FINAL FANTASY II

Overhated as hell- though im glad the leveling system did not become the standard going forward, it was not too bothersome during my time playing. Characters talked more, there was a cid and a dragoon(10/10), and the music is still good! Still not a fan of trap room gimmick dungeon design, hoping this doesnt stick either, but i had fun!

昔を懐かしみたい人向けのゲームですね。 ゲームとしてはそこまで楽しいとは思いませんでした。

Cool game. I guess it fixes most of the issues people had with the original. The boosts are also very nice additions, especially for the final dungeon. So many battles that don't really pose any risk at that point. Warp is such a fun spell tho, so funny to make some actual bosses just disappear with it. Ultima is apparently fixed in this release, but it must take an ungodly amount of grinding to get to do decent damage. I decided to just use Flare as my main damage dealing spell instead (when I couldn't use Warp and when there wasn't an elemental weakness I could exploit).

A FANTASIA FINAL II, no papel tudo parecia ótimo, mas a execução é um jogo com uma progressão bem desgastante, uma história rasa por limitações do console original, e um level design diabólico. Do outro lado implementou diversas coisas novas para franquia, como protagonistas originais, uma história que tenta ser mais elaborada e séria, e algumas novas mecânicas para o combate, possibilitando diversas possibilidades.

Starts of a little dry but I got into this one. Story's fun. They provide premade, named characters this time but they're generic still. They start fleshing them out more by the forth game. What they [i]do[/i] do here is give you is unprecedented freedom. There are no classes, no gear restrictions, no leveling system (except for weapon types and individual spells). You can even dual wield which was cool in the 80s and 90s and remains so. You're only limited by the invisible rank of the monsters you encounter. That the [i]Final Fantasy[/i] series never eliminated character [b]levels[/b] again—nor have their been but a handful of RPGs without levels—tells me that people [i]h-h-HATED[/i] it. It's novel though. Perhaps the most egregious part of the game, in your four person party, the fourth slot is reserved for a temporary party member. In other genres, this keeps the gameplay fresh and fun. In a somewhat grindy JRPG, where you're expected to level and gear up every one of them (except the first) and they then disappear and (maybe) return—with starter gear again—it can be painful and frequent saves become a must. It's open world but if you go the wrong way you generally get trounced. New gear almost comes [i]too[/i] fast and furious. They introduced chocobos. There's a rudimentary dialog system and secret walls. They retconned in a reference to the fourth game. Again, I'd have liked an option to play with the original graphics. Cool entry though.