<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The create-a-character mode is pretty dialogue intensive. It's pretty much like your Japanese dating sim (though you're building friendship as opposed to love). One of the cool features about it is you get to choose between whether you want to go to the Power Shrine or the Love Shrine on New Year's Day. Though the Power Shrine makes your character ungodly powerful. I'm pretty sure it gives more bonus than perfecting the last test, or beating Hayato (or whatever that teacher dude with a stick was called) when you only have basic moves (weak/strong punch/kick, that's it). But if you choose the Love Shrine you get a pretty neat picture of whoever your current best friend is. There is some pretty cute story going on, for example if you choose Akira as your best friend you never find out she's the helmeted girl until the very end. I ended up with Hinata on my character with completely maxed out stats minus starting vigor bar (only 6). One of my friend played a female character and ended up with Batsu (BTW, you can be friends with anyone, it just makes more sense if you play a male character you should be going after a female character, and vice versa). Another one of his character was called Shinji, and appropriately, no one liked him, and he wasn't even trying to be disliked! I think his best friend was Hyo, though that's because everyone else hated him.</div>