I love RPGS, mostly JRPGS, and my favorite part in those is having a party full of interesting characters both story and gameplay wise. I am often left wishing I could have all the characters that I enjoy be usable at the same time, but there are obvious reasons for why that isn't really something you want to do.
So while I am developing my project I am left wondering. How many party members the player should be allowed to have? And how that should that be balanced.
I am working on a monster collector. And at the beginning the intention was that the player would have a party of 6, three in front, which are the monsters that player collects and trains. And then there is the three in the back which would be the player and two human companions. The idea is that they all would be controlled by the player. And they would play some role gameplay wise, but I cant help but feel like the party is getting too crowded, player having to keep up with each characters hp and stuff, on top of that there are the enemies. I am left wondering if six is just too much.