Metaphor: ReFantazio

阿特拉斯我缺的主角最终觉醒P什么时候补，情绪都到这了也不像P5R那样搞个大罪穿甲弹演出。只存在与动画演出是吧。看这样子也没打算出皇家版了。

This game was so close to being a 10, but idk what happened during the endgame. There is a sudden difficulty spike in the endgame thats actually incredibly jarring. if you've been coasting through the game, even doing all the sidequests, you will still feel like youve wasted your time because you'll be 10+ levels behind the new quests. Much of this game in my playthrough (20+ hours) happened during the endgame, and much of that playtime went into grinding for me just so i could actually catch up to the expected levels for quests. Luckily I managed to find a way to grind pretty efficiently, but nevertheless the endgame quests should have been 5+ levels lower than they are. There is no Mementos or Tartarus equivalent in this game, and as such grinding comes down to entering a dungeon, exiting so enemies respawn, and going back in. This feels scummy, unnatural, and most importantly incredibly arduous. Progression in this game is just unfortunately a mess, which is a shocker to me since Tartarus and Mementos were so good. Because of this grinding, I've wasted so much of my calendar that I was unable to complete all my companion quests (I was one off for Catherina I'm actually devastated). At the very least, one more week would've been enough to get everything done. This was enough to knock 1 point off the final score for me. Anyway here's my tip for grinding. If you're around level 55 at the final month like I was, here's what you do. The strat involves AoE Ice attack (whether its a skill or synthesis), and the Tower of Insolence. In the first level of Tower of Insolence, there's a bunch of fire dogs that are week to Ice, and give a copious amount of EXP. Spam the Ice AoE, you'll gain 10 levels in no time. How you approach MP is up to you, but for me, I put Hulkenberg on Elemental Master (since you need it to get Royal Knight you wont regret it), equipped the Magic Link passive that halves Synthesis MP, and Revitalize 3 from Paladin which restores MP, and spammed Gabblizaton. I was actually gaining MP while I was doing that, and I left with more MP than i started, so MP is no longer a limiting factor here, and you can grind ad infinitum until you're bored. But otherwise this was an incredible game, with a very flawed endgame, but i guess you can always play on story mode, because the game is really greater than the sum of its combat parts. Also I recommend playing on English dub. I never say this about games or media that come out of Japan with OG Japanese VA but this game is an exception just trust me. 9/10