Woah... needing to lvl up? I only needed to do that once or twice my first time.. and I never even got the ultimate combo moves.. it just takes strategy and a bit of luck(also my turbo button controller helped :P). Basically the normally playing feild should give you enough xp.
And anyways.. people spend forever lvling in FF's so I really don't see why lvling here would be a problem.. much easier then FF... all that really matters is your combo lvl.. high combos=pwnage.... just like high limits=pwnage in FF7. And the combos aren't too hard.. just takes some time to adjust.... DRAT NOW I WANT TO PLAY AGAIN!!!! grr... and I deleted all my save states last time... I don't know if I want to go through the begining again.... My fav character doesn't come to later... drat it haschel way can't you be an early bird?!