Yeah, that makes sense.
Maybe it was misinformation, but I read that after you complete the game with your main character you can then change to a new main character. Is that true? If so, you could play through the game once with four characters and then change out your main and complete the game again with the other four. Is that possible?
You wouldn't need to "complete the game again", to be clear. It sounds like you can just switch who's locked into your party (at which point it's arbitrary) then, so at that point you can just go do the other 4 characters' chapters. No need to restart the game or anything.
I have read a few reviews now and the only one that mentions party banter was Eurogamer. The wording makes it seem not very common. Though english is not my native language, so i might have misread that. How often do we get some party banter. Having a party that talks to each other is very important to me. I want some fun interactions between the party. I don't really care if their banter has any relevance to their main stories.
It's very weird; I haven't read all these reviews but in one case it still only mentions the one on one scenes. I had no idea there was Party Chat till it was announced yesterday, and Googling showed only people talking about a brief mention of it in some guide book (or blurb about the book...?). It seems like it might be pretty rare? Or maybe there's limited combinations of characters that react to things so you have to be lucky about having them in the right place at the right time...? We'll see.
Nah I was hoping reviewers like Jason and APZonerunner could tell us because how would we know without playing the game.
I'm really kidding btw, but those two did try to set it up as only people who are negative know what they're talking about.
No idea about this APZ person, but Jason's points in the preview thread were along the lines of that people who had only played the prologues could not judge the full game, and otherwise were largely relying on marketing and hype. Given that his criticisms are largely directed at the full stories, the grinding around that, and so on, that's indeed things people who had only played the prologues would not understand.
Jason admits to a partial play in Kotaku review
This is a weird post given that other reviews talk about doing only 4 characters, while he did 8 and only didn't do endgame stuff because Nintendo refused to tell him how to access it.