That's kinda what I meant. The ideas were awesome, but the execution was bad. Erebus is isnteresting from a lore perspective, but it would be enough if the party just saw it and not had to fight it - it was tacked on as a final boss. How everybody deals with their grief and this causing an internal conflict in their group is also a nice idea, but they didn't need to seperate them into four neat factions, just to represent the traditional MegaTen alignments. Hell, Junpei should stick with Aigis, and even if he stuck with Akihiko and Ken, Koromaru had a way bigger reason to stay with Aigis, like, you know, the fact that she can speak doge?

It's kinda like Skyblade said - all the subtlety that the Journey had about it's message of life and death is thrown out the window. I get that it's about grief, that could have been cool, but I really felt this was rushed.

Also, Fuuka says "I just remembered something" or something similar about three times in this scenario. You can say what you want about the rest, but this is just incredibly lazy writing