Millium joined the main cast, just please kill me now, that voice is just nails on the chalkboard. Yeah the Chancellor's little dog is here to watch us, nothing suspicious about that! We just finished getting to know the main cast and now we have to learn about 2 more people added randomly, this kind of sucks and the reasons they joined sounded so incredibly lame and made up that I already know it's just a cover and they are just baby sitting us "special kids with the special parents" class. Which is what this entire game feels like, just being baby sat by the entire damn nation of Erebonia, everyone knows exactly why you are there and what you are doing, it's embarrassing and it's getting old. It makes us feel like we are in pre school and need our hands held at every turn, I absolutely despise this bullshit forced patronage/hand holding all these "superior" people around you have. What I loved about the original Trails is that everyone was so radically different from one another and came from all walks of life and did things on their own, no special treatment or superior Senpai to the rescue after every damn incident. Aside from Estelle and that's because who her father is. Kloe was an actual princess but she really held her own in battle and was a damn good character too. I already miss them just typing about them, see what I mean!?
Also everyone having a parent or someone important to them dying, having to do with them ending up at Thors has been like everyone's reason and it's also predictably annoying.
I don't mean to sound so negative but none of these characters are really interesting to me aside from the main character, and maybe Fie. I think you guys are crazy still on saying this is anywhere near TiTs level of epic, we will NEVER see a villain as amazingly done as George Weissman. Being grounded to a school is also making me believe that less and less. The battle system though is definitely a humongous improvement, this story is lacking big time so far and I am almost done with it. This isn't a bad game by any means but I think I was expecting a lot better because of the hype in this thread, also Olivier not being a party member ever was also a huge missed opportunity and he really didn't interact with the characters as much as I had hoped. Anyway, rant mode off! Back to this cocktease of a game that will probably end up only being amazing at the very end or some shit. At least it feels this way at this point.