New game+ rewards

[Iscah]

so my suggestion is to make NG+ give some exp reward so that people have a reason to do that without having a feeling that they'd better level another character rather than using the NG+. to avoid ppl exploiting it to level faster, i'd also suggest to make cutscenes unskippable like the MSQ dungeons.

That would just inconvenience the target audience as well as the EXP grinders. Yes they're there for the story, but with it delivered in large chunks of half-a-game or so, they might not want to watch every single cutscene again. Maybe they just want to replay the one-time-only fight with X, and get through everything on the way there as quickly as possible.

Also, look at how much people complain about unskippable cutscenes already, with generous rewards and the reasoning that it's to help other people who want to watch it!

Whatever they're doing 'behind the scenes' to make NG+ work might not even be compatible with rewards. It seems to be dropping you into a different save file so you don't overwrite your current progress. It probably should have just been called "Story Replay" or "Reminiscence" or something, but perhaps the subtlety of the 'plus' implying bonuses got lost in translation.

If you'd rather level a new character for the rewards, do that. If you'd rather replay the story for the sake of replaying the story on your existing character, do that.