The concept of making pacts with dragons to transform into them in battles is an awesome idea for a mobile game Nintendo collaborated with Cygames.
All the music composed by Daoko are awesome to listen to! Just look at the Awesome Music page.
While defeating any of the High Dragon fights is awesome on Expert or Master, this video from IeTeya has him construct a team of Mikoto, Xania, Halloween Lowen and Sarisse to autoplay Expert High Midgardsormr while set to "Insatiable," the boss theme in Final Fantasy XIV's Shadowbringers expansion. Xania gets a Dying Moment of Awesome as what would have been a Total Party Kill after the last revive was used, she provides the kill shot.
Main Story
Chapter 8, Leonidas proves to be far too powerful for the party to face, and as he prepares to finish them off, Mym jumps in and basically dares Leonidas to attack her with the full force of his dragon's flames. Sure enough, he does... only for Mym to No-Sell the attack, absorbing the intense flames to allow her to temporarily transform into High Brunhilda and turn the arrogant prince's flames against him.
Mym: Sorry, what was that about razing? Leonidas: WHAT?! Impossible!
Chapter 12 ends on a pretty epic note, as Euden and Leonidas clash forth in their respective dragon forms, neither side giving in, while espousing both their ideals against one another! Eventually it ends with both fighter exhausted and out of their dragon forms as Euden lies prone and Leonidas readies his sword to make the killing blow. Only for ALEX of all people to intercept and sneak attack Leonidas at the last second! Winning the battle in Euden's favor.
Chapter 14 ups the stakes big time! Especially near the end where of all people: BEREN pops out of nowhere during the Other's possession ritual, and proceeds to absorb in the middle of it while the demon can only scream in anger for his power back as he's sucked in! Afterwards its shown that Beren has complete control of his abilities, and outright mocks Morsayati afterwards.
Chapter 16 has Zena and Elisanne purge Void Poseidon of the black mana, not only purifying him, but making him younger and stronger, giving birth to Gala Reborn Poseidon. The same chapter also has Elisanne, finally fed up with the Ilian Church's rampant corruption throw down her job as the Grand Paladyn so she can follow Euden.
Chapter 17 has the party trapped by a rusty gate and about to be cornered by Templars. Chelle reveals her secret project: a DOOMGUY WORTHY MINIGUN MANACASTER!! Her only problem is the barrel sway.
If Fortune's Fray didn't convince you that Luca is a badass, then Chapter 18 (Part One) definitely will. The Faewood's mindrape qualities ensnare everyone in illusions based on their fears, and he is no exception, but whereas everyone except Laxi falls for them hook, line and sinker, only Luca is able to break out on his own thanks to Mascula's blade, something he didn't have during Kai Yan's initial slaughter of his villagers. note The Agito Uprising unlocks after Chapter 10 is completed, whereas Luca meets Mascula in Chapter 11. Not only that, he then goes on break Euden out of his own illusion, treat his mindrape-induced stress with some sylvan medication, and after all that stalls Kai Yan with only the half-beaten Euden as company. Even when the musclebound monster unleashes the Vajra Orb's full might, Luca refuses to stand down, and that is when Jeanne d'Arc descends from heavens like a Deus ex Machina, reborn like Poseidon and Zephyr before her... except whereas Zephyr's recovery is left ambiguous and Poseidon was purified by both Elisanne and Zena in concert, Jeanne explicitly states that her recovery from Void corruption is entirely on Luca's unyielding will. And then, with the Saint Dragon at his back, Luca draws Mascula's blade and charges Kai Yan one last time. While we don't see the final outcome, it's your interpretation as to what happened, both of which are equally awesome: either the pair made Kai Yan run like a bitch... or they BROKE HIM.
Laxi deserves some credit, too; her being entirely logic-driven, the Faewood's magic traps Mascula instead, and she's the one that breaks him out. Recognizing the problem, she gets to work repairing his ego circuit so that it doesn't happen again.
Gatov and Sheila deserve some as well; not only were they involved in the recovery effort for everyone outside Luca and Euden, it takes a strong will to resist despair after seeing Nadia's death the third time around.
Part 2 of Chapter 18 is Notte's turn where she finds herself having gone through her fairy puberty and becoming human-sized. During that time, Harle had followed the party and corrupted a Kamuy and brought fiends and templars. Just when it looks like they're on the ropes, Notte has another burst of power and gains a second older form, routing the fiends and templars, purging the corruption from Kamuy... and being a Fluffy Tamer as well. Once they get in the Faerie Kingdom, she reverts back to normal faerie size.
