTF everything means* with a picture depicting the differences. Nice job, Falcom or NISA or whomever was responsible for that.

Intro sequence feels similar to the original, except that it doesn't put anyone's names. That's okay, I know who these people are by now. But the scenes shown do feel a *little* like a slideshow presentation of the first game...including some people who are already dead. (Hi, Chancellor!)

And omg, I'm a freaking idiot. I *am* looking at the first game. I brought it up to check my playtime, and didn't notice I hadn't switched Steam back. Well, we're off to a great start already!

Same options menu in the launcher. Whew, we're saved.

Too much in the REAL intro sequence for me to comment on individually, but very little that stands out. Tons of characters, but only two (in the same shot) that I don't recognize. Mostly, the biggest takeaway is that everyone's got new clothes except Rean. Lots of shots that *probably* foreshadow important moments later in the game, but right now they just look like generic "this is a thing in Erebonia" moment....er, I did say the right kingdom, right? Oh god, I need to remember all the lore again.

Was worried about the lack of an obvious means to import my save, but I hit new game and there it was.

Gee, game. Thanks for the big bonuses. Also a silver emblem for reaching rank A1.

Fade to black while Rean gives a voiceover. Weird choices for some of the lines representing the classmates. Then flashbacks to the ending, and Rean waxing melancholy about how, "Back then I didn't know what it meant to truly love someone." No follow-up there, though. Lots of "back then" and "all that time ago" implying that we're not going to be just a couple days past the end of game one.

And then "Black-haired boy" wakes up lying on a random cliffside. Like, c'mon, game. You don't need to play coy with the character names. Seriously?

Okay, the cat is here, too. And my megazord is damaged.

Date is November 29th. I think the last game ended in October? Aww man, I missed Halloween AND Thanksgiving.

Amnesia Rean is amnesia. Angry, remembering Rean remembers angrily.

Apparently I don't get to keep my old stuff. My quartz only has one orbment, the Attack 1 that I got awarded before. Fun. Starting from scratch, it is, then.

Rean is ignoring the cat about as much as I'm ignoring all these stupid tutorial pop-ups.

My second battle is with a round lump of rock literally just called Rolling Stone. I don't get no satisfaction fighting them.

Was the vertical element of the camera this hard to control in the last game? I can't look up or down without it hard pivoting right back to where it was almost immediately.

Patronizing cat is patronizing.

I have to use S-breaks really quickly in this game, it seems. Also, game is not letting me go zoom-zoom. I assume that's because tutorials, but it's still annoying.

Rean on map: I need to calm down and figure out--
Rean, now in battle: GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!

Celine: It's a magic knight! Quick, run!
Rean: Nope, I'mma die trying. RAAAAAGE!

Then just when I'm doing fine, the game decides "nope, you're actually getting wrecked" and executes the getting-your-butt-whooped cutscene. And those...are absolutely not the people I was expecting to show up and save me.

And out go the lights. G'night, everyone.

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