Lloyd is quite a good NPC if you set the right strategie :P he Consumes to much TP so that makes him useless so if you put the strategie "Don't consume under 50%" he's not that bad he will be around Zelos or kratos as NPC. I always play kratos
Speed cast + Healing in Colluseum is OMG!! HOW NICE
But ToS isn't that challenging even if you do mania >.> if you want a Real hard Tales game go for ToA. Playthrough it once and choose unknown :P Evrything will triple (even the boss stats HP etc...) Youll get owned pretty bad >.> Arietta has 800 defence when you 1st fight her on unknown and she has over the 1800 Fonic attack when you fight her for the last time :P The AD skills are nicer then EX skills from ToS >.> you don't ave to choose the abillity just equip the capacity core lvl a few times learn the skills and they will be in the AD skill list even when you equip another Capacity Core