Atlus do be like that sometimes. (Maybe they thought they should belatedly make up for P3P becoming much easier in places with the addition of direct party control, which wasn't in the original? XD)
HIFUMI IS WONDERFUL but I suspect the RP fandom at large gloms onto the party members before the side characters. Which isn't to say the side characters never show up, but they're rarer for sure. (I also have a habit, between this and P4, of adopting the 'should've been a party member' character. oops?) --SPEAKING OF, since Makoto's on your character list: Did you do the Jinbocho hangout with Makoto? It's one of the summer phone calls and Hifumi crashes it and it's Perfection.
I spotted Haru on the soulmate meme and lobbed Art Boy at her (they're the two who had to live with their primary abuser on a daily basis and have the 'It's Complicated, I love you but also you let me down badly' thing; they should've talked more in canon, but also Haru Deserved More Screen Time Period)! I'll see if I can cook something up for Akira or one of the others as well.
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HIFUMI IS WONDERFUL but I suspect the RP fandom at large gloms onto the party members before the side characters. Which isn't to say the side characters never show up, but they're rarer for sure. (I also have a habit, between this and P4, of adopting the 'should've been a party member' character. oops?) --SPEAKING OF, since Makoto's on your character list: Did you do the Jinbocho hangout with Makoto? It's one of the summer phone calls and Hifumi crashes it and it's Perfection.
I spotted Haru on the soulmate meme and lobbed Art Boy at her (they're the two who had to live with their primary abuser on a daily basis and have the 'It's Complicated, I love you but also you let me down badly' thing; they should've talked more in canon, but also Haru Deserved More Screen Time Period)! I'll see if I can cook something up for Akira or one of the others as well.