With the story, I view it as I do most crossover games. It's fluff used to explain why everyone is together and is rarely done well enough to make something good without dropping several details of the characters being used.

I agree with you about Kain's line though :p

It's mostly those weird narration lines between scenes. It's like they've been put through an internet translator or something. The actual dialogue is a bit better (and has some gems like the one I mentioned) but there are still some cringe-inducing moments, or even just really odd word choices.

I admit when I was playing Dissidia I was not fully paying attention to word choices and the like, but some of the stuff they say for the 1-on-1 fights is rather amusing.

Yeah, I don't really pay attention to those anymore. They're just kind of... there.

I got my main five up to level 100 and then stopped thanks to me going to a level 100 gateway before I had level 100 gear. Even if I am really good there's only so much I can do when I do 15-30 damage compared to their 500-1500 -.-;

How do you get your characters that high? Do you just have to keep doing random vs. battles, or are there enough story missions to get there?

Oh no, the story will get you to about 45, until the final chapter...in which my first encounter was against a level 80 >.>; So I went to party battles and just fought until I got to 100, using the calendar bonuses to help me.

Serra, have you beaten the labyrinth yet? I've pretty much stopped playing story until I reach the bottom floor -- is becoming something of an obsession. I got to 60 or so but took a wrong turn and had to leave. Now I'm having a hard time getting back in deeper, every time I end up hitting a door that I can't open and needing to restart.

At least the battles haven't been too bad so far. I use Cecil, he's level 67 now and with the Dark set of equipment that drops on the first few floors, he tends to wreck everything I come across. If I could just get some of those stupid doors to open. >_>

I really should level up at least one other person to serve as a backup on the deeper floors...

No, I got obsessed with the main story and haven't done much labyrinth. Firion is great for it but I rarely get any kind of good equips to put on him :/

It's a really fun (if frustrating) mode, I find. The whole starting-from-scratch each time an interesting challenge, though with Cecil it's pretty easy since they hand out the Darkness gear like candy. +20% to all wall rush damage on a set of fairly decent equipment comes in handy. ;) Is enough to carry through to get better gear, as long as I can open the stupid doors. >_>

It is fun, but I really miss the mode the original had that this replaced. It was the same thing except you didn't start from scratch, and was a good way to get trade items for the good equips.

Cecil probably would be good to play as because of what you say, but I'm really good with Firion, even when I'm undergeared. I should really give it a try again.

Well, I'm on floor 70-something now, but Cecil just died, all I have left is Kain with low health (level 25ish) and Yuna (level 30ish) neither of whom I'm anywhere near as good with.

I hate when the computer uses the "keep hitting him with HP attacks because he's owning me in bravery" strategy. I always save up my brave until I can 1HKO them, sometimes backfires, though.

Since Firion chains HP attacks to the end of his bravery attacks I usually just use them as is. It also depends on their boosters, if they have a lot of full HP boosters I definitely tag their HP as soon as possible.

Ah, right, that would be the exception.

Out of curiosity, how strong is level 100 equipment? I can't tell what the stuff I'm picking up because everything is level 1 in the labyrinth. Some of it's pretty good, though. Of course, the enemies always seem to have better gear...

That's a good question because I don't HAVE any level 100 equipment except for two items I got in Chapter 000, and they seem pretty low end. I'd probably have to go look at stats to find out for sure really. I have all sorts of level 100 stuff in the shop that's completely unavailable to me because I can't seem to get elixirs anywhere.

Oh, that's what elixirs are for? :p

I keep picking them up in the labyrinth, but I guess I don't have the other ingredients yet. I'm trying to figure out if the trade-off is worth it for those weapons that give +X% initial bravery, as opposed to weapons with just higher attack. I tend to err on the side of the extra bravery, but I'm not sure if that's in my best interest.