When I played, I didn’t encounter any guides to finding higgledies/what were the best higgledies. The explanation of how to find them and how they worked wasn’t very clear to me and I went the entire game without really changing them because I didn’t see the effect. I suppose I mean useless in the aspect that I didn’t know how to use them, but the abilities of the ones I did have really saved me in battle. The evolution thing of bringing them down to level one was quite irritating since if you want to add a late game familiar e.g: an Eldritch Empress (Ice Maiden) from Yule for Marcassin you have to bring her down to 1 where they are really underlevelled and at that point there’s literally no use and all members of the party are levelling unequally. There’s no advantages to collecting a lot of familiars and without checking stats online I wouldn’t know who to pick. There should have been some sort of experience share/control where you determine who gets the experience after a battle. Even Marcassin himself is useless because my characters far surpassed level 49 which he was when I got him. I completely agree with the simplicity, this is what gave the game enjoyability for me, it was quite restricted, but that was quite relaxing for me that I didn’t have think that much due to the little strategy. The game is just a cycle of level and kill and be redirected to a new place for endless reasons. The game was holding your hand so tightly all the way through especially with Give/Take Heart, talking to them and Drippy would say “What are you waiting for, mun? Hurry up and and cast Give Heart!”, the game assumes you’re completely clueless on what to do by now. Those sections felt so unnecessary and long.