So are we talking customize your looks or doing what they did in the original where you pick boy or girl and your weapon? Yes there are a shit ton of npc to get, you can only have one in your party at a time though, as well as a various pets you can get and your own golem you can customize. Thing is though, unless they've done a pretty big combat revamp, it's all for nothing because, while you can fairly easily find people who'll praise the graphics and ost, and even the story, almost nobody praises the combat.
What I think really pushes the combat into 'bad' territory are a few things; weapons not having decent combos (like the spear), the wonky move speed with weapons, plunge attacks particularly the special ones being almost pointless because enemies moving or hitting you out of them, and the specials. Seriously, the special attacks shouldn't take long enough to charge that the enemy can just wander out of range as you sit there with weird wisps of light coming off you, as you execute a slightly stronger than normal thrust against an empty space.
you're right, of course, and Dawn was what I was mistakenly thinking of. that's the one with the bad gameplay and good story/music
You can just wear the ring the catgirl gives you to alleviate this problem. You can get it fairly early on. There was also some easy way to forge weapons with high attack power that didn't involve a whole bunch of bullshit.
jump into a wood chipper
That's when you know you need to start forging.
This is what I've heard about the entire game, that it's full of obscure easily-missable nonsense and requires a truly autistic devotion to replaying over and over to get the full experience. How true would you say that is?
Dude, thank you!
Honestly it's still a lot of fun to just pick up and play. You don't need any outside knowledge to just go through it, and can usually pick up on stuff. And if not, always an excuse to do a New Game+. I don't think the game was made with the intention of doing everything in a single run.