Chapter 19 Part 1 has Finlorda reveal the truth about Notte, and how she was manipulated into watching over Euden. Naturally, the party is none too pleased about this and starts calling Finlorda out individually. However, Chelle is utterly annoyed at this cliche and yells at everyone to shut up and let the man finish. For players who are tired of repeated cliches, seeing Chelle call it out is quite refreshing. For those who were worried Finlorda would beat around the bush regarding his actions, she gets right to the point on that too.
Chelle: "For the love of everything good and holy, would all of you PLEASE SHUT UP?! If you ever want to learn WHY he did the things he did, you need to stop yelling about how shocked you are and simply LISTEN to the man!" [...] "The truth, sir, and quickly. My patience is also at its end."
Chapter 20 Part 1 has Cleo and Reborn Nidhogg do something people thought would be impossible: Fully kill an Agito, in this case, Tartarus.
Chapter 20 Part 2 sees the return of AUDRIC since Fractured Futures saving his son Euden from Nedrick, even if both are technically his son.
Chapter 21 Part 1 sees Euden do something much more badass than his ancestor Alberius: Kill Elysium! And while going into Volk's Agito form as well!
Chapter 21 Part 2:
Zethia follows Nedrick through the Dawnshard to keep him from completing the pact with Bahamut, taking half of it for herself since she's still technically a descendant of Alberius. She comes out swinging in a Dragonshifted form to save the party against Void Elysium. After three long years, Zethia is finally done needing to be rescued!
While it does lead to a disturbing Nightmare Face, it's pretty satisfying to see Beren actually lose his composure when he found out Euden hasn't succumbed to despair even after discovering the truth about himself.
Chapter 23
Things start looking bleak for the party with the release of Xenos. Just when the Progenitor is about to kill them all though, Emile arrives with the Dyrenell Army to pull off a Big Damn Heroes. If that wasn't enough, he also inspires the citizens of Grams to fight when they are on the verge of giving up. Needless to say, Emile has really Took a Level in Badass in this chapter.
Adventurer Stories
Chapter 4 of Patia's adventurer story fully solidifies her status as a One Woman Army as she and Elisanne are cornered by 100 Empire soldiers. Patia tells Elissanne to retreat and call in the cavalry and that she'll keep the enemy off her back. Except by the time Elissanne returns with said Cavalalry, the 100 soldiers were just about to keel over while Patia was still standing and ready for more. The General had the army retreat, thankful that they now had the excuse of the cavalry coming in and not the more humiliating: Because we all got whooped by one girl.
Honestly a good chunk of Lazry's adventure stories are made of awesome. To which there are two stand out moments.
In the final chapter of her story, the Golden Anvil is besieged by the Empire. Hoping to capture as many engineers and blacksmiths as they can to make them build weapons for their troops. They think it'll be an easy mission, with their mighty army to back them up.They were wrong, and VERY wrong at that. The golden anvil competitors fight tooth and nail against the Empire to keep them at bay, as they then unleash a fiend with Nigh-Invulnerable skin, so tough that not even the Smithy Sisters can cut through it. Then along comes Lazzry as she uses her Smithy Arm to slash clean through the fiends skin like a hot knife through butter, as the Sisters promplty attack the fiend through the gash to finish it off. Thus solidifying Lazry and the Smithy Sisters as badasses as the Empire runs for the hills.
Yukimura proves to be a great up and coming Wyrmclan Leader throughout her story. Not only does she take the lessons she learned during the Celestial Showdown event to heart, she quickly earns the respect and trust of others thanks to her courage and spirit. She quickly scouts Jinpachi and despite her personality and training being rather overwhelming, he quickly earns his loyalty after he protects him from fiends and bandits. She's joined not too long after in the next chapter by the several other retainers, including the ninja Sasuke (sound familiar?) and when there worries of a traitor she quickly catches the true culprit, a shikigami, and rallies her forces to defeat the Mukuroshu attacking her castle in a grand victory. This all culminates with a mock battle between her and Ieyasu's forces, with both sides and leaders dueling to a draw, earning Shingen's approval for Yukimura and proving once and for all her skill as a commander and leader to any who doubted her. Pretty great stuff for the reckless girl who once was only good at rushing in without thinking things through.
Zethia really gets to show just how strong she has become in her Bondforged adventurer story. To start, she manages to cure a poison Dorothy made without needing the cure that only Dorothy knew how to make, foiling the assassins plans to kill Elisanne. After that she gets to work on boosting morale of the general public. Much like Zena, she is subject to Cartesian Karma by the public, but with the help of her siblings and her determination, she manages to win them over and get them to maintain hope. Even when the doomcrier who kept trying to ruin her efforts summons the immortal Phraeganoth, Zethia refuses to give up. Her willpower and the power of those she holds bonds with gives her the power to slay Phraeganoth. I repeat, she gained the power to kill the unkillable fiend.
