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I've done battle arena's and left without completing the chapter. I think you only need to complete the chapter for things like dialog choices to take effect. If you're nervous, you could save the game, go to a different chapter, go back to chapter 17 and see if it still honors the progress.

Ya'll I'm just glad that my boy Zach's alive. And I am all the way bought in, I am here for whatever direction they decide to go in for the future games.

So just my take on the combat is that it makes a lot more sense when viewed as a take on the turn-based jrpg rather than a straight action game like a Sekiro or even a Kingdom Hearts. There's a lot of animation priority and you really can't avoid taking some sort of damage, but that's fine because it's not a twitch reflexes action game. It's a game about resource management, where the resources are HP, MP, items and ATB.

This game has been, in my book, my favorite ATB system in the Final Fantasy games to this point, and is a contender for my favorite JRPG combat system period. I got frustrated at points but for whatever reason I didn't feel that way about the last stretch of fights. And really the harder fights were when it all really clicked into place for me, like against Leviathan.

I don't have much to add other than if Square can't manage to release the rest of this series (and assuming that it will be kept to only three parts is, I think, optimistic) on a yearly or at worst biyearly schedule, then this experiment is a failure.

Also interested to know what "remote" means. Specifically, is this a fully remote position or is it remote for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis.

Speaking of bad anime apps, viewer beware for the Funimation PS4 app. A very poor experience, I've had chronic connection issues as well as bugs with the video player and queue. If you have a chromecast, just cast the mobile app to your TV.

I'm in the "I don't quit, I just put it down and forget to pick it back up" camp. My most recent example of really dropping a game was Death Stranding. When I started, I actually kind of liked it (though I thought the BT sections were stressful in an unfun way), but then I put the game down to focus on some other games that were coming out. The other day, I decided to load back into it and was just crushed by the number of systems in that thing. I had forgotten most of the controls, and accidentally threw myself off my bike, damaging my cargo. This was in chapter 2, and I put the game down and I think I might be done with it for the next year. I'm pretty sure if I do experience that game it's going to be through a Let's Play, but I don't know if I really need to.

@boozak: Nah, no insult intended, I was agreeing with you and honestly commenting on how giving that mechanic a face actively makes the experience worse. I also didn't like those other aspects of the character you mentioned but they weren't as significant a detractor for me.

Do not worry, this is not the Persona 5 stan account.

It is kind of amazing how moving the "you have to go to sleep" line from inner monologue to a character makes is 100x more obnoxious.

@glots: Yeeh I saw that a little while after my post. It does make me feel better, I thought that they might be done with Pax. They still might be, I guess, but I can hope. I do think that we still could have gotten heads up once they knew they weren't going to have a panel.

Window 10, Firefox version 72.0.2 (64-bit)

When viewing the front page (www.giantbomb.com) there is a horizontal scroll bar that allows for a wide scroll. There does not seem to be any visible content causing the page to stretch out.

And a screenshot of the page when scrolled all the way to the right.