Act 3

So far so good. We already collected 2/3 of our buddies.

Mist, mist everywhere

OK, our next stop is Legram. The only buddies are left to find are: Laura, Emma and Jusis. Rean and party of your choice will warp onto Ebel Highway, not too far from your destination.

By the way we got a super maid Sharon by now.

She can cook, clean, kill, kidnap, spy, wash your back and everything... EVERYTHING! In Japan the maid is the most dangerous work so you can always rely on them to be cool.

Regardless I'll take Claire cuz you know... reasons. Back to our job.

Ebel Highway is a bit misty today: visibility is pretty lame today. Not like mist is unusual thing there, but this kind of mist is a bit too much. Anyway our destination is Legram and you don't get time to explore.

Note that the screen above is taken a bit later than actually supposed to be... Sorry but the Act 3 has been so quickly done by me that i almost totally forgot to take screenshots.

Anyway except for mist you need to know another important thing about Legram. If you talk to girls here, you'll find out that Laura, whom we're looking for, has TONS of fan-girls.

Soon enough you'll find out that Laura and Emma went to Lohengrin Castle. Jusis though... Well, for now it is unclear.

We're getting to castle by boat. If you remember this castle from first game, then you know that last time there were some ghost monsters. And Millium hates G word. So if you took her, then you'll remember it in a very funny way. Anyway Lohengrin Castle doesn't take too long so soon enough you'll find your buddies.

Again sorry for bad screenshot...

Laura(on the right) and Emma(on the left) seems to get themselves into fight with cryptid. But well, if Fie is the goddess of evasion, then Laura is goddess of STR. Having the highest STR among all characters she, by the end of the game, can obliterate everything except for maybe strongest bosses. Of course it requires a proper equip which will be available only later on, but even now she can do lots of DPS. In addition to that Laura is example of noble lady. She has pride and nobility. She's stoic and strong. She's reliable and responsible. You know... it is difficult not fall for her.

Back to our story. Don't be surprised when Laura beats the hell out of this cryptid.

No worries though, there is another hidden cryptid for you. Much bigger one. After beating the second cryptid you can finally have a reunion.

Laura gotta surprise you by some high noble lines of swords-woman. And well Emma... is just Emma. She gets a bit emotional here, but no jump scare this time. Not like one would mind though...

What is left to do is to find Jusis and it turns out he went to Bareahard. Since this is his hometown and our tsun-noble is very responsible. He just went there to check on things... alone. Totally smart move. But oh well, it is Jusis he couldn't make it easy after all.

Now you need to get to Barehard but there is a trouble. According to Laura trains are no longer running there so the only option is to get on foot. Of course it is not including the problem of walking into the Noble Alliance nest...

Before we can even go on our way, we got guests... from Noble Alliance. And these guests are some dangerous ones.

Now that's some bold general we got here! Even if she's beautiful... so beautiful! She's still cannot take our Laura. Thankfully she isn't very persistent about it and soon is on her way.

Now we can go over to Barehard on foot... Lame, but what we can do. We must not forget that our party consist of wanted criminals.

How are we going to infiltrate enemy lair? We actually got a witch here: Emma. Got to let her to do some magic and we're inside! It is so cool to be witch...

OK, to be truthful she is capable to hypnotize guards to let Rean and party in. Not really grand, but it is OK for novice witch.

Mission: save tsun tsun noble boy

Our goal is to find Jusis but where to? Well, Rean and CO are trying to ask around. While on it you can find some cool side quest. We need to save kitty. Yes, girls gonna like you for that. So go for it!

It is pretty easy quest: a bit of walking and looking. Also, we got cat on our own. Surely Celine can help us, right?

Ok i think we need to do something else... Oh yeah... we need to find Jusis. Totally forgot.

After a bit of investigation it turns out that we do not have much of leads. Jusis is spending most of his time in family mansion. And you cannot exactly walk in the mansion of the most influential noble family.

Unexpectedly our party is starting to get mysterious messages from different people. Messages just lead Rean from one message to another. Until we finally stumble upon flying cruiser in Barehard Airport.

