Unlocking Characters

[Experiment1]

So I got some friends who purchased this game and they were wondering how to unlock characters like Sora. Do you have to grind through the campaign or will she eventually unlock after playing some multiplayer?

[winter wave]

you have to do campaign first
when they show up in the store as "coming soon", just play a few more matches of whatever and then they can be bought

[Iridium]

Originally posted by 8 Endless ∞ eighT 8:

you have to do campaign first
when they show up in the store as "coming soon", just play a few more matches of whatever and then they can be bought

This. After they show up in the store, you need to buy them with a small amount of stars -- generally a tiny amount compared to the value of an individual character.

As for getting them to 'come soon': in general you unlock one character out of (Hime, Peat, Fernet, Yuki, Aru) per Campaign map between stage 2 and stage 4. Clearing stage 5 with any character unlocks Sora. Clearing stage 6 with any character unlocks Poppo and whichever three of (Marc, Suguri, QP, and Kai) you didn't choose in the beginning. Clearing every non-DLC campaign map unlocks Tomomo.

Incidentally, of the five characters who can appear in stages 2-4, Kai gets Peat, Yuki, and Aru. I think QP actually provides the same set of characters, but I might be wrong about Hime/Aru.

The "NPCs" (Chicken, Robo Ball, Seagull, Store Manager, Shifu Robot, Flying Castle) are unlocked via multiplayer only and can be bought with stars from the shop at the appropriate multiplayer level.

The remaining characters (Syura, Nanako, Saki, Kyousuke, Kae, Krilalaris, Kyoko, Alte, Sham, Sherry, Star Breaker, Sweet Breaker) are unlocked immediately after buying their DLC and do not need to be purchased with stars.