Octo newb
Started with 2. Been rolling with Agneas to start and finished act 1. Started act 2 and met up with Therme. This is where things got confusing. It either branched me towards the theater or finding Therme’s parents. I chose Agneas quest not realizing how underleveled I was. Did a bunch of grinding and made it to the Theater mgr fight but kept getting pwned. Google said I was about 20 levels too low for this fight. I’m not out exploring vs wasting my time grinding. If I hadn’t looked anything up I would have continued grid of even tho I’m well over the recommended level of 14 for most of the backstage area.
TLDR; I wish the game gave you a little bit better direction. It’s definitely confusing in terms of where to go next. I’m slowly getting the hang of it but it wasn’t very intuitive.