Just finished Act 1, and I can't wait for Act 2.
I really enjoyed the story and where it is going. I felt like the characters and their dialog was engaging, and a pleasure to read.
Specifically Axel and Stark's color of armor conversation.
The cast of characters felt well balanced and strong in their own way. I was able to get Charles, Darius, Grace, Elijah, Axel, Eagle to level 20 before ending the chapter.
Without any Leveling abuse. As I've seen in other posts, Charles did a majority of the heavy lifting for my team, I had to hold him back constantly to feed exp to the rest of the team.
I didn't use Darius for the first couple of chapters, and I regret it. He is so strong and worth using. Eventually he became my Wyvern Killer with the Wyrmslayer. It would have been so much harder if I didn't have him at 19 Defense soaking/pulling. My only complaint is I felt like there was a lack of axe wielding enemies outside of eventual Wyverns. Which is why I didn't use Darius much at first. It was much harder to level up Darius/Grace to me, than say Charles, Eagle or Axel.
One character I didn't like was Harold. He didn't strike me as useful, and his skills didn't really thrill me, as Sawyer with Nimbus handled every caster far better. Perhaps he'll be slightly more useful in Owen's route? So unless someone could convince me I don't think I'd be using him in any future play through. Maybe a promotion will make him seem more lucrative?
As for difficulty, I enjoyed the map design. Crown of Thorns being outstanding. It took me 66 Turns of turtling to beat. The Enemy Thief's timing was perfect.
I didn't feel overly rushed, but I wasn't able to take my time. The only problem I had was Matteo's area, where you can't pull him without his Sentinel and Sword Cavalier buddies.
I pulled it off with Darius face tanking it and sneaking Elijah in with a Hammer.
Another map I enjoyed was Outliers, the Time Limit was fun and forced me to be more offensive and caused more reloads than usual.
While I liked the flavor of him having an Anti-Belle skill, I felt like it left him weaker than the previous boss Regina. Her personal skill actually made her fight harder as I murdered her two Knight friends before reading her abilities.
Moving on to story, I'm glad to see Seneca survive. I feel like he does deserve a shot of redemption as I never felt like he was truly evil, just misguided. It'll be interesting to see him in the next part and how it'll play out. I'm also personally glad to see Federica causing rifts. I felt like her character was a snake in the grass and everything conveniently fell into place for her and it's good to see someone at the end point it out, thus I will be doing Sawyer's Route first.
Anyhow. I really enjoyed your guy's story. Made an account to post this.
Keep up the good work and thanks for the past week of fun.
