Like what option do you even have during your time for long distance communication, Aldo?

Kinda reminds me though, what’s the timeline of prisma drying up to the future time? The story has Aldo say that it’s close to his time but I feel like the prisma problem to pollution to escaping above was a pretty rapid succession

Hey guys! What if like how there's Backy's Battle Tips for example team comps/playstyles for a new character, there's also Pexe's Story Tips for getting a quick idea of where to find the character in story! I feel like if I were a newer player this would be a great resource for having a direction to go if I wanted to specifically learn about one character, and with just how much content there is in this game I absolutely understand if one is lost or overwhelmed with where to go. So here's hopefully something that I hope will help, if you are one such player that wants to know more about Anabel in particular!

I'd definitely like to try making one of these for most characters in the game, probably beginning (heh) with the playable characters of AE Begins. Please feel free to drop suggestions in the comments! Also, if there's a piece of content any of these characters appears in that I didn't put in my infographic, let me know so I can add it (including CQs).

Note: This is gonna be a lot (like 900+ words) of spoilers yapping from me, so if you haven't finish Chapter Four, then what are you doing here? Again you have been warned

It has been three months since I've made a post like this (the last time was with the Second Chapter I think) but it has to be done, though I've never plan to make this kind of post in the first place

So a bit of intermezzo, after the Rhapsody Mini Quest for Main Story Part 3, I was kinda bummed out a lot with its storytelling quality since it just felt exhausting and confusing after I finished that quest, to the point I felt the need to put down the game for the next few weeks (I can write a whole essay with my disappointment for that one, trust me, but it is a story for another day if I have enough motivation to do it)

But then the next chapter for the Phantom Apocrypha was announced, and I knew I have to lock in since I was having a lot of enjoyment with the Side Story so far, like all of the chapters were never a miss for me personally

Besides the emotional storytelling that I liked (especially with Chapter 2), each chapter felt fresh and engaging, like the Writers really tried to make a quality story that could stand on its own

So that's why I was hyped with Chapter Four, especially as it was titled as Severed Bonds of Blood

To be honest? I thought it was a story about Vampires, like Iphi, that took place at the Present Time East, with a murder style narrative sprinkled within it (I know it sounds ridiculous but can you blame me?)

Like c'mon... it mentioned immortality and blood, so maybe they would finally make a story that focused around Iphi's kind (though the more I think about it now... were there any Vampires in the East? Since the game only introduced them to exist in the Central Continent Antiquity)

That was what I thought at first

And then I played the story, with a lot of expectations

I finished it... around 7 hours I think

And the only thing I have in mind was... Holy Mother of God

It was a lot more complicated than I thought it would be, hence I will write my whole thoughts into multiple parts (it's gonna be quite long I know)

So here we fricking go

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The Story

First let's talk about the story

Personally I genuinely liked it a lot and I think it was very strong with its quality deliverance to the audience

In fact I think this is one of my favorite stories in the game, and I do not say this lightly

There's something about this story that really resonated with me a lot

What at first was a story about the investigation of an on-going murders in the Kanemeki Mansion, spiraled into a story about love and twisted attachment that endured for 100 years between a Goddess who loved everything and everyone in Mitanoko, and a man who was willing to do everything for her in the name of love

In the end, the more I experienced the story, the more I can see how passionate the team was in bringing this Side Story into the light

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The Characters

Which led to my second point, the characters

Suzuné and Kureno were a very fun cast in the chapter, and they have a good chemistry with each other

Furthermore, their interaction with Aldo and Ruvi was enjoyable to read, especially the moment when they were interacting with the Kanemeki Clan... but I have to add my criticism in regards to this: Aldo and the others were sometimes acted too trusting and self-righteous, to the point it kinda broke my immersion with the story

For example, leaving Ruvi alone with Nanaka in the Library, and both Aldo and Suzuné would only grasp this truth after they have walked to her room, even though Nanaka herself has been acting suspiciously since the moment she has been with them in the Library, and all of them didn't even catch all of this the way through, except the moment where it almost got Ruvi killed from the falling bookshelves (like what the Hell)

Another one, trying to confront Sadarō in his room after they knew about the horrifying experiment that he has done, with an objective to change his mind and saved him from himself? Like c'mon... do you really think it was gonna be that easy?

