One of the best parts ofTheatrhythm: Final Bar Lineis its massive roster of characters (104, to be exact!). The game features heroes and villains from every title of the Final Fantasy universe. With so many possibilities, you can assemble the FF party of your dreams!

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Party configuration matters a great deal in Theatrhythm. For example, several categories of characters lend better to some missions than others. Furthermore, like any RPG, Theatrhythm’s characters require plenty of time and investment to build them up to their true potential. Thankfully, forming and maintaining your Theatrhythm party is incredibly easy!

How To Edit Your Party

Each character in your party can equip up tothree abilities. Choose an empty ability slot under your character’s party slot to equip an ability. Then, a side window will open, allowing you to choose any ability you have unlocked for the character.

If you wish to use apower-upitemor anability scrollon one of your party members, highlight that member’s slot and press the Y (Switch) / Square (Playstation) button. Then, choose the item/scroll you wish to use from the side window.

Four empty party member slots waiting to get assigned in Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

Lastly, there are three slots adjacent to your party slots which cover the following:

you’re able to form up tofive party presetsto meet various mission goals. In addition, you can switch between these party sets in a song’s menu before starting the stage.

A close-up view of Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line’s characters sorted by character type.

Character Types

Each character in Theatrhythm has unique strengths and weaknesses that will determine their role in your party. However, to summarize where these strengths and weaknesses lie, Theatrhythm categorizes its characters intotypes. These are the types you will encounter in the game.

Character Stats

Character Types provide broad overviews of what your characters can do. However, if you’re looking for a more detailed understanding of their proficiencies, you should refer to their stats. There are six stats you need to know when studying a character.

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A highlighted section from the Edit Party menu showcases Lenna’s stats in Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

Leveling Up Your Characters

The short answer to improving your characters' stats and abilities is playing with them a lot.Music Stageis a great place to go when you need to grind. However, the longer answer to improving your characters' stats and abilities is tolevel them up,earn CollectaCards,use power-up items, andteach them skills will ability scrolls.

Your character will gain experience whenever they playthrough a stage by defeating enemies, using abilities, etc. Each character in Theatrhythmcaps at Level 99. After the level cap, characters can improve by raising theirStar Level. Star Levels take more time and investment to build. However, raising a character’s Star Level significantly improves their stats and the strength of their abilities. Each character can gain up tonine Star Levels.

Firion, Maria, Guy, and Leon all level up after finishing a music stage in Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

Ways You Can Gain More EXP

If you wish to increase the EXP your party gains in Music Stages, there are two ways they can do so:

If you equip a Silver Growth Egg and a Gold Growth Egg for the same stage, your EXP gained will multiply by eight!

A Silver Growth Egg, which multiplies gained EXP by two, in Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

Improving Your Character With CollectaCards

CollectaCardsare trading cards you may earn by finding treasure chests, completing series quests, and racking up Rhythmia. Each character has four CollectaCards: aNormal,Rare,Premium, andSpecial. Once you unlock a Character CollectaCard, the respective character’s stats (except HP) will permanently increase.

Improving Your Character With Power-Up Items And Ability Scrolls

There are two types of items you can use to improve your party’s characters.

How To Unlock New Characters

To unlock new characters in Theatrhythm, you must playSeries Questmode. You will unlock new characters whenever you use aTitle Keyto unlock a new title (unless the Series Quest menu states the title has no characters to unlock). Each title contains characters respective to their game. So, for instance, if you wantCloud Strifein your party, you need to unlockFinal Fantasy 7.

Additionally, you will also gain new characters fromclearing a series title. Usually, this character is a famous boss from the title. For example,clearing Final Fantasy 7 rewards you with Sephiroth. If you wish to know what titles contain a character reward for clearing them, press theView Rewardsbutton. This feature displays all the rewards you will gain from clearing and completing a series title.

A normal Tifa CollectaCard from Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

A purple Magic Plus vial that increases a character’s magic stats in Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

A group of Final Fantasy 5 characters, Bartz, Lenna, Galuf, Faris, and Krile, get unlocked in Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.