[serenade_beta]

Keh, why do we have bad guys who look so good (like Alice), and then we have bad guys like these :

Spoiler for pictures:

The new update for monsters is slightly interesting. Simply introductions to a few monsters and their attribute, attack, and skill.

In Battle system, they update with the great "hi-ougi"s (which seem to look cool, from just a few screenshots).

Spoiler for Brute:

"Listen. If it is for the sake of justice, then the method doesn't matter!"

Commander of the Sylvarant Liberation Army "Vanguard".
In the world after the unification, after receiving the reasonless discrimination and persecution of the Tetha'lla people and Martel Church, he felt doubt towards Martel Church and formed Vanguard to protect the rights of the Sylverant people. Seeking the Ratatosk Core, which holds great power, he manages to succeed once, but on the day of the "Purge of Blood", Marta stole it from him and he is now chasing after her.
Because the Ratatosk Core is currently buried in Marta's head, he constantly sends assassins like Alice to Emil and Marta. Using the Ratatosk Core, he seems to be planning to carry out a certain scheme but...

Hmm... Interesting... At least one "party" in the game is confirmed... "Vanguard", where Alice, Decus, this guy, and others are in.
This will be troublesome...

Spoiler for Hawk:

"I have to hurry or Alice-sama will punish me and I'll lose my life."

The division commander of Vanguard's army corps.
A subordinate under direct command of Alice and Decus, he is also the sub-leader of the Combat Section.
Primarily, his role is to get punched and kicked around by Alice.
Having a hypocritically curt manner of speaking, he always talks condescendingly towards Alice.
He doesn't find Decus or Alice to be interesting at all in his heart, but being a coward, he doesn't show it physically.
In battle, he shows a cold-hearted and cruel side, but that is just another way his cowardliness comes out.
Alice calls him "Ho-kun".

Alice-sama~~~~!!
*gasp* Crap, I lost it for a moment...

Spoiler for Magner:

"Silence. Lloyd-sama's orders are absolute!"

Leader of Martel Church's knights corps.
On first glance, he looks reasonable, but there is something black whirling inside his mind and you can't put your guard down with him.
He fights with a gigantic spear as his weapon.
He goes around suppressing towns and villages under suspicion of the Anti-Martel Group under the pretext of treason towards the Miko, and at the same time, by "Lloyd's orders", is searching for the Ratatosk Core and Centurion Core.
Because Martel Church and the Tethe'alla Supremacy Rule's obvious antagonistic relationship with Vanguard, he looks down on Sylverant people as barbarians.

*sigh* In the end, the only update we have are of three antagonists...

I wish I could play the JP version of Ratatosk, but Wiis have region lock... *hiss*
Pointless hope, but I wish the English versions will have a Japanese track for voices. I want to here what they are supposed to sound like. Luckily, Symphonia's dubs weren't that bad...