So I just beat Monster Route. A very bittersweet ending. Massive spoilers next, very summarized of events that happen and which characters die:
And as for small comments that I don't think need spoiler and is nice to know:
- Alice becomes an adult right after the part in the demo.
- We encounter the Angel World version of King Sabasa, who's a woman. We need her and the Monster World version to resurrect the King Sabasa from the parallel world.
- Quetz, Tezca, Sun Wukong and Azi Dahaka join our party from the group that were allies to Black Alice after realising Chaos Alice had zero intention to care about anything but herself. Izanami and Himiko get killed because despite all of this they're still loyal to her.
- Laplace joins our party in this route, yaay! The other members are done so because of Kagetsumugi.
- The Four Heavenly Knights in the Angel World are the little chibi monsters in our world. You get to meet them as adults, and they've basically become professional Angel killers after all the crap they went through. They're actually very surprised how different their young selves are, and how successful they are too LOL.
- We get to recruit all the Mechanized versions of the four spirits. Their recruitment is quite funny, pretty much similar to how it went with the other four.
Heading straight to the Angel route now, I won't be checking the comments until I'm done, but feel free to ask for when I come back. My overall opinion is that it was quite the interesting chapter. It's a bit more lineal but to be honest I don't think it was that possible to create that many sidequests when the chapter is very straightforward and constantly moving to the next thing, so I'm fine with this. Really looking forward to the Angel route honestly.
Just be careful if you play the game, mobs are true HP sponges, if you don't want to waste too much time recruiting monsters I heavily suggest you tone down the difficulty for a bit. And get ready for a grinding session because you need the new sealed jobs and races, otherwise your damage is going to suck.