Quote Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart View Post
The frog is named Cyrus, which is a nice homage to Frog's friend.
Also, Aldo mentions he was turned "again", so this is a step above an expy. I don't know in regard to Raven.

It isn't that different from Chrono Cross where you can recruit someone by going to a random town and exchanging 3 lines of dialogue with them.
I kinda get you mean those extraneous PCs didn't have much of a role to play as very few of them impacted the storyline, but your statement almost makes it sound like attaining those characters was easy. The only draw of obtaining every character in Cross was the different tasks you had to perform to unlock them. RANTI HATE hatpull characters. It's not just that they don't impact the story, it's that their entire presence feels unearned. No sidequest, no minigame, no character-specific key item. Nothing but the programmer's half-assed attempt to convince us this is an interesting character using only a scant character summary which you can't even find in game. Remember "show, don't tell"? And no, the Personal quests do not fulfill this criteria.
But what I HATE all the more is when they are unlockable guest characters for a special event that pertains to their own story and YET. THEY. HAVE. NO. ROLE. Every game that features the character draw system should be deleted from the outset. Rant over.

Did I happen to mention I like this game so far? No? Probably should have led with that. I do have some gripes.

I'm at Tower of Time and the Visus Embryo is OP. Destruction Time hits the whole party for 500p. The storyline grants you access to one healer. Unless you buy up a load of pulls for a chance at a second healer, if she goes down, you're screwed because there is no recovery from KO during battle.