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Across many titles, what do you guys think is the worst stages?
- SRW AP and MXP Dragonar finale stands out to me as two of the worst one because they both has one thing in common: They drag on a lot

+ For A Portable, you have to fight in a long hallway against multiple elite enemies with inflated health bar with the boss at the end. Sure, there are station that can restore your MP but it involves a lot of turtling around. And once you defeat the boss, suddenly Wong appears in the Grandmaster Gundam and not Ulube and just when you thought defeating him would be over, Devil Gundam appears because we need to end G Gundam early. Hope you don’t spend all of your SP on the previous bosses because this thing has HP regen. How fun.

+ MXP is definitely less egregious because it only involves Dragonar this time. As usual, inflated enemies health and long hallway. However, it then creates another problem which is the roster as it consist of unit that you would not normally use such as most of the UC units, and the ship can’t get in so it would definitely be surrounded by the enemies from outside.

- However, they are both pale in comparison to what I’m about to describe next as we enter fangame territory.

+ Chapter 72B of Fantasy Maiden Wars is by far one of the worst SRPG stage that I’ve ever experienced. To summarize, the B route is entirely exclusive to NG+ since the NG+ takes place after the main story and it takes advantage that you are in NG+ and provides some good challenges, with the exception of this stage. First off, the victory condition is beat all of the barrier core. Sounds simple, until you realize you have 4 turns to beat them, with each of them having 160000 HP(410000 on Lunatic). Don’t forget, enemies can use spirit on Lunatic for which each core has Vigor. Man, I’m sure your OP NG+ unit that you spend the entire playthrough using will be usef— She got kidnapped, and you can only get her back after you beat the stage, also if you spend all the EX point that gives a bunch of OP benefit on her such as +1 action and higher SP regen(for which you can only have 2 max EX units this playthrough) then you’re definitely screwed on Hard and Lunatic. Even if you anticipate this for the higher difficulty, it involves a lot of brainstorming, or be me who max EX Yuyuko and spam Enable and even that is still difficult. BTW, this make No Upgrade Run for Route B essentially impossible because of these reasons

- This stage go against the whole sandbox nature of the game as before and after you can use any unit and still win while providing a really good challenge but this stage prioritize what is essentially cheating the system just to scrape by. I love FMW(beat it 6 times), it can create the best SRW scenario(75A) while also creating the worst one(72B).