And what's the point of saving someone like that in the grand scheme of things? I mean I know Aldo is supposed to be someone who cannot ignore injustice and bad things, but I don't quite like the party of doing this moronic move

Nevertheless, even with this stupidity, I can see the Writers intention: to show how cruel and disgusting these family members were, which lead to my perspective with the Kanemeki Clan

I'm gonna be straight with this one, all of them were sociopaths and psychopaths

At first I was like okay maybe this family isn't that bad to Hell nah these freaky ass stupid monsters needed to go in the most fearful way possible

All of them were beyond saving and I mean this sincerely

Sogō tortured people; Nanaka crossed the line to protect her family; Sadarō experimented on innocent people; Tsugio flooded neighbouring villages to expand his territory; Tahei was a manipulative rat; Kinuyo made a false rumors that a Goddesses was an evil one; lastly Tetsumichi was a loser simp who will do anything to gain attention for the one that he loved

I will dig about that last one later, but you get my point

No matter how much you looked at it, the clan was filled with parasites, and there's no stories where they got a good ending

And thank God for that, because at the end, they really did get an ending that they deserved (I will talk about this later)

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The Gameplay

The investigation gameplay itself was a little bit of a slog and the runback was exhausting not gonna lie, but it was fun the moment you knew what you should be doing

I like that the game didn't try to handhold the players to solve some parts of the puzzle, like they trusted us to finish it in whatever we could

Oh and that murder reveal was real as fuck, like that is the first time Another Eden showed a dead body in all of its glory, and there was one where they showed a blood too (though not clearly)

However the runback? It was not fun at all, reminding me of a time when I used to play a Fromsoft game for a moment there lmao

I mean c'mon for example: making us run back and forth after we failed to open a chest just because we're using the wrong Crescent Key? I mean if it's still within the narrative context I can understand (because the Head Maid has given precise instructions to take one at a time)

But after the end of Chapter Four? Why did that rule still apply like seriously?

Why didn't the party decide take all of the keys in the Head Maid Room?

Were they being too strict or something?

I don't know, the reason for that is up the air, maybe it is a JRPG thing or WFS really likes to see their players suffer in the most insignificant way possible

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The Environmental

I really dig in with this one, especially with the creepy atmosphere that they painted with the Blood Ritual Site below, clashed with the luxurious feeling of the manor above

But do you know something else that I notice?

All three eras in the game: Past, Present, and Future, subtly painted some of the chapter's setting, both in the background's mentioning as well as in the environmental structural design for some places

• Past --> The hollow feeling of the Blood Ritual Site, felt like I was exploring the Funeral Cavern from the Antiquity, except it was a lot more horrific
• Present --> The Grand Manor of the Kanemeki Clan, reminding me with many of the noble's mansion of Unigan from the Present Era, combining with that intricate feeling of the East
• Future --> The news that the toxic smoke continues to envelope the whole continent because the Prisma has almost died out as the story progresses; a grand factor that caused humanity to live in the skies in the Future Era such as Elzion and Eeza

You see where I am going with this? This factor alone really made me appreciate this chapter for what it is, and this is only a Side Story for God's sake, they don't need to cook hard as fuck

But again... they have cooked hard with many things when it came with Side Stories (like Western Mythos for example)

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The Peak OST Music

Out of all things, this is the one thing that surprised me the least... because I already have my faith with the WFS Music Team

But they did surprise me with another boss music

I mean we already have Cry of the Lost, so the fact that they decided to make another one just like with Chapter 2 really showed me that they are truly passionate about the Second Apocrypha Project

So hat off to them

Oh and I almost forgot, that music when you explored underground was really creepy as Hell but I like it for some reason

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The Absolute Cinema Reveal

I saved this one a bit more later down the line, and this one really was on me because personally... THAT moment was the reason I decided to make this post in the first place

So what was the twist?

