Yeah, I think the devs operate under the mantra that level design is for losers or something. Putting in at least a minimal amount of effort to make at least some unique areas with a tiny bit of imagination can't be that expensive in terms of development cost. But 50 dungeons with not a single feature that makes even one of them memorable? At that point they're just proud to not give a fuck.
When the best treasure is found in towns and from monster drops, then maybe you shouldn't have treasure in dungeons at all. At least not the quantity it has now. You already know the normal looking chests are going to be trash. Most of the hidden chests in towns and the overworld are trash. The purple chests are gated by one character you might not have in your party. Dungeon design is arguable, especially on a hybrid console. The chests are just bad game design. There's no defending that.
Sue me, I guess. My threshold to consider something to be designed and not just stitched together like a road network in a game of Settlers of Catan seems to be higher than yours. "How could you ever claim they were not designed? There are paths! And those paths vary in length!"
My main concern was the lack of party interactions since I've never played a game like this, I actually ended up not even bothered by it after playing the game, the strongest thing about the game is the combat, I don't even like turn based combat but I loved it in this game, it is more strategic than I thought. Music, the world, visuals and some stories are great too.
Eh, this is a really unfruitful line of thinking. OTs aren't meant to be echo chambers and there's nothing wrong with posting negative thoughts here. People don't "need to move on" from discussing something even if they dislike it.
The bigger problem is that the vast majority of chests in this game contain trash or items that are so easily acquired that they have little value. I pretty much stopped bothering to spend effort on chests after a while. Too much of the itemization in the game is gated behind steal/purchase.
That's an inefficient way to gear up, but even so, chests with useful equipment are a tiny fraction of the chests in the game.
I've barely used Therion and I hate saves scumming. But Tressa provides enough money that you can just buy most of what you need.
You don't want Tressa and Therion in the same team since their field skill is similar, I'd swap one for Olberic and get his divine skill asap, it does wonders against bosses until you get that secret job.
