I am stuck here erasing and retyping arguments trying to decide how much of this event I actually liked and how much of it was bias blinding me. How much of my complaints are being greedy and how much of it is proper expectations because I waited 2 years and some for this to be the result.
On one hand the bonds and advises were good, Emma makes me diamonds and Eunhwa develops properly and meaningfully. The free costume is nice and she wears strawberry panties. They're not omega broken kit wise but they're certainly useful on fire content and Elysion tower and we dont know if they becoming grand with Vesti added in or if it becomes a Tia/Naga situation where they work together fine enough but you're better off mixmatching especially with Emma's lack of CDR. The music was good and Tactical was my favorite, I hope they use it in the future when the squad appearsKinda reminds me of the Type Lumina ost
Then you have the event itself which honestly? I have to admit I was biased as fuck when defending it and I feel like a retard for saying some of the stuff I did. The flashback spam was retarded and made it less impactful when an actual not seen before flashback appeared. Maybe a couple of them I still could see as an understandable 'reset' because we're swapping perspectives but it wasn't just that, it crossed into obnoxious padding. Then there's no unique boss for the event and I doubt you'll just magically bring it into the story or an SR since it's in the fucking Tundra and you admitted to killing its leader. You made this cool as fuck tactical Predator boss that stacks on top of each other, THINKS, doesn't just flail around like a fat retardguess who which is a far cry from the pure power abusers we've come to face and just... did nothing with it. Then there's the Vesti delta plot that just gets resolved so quickly. What's the rush? Too scared you'll actually show off the development she's been talking about for too long? Too scared to make Eunhwa's paranoia feel real? What about Emma no longer being on the sidelines and standing alongside them? Was that staircase scene supposed to be it? The event itself can be described in two words : Wasted Potential, and I can only hope it was worth it for the future of the 3rd Anni and the dev team's health.
I enjoy the splurge or Absolute art, the mini comics they've been spamming, and lots of new fans of the squad but seriously SU from now on every time I see future fantastic events I'll be left wondering "Could they have given Absolute the same?"