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Sure he wasn't talking about the original American FF2?

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Also are you going to play final fantasy tactics? Because if you've never played it, I highly suggest you play it as part of this. Such an amazing game.

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This so hard. I loved the War of the Lions remake. It was definitely a great way to redo a great game.

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Yup such a good game.

So since I have decided to do something I wanted to do for a while while you're busting out FF1-3.

I'm going to do an all thief run of FF 1 using the original NES version.

Supposedly one of the hardest things to do in a ff game is this.

Going to do it.

I know you're thinking "WHITE MAGE WOULD BE RETARDED HARD"

But this is only true until you get White Wizard.

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I will definitely believe this. White Mages/Wizards are pretty decent if only because they have good defense but not physical power. Thiefs...eh. Not a fan.

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Also, I got the airship and did my class change. Just getting some spells for the red wizard (which I haven't been really using much of so I guess I could have been better off with two warriors) and some other things I might have missed.

Running around looking for stuff had farmed like 400,000 gil for me so I was able to get the best weapon for the black wizard without a problem, along with the worthwhile lvl. 7 black and white magic.

Now to get the other two crystals taken care of.

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And FF1 completed! Gotta say, the more I played it, the more I realized that it hasn't really aged well at all.

Be that as it may, this is my first time finishing the game. Took me 13 hours and I'm glad I can add this game to my belt of finished classics if you will. Maybe one day I'll give FF1 a go on Origins or the original NES version to give myself a true test of difficulty, but for now FF2. I'll be playing the version on Origins for this one.

Let's hope I can stick it out this time.

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An hour into it and I can already tell that this might be troublesome.

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The best way to play II, IMO, is to go crazy and seriously overpower yourself in the beginning of the game. I had all three core party members at 1000+ HP with weapon skills or magic at level 10 before I even stepped foot into anything even slightly resembling a dungeon.

You don't maybe need to go that far with it if you don't have the patience or time, but training up to a respectable level will definitely make the game much more enjoyable. Otherwise its just frustrating.

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What I'm thinking of doing is having Maria as a mage, both white/black with more emphasis on white, and an archer since she'll be better taking less damage in the back (that's what he said). Firion can be the sword wielder with the shields and whatnot. Gus right now is just a brute. I already went to this place across the lake or whatever, forgot the name. I'll work on stuff around there.

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After playing about two hours and trying to the first boss taken care of to get the Mythril, I can't help but feel like I accomplished absolutely nothing at all. I mean not only that, but I got my ass kicked by this guy. Barely made it out alive.

I mean am I doing something wrong here? :(

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I started over, I got another two hours in.

I have Firion as a white mage because of his agility, and the spirit will come with abuse of the white magic usage. He knows Cure which is about to become Cure 3 pretty soon, and he's proficient enough with a sword when his MP runs out with the healing spells from overuse.

Maria is my black mage and she sits in the front for right now to get some more damage to bring her HP up. She has all the black magic spells available from the first town and they're all at least level 2 right now, and I haven't set foot in Fynn yet.

Gus is just riding it out, but he's able to do okay with very minimal armor right now since the enemies don't hurt too hard but they hurt enough to get the HP stats up, but I think that's something I'll worry about more when I'm gonna set into the first dungeon later. I'll focus more on stats and skill progression for the time being.

To give the enemies more chances to attack me for raising my HP stat, I actually have Maria cast a black magic spell on my entire party and then Firion comes in and heals the entire party while Gus takes out the enemies one at a time. It seems to be working out well enough on the world map. If Firion runs out of MP, then he assists Gus, and Maria casts BM spells on individual enemies. Once Maria and Firion are out of MP it's back to the Inn and repeat.

At least I'll have a shitton of money by then to get all the other spells I'll be missing.

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Basically, the key is just get your stats up. You're doing it completely differently from how I did it, but I think it should work. Depending on your play style you might regret later on having Firion as a white mage. I'm not exactly an expert, but I've had Maria handling both schools of magic. Firion and Gus both act as the physical attackers.

I'm ridiculously overpowered, though, so your strategy might work better for a "normal" team.

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I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of things, even if it is a tad monotonous and time consuming. Just got the Mythril again and it went much much smoother this time.

It's a shame this game seems unplayable to me without exploiting the whole "attacking your own members or yourself for endurance and HP points" stuff. I couldn't imagine it working out that well without it.

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9.5 hours into it and that long grind session for the first five hours is really starting to show how well it pays off. I've only had to worry about gil as far as buying armor is concerned. My characters are all generally strong now too, so I haven't found it completely necessary to be buying new weapons for my characters.

I'm currently on the way to get the Goddess Bell. Josef is already in my party. Just making my way through the Snow Cavern and taking my time to make sure I check everything out before I eventually take out the boss.

Oh and bump! I hope I'm not the only one still doing this D: