I imagine the three percentages (city, unit, and terminal damage) shown on the battle end screen play the biggest part.
you don't have to manually do it, they just sit out the next battle and are ready to go for the one after
mechanic essentially gives you more mystery points, so you'll get every mystery a few missions before the end game and have tons of points that will transform to spending points for the sentinel upgrades. It also adds a degree of difficulty forcing you to rotate characters so you kind of have to level up everybody if you don't want to be completely screwed by the end. Playing in normal with this system was a good balance, even having to spread my points between all characters I still got S ranking in most instances and the few I didn't was due to screw ups on my part.
The one in analysis. After the game ends, there is one final scene right at the bottom.
Wat? I'm gonna have to check this when I get back into town. It's not the scene that plays at the end of the game, but a new one only found in Analysis?
Haha yes, I'm surprised you didn't notice it. It's a short scene with fun implications that are already pretty well implied in the story.
Yeah. That's your set-up. Sorry.
I am also strongly averse to "stereotypical anime writing" as you put it, and I'm happy to report that this game not only avoids that pitfall but frankly has some of the best character writing I've seen in a game in a long time. It's a credit to both the original writers (mostly Kamitani, I think) and the translation team at Atlus. All of the dialog is very naturalistic, and every character's personality shines through clearly. It's an impressive achievement in storytelling and writing all around.
I never really mind those tropey stuff so maybe I'm not very good at judging it.
