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You just hit the bullseye with this post man. I think intense mode is something that you just have to give a lot of your time to to make strategies and do in depth research about the battles. A lot of people do not want to do this for whatever reason and that's perfectly okay as they get the normal mode with some level of difficulty but you get to enjoy the story at your pace. Players want to breeze through the story as fast as they can (like binging a tv show) and this just cannot be done on intense. I get it, the story's addictive and immersing but intense does not allow you to do that. I was a normal mode player when I first started around v9 (which was hard af for me) and then gradually moved onto intense around v12. I completed v13 on intense but had to cheese a lot of fights and use shit tons of items and it just did not feel right so i played the whole game from the start on intense,set,no items. Needless to say it was an intense experience but damn ik i grew a lot as a player. I used strategies i had never used and even came across new starts that i was not aware of. It is actually sad to see the devs taking away the intense mode because of some people asking others to 'git gud',though i personally only saw it once or twice in the forum here and idk whatever happened on discord, people are really helpful here as you have stated. And i dont really see a problem in 'getting gud'. It all depends on the time that person has and a lot of people dont

hmm, pretty interesting discovery. the theory sounds good.

I vaguely remember that the radio tower burned down 10 yrs ago from preset date. Not really sure about this one

Didn't meira region got destroyed because of the nuclear plant issue? Which was owned by blakeory's. And then he married a 25 yr old hazuki to inherit her fortune(Around the time of storm 9). So i guess what seemed like half a decade to rune and huey was actually much more than that. And then in the voidal chasm they found flora who herself isnt much old. Its definitly some problem of time perception and how things age in voidal chasm. MAYBE because voidal chasm is the place where there's some kind of black hole/white hole kind of thing which connects to the universe of clear/kieran. And so time flows slower in that place.

yes that is understandable. what I meant was a vague but a relative timeline w.r.t to a certain point(for e.g the ship blast at the start of the game) with all the information right now we have from all the references we got in the game. A lot of dates and mentions are thrown here and there

I really think its high time someone compiled a timeline of what all has happened in a chronological manner. a lot of things are just all over the place. I would've done it myself but even i'm confused about a lot of things. Someone really gotta take the lead on this one.

This is still nothing compared to what nymiera and vitus are. What the garufans are and how are they controlling all of this. What happened between marianette and vitus in the long time gap I mentioned. And where is he now? The game's true climax is gonna be much bigger than the identity of madame x, that I'm sure of

So I have a theory about madame x and oh boy this is a big one. Anathea, a normal human, meets Vitus(idk what even is he). They dated, got married and Anathea wished for children. Vitus due to his nature of origin couldn't provide her with any so he wished upon the archetype. The archetype vanished but was reborn as 4 different pieces namely Eriena, Maria, Alice and Allen. Things got bad between Anathea and Vitus and so they used Eriena to spy upon each other, which she was not able to handle and had a breakdown. The breakdown caused her to awaken her archetype power. Vitus then seals 3 of his children within the unown dimension and wiped off anathea's memory of them. Sometime later the Gardevoir tricks the policemen and so they killed anathea, thus breaking vitus's spell that was casted upon him by shayda on Anathea's request. Vitus regains his true nature and goes back to doing his 'evil' deeds. I think everyone knows the story upto this point, everything I have said has already been revealed. The theory starts from here. Marble mansion is destroyed and they move to chrysolis manor. Maria becomes Marianette. Maria + meloetta = Marianette, the game already plays on a lot of fusion names as it is. she must've fused with meloetta. It was said that the first known sighting of madame x was 7 years before the story starts and that gap is a lot. Like 50 something years alot. I believe during this time Marianette 'wished' for melia or something happened. Melia is Marianette's 'daughter'. Not a real biological daughter but more in the sense of how the 4 children were wished upon. The other thoery i have is that marianette tinkered with garufan 'curses', and Melia is actually Marianette but her own personality too. This is same as how aelita is tealia's daughter and vivian's granddaughter and at the same time she is just a reincarnation of those 2 and has their memories but is a whole new personality. And so the archetype was reborn within Melia. But it was said that if the archetype is taken out, the person dies. And here comes our 2 brilliant geniuses of the game. Katsu and Anastasia, the mother-daughter duo of rejuvenation inc and close associates of Maria. They built the armor to keep Marianette alive and Marianette now as madame x and anastasia now as nastasia made team xen. At the same place where rejuvenation inc existed. Now why do i think this theory is credible? For a long time alot of people on this forum have been theorizing relaton between madame x and maria and melia and i think this is the best order of operations to have taken place to put everyone in place. 1) Madame x said that she had a mother who gave her life to protect herself. Anathea gave her life to protect Maria. She is fixated on Melia from the starting of the game. Why? because of the archetype.She placed Melia under Jenner's care so as to take her back under her when the time was right. Even at the top of eclysia pyramid when her mask breaks, someone noted that her hair color was blonde(still need confirmation from devs on this one). 2) For a while I thought that Melia was something like the interceptor but I replayed the game and the dark future part irked me so much regarding my theory. If she was something like the interceptor because of how erin in the den of souls commented she is maria and looks like maria but melia reiterated that she is not. Now if it were to be true, there would be no melanie but there is and she is melia's counterpart. But how does madame x knows she is? Because she knew that she went ahead with the process of creating meleanie in that timeline too because she did it in the og timeline. But this time there was no anastasia to save marianette and so she dies. Leaving melanie with 2 posessions of madame x, the time diamond and yveltal. Tl;dr - Melia is mariantte's reincanated copy and marianette is madame x

The bgm doesnt seem to work. have i accidently turned it off somehow or is there a problem with the game?

How do i start this sidequest? Already talked to everyone in akuwa town but cant seem to get it started.

I'm at narcissa's house when she asks whether to go to darchlight manor or nor before confronting dufaux. but when i tell her to go she tells me to go finish my unfinished business. what does she want me to do?

that was neved in the blacksteeple castle if i remember correctly. Your assumption does makes sense though.

never really considered that a possibility but this could very well be it. that would mean we have only 2 lights as of now.

This still confuses me as to why nim even said the mc's name. what kind of connection is being established here. any theories anyone?

Man i've been replaying the game and even my theory seems to be somewhat related to yours. I was thinking that it was nastasia's mother who was madame x but now reading what you said. it might very well as be that it is nastasia. I was really thinking that it was a big stretch to be thinking this but your theory seems a solid one