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Rean is good - but a lot of that criticism flows with who else is in the party a lot of the time. If you wanted nonstop OP shyt in a braindead game and kept Fie around, you played yourself. If you trusted the 'canon' and kept Alisa's boring ass around, you played yourself.
Well I always separated story bonding event stuff from gameplay because the bonuses rarely made a difference. But man the writing on 4's female bonding events outside of Alisa, Towa and Sara were such
. I can't even call that writing mid. It's beyond worse than the lowest regard of the word mid. Also, for anyone that has played the trilogy + Reverie. There is no canon girl after CS 2.
Gameplay wise, Cold Steel games are the biggest joke. I rolled with Rean, Alisa/Emma, Laura and Fie/Sara. shyt was a snooze
on nightmare. Tbh running with Rean, Sara, Laura and Fie might be optimal. I think for 3 & 4 swap
Crow for Sara.
Like outside of maybeeee the first chapter bosses, which are more so a thing of not having the broken stuff in your disposal. Like I struggled at times with Azure final chapter on nightmare. Especially the final final boss. They shyt had me heated, since I didn't focus too much on the broken setups with the bells.
At least Reverie made it for fun with the tanky bosses. So doing the OP strats wasn't boring this time around. Plus, the shorter story meant bosses were a decent challenge if you didn't go ham on the broken setups.
When I played with the fansub overlay Kuro was actually a solid challenge throughout. Then again it's not intuitive playing with a spreadsheet, so I want to replay it to see if it's still like that.