cleared purity forest with a lv. 4 alakazam! i think i’m done with this game for now and in the near future at least. i didn’t recruit all legendaries or pokemon because it’s too exhausting but i completed the row of legendaries that appear on the save file in the menu screen. aka i got all the mini side-stories from postgame and the entire main story finished!

after 6 hours i can finally be a teacher

finally got all of the 7 treasures! also only evolved my main characters once because i prefer how they look in the middle stage both visually and thematically. i also got up to the 3 star expert rank, missing only the guildmaster rank but i just don't have the patience to get all those points LOL
in terms of actual stuff to do, i didn't finish any of the Zero Isle challenges or recruit all the legendaries. optional fan challenges like recruiting every single pokémon and kecleon are too much for me so i won't even try
also: i never used wonder mail codes during my entire playthrough. i felt tempted, but chose not to :-)

I’m considering dropping this game tbh.. despite the fact Celica’s maps suck harder than Alm’s, her units are so much more fun to play with. They feel stronger and easier to manage for me than Alm’s group which makes sense given few of them are proper soldiers but still. Also I’ve heard some things about the story later on and I feel less excited to get there LOL