It appears that our hero has been invited to take part in a particular contest of sorts, but he isn't quite sure if he should just yet. While he is contemplating making the effort to join, we get to spend some time with the two women in his life and learn a little more about them. Some clues are dropped to some past events, suggestions are made towards people's attitudes, and other things occur. So while there may not be a lot of action here necessarily, events still do take place. If you want to pick up a copy yourself, you can do so on Steam with the following link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/269250/

With his army assembled, Hikari strikes at the palace. We make our way through the convenient path and ascend the palace to bring this narrative to a close. Sadly, I can't really hold back anymore, so the boss fight is a slaughter, which is going to be the norm from here until the final boss. Overall, I wasn't too impressed by this story, and if I decide to make that accompanying video where I tear into everything, you can get the details as to why there. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ1kHOl01fU

Upon visiting the graveyard at the cathedral, we come across Nielsen who meets with us for the final time, to go over some clues relating to Guy's death. Since we did all three, we have the opportunity to come across the truth sooner rather than later, so you will be getting some bonus scenes in the videos to come. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxmlMoR7KLk

This is a somewhat simple area we have to traverse to reach new areas to explore. However, if you want to go on a small sidequest and fight an optional boss, there is much more depth to this area (no pun intended). Inside are 4 Brutes/Oni that are all optional bosses. You must beat 3 of them to reach the 4th, and the 4th will reward you with a Magatama (Murokumo) for your trouble, which is something you will need if you want to do the Cathedral of Shadows's sidequest. As for the Oni themselves, this area is intended to punish people who build physically like myself with the Brute Kin-Ki. This guy has something like 90% physical damage resistance, meaning I can barely scratch the thing with my fists and I lack the magical power to hurt him that way. It also doesn't help that despite being a physical attacker himself, he has a large MP pool that Daisoujou can't empty like he can for the others. However, he is the only one who poses any resistance to my sheer strength as you see the others fold like origami. As for the 4th, Ongyo-Ki, I do abuse the Full Kagutsuchi trick to reveal his shadow, which makes this all a lot more tolerable. If you go into the fight without full, then you are looking at one of the most difficult bosses in the game, so just a word of warning. I do not ever recommend trying to fight him like that.