This game was a RIDE. Let me start by saying I love this group of characters so much man and the character writing here just made that love stronger. The story overall was interesting. It introduced a story mechanic I thought I might hate but I ended up thinking it was pretty neat. Won't go into detail for spoiler reasons but yeah. It deals a lot less with the over-arching Trails plot than the previous game, but I didn't mind that as I felt the story was mostly focused on building up our current group. And boy, there were some great moments for them. I thought the side quests in this was a bit of a step down from Daybreak but the connect events were amazing. Good gameplay got even better, and the final boss was SICK. Probably my favorite one in the series.