Originally Posted by
Loony BoB
The home screen tells you 50% but I believe it's referring to the quest, not the overall game. Mine has been 50% and then dropped back down to 0% later on, so I can only assume that's what it is. At the moment I find the "Here be Rosfields" trophy progress to be a better indicator of how far into the game you are. It's freely visible and says there are 68 areas in the game, I've so far been to only 21 of them.
I tend to agree with you on the characters. The longer the game goes on the more I've become interested in the overall story, and the characters might have interesting stories individually as well, but as a group I find them lacking - I think they need to be more diverse in personality.