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So sorry ness. I didn't get your tag at all so something must've happened to your post cus I did look here the other day but nothing was here so it must've been made invisible for some reason!

nessisonett wrote:

The entire game can be summed up as: do one pretty fulfilling thing. Now do it 2 or 3 more times. In between these, get a limited amount of character development to encourage replays. Even then, I could point to about 3 party members who get any significant growth at all. I swear, Gaius just meanders about and goes on about the wind and God like some sort of Native American but written by a middle-aged Japanese man. And then at the end of the game, when everyone has their own stuff to get on with, HE JUST GOES HOME AND THAT’S IT! The guy is pleasant enough but just like Elliot, Machias and to an extent, Laura if you don’t try to bonk her, there’s a vast emptiness where a character should be. What’s infuriating is that there’s some great character work with Fie, Jusis, Emma and Millium, with Alisa having a decent arc too if you go down the bonking route which I have just decided is canon to avoid the harem crap. The kicker though? Almost every single NPC in the game is given more development than the party members. Solely due to the fact that you don’t have to choose to interact with them during a set period of time. So they get all the time in the world to talk to you and interact with the whole party and generally benefit from the sometimes great writing. Whereas you pals seemingly only talk to the MC, never each other, and treat you as if you really are the main character of the world. It’s a far, far cry away from Sky and Zero/Azure, where you’re basically a small cog in a larger machine and your party