I'm a fair bit into phase 3 right now. Spent a few hours this evening gathering topics, cosmosphering, infelsphering and dualstalling (making up words here). Luca's in at cosmosphere 5 and already managed to catch me out (Not to mention make me jump! Rude) with only a tiny bit of weirdness, so looking forward to that getting 'worse' like I was promised way back when. Seems I got locked into her route too or something, which suits me just fine. I'd rant as to why, but her character arc hit a few spots personally during phase 2, so my better judgement says I'd need a few more drinks than I'm on right now (Which is to say none. Honest!) for something like that and to just summarise with  .

Because  .

And did I ever mention that bartenders outfit?  

Heck, I know I did. And I'm gonna again. 

 

That, and Jakuri's presence in the party makes me just so godamn happy. One time villains as party members and similar such things I absolutely adore. As a side note, needless to say Cloche is delivering top content too, but I think I already mentioned I found her immediately interesting anyway unlike the last game's second reyvateil.

The main plot's been somewhat haphazardously told, but things are coming together a bit and development happening in the subsidiary cast, so it'll likely do what the last game did and suddenly start working real well somehow. But the main crew's got me real invested regardless.

Uhh, yeah. Aurica. I didn't find her all that interesting until starting her route specifically, though that did manage to rectify that considerably.

Cloche on the other hand I've found to be great pretty much the whole time, and while not accompanying Luca in the phase 1 choice really wasn't an option, I did feel like a total ass for leaving Cloche behind in the situation she was in.

Heck, most of the original's character development came from underlying psychological stuff in the cosmospheres, so it taught me to be patient about expecting goodness from the characters. AT2 in general though's done a fantastic job of meshing a decent amount of development within the story on top of the cosmospheres, except maybe Jakuri, who where I'm at right now's mostly just been satisfyingly sassy, playing off the previous game and showing off her absolutely brilliant character theme.

But I'm sure we're getting to her. It's done great so far!

Gotta admit, that offhand comment she made about that witch amalgamation created from the IPD's negativity was pretty hilarious.

She'd have created a better one.

More self-referential burns pls