>playing Final Fantasy NES for the first time
>dealing insanely low damage and taking shitloads despite having gear
>nobody else is having this problem
>watch a video of someone fighting Garland
>I never equipped the stuff I bought
It was in a slot. Magic didn't need to be selected so I assumed this was the same. I'm stupid I'm stupid I'm stupid I'm stupid I'm stupid I'm stupid I'm stupid I'm stupid I'm stupid

>>11851975 (OP)
if its your first video game then you gotta start somewhere. If youve played an RPG before then you are stupid. Read the manual next time it usually explains all the commands to you.

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I didn't know how to equip materia in FF7 for a while, but I was a retarded 10 year old playing with a faulty translation (worse than English). What's your excuse?

>>11851986
None, I'm retarded

We all do stupid things from time to time. Hopefully you can enjoy the game now.

>>11851975 (OP)
Nowhere near as retarded, but when I first played FF6 I didn't know anything about properly equipping my characters, so I would just auto-equip them with Optimize. Relics didn't have the Optimize option, so I just put on whatever made the stat numbers look bigger. Still ended up beating it, mostly thanks to Ultima spam.

>>11851985
Oh come on now even back then people often didn't diligently study manuals. This is a perfectly reasonable mistake to make. Further into the game it'd become more obvious that people can hold equipment they aren't capable of wielding, and the fact that characters animate their FIGHT move (potentially, one might think, displaying their weaponry) would probably ring a bell in the player's mind, but right at the start it makes plenty of sense that somebody would fall into this trap.