Yes, the bosses are your number one source of high level resources and weapons, so fighting them constantly will ensure that your army is top notch. Of course, this does have its problems. Usually, your Pons can`t die during a mission, as their death results in their hat dropping and being picked up by another Pon, and as long as you finish the missions, they will be revived for free in your camp. The bosses seem to disregard this fact and have a bad habit of eating or pulverizing your troops, that doesn`t leave anything to be recovered.

No cap means no free revive in your camp which means you`ll have to spend resources to create a replacement for the warrior you just lost. Usually you will lose more than one warrior when fighting a boss, so the victory may actually be a bitter one. Of course, if you`ve mastered the songs and get to know the special patterns that a boss uses when attacking, you will know exactly when to defend and retreat, thus keeping your losses at a minimum.

I mentioned earlier the Fever mode, and I`m sure you`re very curious about this. You enter Fever mode after 9 successful songs in a row. Since a song is composed from four beats, this translates into 36 successful beats in a row. Miss one and you`ll have to start from scratch. You can also enter Fever mode if you complete 4 perfect beats in a row. Perfect beats have a different, more profound sound than the regular beats, and you have to time them perfectly, but it can be worth it, as the Fever mode is very important. For one thing, the Fever mode will make all your fighters better. The Tatepons shields will be replaced with larger, better ones, the Yumipons will start shooting three arrows instead of one, and your Kibapons will simply charge through the enemies, throwing them to the ground. Each Pon has a different attack mode when in Fever mode, so remembering these differences is very important.

The other thing is that the Fever mode is the only time when you can activate miracles. What are those? Oh, little Pon, you have a lot to learn... Miracle mode can be activated by chanting the special Don-DoDon-DoDon mode when in fever mode. This can be difficult to accomplish at first, and certainly irritating as it will make you lose Fever mode, but you`ll get the hang of it soon enough. Miracles can help you during a mission, and sometimes they are actually necessary in order to finish. For example, the rain miracle that you will receive first and that you are required to summon two times in a row in order to cross a flaming hot desert that spells death for your army. Since this is your first miracle, summoning it even once will be quite an accomplishment, even with the tutorial, and twice in a row may seem like an actual miracle. You are forced to do so, or else your Pons will burn to death, summon it too soon and you will have to summon it three times, summon it too late and you may not have any Pons to cross the desert.

Of course since miracles can only be summoned when in Fever mode and since any mistake will cancel this mode, one mistake can mean the death of all your army. One rain miracle will not last you enough to get back in fever mode again (if you don`t get the perfect beats), and this means the restart of the mission. This was one of the most frustrating missions for me, since I was just starting out, but once you`re over this hill you`ll see that things get a lot better, so enjoy.