Alright I've started with Primrose, finished her story and recruited Olberic, did all his chapter 1 as well. What an amazing gem of a game. I like how when you run out of time the game let you save wherever you are (you normally only can at save point, a weird choice for a portable game). Did three of the four side quests I've found, could not figure the other one out. Ennemies seems to scale a bit, starting wilderness area were at Danger Level 1 and when my two character were level 8 or 9 it upgraded to Danger Level 4, and the other character on the world map their recommended level went from 5 to 7.
Now I wonder if the whole game you just deal with each character personal storyline (which would be pretty unique for the genre) or after their own personal storyline it ties together to a greater evil and go full on classic jrpg, that I don't know. I'm in day one, what a strong first three hours.
Not really. You don't really "play" as any one character, you play as a party of characters, if that makes sense. So, once you have Olberic in your party he's in your party for good, you just unlock his questline to do when you please. It's quite open in the sense that you aren't really forced into progressing any certain way. If you wanted you could try and go solo as your first character, finish their story then go meet another one; or you could do everyone's Chapter 1, then everyone's Chapter 2, and so on.
The game strongly implies you're meant to do everyone first chapter. The recommended level jumped from lvl 5 to 21 for Primrose and from 5 to 27 for Olberic. Unless you're willing to grind a heck of a lot, they expect you to go and recruit/advance the others character story.
