Oh hell yes! I got a 5th party member! It's Shoka. I was a bit surprised even though I knew she didn't want to do the whole reaper thing, but not to the point of straight up helping us, I wonder if she did that in week 1 or if Sho knew, they should have worked together oh well.
I was doing pretty well with 4 party members, but with 5 party members... this is fantastic. If I want to I can straight up relegate one person to just heal/cure my status ailments while the rest are heavy hitters that attack.
And 300% groove is. a. freaking. godsend. I don't even bother equipping a healing pin, I actually just focus on getting to that 300% groove, because it unleashes this badass attack that kills all the enemies, and restores my health to full, better than any pin possibly could. I'm literally chaining like 10 encounters at a time when previously it was suicide, because now I can heal myself in during one of those 10 encounters which gives me enough HP to finish the battle instead of constantly dying from hundreds of enemies' attacks slowly chipping away at my health. So glad this game lets us have as many as 5 party members battling on screen. Even getting to 300% is easier now and I'm constantly doing it.
Fun fact, light pins can heal a little bit as well as deal out damage and the their healing is tied to combos, like for example, the bomb psyche, if you use it at the right time you'll heal a massive amount of HP due to the damage inflicted on the enemies. Do note that just because your party is 5 now instead of 4 doesn't mean this gets easier, no, you're about to meet some of the deadliest enemies in the game now It's been awhile since I played but I really loved the shotgun pin, the light bullet pin, the sword arm pin, the bomb pin as mentioned and the noise pins, that's right, if you haven't noticed already you can eventually get noise pins from enemies and let me tell you, some of them are really strong and fantastic combo finishers.