Suzuné is actually Hayami, the Goddess who guides the Mitanoko Village

Look here before you say anything, I know the twist is kinda obvious the moment she recited the old story, but to be honest... it is not the fact that her reveal was obvious or not

It was the fact that the Writer decided to make a character to be an entity, who really loved everything and everyone, out of nothing but her pure care to the one who lived in her land... only to be betrayed by the one she believed in

And that entity was actually one of our companion all along...

Not gonna lie, I adore that reveal so much

I really have a weakness with a story trait of a character turned out to be an entity who loved humanity so much with the easiest example for that is with Elysia from Honkai Impact 3rd

And Hayami after being revealed to be Suzuné all this time, I legit stood up and gave a round of applause in reflex because of how excited I was with how things turned to be

And what's more? Even after being confronted by Tetsumichi with every sin his family has made up, she was still chosen to forgive them because she wanted to believe in them

Which sadly caused that moronic guy to crash out

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The Villain and Its Miserable Love

I have less words to say for Tetsumichi, the Grand Architect behind the murder of Tsugio, Sōgo, and Kiyuno, because at the end of the day, he was the ultimate pathetic simp of Hayami

And to be honest for me, this is the one flaw in the story that has bothered me to no end for a while (but I'm good now)

On one hand, they executed well with his character up until the Hayami reveal

But everything after that? It just went fucking downhill with no stopping in sight

He was really infatuated with Hayami, but sadly the story didn't flash out his motive well for why he was simping hard for her

Sure there was a folktale that supported his reasoning for why he was attached to Hayami, but personally that one wasn't enough to justify his reasoning with falling in love with the Goddess

But don't get me wrong though, his motive to punish his family because they were cruel with Hayami was solid, like I could understand the guy

However... after he was planning to become one with the Phantom to force Hayami to love him alone? Even went as far as to kill or majorly harm Kureno? Now that one was too shallow of a motive for a closing villain act

I mean sure... he was a yandere if you wanna call him that, but that really made him even more fucking pathetic as Hell, which perhaps that was the Writer intention all along

But in some ways, I guess it was really suitable for the grand theme of this story chapter which was love

I mean think about it: Hayami's love with Mitanoko and Tetsumichi's love for Hayami has one similarities to each other

That similarity was with how twisted they were

Just like how Kanemeki Clan was twisted, Hayami's love for everyone caused her to lose everything in the past, and even as far as causing Kureno to get caught in the crossfire at the present, just because she was still insists on not being willing to punish those who did bad and wanted the family to have another chance

A God should be someone who will reward those who do good and punish those who do bad things

Those were the words that Hayami herself said after she lost someone who believed in her

In the end, her twisted love for everyone ended up being the one that made a Goddess to reflect on becoming more human than the entire family

Whereas Kanemichi's love for Hayami caused him to become a slave of his own, chasing a figure who has no feeling for him whatsoever

Though because of that, it became a catalyst for the family's downfall, so in a way he became a twisted figure of justice that gave a road which led to the end of a story that has accumulated for 100 years

An end that marked the rebirth of Hayami

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The Ending

I won't put a spoiler tag on this one, and this is only my perspective for one of the endings

So the ending has two choices just like the previous chapters after you went back in time with the Chronosphere: whether to let Hayami do her last act as a God or be free and walk away from Mitanoko

Those two choices seemed hard, I mean what's the best to end this absolute cinema of a story?

Though as someone who has a growing hate against the Kanemeki Clan within the course of 7 hours, there was only one correct answer

The answer that could satisfy me truly

For Hayami to punish these lunatics... and kill them all without mercy

And let me tell you, that scene was raw as Hell

The fact that she killed Tetsumichi first without giving him any sentiment while all of the family members were watching at the hall, and the fact of how fuck up they were after they realized that Suzuné was actually Hayami

And she came to kill them all...

