13 Sentinels beaten, though I still need to go back through and get S'es on a couple of the battles.
When they revealed "it's all VR" I kind of rolled my eyes bit (another layer? come on) but thinking about it for even a second it was pretty much the easiest way to explain things like the world resetting, so sure.
Also kind of funny how the 15 people they banked their futures on mostly made sense - they were a bunch of scientists, engineers, military/company people - and then there was a professional assassin in there just because.
The Area 3 final boss felt like a really big difficulty spike, but I was probably doing it wrong - didn't realize until several minutes in that the smaller enemies would just keep respawning. Last fight was a cool idea; I was a bit worried when Miyuki said 5 minutes because a minute in these battles is a really long time but it went by a lot faster than I expected.
Probably about as good an ending as could be expected. The "five years later" scenes were all kind of adorable.
Great game, some of the routes got a little repetitive but the cast carried it really well. Think my favorite characters were Natsuno and Hijiyama, though Sekigahara probably had my favorite route.
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A hero cannot be defeated simply by making him die.