Felt similarly. Turned off all fear, used my old maxed out weapons, didnt level any new keepsakes, just to see the ending and not risk a loss so i could start the "real game" after the credits. Im now having a great time again since getting back to experimenting, but that stretch is a little weird.

Yeah i had the same experience. Really like the demo and the first couple levels, but by the end i practically hated the game because of what felt like wasted potential and frustrating mechanics. Still beat it and left a positive review, but my actual opinion of it is really low

If we dont get that, even just the intended listening order would be nice. Generally when i listen to everything, i go act 1> act 2> violence > P-1> P>2. I suppose the encores will go inbetween the regular layers and the prime sanctums, but i would be interested in hakita's say.

I think that was due to Language herself consuming them to power up for the fight against Nico and to prevent the Union from telling him about souls. After she died everybody could talk normally again. Heres Apocolypse explaining it before Sick was introduced.

There are 100 rules that were made permanent, even without its corresponding uma, one for each loop. The 10 master rules are all permanent features of the world, along with 90 others; galaxy being the one for this loop as it had stars since the very start. That turn things on its head though lol

Her core. We see a lot of them this chapter to confirm they are gone I guess. Feng tears Times out, Justice is at the end of Juiz's sword and Lucks is visible too.