Octopath Traveler: About swapping party members

[Cerebralbore101]

RolStoppable said:

TruckOSaurus said:
You can eventually swap out your main character but you have to finish their story first (all four chapters) so that can take a long time.

Indeed, the problem goes away eventually. Until then you can play with a core of three members and swap in whoever any given story dictates.

A much bigger problem is that there's no shared EXP in the game, so everyone needs to be leveled up by active participation in battles. That's why the endgame of Octopath Traveler is botched.

Just do the story mode for four characters, and then go and do the story mode for the other four. Now they are all easily and appropriately leveled to face whatever super strong hidden bosses exist in the game.