That sounds great, always felt like the final stratums should have been more brutal (encounter wise).

I have read for the longest time that previous stratum bosses in this game won't respawn until the boss of the current stratum you are in is killed. Just got a quest to backtrack to Emerald Grove and found Fenrir back up. I'm still in the jungle, haven't even seen the 2nd boss yet. Is this a bug, or...

Do you have control over them?

Specifically, the summon skills.

Gonna hide in spoilers to be safe:

[spoiler]When they call a beast, how does it work? I don't think it's a 6th member because I never saw beast portraits. Does it act as the Beast King's normal attack until the beast return skill is used?

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From what I've seen (watching people stream on nicolive) it does provide a nice sidetask to progressing the main dungeon.

For people worried about spoilers, the stuff is seperated into stuff like misc, characters, monsters, backgrounds, etc. So if there's something you don't want to see you don't have to unpack it. of course if you don't want to see anything at all, then yeah, stay away. I will say that the design for ...