Anyone playing the game should check out this insane html FAQ someone did over at Gamefaqs:

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call FAQ for 3DS by SBAllen - GameFAQs

Motherfucking madness. There is so much shit in this game.

I just retired two people (Zidane and Benjamin) and earned the 1 billion points trophy. It's possible I've played too much. I've stuck to this exclusively since it came out.

I really like how quickly this one ramps up. Everyone gains levels crazy fast, so I don't mind swapping in new people or resetting at 99. It also likes surprises. Some bosses and chocobo sections suddenly started throwing out spinning arrows around level 70 instead of waiting until Ultimate. One of my medium quests also had a single Ultimate FMS just to throw things off.

Sounds like this game is the thing I should have bought instead of Guardians 'R Us.

Will snag it this weekend.

Yo dawg I could have told you this was baller as fuck before it came out. When the first one was out, even.

Seriously, you knew how good this would be.

Has anyone else tried the online battles? I played two international matches last night and it ran smoothly. Seems like it's the best way to get cards you need. You get two out of the three if you win and one if you lose. It also flashes them and says if they're new, so it's not as much of a random crapshoot.

I just tried one, it's pretty awesome. Dude picked OWA Ultimate and it was a close race until halfway when I broke away. I then returned the favor with Saber's Edge and proceeded to demolish him. He quit afterward.

I think I'm gonna love this online mode.

Relax, motherfuckers, my original plan was to pick it up in a week or two when I was done with the two other portable games I am playing at the moment. Y'all calm down.

I have an extra copy. Someone buy it.

Oh by the way, I was thinking of having a quick meetup in #gfchat on Saturday, about an hour before we play Mario Kart to fool around in online mode for a bit. Anyone down?

I may or may not, probably depends on what I'm doing in Destiny at the time since this is probably the last weekend I'm going to grind out in that game (should have all leg armor slots by Monday). Also I haven't had an IRC client installed in like 4 computers so that will be fun.

Are you guys all playing on Ultimate or what? I'm super rusty, Expert is totally fine, Ultimate might not go so well for me. I only played one match of the versus mode, seems fun although Mog is going to get turned off ASAP.

I prefer Ultimate but Expert is okay. Also if you don't have irc installed there's a mibbit Web client link on the front page.

Yeah, I'm down as long as I remember. That might be a big if!

I play primarily on Expert, so I know I wouldn't do so well on Ultimate. I can do FMS on Ultimate, but especially with the EX Bursts I doubt I could even do those.

So who all is down for some Curatin Call tomfoolery?

I'll try to get it sometime soon, but there's a long Quest map being shared on GAF that is apparently fucking insane for XP; people talking about going from 1-72 on it.

Anyone here have that map to share? I imagine combined with Exp Up III it's pretty impressive. Also, what parties are you guys rolling with right now? Curious to hear.

I'm still working on building my rolling crew for online, but my mains at the moment:

Onion Knight - 1 Star Level 99
Thunder
Fire
Blizzard
Ninjutsu

Terra - 1 Star Lv 68
Firaga
Blizzara
Thundara
Magic Up

Cloud - Level 99
Focus Lv 3
Sinewy Etude Lv 1
Sinewy Etude Lv 2
Omnislash

Y'shtola - Level 99
Regen Lv 2
Holy
Cure

Tifa #2 - Level 99
Chakra Lv 3
Sinewy Etude Lv 3
Final Heaven

Warrior of Light - Level 94
Focus Lv 3
Focus Lv 2
Added Cut
Sacrifice Lv2

I'm still leveling up a bunch of people, so I've gotta wait to see how they turn out before adding them in.

So far I've maxed and reset Rydia, Celes, Benjamin, and Zidane. My current party is Locke, Edgar, Kain, and Agrias. Kain and Locke are definitely both keepers. Kain's strength gets crazy and Locke has Scare to frighten away the 2nd enemy and get to bosses faster.

You know, I was thinking about you citing those skills earlier, and Seifer has both Berserk and Scare, along with Dark for good measure. Not as fast as Locke, but CollectaCards could fix that.

Wouldn't fix his likability, though.

I really like Faris, who's been turning out pretty well. Extremely fast, but she doesn't have very many skills to help in FMS. Zack has been a beast and is surprisingly quick, though Omnislash would have been nice. The other two have been shuffled about constantly.

Faris - Level 94
Mirage 3
Haste 2
Hero's Rime 2
Dash

Zack - 1 Star, Level 44
Vigilance
Strength Up 1
Strength Up 2
Sacrifice

Aphmau - Level 88
Boost 2
Cry 3
Sic 1
Choco Cure

Seifer - Level 63
Chakra 2
Dark 1
Dark 2
Mirage 2

I think Faris will stay, but who knows. Anyone could end up in my party at this point.

Played the demo for this game, it was pretty fun. Might pick it up yet - though someone said something about an extra copy?

Just bought this for the sole reason of making Tails shut up in chat.

Now to put some time into it.

Ahaha, just ran into my first ragequitter. A connection error popped up the second the last note hit, which was almost funny enough to make up for him cheating me out of cards/points. Judging by his proficard he's just some asshole trying to plow through the trophies and still had the default quest map equipped after 66 hours.

I really, really like the online mode so far. It's a lot of fun beating down all of these people who insist on picking FF X-2 or Advent Children songs.

Yeah, I hit a couple of those yesterday, it's a shame too because honestly what's the point?

Still, online play is great, although I wish more people had something other than the default Chaos Map attached. I've gotten a few amazing Platinums off of randoms, but not as many as I should be seeing.

We totes need to organize some GFF stuff once people get up to speed.

Yeah, I've gotten a couple of really good maps, but at least half the randoms I've played still had the default map. It's disappointing to keep seeing that same map over and over.

Does Ultimate seem a little easier to anyone else compared to the first game? I'm not sure if I'm just finally getting the hang of it or what, but the life bar seems like it doesn't deplete nearly as fast.

Nah, Ultimate seems about the same as before. If you think it's easy, try perfecting Force Your Way from FF8.

Oh, definitely not easy. Easier. As in I can reliably survive the songs and beat the Quest bosses. I'm nowhere close to perfect chaining on Ultimate.