well, I played and beat both this game and kozue's strange journey
while I really like this dev's writing and style, this game's script kinda uses the previous game and throwbacks to its events as a crutch. Like, if you don't have Letina and Daenerus in your party, you're gonna miss like over half of the game's dialogue, making it overall barebones and lacking
Meanwhile the "new" party members pretty much get no dialogue at all outside of the main story of which there isn't really much in the first place :V
I did find it pretty cool that you can recruit/spare all the enemy "generals" though