Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin | Solitary Chaos (Part 16)
30:00 - Mission 1
32:50 - Vs. Astos
45:20 - Mission 2
We have a proper mission stage to go through, ending with a boss fight against Astos. Astos will buff himself with a protective aura, but you can beat past it easy enough and drain his stamina. Then in phase 2, he'll turn into Ultima Weapon Origin. Less gimmicky, more of a standard fight. Of course, I just shot the hell out of both phases.
After that we get a lot of cutscenes that take us back to the main city that I can't remember the name of. That city reaaaally needed to be bigger, rather than having us just run up and down the same straight line path every time we go here. Also, I find it hilarious how the king and queen apparently took one step outside their castle and were just killed on the spot. Seriously, we find them on the castle's doorstep so they didn't make it one foot out the door before dying lol.
After we save the city, Jack steps outside for not even 5 minutes and the whole town just gets attacked again and wiped out. They could not have possibly made this feel more rushed lol. Sophia's even like "find the princess!" but the princess is like 2 feet away from her. Reaaaaally felt like this area was meant to be way bigger and done like a proper stage but it just got rushed.
Anyways, once all that's done, Jack is forced to fight his party members so you have to take every single one of them down. Not a hard fight by any means, may even be impossible to lose. This all leads to Jack on the path to turning into Chaos himself.