Yeah ... the MoF and SA art kinda reminded me of the PC-98 art, vaguely, and it made me wonder if he was starting to get nostalgic. I dunno, though, looks like UFO's leaning towards "ur doin it rite again finally."
Well ... beyond the fact that he decided to discard Spell Practice, the most mindbogglingly useful device in the entire series, after using it in precisely one game, but ...