TwoYellowEyes
Newbie
Hello everybody!
After having collected dust for several years, I finally decided to play the old FF games, i.e. FF Origins and FF Anthology. FF1 was a blast, but now I'm getting rather annoyed and frustrated in FF2.
I've played for only 2 1/2 hours so far, and all I did was running around between Altair and Gatrea killing goblins, hornets, and stranglers to improve my characters' stats. It's not like I didn't understand the character development system, I'm just wondering how much effort, i.e. grinding, it requires.
After two hours of pure "grinding time", Firion has 60 HP and 10 MP (only has the Cure spell so far), Maria has 45 HP and 25 MP (bought all four spells in Altair for her; Fire is on lvl2, everything else is still lvl1 but rather close to improving), and Gus has 70 HP and 5 MP (no spells). And I've already had Firion and Gus swap their weapons because they won't advance past 3rd level with their respective starting weapons.
It's not that I'm not used to a fair amount of grinding, something that's basically required in (early) FF games. And I even enjoy grinding as long as it stays reasonable. For example, I got all characters in FF7 to level 30+ and acquired all their limit breaks (except the fourth ones, obviously) before crossing Midgar Zolom's swamp in my last playthrough.
Of course I know about the cancel glitch in FF2, but I really don't want to use it. I mean, what kind of game basically forces you to exploit a glitch in order for your party not to get slaughtered by anything but the monsters around the starting town? That's just ridiculous. Although I'm not above hitting my own party with combat spells and healing them with Cure afterwards. I still think it's silly having to do that, but at least not as silly as said glitch.
So, how much grinding will I have to do? Because judging from the stats of my characters after two hours, I'm afraid it's going to be a lot. Even more so since one walkthrough I consulted claimed that your characters need 200 to 300 HP before leaving the "beginners' area" around Altair/Gatrea.
After having collected dust for several years, I finally decided to play the old FF games, i.e. FF Origins and FF Anthology. FF1 was a blast, but now I'm getting rather annoyed and frustrated in FF2.
I've played for only 2 1/2 hours so far, and all I did was running around between Altair and Gatrea killing goblins, hornets, and stranglers to improve my characters' stats. It's not like I didn't understand the character development system, I'm just wondering how much effort, i.e. grinding, it requires.
After two hours of pure "grinding time", Firion has 60 HP and 10 MP (only has the Cure spell so far), Maria has 45 HP and 25 MP (bought all four spells in Altair for her; Fire is on lvl2, everything else is still lvl1 but rather close to improving), and Gus has 70 HP and 5 MP (no spells). And I've already had Firion and Gus swap their weapons because they won't advance past 3rd level with their respective starting weapons.
It's not that I'm not used to a fair amount of grinding, something that's basically required in (early) FF games. And I even enjoy grinding as long as it stays reasonable. For example, I got all characters in FF7 to level 30+ and acquired all their limit breaks (except the fourth ones, obviously) before crossing Midgar Zolom's swamp in my last playthrough.
Of course I know about the cancel glitch in FF2, but I really don't want to use it. I mean, what kind of game basically forces you to exploit a glitch in order for your party not to get slaughtered by anything but the monsters around the starting town? That's just ridiculous. Although I'm not above hitting my own party with combat spells and healing them with Cure afterwards. I still think it's silly having to do that, but at least not as silly as said glitch.
So, how much grinding will I have to do? Because judging from the stats of my characters after two hours, I'm afraid it's going to be a lot. Even more so since one walkthrough I consulted claimed that your characters need 200 to 300 HP before leaving the "beginners' area" around Altair/Gatrea.