Arcanas
I think I'm getting gold...cause my cousin wants silver.
Oh well. Makes it easier that way, so I don't need to buy both games.
Shram: I kinda liked Vesperia...even though I haven't beaten it yet. You could change the outcome in Symphonia? How? It's always been the same everytime I've played it...
Depends on what quests you do, and how you react to things, like the first choice, do you leave school to go explore? or do you stay back as a good school child? one has the priest come to the school (and die) the other you find the priest at the tempel (this is a minor detail that doesn't change much), there is also a third method which results in the priest not dying, which in turn changes some of the deeper prospect of the game.
There are also sections where I am sure you've "lost" teammate, most likely there are situations where you don't loose those teammates and you suddenly go through cities in different orders doing different things.
try pre exploring, go to cities ahead of time or just go with your gut and say "******** you I don't want to do what you say" when people tell you that you have to do something.
The game is huge and I've seen the final outcome (as in battle and story and all) be different at least 5 times.