Of course I missed something. Definitely going to use a guide for my next playthrough, but that's a LONG way off.
well, technically you didnt miss him but took another branch in the story that get you another character. you need like 3 runs to complete the roster.
Oh, is that how NG+ works in this game?
NG+ works incredible awesome on this game, because it has Continue+. NG+ will let you replay from the start of the game with all of your items, elements(minus the special ones) and gears you collected intact. Continue+ did the same but with a saved normal game instead. and this is where it get interesting, continue+ with the save file you have before the last boss and beat the game again, overwrite the clear game data and now you have 2x the items. repeat until necessary, remember not to overwrite the last boss save from 1st run since you need it to abuse this trick.
also the NG+ give you 2 neat Key Items. one for replacing Serge at the battle party, and the other one is to make the game run at 2x speed (except at loadings).
That's all super cool. Why have I heard absolutely nothing about Cross until picking it up myself? ---