in awe at the telenovella plot i read in グリンフレーク truly incredible levels of drama between ivan, pepe, linda, and kaya. this game can keep me entertained for hours between combats. it feels so rewarding to talk to every npc and interact with every environmental detail.

clarification: Osvald is my favorite character in II. Therion will always be my series favorite. 😊

i love this game to bits but i hope that an eventual III will treat Scholars with respect again because this game does Osvald so dirty. i started as him and he's my favorite character, but you just can't justify actually using him. the bias II and 0 have toward physical damage is unreal.

Therion loves Cyrus so he supports him 😊
Hikari loves his friends so he supports them 😊
Rondo loves everyone so he supports everyone 😒

overall a fun experience in problem solving and i'm glad i could get this to work despite running into some limitations. game is good.

team 2 was held up with Temenos' ultimate (this screenshot was after i'd beaten the boss--i went in with him at 1 hp); Throné using items on the party and her ultimate when not pressed for support; Ochette rolling the fat cat buffs and hoping for invuln/counter/reraise; Agnea was there to Help.

大聖者の神盾 (invuln skill) -- this is used in conjunction with Dancer Partitio to cover the whole team
極刑のガべル (3x staff hits)
ムラサメ矢　(3-5 bow hits)
i had plans to use 悪魔の囁き (all debuffs on both enemies and allies), but it ended up being a waste of time to figure out for this fight. i'll revisit it later.

Support Hikari i am particularly satisfied with, because he is typically just pigeonholed into dps; thinking outside of the box with his capacity for learned skills was a fun problem solving activity. the main fixtures here were:

i approached this with two goals in mind: Castti as Weaponmaster to be my main (and, ultimately, only) source of damage, and Hikari as support. i initially wanted to use him as a Conjurer, but Cleric is overpowered. the rest of the teams were built around accommodating those two.

the fmv point and click adventure protagonist 'power' stance