Best order to do the routes?

[Embarrassing Spaghetti Death]

Thoughts?

[Pickleton]

I like Chaos first because it has my favorite characters (story wise), even if Law has the "best" uniques. Would advise against Neutral first due to getting the least amount of white knights and having the worst "unique" characters (they're basically named generics). I'd say Law last because the it has the most bastard battles like recruiting Ozma and Occiones. Also, make sure to let Arycelle story die when going through ch2 on your way to neutral. If she's dead in Warren report, iirc she doesn't take the reputation hit.

[Jedo]

My favorite (to start) is Neutral but only because it's short so I can access the world tarot faster. I picked it because I want to end on Law after getting the rest of the achievements. It's hard to go wrong and starting with each one has its own benefit.

[MrPibbs]

Well if you're wanting to see every route and THEN do the postgame, I recommend Neutral - Chaos - Law (Princess).

[DecalMan]

Originally posted by MrPibbs:

Well if you're wanting to see every route and THEN do the postgame, I recommend Neutral - Chaos - Law (Princess).

Can this all be done on the same save? Or do I have to do multi-playthroughs?

[Jedo]

Originally posted by DecalMan:

Originally posted by MrPibbs:

Well if you're wanting to see every route and THEN do the postgame, I recommend Neutral - Chaos - Law (Princess).

Can this all be done on the same save? Or do I have to do multi-playthroughs?

It's all on the same save. It'll be easier to understand when you finish the game once.

[DecalMan]

Originally posted by Jedo:

Originally posted by DecalMan:

Can this all be done on the same save? Or do I have to do multi-playthroughs?

It's all on the same save. It'll be easier to understand when you finish the game once.

So its literally impossible to miss anything in the game on one save?

[Jedo]

Originally posted by DecalMan:

Originally posted by Jedo:

It's all on the same save. It'll be easier to understand when you finish the game once.

So its literally impossible to miss anything in the game on one save?

Yeah. Maybe a no chariot title but idk if that even exists in this one. Basically nothing of importance.

[GrandMajora]

From what I can tell, Law gives you the chance to recruit all 4 characters required to complete the CODA related quests. So if you want to hurry up and get that over with, I'd recommend going Law first.

[Pickleton]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

From what I can tell, Law gives you the chance to recruit all 4 characters required to complete the CODA related quests. So if you want to hurry up and get that over with, I'd recommend going Law first.

That's if you want to do all of Coda before going back and getting the story characters.
Personally, I'd say Coda should be done last (as is somewhat implied by the name), but that's just me.
My preferred way to go would be:
Chaos - Princess ending so that you can still use her in World, or don't so you can get Lord earlier, get all characters including Cressida, but don't bother with PotD at all.
Neutral - Go Lord and repeat anchor mark repeatedly until you have at least 10 classmarks for later foolery. For completionists sake, go to PotD and clear the first several floors (I think 5 is the unique one for this route) so that the stage shows up in your Warren Report.
Law - Go Lord but with the other option from Mreuva that dictates whether Catiua shows up in the fight (for Warren Report completion), then chariot back to before that and be a good brother this time. Clear PotD before Hanging Gardens and get Princess ending.

[Bongoboy]

Originally posted by DecalMan:

So its literally impossible to miss anything in the game on one save?

You can miss stuff.

But when you beat the "endboss" for the first time, you unlock "World Tarot" which lets you jump around in the story. You could as example, play the Law route, beat the boss, jump back to the start... and play the whole thing again but this time choosing Neutral and gather all the Characters on the way... while keeping all the characters you got on the Law route.
Also you not need to jump all the way to the start, you can jump to any chapter and several "Anchorpoints".

I would first beat the Law route, then Neutral then Chaos. This is because I am used to the Snes/PS1/Saturn version, in which you only got 2 Sisters in Law, 3 in Neutral and all 4 only in Chaos. That means only in Chaos you could do the Shrine Quest fully, since if I remember right there where only 4 Shrines and each Sister unlocked one.
The PSP Version changed quite allot, but on the Law route though you can now get allot more characters you still can't get the red/i] and yellow Sister, only the blue and the green one. That's why I run Law first.

[Sardorim]

Neutral first and be sure to at least get to Floor 5 in Palace of the Dead and bring the 2 Neutral characters. They have a ton of lore dump dialogue in that fight and Denam has the sickest burn on it.

Unfortunately they have no more dialogue at the last fight on floor 100 which feels like a missed thing. Not sure why they built it up in floor 5 and then... no pay off.

[Bongoboy]

Originally posted by Sardorim:

Neutral first and be sure to at least get to Floor 5 in Palace of the Dead and bring the 2 Neutral characters. They have a ton of lore dump dialogue in that fight and Denam has the sickest burn on it.

Yeah because a certain character dies on Neutral.