i think it was pleasing

Honestly I liked having a little on screen companion following along.

I'm so-so on this one. it depends on the game for me. PvA though? I truely can't lean either way?

I love seeing him follow! It's adorable!

Personally I'd say go with following, I prefer that myself for more games that lean a bit more adventure-y than rpg-ish. Not to mention the pokemon mystery dungeon games have your party all shown [including escort guests] so I think for pokemon the precedent would be show them all.

I like having Nickelie follow, actually ^^

Well i say it should mostly depend on the part of the game it is at, if its a part where it would help add to the atmosphere, then they should follow, especially if a gameplay mechanic is used where you have to wait for someone to get to where you are first, but if its a case of where maybe more of the main characters are travelling together that actually can vore, then they should'nt visually follow unless it is for atmospheric reasons like maybe they have to split up or something, but for the case of with what you have in the demo, that should stay.

I think it is pleasing to see the others following after, final fantasy 7 did it not due to limitations on the engine I guess.

But generally I think its pleasing to see partymembers following. ^-^

I thin maybe a mix system, like a toggle to make it visible party or hidden party.

It's visually pleasing if they follow the player's pathing well, but if it takes too much work to do for multiple uses, I'd say you'd be spending better development time getting further through the game's story and events. It depends on what you'd like as a priority, to which I see this as a low priority. If it wouldn't take too much time to fully develop, then I'd say go for it. c:

I, like many of the other commenters here, did enjoy having Nickelie follow Lilly, for to me it established the Big Sister taking care of Little Brother relationship that is mentioned in Lilly's bio, as well as having to use your growl to have him stay behind in order to keep him out of danger. The only scenario win which the F.F. VII system would be helpful, in my opinion, would be when you're at the point of having so many companions a cargo train would get jealous of how long your line is 8I

One idea I would like to put forward though would to have a system like that of Legend of Zelda FourSwords, in which you can have multiple characters, but be able to switch between them in, and being able to just press a button in order to call them all together. This could open up some interesting opportunities for more complex puzzles, or even just save the player time, by having one character sick back to press the button while another presses a different button, rather than having to walk back and forth like Lilly has to at a few points during the demo.

Oh, well I'm glad that the point got though Nickelie fallowing Lily. There are other characters that fallow the main characters around and I do believe I'm going to need to figure something out with them. Some are wanting to help so a way for them to contribute to the adventure and gameplay would be a huge thing to figure out. I like your idea from 4 Swords. Don't remember if it happened in 4 Swords but you triggered a memory of character which could be swopped at will. Could use that to have both characters contribute along side puzzles.

Perhaps have the other characters have their own little quirks, things such as comments that they can make after the player does a certain action, or having them do little idle animations, such as having Nickelie pull out his Masked Murkrow comic and reading it while he is idle.

And for the swapping part, this could be helpful for parts where, for example, say there is a tree blocking the way, as is per f****** usual in a pokemon game (which could make a funny secret dialogue), and you currently only have Lilly, and because of that cannot get past, but later the player gains access to Mark, whom is able to cut down the tree. Or for a different example, you need to reach a button to continue in the level, but you cant swim, so you choose to switch to Tommy in order to have him swim across and push the button. Granted these sorts of actions could just be done with a cut scene, but I feel this could add a puzzle system similar to the ones that are present in he pokemon franchise, but a bit more advanced, due to the fact that the player would have to switch between players to do multiple tasks to get the final result, which now that I think about it would be a bit more reminiscent to the puzzles present in the Lego games (lego harry potter, star wars, ect...)

I liked it, but if it was more than one following at once then it wouldn't have worked as well.

I like having digital followers, it feels entertaining to me.

Having people travel visibly as a group is nice, but not quite nice enough to be worth the extra effort it takes to do. Of course, if it is already done I would like to see it kept in.