another really solid game! that took 77 hours out of me, that's an achievement. i'm invested in this series now, least for this group of characters. the game adds on new features from the first, and it was nice to get more backstory for all the characters. i guess the 3rd game is next, and i'll get to see the deal with kevin aka green/budget vash

ok a lot of crap went down, it is past midnight but i finished SC! but just to summarise the last few sections...
- damn it loewe we wanted you to stay alive
- yooo cold kevin?? damn it you got me, i will check out TC too ok
- ahhh estelle and joshua spending their last moments in each others' embrace, but got saved by the dragon- cassius why the heck are you there too? how are you involved in everything you madman?! i'm not that surprised yet HOW?!
- thank you game for not destroying me emotionally like in FC. i guess after visiting karin's grave and dropping of loewe's sword, it's time for these 2 to liberl and travel the world together?

damn weissmann you caused the hamel tragedy? get lost

i knew joshua would come to his senses after seeing the scene with him and kev in the past, but should have known cassius would play a role once again, that man is everywhere. least joshua's finally 'free'

that's our girl

hey hold on a moment, don't do that to joshua-

well hey, loewe's finally leaving the society, good on ya

christ loewe is no pushover, he's so strong. it look a few tries but we got there in the end.

time for you to go on an adventure of self discovery renne

the marathon continues. goodbye luci. you were a hard fight

walter's down too. wild that the master had cancer and wanted death from his student

begone bleublanc, you and your ridiculous magic fight

mueller's s-break is ridiculous and i'm so here for it

ooohh julia and vander joining us for this axis pillar trip? yes please- ah they're optional party members

been marathoning through this final chapter, exploring this floating city to find the aureole... also we got josette in the team for a bit while saving her bros. think my final team is gonna be estelle, joshua, kloe, and zin

oi joshua what did you ask kev to do for you huh? huh??!

omg got to the final chapter at last!

IS EREBONIA INVADING US NOW?! WHY DO THINGS KEEP ESCALATING?! there is too much going on... also finally seeing this dumbass prince at last. but of course he had a plan with cassius, cassius knows everything

YOOOOOOO KLOE!!!

YOOOO RICHARD

THE DUKE'S TAKING RESPONSIBILITY?! PHILLIP PUTTING HIS LIFE ON THE LINE?!

really glad i learnt turbo speed for the game cause i was going back and forth a lot between towns to restore all the phones. anyway fast forward from saving the school with gunpower guns, having anelace and kurt on the party for a time, restoring the hot spring... but now grancel has been attacked and is up in flames. here's hoping the queen and kloe are ok

well then, the aureloa is a giant floating city from another dimension i guess. and everyone has no orbal power right now

weissman you can't just hack into our ship

oh ok i guess loewe and joshua saved renne

ok should have expected renne to have a deathblow move, my party got wiped in an instant lol

estelle you tried to reason with her to come to the good side

figured those 2 had history with each other

damn it oliver don't say we'll meet as enemies next time

cassius: "i must do my duty as a father" *slaps joshua in the face*

AAAHHHHHHHH

JOSHUAAAAAAAAAA MY HEART IS IN SHAMBLES

of course this fcker has an organ here. anyway we got a request to join the society to see joshua again, got his backstory along with his sister karin and childhood friend loewe. who knew the harmonica was from karin?

oh my god seeing this in the remake is going to be mortifying

the audacity of seeing joshua dolls against us-

dang, vacation time was short for the squad and now we're invading the society's base, fun times ahead.

joshua you dummy how dare you say "she and i should never meet again. it's for the best". also what kinda chaos are you trying to do at their base? what society's plan are you stopping?

hmmm the plot thickens. who are you praying for loewe? hamel got brought up again... there's a link to joshua there. also ahh this sad version of 'silver will'...

we defeated the dragon and didn't need to kill them. a shame they're not giving us all the details but why does even the dragon know cassius

operation capture dragon huh, this will surely go to plan with no issues right?

oh god i'm tearing up from agate's self deprecating thoughts and tita telling him to stop being cruel to himself

shesh shit is going down in this chapter, we got mr leonhardt the bladelord aka loewe, tita confessing to agate and trying to protect him in a life or death situation, and learning why agate blames himself so much for not being able to protect his sis... the self deprecating thoughts are real. playing the 'decision to leave' track just tops of the emotions too

oh no... agate your sister was... this whole time...

