its seems like its barely around as far as i can tell :V
like forgetable it exists as far as the internet thinks, at least parts i come across
People got booty blasted over some mix of it killing off the Trigger cast and not being Trigger 2.0.
Then you have folks like me who played it relatively open-minded, enjoyed the **** out of it, and got childhood crushes on Harle.
That's the two camps of people you generally come across in my experience. The former will decry or ignore it, the latter will defend it but isn't especially vocal.
Compared to Trigger, there's some steps forward, there's some steps back, and there's about a dozen steps sideways. But it's still a good time. If you can find it somehow in this age of inflated OG disks and ROM takedowns, you should give it a try.
45 ****ing hell. But I don’t think you can actually get them all in a playthrough, right?
Nope. Lot of em are mutually exclusive or dash partway through the playthrough in heartbreaking fashion.
Depending on when you go bop the Time Devourer, you can carry over a lot of em to NG+, but there's at least two characters who can't be in your party in the same time under any circumstances, so 44's as close as you can get to a full crew.