I have such great fun with this game. My only gripe is not having a guide lol. I saw that in order to build your friendships, you do have a small window here and there to do them. I saw that when I missed so-so's concert, I missed the opportunity to watch it because I slept for a day.
Licenses isn't that meaningless, most of them help with your friendships and your stats. Mira with Sweeper and Star license, hell, just working Attendant with Mac will yield you the chance to go to the Blue Desert Hotel to get that engineering license.
Engineering license would give you the rock drill to get past the rocks to get better treasures (coatings, currency and the rocks yield minerals for the farmer license) is the big one. I enjoyed most of this game by not just fighting (or otherwise the high encounter rate would annoy me sooner than later).
And god yes, the music is wonderful!
I didn't realize Josh's banned for a while... wish to take that diss back. Now I'm embarrassed!
Jam it back in, in the dark.