Up until the end of chapter 2 the game felt a little slow but GOD DAMN once prison island finally happened everything just makes so much more sense. Like the emperor goes to get help and then summons a god who is probably the bionis or the guy who controlled him, but he made the Monado which is like woah. Then metal face who is like probably actually most definitely mumkhar decides I'm gonna kill mr. God and then he does kinda. Shulk rolls up with the Gang and then Zanza gives him the beeg Monado but Fiora who isn't really Fiora but is like kinda Fiora which means the dead people from Colony 6 and 9 are probably faced mechon (looking at you Gadolt). So then everyone is facing off and the emperor gets sliced like a hot knife through butter and doesn't get to finish his last sentence which sucks, but right before everyone is gonna go on their way Alvis casually starts talking to Zanza and based on his conversation with Fiora I'm pretty sure Zanza gives the future sight ability to people and then just desires destruction without giving a fuck about which side he's on. I feel like Alvis (and maybe Dickson) are doing something behind the scenes to help Zanza revive bionis or take over everything while the mechon are trying to take their forces from the Homs and beat them in a full on war. I'm excited to see where this goes but woah did it just take big twist. This is kinda unorganized but I wanted to put my thoughts out there