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7/2/2025, 7:58:01 AM
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FF2 is probably in my top 3 favourite Famicom RPGs alongside DQ2 and Metal Max.
For starters I love the story, it's the first JRPG I can think of which isn't high fantasy for the sake of high fantasy; instead the story is a more realistic and a grounded war story between two factions in which magic is merely a weapon of war (at least until the very end of the game). People tend to take this for granted and do not realize how groundbreaking and influencial this was.
Secondly the game system is tons of fun to experiment with and figure out and it's more balanced and better executed than most people give it credit for. The game system is designed so that insisting on doing too much grinding is a waste of time, and instead it is designed so that if you hit a difficulty spike your stats will quickly catch up in just a few fights; but instead people pretend what I just said doesn't exist and like you're supposed to spend 100 hours grinding in place or something or that you're supposed to bring all your spells and weapons to lvl16 when the game is balanced for them to be lvl8-11 by the end game. There is only one thing that really need intentional grinding and that's max MP because admittedly you're never going to spend half of your MP within a single fight otherwise. That and esuna probably.
I also have a lot of fond memories going through the dungeons and I think the "trap room" complain is overblown, it's not any worse or different than your average dungeon crawler teleporter/hole in the floor/anti-magic/dark area, but most people playing FF2 are probably coming off mid 90's or later RPGs rather than the standards of the time it was made in.
FF2 is probably in my top 3 favourite Famicom RPGs alongside DQ2 and Metal Max.
For starters I love the story, it's the first JRPG I can think of which isn't high fantasy for the sake of high fantasy; instead the story is a more realistic and a grounded war story between two factions in which magic is merely a weapon of war (at least until the very end of the game). People tend to take this for granted and do not realize how groundbreaking and influencial this was.
Secondly the game system is tons of fun to experiment with and figure out and it's more balanced and better executed than most people give it credit for. The game system is designed so that insisting on doing too much grinding is a waste of time, and instead it is designed so that if you hit a difficulty spike your stats will quickly catch up in just a few fights; but instead people pretend what I just said doesn't exist and like you're supposed to spend 100 hours grinding in place or something or that you're supposed to bring all your spells and weapons to lvl16 when the game is balanced for them to be lvl8-11 by the end game. There is only one thing that really need intentional grinding and that's max MP because admittedly you're never going to spend half of your MP within a single fight otherwise. That and esuna probably.
I also have a lot of fond memories going through the dungeons and I think the "trap room" complain is overblown, it's not any worse or different than your average dungeon crawler teleporter/hole in the floor/anti-magic/dark area, but most people playing FF2 are probably coming off mid 90's or later RPGs rather than the standards of the time it was made in.
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