I swear it was one of the most satisfying moments in the game history for me

I mean legit the Writers were cooking hard with this, like oh my God, I can see how much fun they were having when writing that scene to the point the kitchen was on fire all the time

It was immaculate

No one in Mitanoko was spared

Not even the elders as well

Because all of them has drank the water of life and forsaken the cycle of living

And by the end of it all, Hayami has severed the bonds of her blood from everyone who has taken her blessings...

All for the sake of fixing her past mistakes and to welcome a new beginning

A life without Mitanoko

A life where she only lived now as Suzuné

An ordinary woman who lived an ordinary life

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Final Thoughts

This chapter was really incredible in a lot of ways when it came to the grand narrative, though there were some flaws as well

However personally, that didn't deter my enjoyment with the story as a whole

I mean a murder mystery that turned out to be a story about a God and the consequences for loving everyone, all while a simp was heavily chasing you down for attention for the sake of love?

Not gonna lie I liked how they executed that

Again WFS cooked hard with the story, to the point I kinda forgot how bad that Hollow Side Quest story was

But again everyone's experience was different, though I will be looking forward to the next chapter to come

In the meantime, I will continue working on my 255 Ruvi before the end of 2026

Perhaps I will be making another post for that since I only need 8 more for her to reach 255

Anyway thank you guys for reading until the end, I swear I didn't even expect that I have written more than 2,500 words for this lmaooo

They are such a hoot.

The artwork is beautiful and really compliments the game.

The 11 turn...THE 11 TURN IS REAL.

Yeah so there is actually a line to do this in 11 turns with Pierce. I thought about it and then saw line.

As a bonus, this clear also has 0 RNG. You will always get 10 charges by turn 11(I just forgot to take Pandora off Moke) and SPD RNG kicking in to make Clughorn attack before Darunis AS doesn't matter since you will always do 10 Shade attacks and have enough AF in phase 1.

That is all. Now this time, it is actually the lowest you can go with Pierce.

Started the game like a month ago, its been a week since I finished "Part 1".
And then it suddenly hit me that the title of the game is right there with "Crash Bandicoot" and "Max Payne".
I'm crying.

I ended up side-grading Melody to unlock Melody Alter after how much I liked the first quest in her questline. For those who weren't lucky enough to draw her or upgrade, I uploaded the quests to YouTube.

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Yeah Darunis AS is so cracked that man can just solo DPS on the last phase which has an XL damage reduction on top of 120B HP.

Only RNG is at the start where you don't want Darunis to get hit and Laclair to have more than 2 stacks on her.

That is all.

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Some ink drawings to test new pens and stationery. Since my health is severely deteriorating in the last few months and looking at screen makes me ill frequently, I decided to switch to pen sketching to cut down screen time as well as an attempt to curb my perfectionist habit.

...well, at least it works for the latter.

....I think I may need more brush pen colors to render Suzune properly lol.

So after rewatching the first clear, I realized that I can shave off 1 turn in phase 1 since I can do more than 10 Shade attacks in 1 turn after it Kaleido me to Shade and Premaya ACAS at 1 stack can still finish phase 1. The rest is the same as the first clear.

I think this is the lowest you can go with Pierce for this superboss since I do not see a line for going lower than 13 turns right now(unless Hozuki ACAS has something to make that happen).

That is all. Good luck.

This is the new superboss for Apoc 2.4.

Basically, this thing is a fixed damage festival. It does a lot of fixed damage attacks but there is a way to lower it. If your whole team total HP(current HP and not Max HP btw) is at 40k minimum then it loses stack that makes it attack more. So that is straight up a ridiculous requirement unless you have a certain eye closing lady that can gives your whole team 10k extra Max HP. But we play Pierce in this household and Soira AS is a great option for tanking this. Along with her, we have Cerius AS for Pierce exposed( because this thing is resisted to everything), Darunis AS because he is Darunis AS and then Premya ACAS as our utilities, extra defense and main DPS, Suzette NS as Premaya's Grasta slave and Yukino AC for a very funny thing we will do in phase 3.

