I agree it felt like I didn't have enough time to just enjoy the world and characters. If possible I'd love a few extra days of just doing work or talking to characters thrown in.
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maybe if they're able to give you the days happen in the hinterlands to allow us to still assign roles, even if it's just research and exploring, then at the end of the hinterlands section it would update the MC on what the results of the research and exploring of the days during hinterlands. that would allow us to accumulate some research and exploration points, I kept eyeing the gym upgrade but never was able to get it on my first playthrough
I also didn't know what to do to get the gym my first couple of playthroughs. Even with the tutorial I struggled, and I only figured it out on my 3rd playthrough. I'm sure they'll add more days as they keep adding content, so I'm not really too worried about it? I still have not been able to finish Asterion's project no matter what I try though! It makes mesad lol poor moo.
But that's a good idea to possibly add a time to assign roles while in the Hinterlands.
as they add more days with content, they probably will also be adding more to the project selection, so it might end up having the same time constraints to explore as it does now. I would love to complete everything in a single run, because then that means I left everyone happy and resolved all of their issues that only the MC's influence on them can do. for example, doing a single cycle run on majoras mask doing all the side missions and dungeons so when you do the final boss everyone has been helped.