Thank you for posting the route, this answers a lot of my questions. What I've been focusing on is trying to understand how leveling up, stage ranks, and carnage mastery work. I was able to setup homebrew to look at the actual numbers in memory. Stage rank is strange, I think the best way to farm it is to cast party buff spells like rakukaja which gives 4 points plus a point to the other 2 party members in the battle, compared to session attacks which only gives each participant 1 point. Maybe information like this could optimize the grinding sections.

Seeing some new game runs completed has inspired me to work on this game. I came across o-den's notes http://seesaawiki.jp/dsoctxt/d/RTA%A5%C1%A5%E3%A1%BC%A5%C8%A1%CA%B8%B8%B1%C6%B0%DB%CA%B9%CF%BF%A1%CB which shouldn't be hard to translate, so I'll post that here when I finish. Does anyone else have route notes (even if they're unfinished) that weren't posted in this thread?