I agree that the blowsiness of Trails really started to become noticable in CS 2. CS 1 had a really sensible plot progression and worked effectively to keep tension ramped up. CS 2 exploded with supposed deadly robots running around everywhere, but the only impact they had was to kill a mayor who I'm not even sure they bothered to give a name to. The Infernal Castle certainly hammered home the anime battle-ness to a point that I wonder if they are just intending for this to be a hyper-parody. Unfortunately, that seems to be the direction the series is running.
It got worse, it got A LOT worse.
Dragging through Sen 3 and Sen 4 was like a torture to me. Old school anime problems just explodes in full scale on the writing.
They fucking seriously needs to stop on the whole "hahaha I know everything but I won't tell you." And on both sides, STOP please. (I felt suicidal when Roze did this to everyone, and my brain literally stopped for a few seconds when Grand Master did this to Vita.)
It feels horrible when you find out the whole plot was driven not by logic and reasonable developments, but because people are not explaining things properly.
Oh, and cut off the "sokomadeda!" and "sonohitsuyohanai!" I am going to scream if they pull out those bad anime sequence every again.
The script needs writing also needs a lot of work. The way the characters boasting each other is just embarrassing.
Oh, and there is STILL no proper explanation on what Project Phantasmal Flame is all about. It took 6 games and they still cannot sort this out.
Seriously, the only reason I am still playing this series is because I already came this far.
SD3 ToM - Second cycle done, and full tried out every characters in game thanks to class reset. Here are me 2 cents.
Angela - game MVP, she is just great with her overpowering fire power. Grad Divina is great at busting grunts. She just need to Saint Beam most of times and things die. If not, Double Spell well do the magic. Arch Mage is more boss focused, but we have Magus for that.
Rune Master outright sucks because all lv.3 spells are buyable this time. Instant Death is also less potent. The only worth of this class is to carry over the Unfair link passive to the next cycle.
Magus is the true boss killed. Loads all the Pain Magic passive and both Anise and Black Rabi dies within 30 secs to Ancient.
EDIT: Tried Angela against Anise in light class. She can one shot Anise as well and much faster. So Magus is useless too now.
Duran - The man who can one shot Anise. Sword Master is just ridiculously strong that Duelist is rendered useless, and light jobs is only worth it if you have no healer. Seriously, Sword Master's passive is just too STRAONG. Duran can have up to 65% crit rate in class 4 under Sword Master. And since can get a 70% damage boost in crit, landing crit becomes super important.
The weakness passive and saber magic passive combined with Sword Master's already huge selection of saber spells just made it even more ridiculous. Light saber being buyable also fixed his only flaw.
Then there is Cyclone Sword, which hits huge area and big damage. A properly buffed Duran with light saber just one shots Anise in her second form.
Kevin - The poor man who got nerfed. He lost his advantage from multi hits. His passive isn't as good as Duran. He has crit damage amplification like Duran, but has no passive to boost the rate of it occurring. He does have a functioning energy ball now, but still not as high as Duran's 60%, but using the Energy Ball on Duran is a very good idea.
But he does became a better healer as Warrior Monk due to the passive that combines Heal Light with Tinkle Rain.
Charwette - Dechi! She is the person who choose her class depends on who you do not have in the team. Or else just go with Evil Shaman.
First, Arch Bishop is pretty much trash now that Turn Undead got nerfed.
Sage is pretty much a nerfed Sword Master.
Necromancer is good with Black Curse, but Riesz has bigger debuff value with her magic.
So the only job that stands out is Evil Shaman, who has the most comprehensive auto state reduction passive, that stacks too.
Riesz - Best buffer/debuffer due to her passive that boosts buff and debuff value.
Star Lancer is her best job due to permanent MT buff and auto state up passives. But Marduke got nerfed, silence rarely hits now.
Fenrir is the debuff version of Star Lancer, but less effective because the auto state down passive went to Charlotte.
Other two jobs are just masters of none that's not worth it.
Hawkeye - Weakest character in game as he is status attack focused, and those are not very effective in game.
Yes, chibi status is a great grunts killer. But Angela kills grunts much faster by just bew! bew! with Saint Beam or Double Spell.
Yes, ninjatsu has debuff, but Charlotte and Riesz does it better.
Then the heavens crushes down now that max hp reduction does not hit bosses, so Hawkeye lost his best weapon.
He does have a crit damage kit in Wanderer, but like Kevin, not as good as Duran. His atk is lower too, so overall not as good.
He also has a less comprehensive auto state up/down kit in Wanderer/Night Blade. Which may is only useful if Charlotte and Riesz is not around.
In the end, his contribution usually comes from casting Energy Ball as Wanderer on Duran, or be a Ninja Master and let Duran use the weakness hitting passive.
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