Valkyrie Covenant -
Ran through the B-Path. That went fairly quickly, since there was apparently no attempt made at all to rebalance the game for sequential playthroughs, despite that seemingly being a big part of the overall idea.
Unhappily it seemed every time I turned around there was another map showing up consecutively to the previous with the ability to save disabled. Who in the heck thought that was a good idea. Now I am questioning my memory of this happening comparatively few times in the C-Path.
Plumed Mireile and Phiona in order to spread out the misery in the party. It is unfortunate that the game does not have a what-happened-to-your-party sequence. Valmur took it better than he did in the C-Path anyway all things considered.
Have to say that the supporting enemies in Chapter 6 were a vast improvement over the ones in the C-Path. Not that this means much of course.
The B-ending meanwhile is arguably a worse ending than the C-ending. To elaborate: In the C-Ending, he does kill Lenneth; the fact that it isn't permanent gyps him out of it being a complete revenge, and Ailyth uses this as a loophole to send him to Niflheim straight away (as he technically failed his side of the covenant, for all that it was unfulfillable). In the B-Ending, he not only fails to kill Lenneth (even temporarily), but he beats up his father, and his father ends up getting sent to Niflheim in his place. So he's technically still alive, but he's effectively achieved the complete opposite of what he set out to do, and he's going to end up in Niflheim himself eventually anyway. On top of that he also finds out that it was his father and Lenneth that caused him to be revived in the first place, not Hel, meaning that not only was the covenant unfulfillable, but that there was no need for him to have entered it in the first place. Hel is a dick.
