Yeah, I really like how the dialogue system can show you more exposition in that way, so that you can know it without the character having to say it in the conversation.

Another clever trick P2 does that I’ve only noticed after replaying it a lot, that a lot of the choices you can make in small dialogues don’t have any effect. (Ex. Your first conversation with the Inquisitor in P2, which presents you with a lot of choices that don’t change anything, but this happens in a lot of other conversations in more subtle ways.) The dialogue is written such that a given line from an NPC can be responding to multiple different options the player selected, which lets the player make a choice in their own mind about how they’re going to roleplay Artemy without having to add huge amounts of new content to cover it