Originally posted by skatehippie

-so, i set the battle stuff to "wait" in options but it's still active when in battle?
Yup I wondered the same thing too and still I have no answer but JEEPERS HIT THEM QUICK OR YOU WILL DIE OMFG!!

-you can barely see anything! the girls are so oddly placed that they cover up the enemies, and there are so many screens up its a wonder i can see the girls at all.
You get used to it after a while :/ the screen switches up when you are in battle, it gets REALLY annoying when you're stuck behind a giant fiend.

-whats with this chain attack thing? i understand what it is but not how to do it! what is the strategy for timing chain attacks?
Actually if you get chain attacks in, you do more damage, it increases each time. So wee! Chain Attack away! Get the girls to attack at the same time and Voila, Chain Attack.

-is there any more summoning? are the aeons really gone now that sin is gone?
Yeah they really are gone :/ It totally sucks but evantually you discover Floral Fallal, Machna Maw and Full Throtle Dress Spheres and they're like new summons.

-how do you use dark magic?
Put on the Black Mage Sphere?

-is the songstress' only purpose inflicting status ailments?
No she can actually support the group with Hastega, Mag Def increase, physical attack etc, You have to develop her abilities :/

-theoretically, you can have every single dress have the same things (attack, item, etc..) and the only difference between them would be their dress-dependent abilities? (shooting, stealing, etc..)
What? Each Dressphere is different with WAY different abilities. The only thing that is similar is Attack and Items in your main command.

-is it really efficient to change their dress things all the time? coudlnt you just leave yuna as gunner, rikku as theif, and paine as warrior for 80% of the time, changing them periodically depending on the enemy? in that case, is the songstress of any use AT ALL??
omg... Yes, I used all the dresspheres. If you manage to use ALL dresspheres in one battle on your garment grid, you can access your SPECIAL dressphere. I personnaly didn't really use their default sphere all that much once I got kick arse spheres like Dark Knight, Berserker, Alchemist *and the list goes on* I mastered them so when I ontained the bracers that lets you access your Gunner, Thief and Warrior abilities, they were all there for me to use. They only let you access what you've mastered anyways.

okay there it is...please just shed some light on my dark experience with this game, i wanted it so bad i don't want to be unhappy with it over some minor confusion =

thanks in advance everybody.
(and happy holidays)
Well, it's hard at first but once you get the hang of it its super fun *Oh, and I see you already answered this xD*