Git gud

Also what are you doing wrong? Be sure to default so you build up brave points and don't use all your brave points for every character in one turn because you risk leaving yourself wide open.

Uh, I don't even know what I did in my first battle... I get the Default and Brave concepts now, but I'm still not entirely sure how Magic and Jobs should be used...

That's okay, I nearly died in my first fight too; they didn't balance things at all for the demo, since that part's like 4 or 5 hours into the real game, apparently.

Yeah, the monsters did way too much damage in the beginning. I caught up a little now, but there's still the dungeons to worry about...

And I get the jobs system too. It's actually pretty fun, and now my character's are powerhouses! This actually makes me want to get the full game.