>>41386875I think maybe it's less gardevoir affinity and more that people get thrown because grace and joe begin as the central characters, so it can be jarring to some people when a big chunk of plot deviates from that plot thread. Like if you're watching a tv show but it goes off in the middle to do episodes about other people in town.
It didn't bother me much because it did a good job establishing the world, but I can see where some people would be shaken by it. I assume they all would have tied back into the story if the other two parts had been finished though. Alice was seperate at first but she was folded into the core cast eventually.