Talk:Black Alice/Alicetroemeria/@comment-26979215-20171130010113/@comment-26979215-20171130021233

The difference is that in the first game, Luka basically did everything on his own, aside from some power ups from the spirits and all his trainers. Alice in the first game only helped us out 3 times at full power. She killed Cassandra because she was a bitch, she helped out with the Beelzebubs because it was her job and helped defeat White Rabbit Ilias for obvious reasons. The rest of the time, Alice either didn't interfere or was sealed, so it's not like we had a Monster Lord willing and capable of solving all our problems for the whole game.

But in Paradox, Luka isn't on his own anymore. We are fully expected to build a team of the strongest characters around but Torotoro has carefully limited who we can recruit. That's why we couldn't recruit Sphinx and Queen Harpy in Part 1. They'd be too strong. Same goes for certain characters from Part 2. And they've made sure to depower all the really strong characters we do get to make sure the game isn't too easy. But then they just give us Alicetroemeria, a Monster Lord who is fully capable and willing to help us out, albeit for selfrish reason, and the only reason so she hasn't gone full power yet is because she wants to keep roleplaying a human mage on her way to beat the Monster Lord.