Well, I got all of the way through the Skyship-infiltration part of the story and am now in Samarkand, but after exiting into the world map I noticed that I HAD NO PARTY MEMBERS! Isa, Aurora, Nym... all gone! Sure, they spoke as if they WERE there (for events following), but I was all alone in battles!

Is this a joke? Or some REALLY bad glitch? I am stuck at the competition where you have to fight the three monsters (and when we were on stage, it was THREE Kairu's), they are near impossible to beat all alone, especially since they have that health absorb spell and I do a maximum of around 466 damage (they heal for 545). I am stuck trying to find and use Action Replay cheats for this game to get past this part (because I am NOT starting over from the beginning).

The attached image file shows the three Kairus, as well as the lack of a party.

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And no, this is not a pirated copy, I took a picture of the cartridge. I keep hearing that you guys were blaming all of the glitches on pirated copies.

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I had the same problem. I saw on another site that this occurs when you have Kairu do the negotiating for the soldiers' uniforms. Since I had no idea why I had no more characters, I didn't think to re-load my game. Please tell me there's a way around this glitch, because if I have to start over, I doubt I'll replay.

You can't do anything about it but keep playing. At some point they will come back to you. It may be slightly difficult, just make sure you have good healing items... or cheat codes, because there'll be one fight of you alone versus 3 monsters in an event fight.

This maybe some kind of a bug. Though I've been into that situation and I don't think I'll start all over again. Better wait for a nice feedback to this thing. They must surely fix this.

Well, since it's a DS game and they don't do updates for those(like the main consoles), I would assume they'd note it and move on, at most providing users with work-arounds, or maybe a heads up.

But it does suck that a somewhat large (and easy to run into) bug like this made it past the beta tests.