CHRiS wrote:
Gamefly hasn't shipped me F*CKING FF13 yet but they did just send out GoW3.
Two things I always hated: split up teams where I'd keep having to level up others and having weaklings on one team. That, and the god damn octagon rod or whatever it was called for my black mage (vivi) in ff9 where u couldn't buy it if you went on to the 4th CD or some shit like that and couldn't get the spell-agas. (firaga, iceaga, thundaga), etc..
The party splits up in the first half of the story, but the character points you use to level up are shared by characters not in your party, so they all improve together. The second half of the game you can choose your party.
As for weapons, you can buy any weapons you might miss from the shops. There's only 8 per character and you use items to level them. It's best to wait until chapter 10 or so to even bother with that.