6th March 2010, 9:33 PM
I completely agree, but Final Fantasy don't often do that from my admittedly somewhat limited experience... there's always somewhere where you need to grind, as well as fighting every single random battle possible along the way. What a pain...
For instance, Secret of Mana. I stopped playing that game after something like the third or fourth time I reached a boss, only to be utterly destroyed and realize that no, I'd need to go back and grind monsters for half an hour or something before I'd be strong enough to fight it. I kept going after the first few times, even though having to do that is a massive pain when whenever you fight the boss and fail you have to start all over from whenever you last saved, but after a while I just said forget it, this is not worth it.
For instance, Secret of Mana. I stopped playing that game after something like the third or fourth time I reached a boss, only to be utterly destroyed and realize that no, I'd need to go back and grind monsters for half an hour or something before I'd be strong enough to fight it. I kept going after the first few times, even though having to do that is a massive pain when whenever you fight the boss and fail you have to start all over from whenever you last saved, but after a while I just said forget it, this is not worth it.