At first, players may only recruit the most basic troop type swordsmen.
The player can recruit 86 unit types from the cities to build their armies.
If a character is killed during the course of the game, the player may recruit a new party member in some planetary spaceports.
After beginning the game players can recruit mercenaries to join them in their travels.
He is the next person players may recruit after Kyoji.
The player can also recruit new characters to his cause, which often involves a short sidequest.
No more than one player recruited from any other club.
All the characters the player recruited will be kept in their Friends List.
However, the player must recruit the characters again in subsequent playthroughs.
The player starts as Mario and must recruit all the characters.