There we got to finally meet our last buddy: Jusis

Everyone is happy, but... Jusis seems reluctant to go with Rean. Something about obligation and stuff but more likely he feels guilty about Ymir attack. Turns out that at the begging of game it was a Jusis's father that ordered to attack Ymir. So now Jusis is down by it. In the end though Rean and Jusis reaches some agreement: duel will decides if Jusis is coming with party.

I suppose it works for us too. After all Rean isn't going to lose, right?

First part of duel is racing. Jusis was so kind as to lend Rean bike while Jusis himself is going to be on horse. The second part of duel is going to be sword duel. Overall it is not really difficult at all. As expected Rean wins and so Jusis agrees to follow our party. Cool, we're done right?

But... oh well you should know by now that things ain't so easy in JRPG. You got some unexpected viewers and now they decided to bump in.

Duvalie is tsun-tsun knight lady. She's honest and very easy to provoke. So easy that it is fun.

McBurn is a bit more cool guy. Lazy and super strong. SUPER STRONG. He doesn't even want to fight you, but Duvalie makes her best to convince him.

Well... you're screwed. You can beat Duvalie but there is no way to beat McBurn. Regardless of how you try, our party gets beaten up by McBurn. At least you can enjoy how Duvalie whines about being beaten up... You can find a little good moment in every grave situation.

Luckily for Rean and party we gotta get help. Our favorite drunkard Sara appears to save the day.

Though before she can save day, we suddenly have another enemy intrusion. This time Jusis father decides to bump in, like we don't have enough with unwanted guests. And his father not alone, he got bunch of army forces with himself. Including new mecha.

It is time for Valimar to shine! Meanwhile McBurn and Duvalie decides to leave everything to Jusis's father. They just leave... Lucky we are.

Well, armored car isn't a serious threat so we got to finish it off quickly. But new enemy mecha is a bit problematic. Though as long as you're keeping to use your second pilot wisely it is not impossible.

And after beating up this mecha it is time to wrap our mission up. Let's be back to Ymir.

Just another day off

Sorry, I'm a bit tired to come up with funny name so let it is just be another day off.

Finally the whole band is back! And finally we don't have anywhere to hurry so our party can take it easy.

Now having everyone you also got an opportunity to hang out with bunch of people. As usual the choice is up to the gamer. And in my case: you know me.

In addition to some team building you got to do a fishing duel. Well, if you want, but i advise you to. It is fun side quest.

The quest is about to bring the girl back to home. She is such fan of fishing that spend day and night on looking for some mysterious fish. And sadly until she'll catch this fish, gal isn't going back. What is the easiest way out of it? Right: we catch it ourselves.

And oh boy what a catch we got... a boss monster.

Other than that... you can enjoy some free time. I suppose it is kinda difficult tell you about everything so you gotta see it for yourself. I mean play the game already...

By the evening Rean got himself pretty tired and we gotta to enjoy hot springs alone. Well, almost, but I'm not going to spoil a surprise here :P

Let's toss a coin we got a future to decide

I suppose you should notice by now, but our party does not have any goal beyond reuniting. What is next? Well, Rean and CO got to decide it.

Oh well, i mean they supposed to, but we suddenly get unexpected visitors. You might ask: "Again!?". And I'll answer: "Yes, again. It is JRPG after all".

In addition to real witch (no offense to Emma, but Vita is a way too high level) we actually got totally unexpected enemy invasion. Not like we forgot how we bumped into plans of Noble Alliance

And i mast say: it is a definition of "We're screwed".

And we got a landing of whole bunch of bosses. With a familiar face leading them - Rufus

Rufus is the older brother to Jusis and the one who taught him swordsmanship. And he is too strong for us so you can expect a pretty good beating.

Now, you might ask: where is Rean? But he got to fight with old pal Crow in his mecha.

Crow got his own super mecha and he's super strong pilot. And so far he has been working with Noble Alliance. No surprise about him. You got to try to beat him...

Sadly there is no chance to win... You will pretty easily beaten up due to his superiority in skills and weapon.

It is kinda looking bad... But there is a surprise! That how Noble Alliance invites you over to join: beat you up and then ask to join.

Rean got two choices: come willing on board alone or... Well, it is not much of a choice. You can guess where we're going next, right?

We gotta talk with this supreme leader. Our buddies ain't going to be happy about it, but they don't really have a choice too.

This wraps Chapter 1. See you in next chapter!