I finished off the Malano map in Ogre Battle on PlayStation, recruiting Prince Tristan in the process. It's been quite a while since I last was able to recruit a special character. I've read that he's the protagonist in the Neo Geo Pocket Ogre Battle, which is a side story to this one and I believe takes place concurrently? He's a powerful character, but his party was pretty lame. Who needs two clerics in a unit and a wizard in the front row? I rebuild all my units after each stage, but his especially needed it. Malano ended up being a bit of a wash with reputation. My reputation meter looked over 50% full when I beat the stage's boss, but then my return trip to the stage chipped away at my gains. Between it being a huge map and having loads of buried treasure, I ended up spending so much time that my reputation started dropping from too many days passing, and I also lost some from how I answered an NPC's question. There are seriously so many pitfalls for reputation. So I started up the Antalia stage with what looked like less than 50% of the meter filled, but either way, the point is I'm hovering around half, give or take. Whether that's enough to recruit Yushis in this stage, I don't know. But I'm liking this map. Not too excessively large, and the towns aren't laid out like someone dumped a bag of Skittles. Instead, they're clustered near my base and along the western edge of the map, with a big empty expanse surrounding the enemy's base. I was able to quickly liberate several cities without that posing a problem for me, and even after only the first day passed, I was already getting more in tributes than what I was spending on my troops. Though, lately, my approach has been to clear a map fully of enemies besides the boss, returning most of my units to my base, and then letting high noon come again with that limited military presence to get a good haul from tributes, while praying it's not gonna hurt my reputation, haha. I'm sure it lessens my bonus Goth after clearing the stage, but that's an insignificant difference compared to what I can pull in with tributes after every town is liberated.