They really do like recommending outrage merchants.

Yeah I guess that's a potential concern.

I kind of like when games are willing to inconvenience the player like that for the sake of world building. Like how not every shop carries all ingredients in the Skies games.

That said some of the interface around this system is not great. I will say also that Daybreak 2 lets you do it whenever.

I yearn for the days getting arts was based off elemental values.

I'd say definitely not nearly as difficult but you do get rewards for hitting various damage benchmarks so there's incentive to try to do them earlier than is easy to do.

The recent Trails games are kind of like that too.

Depression lies to you and really likes to get you when you're alone with your thoughts.

Know that you aren't alone when you think stuff like this.

"Never trust your thoughts after 10 pm"

Whenever this sort of thing happens I also find it helpful to try to focus on my nerd interests instead.

This is what fog looks like in Fire Emblem Thracia 776.

It makes me more appreciative of real art if anything.

Yeah each chapter has a new one. I think sometimes slightly more often than that even.