It's okay to look at a guide if you get stuck, there's a couple places where it's a bit moonlogic.
Always use the latest gear, especially weapons, but avoid yoyos and slingshots.
The game expects you to grind a bit at the start, but this tapers off a lot once you have multiple party members.
The biggest places you can get stuck if you happen to do things in an order the game doesn't expect (open if you're stuck in a place for ages):
Twoson
Give Apple Kid food and $200, then go to Peaceful Rest Valley and look at the pencil statue, then walk out the cave (go look again if you died), then get his item and continue along that path.
Fourside
Give food to the miner in Dusty Dunes, then talk to the theater manager in Fourside, then go back to the mines.
It's okay to look at a guide if you get stuck, there's a couple places where it's a bit moonlogic.
Always use the latest gear, especially weapons, but avoid yoyos and slingshots.
The game expects you to grind a bit at the start, but this tapers off a lot once you have multiple party members.
The biggest places you can get stuck if you happen to do things in an order the game doesn't expect (open if you're stuck in a place for ages):
Twoson
Give Apple Kid food and $200, then go to Peaceful Rest Valley and look at the pencil statue, then walk out the cave (go look again if you died), then get his item and continue along that path.
Fourside
Give food to the miner in Dusty Dunes, then talk to the theater manager in Fourside, then go back to the mines.