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Yes! Penguin characters in the game are largely mascot characters unless properly leveled. Once Penko reaches that level, she's one deadly character that can easily pile on a lot of damage.

SFIIIS3: Through Battles 3 & 4. One reason for the slow progress was stopping to level up Isabella. She's your party's Cleric class* character that can use both Heal [single target] and Aura [multitarget] recovery spells.

*[Officially, her class is listed as Princess, but it is a carbon copy of Cleric otherwise.]

Right at the start of S3, Gracia also joins, but, he's a bit more restrictive in the fact that he only has Aura for recovery spells. Aura eats through MP much faster than Heal. [LV 1 is 7 for Aura, and 3 for Heal].

Having them both at high levels helps compliment your recovery efforts, especially with the damage characters can suffer in S3 since being past the Promotion class phase right at the start.

Battles 3 & 4 have you deal with an indestructible weapon called the Walcuray. All you can do is either find an area where it can't either target your force, or weather it's damage every single turn. Fortunately, it's not very strong [multitarget, damage ranges between 8-11]. The Walcuray does not discern between friend or foe however, whatever is in its target range, will take damage.

So, what is the party right now?

Julian: He's the main character, and, his stats are based off of either having imported save data from S1 and/or S2, or his stats+equipment are preset to LV 5 if S3 is played from scratch.

Donhort: A centaur knight [uses mainly Halberds], his stats+equipment are based on either S2 save data, or preset to LV 5 if S3 is played from scratch.

Gracia & Kate: LV 5, fixed stats regardless of save data imported. Gracia is an important character to the main story of S3, and has a mixed spell list of recovery & attack magics. One spell that is unique to him is Shining. It can deal a lot of damage, but it consumes all of his MP [multitarget too]. Kate is a Sniper class archer. Not quite as strong as Hayward from S1 or Bernard from S2, but, she's the best you've got in S3, and she's still quite deadly if leveled properly.

Isabella: LV 7, joins either in Chapter 1, if S2 save data is imported where Stella from Anafect Docks Battle was spared [by talking to her rather than killing her], or a later chapter if S2 data does not exist or Stella was actually killed.

Brigit: LV 7, a Wizard class character that joins in Chapter 1. Save data does not impact her either. She's a bit different than the other Wizard class characters from S1 & S2. Masqurin from S1 & Syntesis from S2 both start with Blaze LV 1. She however doesn't have that spell at all, she begins with Spark LV 2 and Drain LV 2. [And has Sleep LV 1 only because of her starting staff adds the magic to spell list when equipped.] Drain is a unique spell, as it does the following: LV 1 damages an enemies health, and allows recovery from the drained health. However, LV 2 damages+recovers MP instead.

Edmund: LV 5 General. This character is conditional on whether Stella is killed or not in the Anafect Docks Battle. If Stella is either killed, or no S2 save data is present, he will be in your party at the start of S3. If Stella is spared, he will NOT* be in your party. Saving Stella does have an impact later in S3 however. He uses primarily rapiers, and can cast the magic Tornado.

*Which is true for my save.

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