in the sake of fairness, I dunno why they gotta peg a specific character as the protagonist for this spinoff game, when it would have been better and more fair to have all 4 choosable and switchable from the start, instead of being so invested in a story for a spinoff that isn't even linked to ROTN anyways. the story/concept would be better if the characters already formed an alliance from the start. the story is not canon anyways, see, COTM is just another example how unfair story can be and cause biased restrictions and favoritism that places one playable character over the others.
why should Zangetsu get special treatment and spotlight over the other characters? only players that care about that character benefit from such a biased pick.
well perhaps they can redeem themselves with some sort of unlockable or method so all characters are playable from the start, cause as is, the way they designed it by default, it means that Zangetsu has more levels than the other characters in the first playthrough, and that's not right.
just cause CVIII did that doesn't mean COTM has to follow that flawed example. COTM could have improved upon the concept with more equal selection from the start, instead of carbon copying CVIII's flawed gimmick of recruiting the characters before they are playable.
its story is not going to win any awards anyways.
I wont purchase it unless it has some password, button code, or unlockable feature that allows all of the characters choosable and playable from the very beginning of the campaign. since they traced CVIII's format to this degree, they might as well go all the way and make sure to include a means for the other 3 characters to be playable from the start as well.
even in Bloodstained ROTN, they should have any extra playable characters choosable from the start besides Miriam,
the player character should be up to the player, not the devs.
so yea in all fairness, that would be better for COTM and ROTN than the way they been doing things.