Wild ARMs XF

Anyone play this? It's a Tactical RPG set in the Wild ARMs universe. And I got stuck on the 2nd or 3rd (depending on how you count) mission. And it couldn't be solved by grinding away. The game tells you what to do and I figured I'd do that when I was done mopping up the mooks scattered around the map. It was going well until I realized one was overleveled compared to me. After he killed the main character I decided to do what the game told me. And a few tries later I succeeded. And from what I've read, a few of the missions are like that. Which is kind of awesome and a break from the "Kill everything on every map" most Tactical Games have.