This is the first FF game where you cannot customize your party. You’re stuck with the three girls, no swapping. But the unique combat system holds the key to this apparently inflexible party – costume changes! As every woman knows, a new outfit can make you feel like a whole different person. Or at least, enable you to wield a big ass sword. A lot of the spheres that the girls find are dresspheres, unlocking another outfit for them to wear into the fray. Each outfit carries with it different skills – White Mage is healing and buffing magics, Warrior is the aforementioned big ass sword, and Gunner is, unsurprisingly, guns. (That Square, what a bunch of imaginative namers.) Each of the girls also has a unique dressphere that lets them fight o­n their own, with special attacks and a really personalized ensemble. The more the girl wears a certain outfit, the more abilities of that outfit she unlocks. Experience points earned during a fight go toward learning the abilities of the outfit you wore during that fight.