I played this 1.5 times because I thought it would be funny to invest in Meg, dragging the rest of the Dawn Brigade down so much that I effectively soft locked myself in part 3 and had to restart with better planning. I think that makes me unqualified to call the rest of the gameplay a slog but I'm saying it anyway. There's one chapter where you watch ten horses behind a fence each take their turn with no skip button and that's somehow more engaging than most if not all of the maps in Part 4.

Micaiah is one of my favourite main characters in the series despite all this, and I do think she had girl power when she trapped those guys in a ravine and doused them in highly flammable oil