Event
The 1st Anniversary started off with a bang, quite literally with its Fractured Futures raid event. Not only is the story very intense for an event, but it also features the return of Aurelius both as his old self and playable counterpart Audric and Future Zethia. Characters that havent been featured for over a year. Not to mention the fighting the raid boss: Chronos is a blast! It is not only the BIGGEST raid boss by far, but it uses variations of attacks made by previous raids too! Making conquering this event extremely satisfying!
The December 24th 2019 Dragalia Digest announces that in January 2020, there will be a Monster Hunter crossover and Rathalos will be involved.
Not only does the event include Rathalos and Dreadking Rathalos, but also Fatalis as the main Big Bad of the event, but also Berserker, Vanessa, and Sarisse decked out in Hunter gear.
In the climax of the event's story, as the heroes are preparing to assault Fatalis' nest... Rathalos swoops in and enters the rift, and then there's a full 3D cutscene of Rathalos flying in to challenge Fatalis as well, as the two monsters roar at each other defiantly.
The Scars of the Syndicate event has a lot of great moments of awesome from Aldred himself to the introduction of a new antagonistic organization lurking in the background. The biggest standout though may the scene before the final battle. The doctor uses the Princes own kindhearted nature to lure him into a trap to fuse him with the fiend Aspidochelone, and makes an offer to Aldred that if he allows the fusion to succeed, he will offer his own life to him since he would accomplish his goal. Aldred shuts him down, saying that he refuses to let other people go through the same kind of suffering and pain that he did when he became what he was, spits in the face of the doctors philosophy of how being "Evil" is something that takes resolve and true strength with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and and tells him that the Prince and his friends are the ones with true resolve for doing everything they can to protect everything dear to them along with others despite the odds against them. He proceeds to shapeshift along with the Prince to break him and his allies out of the trap and they all prepare to face the Doctor once and for all after he fuses with Aspidochelone himself, all while the event theme "Get Up" plays. It's like something straight out of an anime scene.
"Fire Emblem: Kindred Ties" gives us the Colisseum mode which allows the different elemental teams to fight their opposites against waves of heroes, escalating with each difficulty, especially on Lunatic. Now you get to feel what it's like fighting against the meta.
Wind: Round 1 is a Sibling Team between Louise and Lowen with her pelting you with arrows while he's healing his sister. Round 2 is Akasha who summons undead fiends to her side while she flings magic at you. Round 3 is the Peng Lai trio of Su Fang, Ku Hai and Lin You. Round 4 is Victor showing just what four Svenitlan elites can do with a team of him, Noelle, Kirsty, and Joachim. The final round is Gala Ranzal teamed up with Midgardsormr.
Kindred Ties also gives us an awesome moment in the ninth story episode - Zethia reclaiming control of her body from The Other, if briefly, in order to aid her brother.
Near the end of "Doomsday Getaway", Norwin figures out that the curse on Scylla's island is triggered by saying you trust someone in response to that person saying they trust you. Amane then proceeds to turn the tables on Carmen, the little gremlin who's been toying with the heroes all this time, by tricking Carmen into saying she trusts her, causing Carmen to get hit by the curse. This causes Carmen to vanish while Scylla is so furious that the heroes ruined her game that she reveals herself and attacks the heroes head on, finally giving them the chance to beat Scylla for good.
The Second Anniversary managed to outdo the first with the Forgotten Truths event, which details the origins of Morsayati, who serves as the raid boss for the event. There end up being four phases to the fight (only the first phase is fought on nightmare and lower with the others being exclusive to omega difficulty and a fixed solo quest), with the music changing for each phase (See Awesome Music for details on that). The finishing blow on the final phase definitely sums up the epicness by having a holy blade be summoned down on Morsayati, who lets out a Skyward Scream upon being struck.
Morsayati: ELYSIUM!
Luca shows that he's hardly a joker in Fortune's Fray throughout the tournament, but two moments stand out. The first is his qualifying match: whereas he was introduced jobbing to Mercury (complete with bandages), here he flattens Daikokuten in single combat. The second is the final match against Seimei, who disguised himself to enter the tournament and keep his memento of his grandfather: not only did he keep pace with a professional onmyoji who may or may not have been empowered by the Kodoku curse, but he used wind power to avoid the "open fissure" final gambit and clinch the victory! Need we remind you that this version of Luca is Wind-element? Seimei deserves some credit, too: not only did he win his first two matches in the most cutthroatnonlethal manner possible, but his disguise was nearly foolproof, only being undone by the intervention of his "stupid fox".
