Can... can I ask which show you're talking about?
Anyway, I have been playing the HELL out of a new 3DS game: Stellaglow. Which is an isometric turn-based strategy RPG based around collecting Magical Girls to sing songs in your Magical Girl Pop Idol Group, for the sake of saving the world of course. It's got everything your anime loving weeaboo nerd could ever want: Anime-style, Waifus, J-pop special attacks, Waifus, Social Links, Weapon Customization, Evolution Class Changes, lots of good voice acting, Waifus, and a story that isn't half-bad.
My only gripes:
It's a fairly easy game, the game gives you lots of opportunities to grind, even having special grinding spots that you can enter with 3DS playcoins, but honestly you never need to. I actually have only ever used my playcoins in a scant few games, so it feels so WEIRD when any game asks for them. I'm always reminded of the guy from Shin Megami Tensei 4 with his iconic line when you die "Mmm, I see you have a healthy supply of play coins...", it's like asking me to insert Monopoly money into the 3DS. It's so ridiculous.
Oh, but while the game is easy, it still does some bullshit stuff like teleporting in new enemies in the middle of a fight without warning, or suddenly altering the winning/losing condition, giving both enemies and Neutral NPC's really unpredictable AI which winds up being a BIG DEAL when they can one-shot your characters in some missions. There's one story mission that allowed me to survey all the enemies, and none of them have steal-able items, so I decide not to take my thief character in. Near the end of the fight, an enemy appears that literally has one of the best items in the game and I missed out on it because I didn't want to reset my progress back like an hour just so I could redo the whole mission with the Thief character in my party. I was seriously bummed about that game, that wasn't cool.
You only have so much time you can devote to improving social links, and even devoting every possible second I could to social linking I could only get 4 character's links maxed out by the end of the game. From what I can see, there's no optimal way to do it to get all of them, this isn't Persona 4, you just have to pick the ones you like and frickin COMMIT, and then just hope you never change your mind in the future.
Additionally, there's several non-social linking activities you can do that consumes your precious social linking time: Doing part-time jobs and an 'explore' option. The part time jobs, from what I can see, seemingly only give you money in a game that showers you with cash after every battle... well, the jobs seem to have Social Links tied to them as well, but time just so FINITE, I wasn't at all willing to experiment with something that might just give me an item or something. Then the 'explore' option just causes your MC to wander to a place and pick up a random item off the ground; the only reason I'd see you using it is if you just hated your characters and didn't want them to get permanently stronger, instead you'd rather hope and pray for some decent gear in a hole or something. In essence, it IS the random item vending machine from Persona 4 that would eat up an entire day just from using it.
So yeah, time is painfully finite, and the best choice to use it is instantly obvious, why even have the other choices? That's a flaw in my book.
And the final flaw I can think of right now is just that there's SO MANY characters in the game that I love and want to use, but the game suffers from the common problem in SRPG's where you can only use so many characters per fight, so you have to seriously judge each character and make some hard cuts when the roster grows too fat with awesome characters that you love... but just be careful you don't accidentally neglect the wrong characters, cause there's story missions that force the usage of some characters, and some special optional bonus conditions that require certain characters to finish a boss or something, and obviously that's not gonna happen if you decided you didn't like them and let them wither away in low-level hell.
But that's Stellaglow, pick it up right now for like Fifty Bucks.
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