Once you have recruited a certain number of characters, other characters cannot join anymore.
Note: There is no recruitment limit in the Remaster edition.
- 8 spots are taken by all the main characters (even if you do not or cannot recruit them).
- Robins do not count when they join during the fight vs. Demons during the Yamas event.
- Wood counts as one when he joins during the Ice Lake event.
- Sharl counts as one if he joins during the Gon event.
- Muse and Sharl count as one each when they join during the Nightmare event.
No recruitement limit for Julian, Thomas, Mikhail, Harid, Sara, Ellen, Monica & Katarina (they count as recruited from the start).
Those 8 taken out of the equation, for all the other characters, the recruitment limit is:
14 for Boston, Fairy, Fullbright, Leonid, Nora, Paul, Poet, Robin, Snowman, Tatyana, Undine, Wood
15 for Zo, Bai Meiling
16 for Yan Fan
17 for Tiberius
No recruitement limit for Muse, Sharl, Shonen, Zhi Lin, Herman/Black (can always be recruited and count as one if they join)
If you go over the recruitment limit, you possibly cannot do the Ice Lake event (hence no Ice Galaxy), nor can you help Nora (she goes away forever). So be careful, know who you want to have in your party, or deal with the recruitment limit-sensitive quests first.
Note that the number of your recruits is a factor in the
LEVEL-UP BUG (SFC ONLY)
