Tales of Graces f: Yay I have me five people! Suck on exclusion Cheria kyahahahahahaha!
Ahem. So, I think I left off at the start of adult-hood? Anyway, things keep going and precious things return and confusingly go forward. And then I go under some cave with water where I fight a bunch of slimes that poison. And holy hell is poison beastly! Good thing if you get Poisoned enough you actually get a title that blocks it! This made the big bad boss pretty much effortless. On some sort of combat note, if Asbel gets hit too many times when he's using B-Artes he gets stunned BADLY. The upside? If he switches back to A-Artes after B-Artes he heals himself roughly based on how much damage he does. During normal combat it's only about 80 HP to his thousand, but once Eleth Burst goes off he can get over a thousand easy.
So uh, going forward, and Hubert eventually makes his return! For one battle with hilariously dangerous mooks! And then he jackasses out with an unwinnable boss fight against him.
So, Asbel, having nowhere to go returns to Knight School. Or not as we meet up with Richard and Team Friendship is formed again! Also Team Destiny. Also all Richard is missing from straight being Leon's moveset is Pow Hammer which.... no one has...? Well, continuing on, fighting against more military mooks and I realize something. See, all along the roads between towns are monsters and NPCs, and I wonder why the NPCs aren't bothering. And it's because monsters are just pissant weak compared to actual humans! Seriously!
So, going on and on and we meet our fourth party member, Pascal! Who feels the burning need to touch Sophie all over. Clearly she's in good company. After another dungeon I can already feel the Abyss call to return far later in the game I go and piss away a couple hours accidently grinding because I was trying to get one-freaking-drop from one enemy. On the upside I boosted the difficulty up to Hard and realize how unlocking most titles is going to go. mainly using an arte a lot unlocks a title! And using certain people with others! Like Sophie and Richard! They'll actually learn variants on each others artes!
So, continuing on to an eventual Brutal Boss battle. My trials in Abyss served me well as I actually wasn't afraid to use Life Bottles when needed. And then eventually another boss after Cheria rejoins with her pathetic number of titles that she didn't get SP for when she wasn't in the party unlike Richard who did and actually mastered a bunch of them that way. Also the Boss used a Mystic Arte, but I already have.... huh, yeah I have them for each character. Neat.