To contrast it even more to FFVI: if you brought certain characters along for the ride they would react to certain characters or story queues.

Sounds like a trade-off between integrating a storyline and letting you choose your party and choose which stories to follow, especially if you’re making a niche game like this.

Folks always talk about how they want to both have a significant amount of choice and have those choices matter to the storyline, but it…

I really want an advanced version of P5. If the only change is getting to date Yusuke, I’ll be totally happy.

Cindy’s character design gives me a certain uncomfortable cringey feeling that I get from plenty of other Japanese games but rarely from Final Fantasy. It’s disappointing.

I feel like at some point, we’re going to have to have a real serious talk about how Square Enix handled the women in this game.