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LeonhartFour posted...

wait Trails of Cold Steel has a Persona/Danganronpa-esque mechanic in it?

Yeah.

..Actually, I always referred to it in terms of Persona, but Danganronpa is actually a pretty apt one.

There's a period each chapter called a Free Day where you have a plot objective (generally exploring a dungeon that's on the campus of the Military Academy) but until you do that you can do sidequests a la the Bracer Board and you're also given a number of Bond Points which you can spend by attending events with the other party members/major NPCs. Not everyone is available every chapter and you're not given enough bond points to attend all possible events.

The main draw is the character scenes, but there's also a mechanic that keeps track of - for lack of a better term - your relationship with the party members and as it improves you get additional options in combat when linked to them (linking is a major combat mechanic in Cold Steel.) You can also raise that link level through combat but it'd be painfully slow compared to attending bond events.
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