Name: Anonymous 2012-02-11 22:31
The NES version of FF2 was horrible. I mean have you played multiple times to play this game honnestly without cheating ?
If you haven't then you're not one to talk. I can confirm the NES version of the game is completely broken.
* Any non-levelled attack magic makes ridiculous damage exept on very special enemies, and leveling magic is extremely long (100 calls per level) you'd better stay clear of any attack magic and make all your characters brutes
* A new weapon is always worse than an old one, no matter how "good" the new weapon is, because the character is not "used" to the weapon and will miss the first 100 or so attacks
* Your characters will all have their intelligence go down until it reaches 1 if you wear any armor or metallic weapon (and because magic is useless anyways you want this to happen)
* Your characters HP will go up normally for the first part of the game but then it will refuse to grow anymore, making the game un-beatable
* You can forget about having your MP increasing until MAYBE you manage to waste your whole supply of MP in a random battle, but even this strategy stops working after awhile.
* The item inventory is extremely limited. You can carry about 25 items in total (not kind of items, but items !), including key items which takes more and more space as you progress on your quest. You have room for like 15 potions, eyedrops and antidotes altogether (15 in total, not 15 of each !) when you have to do a 8 floor dungeon with random encounters all 10 steps where any enemies have 1/2 chances of poisoning or blind-ing your pary when he attacks physically. Oh and there is no esuna spell of course. So this means after the first 3 floors or so you'll have to deal with a completely poisoned and blinded party for the remaining of the dungeon.
* Don't ever think of running away, I have never ever fled successfully in the NES version of FF2. In the logic of this game I bet you have to "train" running 100 times before it actually starts working
* A common random enemy called "Gigas" will be one of your worst nightmare ever
The GBA version fixes almost all of these problems, and I congratulates the programmers for such an achievement. However the overall depressing ambiance of the game remains which is not too much for my taste.
If you haven't then you're not one to talk. I can confirm the NES version of the game is completely broken.
* Any non-levelled attack magic makes ridiculous damage exept on very special enemies, and leveling magic is extremely long (100 calls per level) you'd better stay clear of any attack magic and make all your characters brutes
* A new weapon is always worse than an old one, no matter how "good" the new weapon is, because the character is not "used" to the weapon and will miss the first 100 or so attacks
* Your characters will all have their intelligence go down until it reaches 1 if you wear any armor or metallic weapon (and because magic is useless anyways you want this to happen)
* Your characters HP will go up normally for the first part of the game but then it will refuse to grow anymore, making the game un-beatable
* You can forget about having your MP increasing until MAYBE you manage to waste your whole supply of MP in a random battle, but even this strategy stops working after awhile.
* The item inventory is extremely limited. You can carry about 25 items in total (not kind of items, but items !), including key items which takes more and more space as you progress on your quest. You have room for like 15 potions, eyedrops and antidotes altogether (15 in total, not 15 of each !) when you have to do a 8 floor dungeon with random encounters all 10 steps where any enemies have 1/2 chances of poisoning or blind-ing your pary when he attacks physically. Oh and there is no esuna spell of course. So this means after the first 3 floors or so you'll have to deal with a completely poisoned and blinded party for the remaining of the dungeon.
* Don't ever think of running away, I have never ever fled successfully in the NES version of FF2. In the logic of this game I bet you have to "train" running 100 times before it actually starts working
* A common random enemy called "Gigas" will be one of your worst nightmare ever
The GBA version fixes almost all of these problems, and I congratulates the programmers for such an achievement. However the overall depressing ambiance of the game remains which is not too much for my taste.