Friendship

Friendship is an invisible statistic tracked by the game. Different characters will have higher or lower friendship levels based on dialogue response options given throughout the game.

Be cautious about skipping dialog. Skipping dialog that contains response options causes the game to act as if the player picked the first option. Depending on which specific cutscenes are skipped, this can lower anyone's friendship except Elro's.

=Effects=
 * Each character with full friendship will have their shadow pacified during the Starworm boss fight. When this occurs, the character's shadow will have sunflower particles appear over them. Elro's pacified shadow will attack less fiercely, and the other two will deal no damage.
 * Mina will appear and help Robin fight the final boss if her friendship is full.
 * Polro's friendship has no effect. verify?

=Dialogue Options= Below is a list of questions and the best responses for producing highest friendship statistic.

Elro
Settlement 17 "... I don't feel I can condone that. Robin, you should really stay somewhere safe now." (Referring to rescuing Samba)
 * Maybe...
 * No, must save!

Blockrock "Despite wanting you to return home, I will protect you until the day you do."
 * Thanks!
 * If you're not too hurt...

The Tower "You should just try to find a way out of this tower, Sunflower..."
 * Okay.
 * Save Samba!

Mina
Isilugar Depths "Maybe this is just my fault like people say... ?"
 * Maybe Royal.
 * Probably not you.
 * Maybe Samba..?

Isilugar Labs "Pretty impressive, right?"
 * I'm confused!
 * It's broken, though.
 * It's neat!

Isilugar Labs "Do you often feel your decisions are too drastic and personal?"
 * I don't know...
 * Hmm...
 * It happens!

Mina will ask this question only if Robin runs after Mina after she and Minora get mad at each other in Isilugar. "Don't follow me, Robin. I'll just wreck your life!"
 * Okay, I'm sorry...
 * I'm going with you!

Royal
Shard Wastelands "Are you searching for me?" verify?
 * No
 * Yes
 * I have a bomb.

Ferrier Shockwood, asked by Mina but affects Royal "Let's get this over with now. Who is this guy to you, Robin?"
 * No one.
 * A friend.

Dark Cave "Take me with you and we will be able to escape this dark place together."
 * No!
 * Okay.

Darland Ascent "Isn't it beautiful..?"
 * Yes.
 * No.

One Concern East "I'm... a worthless jerk, honestly..."
 * Yes.
 * No.verify?
 * Stop that attitude.

Polro
"Was you week good?"
 * Yes
 * Why?

"Do you still read the books?"
 * Yes
 * No

"You know I love you?"
 * Yes

"Do you feel bad when I'm not here?"
 * Yes
 * No

=Trivia=
 * At one point, there was an error in the game preventing getting full friendship with Mina. Konjak acknowledged in a forum post in February 2018, "Okay, there IS some strange way your choice after White fight gets set to 0 during a playthrough, I am just tearing my hair out at WHAT. Sorry for that. Someone theorized it's to do with not playing Standard difficulty." Players have confirmed this has been fixed since later patches.
 * If the player uses glitches like air swim or leaps to skip most of the events of the game, including all the dialog options, directly enter the Impact Zone, and fight Him, then Elro's shadow will be the only one that is pacified.