@Misima I had to nurse several of the lower level characters on my team to end so they didn’t die and I rescued all the villagers and used rewind time a lot on every route for that paralogue even when Dietrich could sometimes take out a tentacle with one attack plus follow up. But the next act tops this - the last few battles have me restarting the fights and respec’ing team loadout and composition and contemplating restarting the act because I am struggling on every turn by final fight - have to use boons a lot to do damage or get first attack in or characters die and sometimes even then. They do this cheesy thing where you can’t walk on most of the map without taking damage so you can only do damage with 1-4 characters, too. The reinforcements and elephants in earlier fights didn’t bother me so much once I figured it out because one can OHK them with appropriate response or concentration of half the team for elephant but this latest fight is very challenging on casual mode! They give you a way to level up or train then take it away from you for last few fights[ so you are committed team wise

Damn recruiting some units takes the cake when it comes to the game's difficulty/challanges. And some characters might like a particular thing and NOT like another one of the same category, too. That's just crazy Im doing my third 1st chapter run, and I dont think I even made it to recruit like half of game's characters tops

Also what exactly does a bird help me me? I havent yet seen any perks and my relationship with it is level 5 already

@cr1tical_h4ze likes and dislike, I think I remember Jester likes rarer coffee and alcohol and not common stuff and similar for other characters, like some rider/flyers like all equine things and some only like ones for their preferred species of mount, also sweet tooth’s don’t prefer recipe books except for dessert cookbooks unless they already like cookbooks. Re Raven perks - it only shows up for a few frames but if a hit would kill your character- the raven steps in and blocks it(Guarded I think flashes overlayed on character ) some times if your relationship is good, though I think my flame lords didn’t get killed that often in act 1. It might be scripted but in act 2 he/she shows up for a boss battle but is pretty weak.