TMOG posted... ...having a good story, a fun combat system, beautiful art direction and an even better score, a large cast to recruit
"But a lot of those characters are useless!"
So are a lot of Pokemon, but people still love those games even if they have no intention of using a Bibarel.
I say this a lot, but most of Cross's cast are just a fun bonus to recruit if you want to go for completion. You still get your cast of core characters that are story-based recruits, but somebody like, say, Skelly is optional for a reason. He doesn't matter, but he's a fun reward for doing a sidequest.
I said this about having a huge cast in my old topic:
Having a huge cast potentially detracted focus on some other characters. For example, Guile was supposed to be Magus but because the game focused on having a huge cast, there was less focus on the exploration of Guile.Also, a great part of CT's charm was character development and CC blew it hard on bringing back this charm and you can say having a huge cast fucked it up.