2021 starts off with the big announcement of a crossover raid with Persona 5 Strikers - Caged Desire, starring Joker, Morgana, Ann/Panther and Sophie as adventurers, complete with their own Personas, and Arsène as a dragon. And on top of all of that, we finally get to know Emile's backstory!
The very end of March gives the Dawn of Dragalia event, where players will get a more direct view of events from before the Second War of Binding, with Alberius, Myriam and a humanoid Midgardsormr as summonable allies. And for those who thought Elysium was an insufferable bastard in Forgotten Truths, he's the Raid Boss here for your smiting pleasure, and no element to Elysium means no element lock, so bring your most broken fighters to this showdown for the ages.
Stranded Scions gives one to Emile of all people. After being The Load of the party for most of the story and having to serve as bait alongside Euden, he actually willingly volunteers to finish off the Kanaloa that fell into their pitfall trap while admitting Leonidas would be more help against the one still standing than he would be. Considering how arrogant he has been most of the time, this is some impressive Character Development.
Faith Forsaken Part 2: How did the real Harle introduce himself to Euden's group and show that he's one of the good guys? He pulls off a Big Damn Heroes when the group got soulbound by Loki's trap, and even managed to seal away Loki into the space between worlds to free everyone. After being on the receiving end from it himself—by Loki, no less, during Part 1 of his Adventurer story—this doubles as catharsis for Harle.
The Blood That Binds is one awesome moment for the entire dragonblood royal family sans Beren. Led by Leonidas, the royal siblings back at the Halidom are charged with protecting the stronghold against an army of powerful fiends... led by a replicated ALBERIUS that was made with the intention of being a vessel for the Progenitor by Phares whilst he was under his influence. Despite their efforts and even assistance from Euden and Zethia, Alberius tears through the siblings and takes the Halidom right out from under them. It doesn't take long for all of the siblings to prepare a counterattack though, and despite how powerful their ancestor is and seemingly put to near death, they all pull through and fight together to defeat him. Special mention for Valyx's character growth as he finally decides to stop merely living his life trying to be like Alberius, but vows to surpass him, even landing a damaging blow to the replicas core despite nearly falling. Phares notes the similarities to himself as well as vows to change for the better to preserve possibility. The resolve of all of the siblings after shattering the replicas core reaches the real spirit of Alberius after the vessel is free of the Progenitor's corruption and apologizes for leaving his burdens upon his descendants, but also expresses confidence that their bonds and strengths will allow them to accomplish what he could not. To say the children have surpassed their forefather is probably an understatement at this point, and seeing them all work together despite being on opposing sides at the very start of the journey is an incredibly cool and equally heartwarming moment as they swear to protect the possibility of the world together.
Advent Of The Origin is the final new event and pulls off quite a doozy in terms of crazy things that happen. First off, Origa returns, having fought off Satan's possession and being rescued by the gang after realizing they need one more Auspex, but right when it seems like Satan is ripe to be finished off, Bahamut controls Zethia's body, uses her to finish him and then uses Satan's body to fully resurrect himself as TRUE Bahamut, gaining power equal to that of Xenos which he uses to try and erase the entire world to destroy him. Zethia gives a Heroic Sacrifice to stop him, which actually destroys her very EXISTENCE and memories from everyone, but right before that happens, Euden awakens his Bondforged form in his grief and charges at Bahamut, stopping him temporarily while his power warps causality and sends everyone off into alternate realities. Thankfully Euden's new powers not only allow him to reunite with his friends, the bond he shared with Zethia helps him to actually bring her back from erasure along with the memories of her, and she awakens her own Bondforged power to stop Bahamut for good. After seeing their resolve, Bahamut finally relents his assault as his power destroys his vessel of Satan, which Euden translates as him giving the heroes his blessing that they will be able to stop Xenos and protect possibility. It ends with Zethia officially settling into the Halidom as her home as the team gets some much needed rest. If this isn't enough proof that the good guys are ready to finally take down Xenos, there is hardly anything else that could prepare them more.
from IeTeya has him construct a team of Mikoto, Xania, Halloween Lowen and Sarisse to autoplay Expert High Midgardsormr while set to "Insatiable," the boss theme in Final Fantasy XIV's Shadowbringers expansion. Xania gets a Dying Moment of Awesome as what would have been a Total Party Kill after the last revive was used, she provides the kill shot.