Definitely my favorite of the Arland trilogy. I liked that it felt the most like It had the coolest 'gimmick' (growing your kingdom), and was as far as I know, it wasn't easy to miss events to progress the story. It had my favorite characters of the trilogy, and while I think it was a bit weird literally every character from the last two games eventually came to Arls, it was fun in a fanservicey way. It was worth getting through Totori for this game, in my opinion!