Just beat final palace, but I have to say, having finished the game finally
FUCK THE SPACE STATION. WORST PART OF AN OTHERWISE AMAZING GAME.
>Palace requires SP regen items and level 10 Star Confidant to do in one day without excessive grinding or having stockpiled coffee
>All the backtracking you have to do in the Early parts of the Palace
>Waves of Girimehkalas/Arahabaki Repel physical/gun, are bulky AF and making you waste your SP often. Also Arahabaki using spirit drain also fucks with your SP supply
>Have to play guessing games on which robot has which key card, but it doesn't matter because you have to essentially fight them all anyway, but who cares, lets make you waste some time listening to robot slave problems
>Guessing game minibosses with lackeys and everyone's actual weaknesses wasting your SP, time, just being annoying in general as a concept to face waves.
>Time sensitive puzzle elements that aren't paused during fight animations that you can't skip (and the enemies are also Girimehkalas/Arahabaki so you can't rush to save time, have to go through the full 6 second Frydyne animation)
>THE FUCKING TRANFER LINE PUZZLE
>Can't accommodate for trajectory and shadow's position when you get out of it, so you get ambushed
>Scathach's in the Transit lines you can't hide from because they are just narrow hallways with no weaknesses that you just have to grit through
>The fucking color puzzles that you basically have to go through 3 times in a row to get the feel for how the 3 switches work
>Map doesn't tell you the color of a non-active tube so you have no idea if it is Green, Red, or Blue until doing through it or getting a switch
>Constantly doing the long ass space animations from 1 tube to another.
>Final boss isn't even a cool shadow, just wave after wave of the guessing game robots you already faced with a time limit
Only redeeming factor of that entire pile of shit is getting the Moonman vest for memery