Playing Crystar!
Early impressions on the previous post.
Last week I thought I was 80% into the game, but I realized there's a lot more story left than I expected, so this one will take a longer to finish, probably a week or two more at my current pace.
It was a really neat twist though.
Major Crystar spoilers
You beat the final boss, get a somewhat sad ending with a lot of loose ends left and start thinking "there's got to be a better ending, I wonder what are the requirements".
...and then you get a messsage "There's a new story available" and the game immediatelly loops back to the beginning. But there's some very obvious differences from the start, like the reveal of the identity of the butterfly/soul that helps you during the prologue.
I guess the game is going into the direction of multiple timelines? And from the icons on the loading screen I think there will be 3 or 4 loops total.
At least these additional loops seem to be much shorter, it just skipped from the Prologue straight to Chapter 6 (of 8), but that still means I have a lot to go.
Replaying 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim!
Crystar's gameplay is kinda repetitive so I need to take breaks from time to time, and I've been using this to continue this replay.
Did a lot of grinding in tower defense stages, I just love those, but progressed nicely on the story too. Currently around 80% both modes.