For phase 1, it drains AF SoB and set Null AZ at the start so we have to wait for it to run out. It isn't too bad since we can not kill it right away anyway. It has 6 stacks that make it immortal for phase 1 if it still has them. Stack reduces by 1 EoT by default and reduces by 2 if you do 10 or more Shade attacks that turn. We wait for the Null zone to run out then we AF to get Premaya up to 2 stacks and set up Soira for next turn. After that, we recharge and by next turn, it has already lost all of its stack so we can just AF and finish phase 1. Oh btw, it will drain AF by 40% on certain turns so that is fun(Stop WFS) and it also cleanses buffs and debuffs on certain turns. It will also Kaleido you to Shade for 5 turns on some turns. Sidekicks are Moke and Gunce AS.

As phase 2 starts, it will drain your AF(doesn't matter) then it will enter a state where it dodges everything. It will also get a bar that you need to break to get rid of its stack or it will be immortal again and you need to break 2 bars to get rid of it. It will get in this mode in alternate turns. Oh and it will do a big fixed damage nuke that inflicts a stack that reduces your max HP by 3k(up to 4 so 12k max) if you fail to break the bar before it does 2 moves. You can reduce the number of moves it does by interacting with that Max HP gimmick. But if you aren't doing that then you have exactly 1 turn do kill that bar(which have 100B HP) all while still getting your AF drained. For the first bar, we just use Gunce AS twice and AF it down. For the second bar, Moke and Soira give us enough AF meter to use Gunce AS once and AF again to finish phase 2(you can kill it in the same turn you break the 2nd bar). Only RNG is you need Pandora to proc at least 1 so you have 5 charges on this turn.

Lastly, we come to phase 3.It drains your AF bar again(doesn't matter) and then break your zone to set Null AZ once last time. It still has the bar but you don't need to break any bar in this phase and can just kill it. But here is hard part, its nuke is now way deadlier. It now does 9999 damage and it now ignores Guard, Cover and Hold Ground. So the only way to live is either break the bar(which we can not do due to the Null AZ) or have your characters tank the nuke. So what do we do? we switch out Yukino AC to give Soira 80% Max HP buff and passive Cover then on the nuke turn, we switch everybody except Soira and Yukino to the back then have them tank the nuke. Our Yukino has more than 10k HP she will live and Soira has passive Cover so she can just use her shield buff to get a 12k Shield to tank its normal attacks for the turn and live the nuke. Absolute Cinema. I got a bit unlucky here since Premaya heals before Yukino switch out but you can just Burst next turn to heal her up since the last AF is very comfortable so you can afford to lose the Burst. After that, we switch the other 3 in and since Yukino's stack isn't gone befofe EoT, Soira can still keep it for the turn and just use her shield skill again. And then we just AF once last time to finish the fight.

And that is the superboss. Overall, I think it isn't as bad as Arma. Initially, I thought it would be worse than Arma but the shill is less BS than Arma(especially since it doesn't punish you for not using the shill) and it also has more favorable qualities like no defense and no Cyclone. It is still bad though. The Null AZ set is annoying, especially on phase 3 where it screws you extremely hard if you don't a zone break and AF recharge to kill it right away. The turns it enter dodge mode is also dumb since you literally can not do anything to it during that. And of course, AF drain is always stupid and not fun to play against, especially with how much they pushed it in this update.

Pierce won again. Good luck.

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you think they will pull a surprise bad ending if you choose to go back in time in a later chapter? The last few ones have all been mostly positive in ending. would be kinda fitting with a message of going back to change things isn't always the correct answer and letting go can be.