"In from the cold" was fine. Please keep trying new things, SE (spoilers)

[SeverianLyonesse]

The duty itself was fine. I didn't mind it.

But everything surrounding it was definitely a low point in the story.

* You got diverted into a one-duty side quest completely irrelevant to the main plot that was going on at the time.
* The villain never performs any actual evils while occupying your body, making the whole affair kind of uneventful.
* Both villains just come off as impotent, making all these threats that they don't actually intend to (or manage to) carry out.
* We already saw the Ardbert impersonation in ShB to greater effect.
* Totally inconsequential dramatic twist--with a lot of potential to meaningfully affect the plot--that is resolved almost as soon as it began.

It seemed that they wanted to draw dramatic parallels between WoL and Zenos, but they forgot two crucial details:

1) Dramatic parallels that don't have their own independent value are just as bad as bad writing without literary devices.
2) The Zenos body possession was also a terrible plot development and probably the series' OTHER low point (after the Waking Sands).

Hated it. I probably would have ragequit the game for a few days if I didn't know that Anima was right around the corner.

Escorting missions have gone smoothly for me. Metal Gear Thancred was a nice change up. But GD In from the Cold was just a waste of everyone's time.