I've been playing for a while, but I haven't found the option to change my party members to the subcharacters I'll receive throughout the game.

I know that Ghostlight isn't mentioned on the product page, but are they somehow involved in this port here? Yes, I know they censored previous Agarest games but that's not the reason I'm so upset now. After their horrible Nintendo Switch-Port of Fairy Fencer which I unfortunately bought, I will stay away from stuff this company handled. If they are somehow involved in this port here, I will watch the hub here closely if they messed up something again (they messed up Devil Survivor Overclocked too for the...

Ok, so i remember playing Agarest Generationts of War and that it took up to 20 minutes for even normal combat. Even chaning skills resulted in...well, pretty pathetic damage. So while the story was awesome and the combat system itself was fun, enemies had so much HP, it soon turned into a slugfest. Is this game different? Did i do something wrong in the first game? Also - should i have played prior games to understand the story, or is it like Final Fantasy?...

in replation to 1st / 2nd / zero is this like a 3rd game? how important is it to play earlier games for story? not sure if I should buy

I love rpgs, especially turn based ones. Good entry point? Also: Is this only available on Steam?