Oh ok, talking about some Era posters only. Yes, that's really specific, my bad.
"so guys, how are the prewie..."
XCX comes to mind, even more if you compare it to Xc1 or Xc2.
I won't when it actually is nitpicking. When you say stuff like this:
You are selectively and disingenuously nitpicking. Skyrim literally sold its self on being a massive world with tons of side content. Saying the marketing didn't communicate that or that no one made a big deal about it is ludicrous. You're pretending that 8 main storylines in the game is equivalent to 8 side quests.in another game. It's been brought up many times that each chapter of each storyline brings in multiple new NPCs and sidequests. The game is exactly what its been communicated as. If that doesn't appeal to you fine, but stop pretending the game is lying to us.
Reading this it makes it sound like an FFXIII situation except instead of locking gameplay systems down until the end it's locking away meaningful interpersonal story-telling and character development until the eleventh hour, while the gameplay systems are always available.
I mean it could be a really ambitious attempt at taking on the short-story genre in JRPG, a sort of Edith Finch type thing.
We don't know yet. The previews aren't past Chapter 3. There are connecting elements between some character's storylines that we've seen so far. Many are speculating that either late in the game or after the individual stories are done, the story will come together in some way, but as of now we don't know that for sure.
Even if it's doing what the developers intended it to do people can still be disappointed about the direction.
Not at all. Not even slightly.
I can't see why you will naturally expect something that was never hinted at or marketed. It's more you expectations and your experience with the genre.
It's honest, maybe underwhelming for some people, but it's honest and that's good.
I think there might be a misunderstanding here. I mean... if it's only for "the character who's story you're on at the moment" it would be perfectly normal.
Yep, the first character is locked with a lock symbol in your select screen.
Multiple people have said you can't remove the character you start with from the party.
I understood that.
The game gives you an option from the second prologue forward to either play the entire prologue or just the final phase. If you replay the entire prologue, it's just the relevant character running around with the rest helping you out in the final phase.
Yes, which is why I'm highly sceptical :D
That you need to have your first character all the time, and the MC for the selected character too, so you can only choose the other 2 slots.
There have been JRPGS where NPC dialogue changes depending who's the party leader or how far you've progressed (after you crossed certain checkpoints.)
