oh i beat it. Understandably very short, I liked it a lot though! I like how the story is a bit more hands on instead of just "mission briefing based on which side you picked".
Not going to 100% it yet because Master of Arena lets me pull my save from Project Phantasma.

of course the NPC thats a woman has a pink AC, because girl.

holy SHIT the quality jump from AC1 to this is noticeable. Nearly all the missions have intros with little cutscenes, they smoothed out the menu speed and framerate. It really does just feel like AC1 but with a little bit extra. I'm a little sad though that when From swapped publishers and republished AC1 they didn't go back and do like a 1.1 of the game with the improvements from the expansions.