locked out of stork character scenario 9?

[leonsatelier]

so i’ve just been playing the game doing all character scenarios basically as soon as they appear and most of them are maxed. i’m getting close to the end but for some reason i can’t get stork’s 9th scenario. he’s just stuck at 8 and i’m confused on what to do. i maxed his affinity already and have been checking on him a bunch but it just doesn’t let me talk to him. i’m at the part where as a musician we go to the tower. i actually did the battle just to see if it would unlock after but bc storks brainwashed i didn’t save thinking i might still fix this. i doubt i can unlock it after that battle
anyways i was wondering if this happened to anyone else or if theres a way to still get it. its not a massive dealbreaker as i want to replay the game as well but it still sucks

[Newby24]

The game softlocks you out of basically all of them at a certain point. Once they are brainwashed, it is too late. You have to max their character rank to 9 via battles and then they unlock more as the story progresses.

This new character grind via battles was a new feature added to the remake, it wasn't in the original game. It was only story progression. But the original game did not have the musicians, only party members of the GHC.

[leonsatelier]

Originally posted by Newby24:

The game softlocks you out of basically all of them at a certain point. Once they are brainwashed, it is too late. You have to max their character rank to 9 via battles and then they unlock more as the story progresses.

This new character grind via battles was a new feature added to the remake, it wasn't in the original game. It was only story progression. But the original game did not have the musicians, only party members of the GHC.

seems im too far in then. hes not brainwashed yet but im at the point right before that basically. i forgot to mention that i did have him at like affinity 8 for a while bc i didnt realize that even mattered (had to do almost all of mifue scenarios recently bc i didnt use her to battle ever lol) i got him to 9 but seems i was too late. i suppose ill just get the true ending in ng+