I. I am now really happy with this extra chapter. ♥
I mean. It was cool, before the endgame! Just. Much more low-key, in the way where you're adventuring for a few hours for a minute or so of backstory which is exciting mostly because you're invested in the characters. (And less so when you're not.) And there's really not a lot of... forward-looking plot, for most of it. A lot of dungeon crawling. Which is fun if you like challenging dungeon crawling! Which I do.
But then... there is the endgame. Which punches you. And then punches you a few more times. And then -
then it concludes amazingly well, in a way that builds off and adds to the original game without retconning anything. And it's great. ♥
And, okay, I found some of the punching a bit implausible / badly rationalized. BUT I AM WILLING TO OVERLOOK THAT BECAUSE YAY.
also Yukari shut up and get out of my head I still don't like you that much