Cool! My pre-order of my Amazon Mark of Mastery came in the mail for me today! I'm glad that Amazon can send on-line orders to places were soilders, like me are deployed at. In Afghanistan we get things slower here.
I haven't gotten my copy of the game yet, but according to the Player's Guide (remember to answer the 3 questions correctly during the epilogue):
For Beginner mode - Clear the game, get 13 or more trophies and answer 3 questions correctly
For Standard mode - Clear the game, get 7 or more trophies and answer 3 questions correctly
For Proud mode - Clear the game, get 5 or more trophies and answer 3 questions correctly
For Critical mode - Clear the game (Must complete one game mode mode to unlock Critical mode)
Yes, there are ways to get avatars without people, you do get more as you progress through that game, but there are other ways, but I only know this one and I got this info from the IGN Cheats site:
"Normally you would need to interact with other people to get Avatars and Parts. If you have a Wii, you can use a Wi-Fi exploit to get stuff. Enter Tag Mode on your Kingdom Hearts Re:coded DS game. Log into the Nintendo Channel on the Wii and choose a demo to download to your DS. As it transmits, you will get an Avatar message on your DS due to the signal the Wii is sending you. Choose the Avatar balloon and use the scratch card. You can repeat this indefinitely."......but you have the leave and go back in again.