>>24686401Considering the general info dropped in the English marketing (an adventure greater in scope than any other, definitive PMD, etc etc), as well as the information provided in CoroCoro, it seemed pretty damn obvious that this was Chunsoft's attempt to tie all the games together into one single universe.
Then then half-assed it by not actually doing anything of the sort and just including fanservice cameos. I was wondering how they were going to try and connect the games, whether they'd do it subtly through references in interactables or whatever (like bookshelves with history books or something), or whether it'd be a game set in the way way future from the rest of the games (like how people used to think that Rescue Team was the future after Explorers), but no... no, Chunsoft was happy to just do fanservice.
Like, I feel like this game would be a lot better if it hadn't had any of the fanservice or any of the connections to the previous games. Its weird, since I felt like Gates wasn't connected enough, it felt like they were trying to start the series fresh off again (and they failed miserably).