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Message: [QUOTE="Pandaprewmaster325, post: 63471, member: 217919"] Its a damn shame they keep remastering them in 2d format without improving the story , ff1 is like barebones in terms of story you don't even get to say anything as the heroes all you do is act surprised lol , garland is nonexistent as a villain. The game is pretty difficult basing my judgment on the origins copy I would say the 2d games seem more difficult than the 3d ones (I only played 7 and 8 from the 3d games) its way less forgiving in ff1 the pacing is also slow as heck I beaten the game at level 35 or 36 to think this is final fantasy started so simple and how far it came... Same goes for ff2 it got a pretty good intro showcasing the emperor and the heroes one thing I found outrageous was maria being the slowest in the game she starts with highest agility and somehow lacked behind in the intro....In terms of gameplay ff2 is unique by having no level system instead you get this "the more you use the better you become" sort of system now its not bad but quite flawed I didn't use any exploits of hitting the team members to gain health I see it as pretty lame tbh , the fact that you need to mass use spells to get them going is genuinely annoying and spells like esuna can come in handy late game but because I found myself not getting hit by negative spells that much it remained lvl 1... So you get the sort of gameplay that if you decide to change your weapon or any of the members weapons at a certain point in the game their performance would go down unless its maria who I see as a spellcaster for the most part this system forces you to stick to few spells and weapons that you have leveled up pretty well during the game. And the story? As I said the intro gives off promising vibes into this being an amazing adventure to stop evil well the game starts off in you getting chased by imperial soldiers and supposedly killed in the process that's quite a way to start the beginning of the game sounded pretty promising but as time went on the story just slowly disintegrated there is no major character development for any of the members save for gordon who was like the only interesting character in this whole mess and gareth the original Dragoon in my case the bunching bag of the team as foes just targeted him the most his death was the only meaningful one too each other character death felt rushed (Joseph literally dies one dungeon later after getting to know him LOL) Speaking of dungeons the design is torture I can only imagine square at the time making dungeons and deciding that it would be good to add trap doors that punish the player for exploring you know this clip of tom from & jerry where tom is creating some sort of chemical and has an evil grin the whole time? That's how it looked like when square were making the dungeons for ff2 its a game that has a pretty grim setting for a world and the potential to be top tier in terms of story but goes underused and just falls flat I mean the emperor is supposed to be this very strong being well he dies pretty easily both times he doesn't get enough screen time either. Square shouldn't keep remastering these 2 games and keeping the core story untouched they seriously should remake ff2 and make the story good I heard that at some rerelease of ff2 (there is so many that it feels like square just sits in the meeting room one guy says "we are releasing ff2 for the billionth time" and the room goes wild) the level up of items system is more dynamic and allows for pretty fast leveling of weapons and spells early on but become slower as time goes on. [/QUOTE]

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