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For me, it's really one aspect of CS4 - the bond events turning into a full blown harem for Rean, and you can trace elements of that all the way back into Crossbell really. You're right it was always present in the CS arc but CS3 felt like it was walking it back a bit compared to CS2 and then CS4 comes in and turns it up to 11. I think that's what does it, it felt like Falcom identified and took steps to address it in CS3 and then pulled the football away Peanuts style with CS4.

And that kind of casts a looming specter over the rest of the series of if Falcom will go back to that. Hajimari/Reverie did not from all I've heard which was good but I've heard mixed opinions on Kuro's take but the average opinion I'm seeing is essentially "It's kinda like CS1" which means we once more stand at the crossroads and wait to see where Falcom wants to go with it next game lol.

Edit: Haha, kind of funny that my concern doesn't really come up directly in that review. I don't disagree with the points he's bringing up there but I'm not quite as hard on the game for them. A lot of that does fall on the crux of "We're talking about the 9th game in an interconnected series and that can cut both ways." Also the review score was updated to a 6! I actually wonder if the Zero and Ao localization announcements would trigger another revision because that issue was also raised because it kinda was, you know, a problem at the time of release.

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