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We meet the dean, Dumbledore

estelle and hjosh join the cast for the play and they are the protagonists, along with kloe. Ofc.

And the play has gender reversed roles, becasue Japanese game designers can't help themselves.

Though the characters themselves say it's to fight gender roles, which is surprisingly progressive for a JRPG

Josh is not happy. Where is Olivier when you need him. he would look fabulous in any role. And also think everyone is fabulous in every role.

Jill is a great character. estelle is sad she doesn't have any female friends and Jill is like "girl, you spend 24/7 with a boy. let me play the tiniest violin for you"

Josh and Estelle now have to go to school. Estelle isn't happy. now I'm wondering, why were they not going to school before? arent they 16? DId they drop out or something?

festival starts. there are things like food booths, and also students showing off some of their school projects. One of them is a computer than "analyses the orbal compatibility of characters", but it just spouts generic astrology-like stuff

I get it that Kloe is close to her Not a Falcon, but it understanding English fluently is insane. Like, even with a dog ou have to show them an object with thge smell of the person they are tracking. Kloe just says "where is Joshua?" to the bird and it gets it

this is a better play than the one from FF6. Though it could use some Ultros.

Silver Haired Dude, bearer of Plot, appears. However, it's too soon for Plot, so he leaves.

Dumbledore appears and announces the people in the festival donated enough money to rebuild the orphanage. Mostly the duke and Bose's mayor. I assume the mayor donated 99% of it, which also sneaking in a contract to own the orphanage herself.

and the oprhanage crew is attacked again. damn.

We arrive at the hotel where the kids are, and learned they got mugged by two guys in masks, strong enough to beat the bracer who was guarding them. They had their one million stolen.

Agate shows up and recruits us to help. I guess he the danger is big enough he doesn't want to do it alone. Or he realized the plot only happens wherever Estelle is so he won't find anything unless he stays with her

Kloe: "the bird told us the way!"
Agate: "What the hell, you believe this bullshit?"
Estelle and Josh: "Let's go!" - marches out
Agate: "This can't be serious... ahhhhh godamn protagonists!" - runs after them

Agate only starts with 3 unlocked slots. that's the least slots from any character since Estelle/Josh, and those were there at the start. And the game doesn't let me to go to Ruan to open more. Meh.

we break into the lighthouse, where the local gang from Ruan has been brainwashed (I guess it's the same as Don) to fight us

the mayor wasn't the bad guy. his secretary was. Close

actually no, the mayor is bad too. And his motive is that he is the orphanage was lowering the region's property value and he wants to make money selling luxury houses. the villain of the arc is a freaking NIMBY

told you at least one mayor was gonna be bad, it's a statistical inevitability. I mean, jrpg villain bad, not capitalist pig bad like Bose's mayor

(yes I'm aware she is mostly a good person but I'm dying with this meme)

boss fight. they are fast, have high attack and spam AT down but I still wipe the floor with them. clock up ex, s-craft spam, morale, la teara, and they fold like wet paper. the difficulty curve of this game is a downward spiral. The enemies just can't keep up. Though I suspect this won't last forever since I'm already touching the game's strongest spells at this point.

bad guys escape by threatening to kill a hostage. The leave by using one of the most 2D ropes I've ever seen in a 3D videogame. What is this, Paper Mario?

we do recover the money, though. seems like the trend of this game is that villains' damage always gets undone but bad guys always escape

citizens are all like "stone the bad guys! release them in the mountain so they'll get eaten!". harsh, but they burned a fucking orphanage, what can I say?