This sums up how Nintendo has been as of late.

"Well, we like your money, but we don't like you." ~Furukawa to Nintendo fans.

You're on a roll now, huh? You're blaming him for things that you assume he did or did not, but how about catching a breath and chill for a second? Yes, you can be dissapointed about the Switch online games, that's fine. But please don't try to find silly reasons and connections that don't exist. I think in the according news article SanAndreasX has already explained why some high profile games don't come to the service.

Yeah to give one example the rights to Earthbound's music is owned by Sony (look up recent news on Sony copyright striking Earthbound videos on YT) which means they'd likely have to agree for the game's release.

I think Final Fantasy 1-6 and it's target platforms shows that Square wants to have full control over their library.

Which is probably also what makes Super Mario RPG difficult.

Last I checked it's acceptable to blame the company's CEO for it's biggest mistakes at the time, just like we used to be able to blame Jeff Bezos for inadequate wages and poor working conditions for Amazon warehouses.

I thought the low point of the game is chapter 6 because it's so damn long relative to the others. Astral Chain closes out on a high note, so the final two chapters shouldn't disappoint you. Yes, only two.

File 12 is post-game where you can freely move in the office to talk to everyone again, but first and foremost it's all about accepting a huge amount of combat challenges from Olive. So there's no more balanced content anymore as the focus shifts entirely to the combat gameplay. If you've enjoyed that, there's plenty more to do in the game, but take note that the difficulty level is predetermined, so eventually it gets brutal. Should be roughly 20 challenges on medium difficulty, roughly 20 on medium-hard and then about 30 which are tough stuff.

I thought the low point of the game is chapter 6 because it's so damn long relative to the others. Astral Chain closes out on a high note, so the final two chapters shouldn't disappoint you. Yes, only two.

File 12 is post-game where you can freely move in the office to talk to everyone again, but first and foremost it's all about accepting a huge amount of combat challenges from Olive. So there's no more balanced content anymore as the focus shifts entirely to the combat gameplay. If you've enjoyed that, there's plenty more to do in the game, but take note that the difficulty level is predetermined, so eventually it gets brutal. Should be roughly 20 challenges on medium difficulty, roughly 20 on medium-hard and then about 30 which are tough stuff.

Honestly, after my first playthrough on casual even the first batch already felt insane, I gave up on them pretty quickly. Thankfully there's no story content locked behind any of it, not even flavor text or anything, so it's not like you're missing out if you don't feel like going for it. After my second playthrough the gameplay really started to flow and I got through all of the post-game, they can be some pretty satisfying challenges to complete.

Also, personally I think File 6 is the high point of the game. That chapter just adds so much to the worldbuilding and makes this game so much more than it otherwise is. Sector V shows a completely different side of the game's world, which otherwise feels pretty generic, and Kyle steals the show. The chapter's pretty long and drawn out, yeah, but I feel it remains interesting throughout and is paced amazingly well in how it builds up to its insane ending.

I'm not sure I'd say it's my favorite chapter, because the last one is breathtaking, but I do feel like it's the one that adds the most to the game. As in, if you were to remove any chapter from Astral Chain, File 6 is the one where it'd impact the game most negatively.

Yeah I thought it was cool too until I decided I wanted to get S+ rank in everything.

Never try to get S+ rank in everything.

Astral Chain's final boss is the worst boss I've ever played in my entire life. Disgusting.