Shai-Tan
Banned
I don't want the removal of the pawn system—I just don't want my party to be 50% comprised of throw-away nobodies I don't care about. I know some like what was done with the game, but I find it to be one of the stupidest examples of Japanese developers making wacky gameplay aspects for no reason in a long time. RPGs should be about creating attachment to your party, no rotating half of it in and out constantly like they were armor or weapons.
To me it seems obvious pawns are a salvage job from the tech they had built out. They could have spent a few more years fleshing out the game but they stopped there and slapped whatever ridiculous idea they could think of to explain the talking parrot AI.