Yeah, the weight system in F4 bugs me too, but after awhile I ended up only picking up stuff and materials I needed. Plus you can give stuff to your companions, so it's not a huge deal. There's trophies for each group with their quests, but I don't know if sticking with one will affect others. I know there's an endgame choice that determines trophies, but you can just not save before it.
Well the TCG already has EX cards which don't need to evolve, so...
Demyx was a weirdo, he didn't fit into OrgXIII at all. Hard as heck fight back when I was a kid. He took me a long time to beat. That, and Larxene in Chain of Memories. Those were my childhood nightmares that took me forever to beat. Now that I think about it, Chain of Memories was a really hard game for me to beat as a kid. Hades, Larxene, Captain Hook, Ursula, Twilight Town Riku Replica, Castle Oblivion Axel (had to grind to level 91 to beat him, I specifically remember that), they all took me a really long time to beat, but now are total pushovers. Have you had any experiences like that in childhood games? Thats my best hope for Chiaki returning, but the new game isn't gonna include old characters, so that's outta the question for now.
2D baby otaku. Your move, wise guy. P4DAN should have let you change characters between songs, that would have been nice. Speaking of which, I still gotta buy the Miku and Adachi DLC...
Oh, I don't blame you, I'd go buy a new TV if it had dead pixels on it. I can't stand that stuff. I have one dead pixel on an old handheld console that bugs me to death.
Your driving circumstances remind me vividly of my ex-gf's situation. Her family can't teach her to drive for basically the same reasons, so she literally takes public transportation everywhere. She's done that from here in Minnesota all the way to New York and back, multiple times! I'm like that with Japan, except Japan will always be awesome. Geezum, that's like 4 times as many handheld consoles as me.