Thread:MMYP999/@comment-27033016-20190629211851/@comment-27416494-20200106223937

Well yeah, over the top attack animations like this are a pretty long standing tradition for JRPG bosses.

As far as the Trails series itself is concerned, this is hardly the only the planet busting attack of its kind, as seen with Anima Mundi's S Craft in Trails in the Sky the 3rd. This one's a particularly special case, as the plot of that game largely takes place within its own seperate realm of existence. (Though if you're wondering how most of the party didn't take damage from that, it's because they were protected by Grail Sphere, which grants them total invincibility to a single attack.)

With that in mind, we could very well conclude that the cast is capable of that sort of power at their peak. And of course, with the playable appearances of the Sky Trilogy's cast in the later Cold Steel games, we could legitimately scale Emma to them as well.