will say it seems they are doubling down on MSQ by making 1 set of Role quests mandatory where the other 3 sets you don't do are side content. So i would advise anybody who you try and get interested in this game to be as informative as possible and tell them it has a lot of cutscenes, there is a lot of back and forth between areas, if these are deal breakers then it would be best to find another game to play, because at it stands atm for ShB MSQ is remaining mandatory to do later content, they have plans to trim down ARR but they would still need to go through ARR to SB to get access to ShB if they are not willing to pay extra to get there.