have two save files for one playthrough, and alternate saving between them. Going in blind is the way to go, but I've got a few helpful hints for you: I often will get an enemy real low in health ( 1-2 hp ) and then let the healer / white mage jump in and do its 1hp of damage to get the kill for max xp to level up. Oh also, just be forewarned it is tough to level up a healer character. My life may be different today if games back in the day had that sort of feature! Instead of spending 4-5 hours on a few battles in the old days. If your playing on the Vita via Classics or something like that, you'll be good to go though and will be able to shut it down and pick it up again at another time. Battles can take upwards of an hour sometimes, so just be patient. SE did a fine job with making the game beatable in so many different ways. There are 100,000 strategies out there lol. The game does a pretty solid job of easing you into the product and giving you good tests in the early going so you can build up some confidence on what to do and how to do it. For a very first timer it could be pretty tough at times.
