So Has Anyone Started Playing Yet?

[Aulayna]

The story really does have XIII-syndrome.

So much of it is fleshed out in the journal thing in the Crystarium in Akademeia and through the little green ! events you can do around Akademeia before a Mission Day starts. Also, annoyingly, different characters may have different events available - though usually these will show up as ? for other characters and give you a hint which character you need to go with. It's just a pain the rear that the only way to switch your active character is to trek all the way back to a Save relic...

But yeah I'd recommend taking the time to do the ! events etc, the story that gets given to you after you finish missions is very... disjointed