>>11517967No reason we can't have both good build/content and good designs, it doesn't have to be one or the other. That said, poor build quality wasn't exclusive to the Paradise, at least. Meets would often reset all your progress out of nowhere, original Pix had horrible battery consumption and touch button issues, Uni has its own screen scratching issues among others, and wave 1 Connection remakes had terrible screen contrast. People worried about the Paradise's issues should probably wait for later waves to fix some of them though.
On the design side of things, it really does seem like the moe era is over though considering how well Paradise is doing + the Plus era boom. I'm curious to see where the franchise goes from here and am pretty excited to see old-school philosophies return.
>>11518136Seems like the secret characters are all thematically scuffed versions of their proper species, tying into them being mixed due to needing to connect with all three versions to obtain them. The names of Chodorakotchi, Maamarintchi (this one loses its naming pun in its official translation), and Yayacorntchi become something along the lines of "Kinda a young dragon", "Well, it's marine" and "A bit of a (uni)corn" naming-wise. The fact the sky character can't fly but the land one can is probably supposed to play into that joke.
