Well, it's too late to go back now, but I'd personally much rather have an andromeda than a U&Y for starting off in the game. I just in general don't like match color leads anything harder than Horus is just... Frustrating and I'd say Kirin is better than U&Y but either is preferable to RA. Blue orb changers aren't that difficult to come by(maybe not quite as easy as pandora, but not far behind), and for green dungeons you can just use red starter with a couple easily farmable red subs. Anyways been playing for 1 full year now, no other casual game ha ever kept my attention for even 10% as much time, I only mildly regret dumping 200 bucks over a couple different godfests, although I probably went a little overboard, I think adding in even 50 bucks during a godfest after you've played a month or so would be pretty worthwhile.