that's a dragon alright- please stop destroying the mall and agate's village please

aww got more backstory for schera, living out on the streets as a kid resorting to thief, getting adopted by the travelling circus, but the members drifted away after the owner died and schera reached out to cassius for guidance

ahh oliver you goof. i am amused that oliver leaves the party after this side quest of drinking

excuse me are we gonna deal with a damn dragon?

ma'am, your tits are gonna fall from that

hi bye dream mum

cassius please

i'm hating these fog enemies so much

we're getting a lot of sister bonding times with schera and estelle this chapter

"leave the patrol to us guys". agate don't be sexist now. at least he's taking oliver away from the girls too.

schera using her charms on this poor fellow

aww cute to see some backstory images for these 2

should have expected us to be stuck at rolent and not bose to pursue joshua and co.

i need you boys to calm down and give me deets about your identities

MUELLER FIGHT MUELLER FIGHT!!

oh heck yeah time to be joshua and the bandits for a bit. joshua you strong boi

i see, like father like daughter. that's our estelle

a lot of shit went down but hey let me pay you first

you fool. anyway finally we got renne's true identity

glad we got julia on our party for a bit during this tank fight. and welp kev destroyed an artifact so that the gospel wouldn't work

oh no everyone's drugged and asleep. and this lady has a tank and wants to take down the queen.

YOU'RE NOT JOSHUA GREEN VASH

AAAHHHHHHH

mmm what are you folks up to huh?

oh this clown kid is messed up
ok i was right to think these are just fake though and not... body parts- oh hi green vash

yooo time to switch to agate and analace for a bit

time for estelle to think about joshua again, let's not share all the details now

"papa and mama are veeery good at hide and seek" renne what kind of dodgy crap have your parents been up to?

a child playing hide and seek and can't be found hey? i bet it's renne again

starting off with some backstory to zin's past and this walter guy

ZIN TO THE RESCUE I'VE MISSED YOU- and oliver's here too

not joshua being called fangboy?!

eugh you look weird, and what a coward you are for not fighting us head on

as expected the bad guys are controlling the earthquakes, fun

fancy seeing you here cassius, you're still acting the same old dad

agate seems to be a bit nicer to tita now

got tita back on the squad so we're running an all-girl party right now. schera you got dirt on oliver that you're not sharing with the rest of us...

this is fine, oliver be a hero my dude

wooo fighting against coronel cid was quite fun. was nice to hear the tournament music return too

oliver no, don't give smut to a child dude

yooo that's a neat looking boss there

ghost turns out to be some bozo-looking guy but he is from ouroboros...

ahh hans talking about how joshua would light up talking about estelle and living with her... and thinking he couldn't hold onto that kind of life forever....

aww it's kinda sweet that nial and dorothy know about the joshua situation and trying to cheer up estelle

i'm glad oliver came to us in a boat

it's you... the purple-haired child. what's gonna happen to this family huh

deadly panda...

ahh so kloe told matron theresa about joshua huh... "i'm all too familair with now it feels to lose someone important."

can't escape oliver no matter what

well now the ravens have portraits, anyway time to beat them up

decided to pair up with schera cause i prefer her moveset over agate's. wonder if i would have gotten quests at bose rather than ruan... branching paths?

agate: "it's ok to ask for help because you're a woman"
agate that isn't the right angle for this pep talk- ok right you're also calling men stubborn idiots ok

oh no not the dead-looking eyes... joshua mentioned karin in this scene so i'm wondering if that was his sister...

dang kurt this whole thing was just training huh

wow night vision goggles ok game this is new

sorry robert they indeed smashed the phone

ohh ok kurt is rank B, zin we know is A, and anelace is rank F as a bracer

ok fast forward from estelle being commited to bringing joshua home, we're doing bracer training and gotta rebuild our quartz collection cause we can't use our old ones from the previous game lol

budget vash is here...

get his ass schera

estelle: "you're saying we should abandon joshua"
cassius: "even five years ago, when i took him in, i knew we would someday reach this moment. he swore something to me, that first day he actually accepted he could be part of our home. the moment he became a burden or a threat to us... the moment the society contacted him or pursued him in any fashion... he would disappear from our lives. 'like a shadow dispelled by the sun,'
estelle: "you knew that joshua might leave us someday and never said anything to me or did anything about it..."
read the room cassius you fool

i was expecting some time to pass from the first game but no, we're starting right from the ending of FC. ouroboros huh...