@danbruno yeah I found myself ignoring old class vii to a degree that I never would have guessed. I think the new class and the other supplemental characters are just more interesting at this point! It's kind of like stuff with Joshua in any of the games after SC: he was very interesting, then it all got resolved, now he is just some generic big brother type guy. Which is fine but it means I don't care about him so much anymore
@darius Yeah agreed—at this point I'm mostly interested in what the endgame is for the old guard (does Estelle get to S rank? Does the SSS liberate Crossbell? Do Jusis and Machias ever get married?)
I think the thing I really want more of is throwing everyone into a blender to get new combinations of people. There was a bunch of that on the Pantagruel and I eat that stuff up. Let me see how Elie and Kurt get along, or Kloe and Elliot, or whatever