An alternative to parsing?

[RiyahArp]

Duties need to grade you, perhaps like in FFXIII, when you complete a duty. Seeing a big C or D at the end of a primal might be a wake up call to a lot of people.

Those actually have fallen out of favor in games, I think.

I mean, the first time you beat something, C. But not many people would replay the levels obsessively to get the A, S, or SSS, and a lot of the requirements to get those in past games were so high as to be ridiculous. So players would just ignore the ranking system overall and beat the game. Mostly because otherwise, the moment you make a mistake, you just restart the level anyways. Die or get hit once? say goodby to an s ranking.

As for this game, we had Arbuda in the fist as a low key version of ranking, where your companion would comment based on your performance as a team, and it generally sucked.