Posted December 25, 2019
muddysneakers: Also did all those items I collected from the sidequests do anything? And was I supposed to actively use my friends' abilities or did it just happen?
I think the items were there to give to specific NPCs at specific times, but I don't remember or know whether that would have resulted in any rewards apart from some extra dialogue, and I disliked that you could miss the right time to complete quests without the game giving you any heads-up about it. And you can select what friends accompany you not just based on who you like best, but also on what abilities you prefer, and then you can assign specific companion abilities to specific combo shapes, in a menu somewhere. It's just that there's hardly any need to pay attention to these mechanics, since I think you can beat the game without ever making use of them. The healing ability was a useful one, but it made the combat even more trivial ...