@darius 100%, that was some of my favorite stuff in this game. That is the kind of fanservice I want!
Also love those little last hurrah sidequests in the final chapter, where the SSS goes to Crossbell to solve a mystery and the Liberl gang has that pseudo-Phantasma segment by Hamel
I saw that Hajimari claims to have even more characters somehow (?!)
@danbruno it's structured a bit like 3rd so I imagine they can just shoehorn in random people pretty easily. Also from the preview images we are getting Rixia and few others who were conspicuously missing from CS4.
I gotta say, I loved all the Rean/Cassius stuff but also him getting Divine Blade was a little confusing and anticlimactic. Like, whatever, I'm not mad about it but... eh.
Oh I liked the Calvard related side quests too, and the Remiferia stuff!