>>50789353Fern is needed to enter the final area, the New World Asylum, since he's 'been there before'. Again, for the unaware, we are in a new timeline that Anna created to overwrite the old one. In the 'old timeline', Fern was the hero meant to stop Lin, but failed miserably, which is why Anna and Arceus created us.
The rationale for not making the game's finale be a big siege and a sendoff to all the characters, which presumably the devs themselves want you to like? Lmao we gotta subvert (Lin's) expectations
