I love how you can bypass several parts of the game if you have enough cash on hand. In other RPGs, cash is almost always used for buying ludicrously expensive magic items and not for realistic uses. Also, NPCs in other RPGs tended to have unrealistically strong integrity and seem to be immune to financial problems. And this is venturing into spoiler territory, but there are times when using money to solve your problems actually helps people. Like real life, some people are only in your way because of financial reasons, which you can solve for them.

 

I suspect that bribery options will help me get the pacifist achievement (kill less than 175 creatures throughout the game). I'm actually trying to get this achievement with my third character, a cipher named Lelouch vi Britannia (Aedyran Aristocrat).

yeah thats a cool feature

 

and there are other ways to bypass fighting also related to attributes/dialog etc