after playing a 10 hour marathon of the game last night with 2 friends..
Me = Lilty ( decided on high attack.. and i love polearms..)
friend 1 = selki
friend 2 = yuke
the game is absurdly fun. the competitiveness of the bonuses is a MAJOR help, as is being able to go through levels again to get more artifacts to get stronger. were on year 4.. right now i think... we accidently have gone through many years just trying to get stronger and get items to get better weapons and whatnot. stat wise all of our chars are quite different, because were very good at letting one person get the stats they need at the end of a level, and then if theres an extra slot/heart, we just go through the same level again.
the levels are really fun, and so is trying to pull of some combo spells, accidently doing thigns like firaga+1 is *REALLY* cool, the effects of gravity/gravira on flying enemies is essential, and of course, trying to get things such as HASTE to work makes it very teamplay oriented.
anyway awesome game, i can't wait to play it more tonight.