RPG Progress Report

[dunpeal2064]

Fighter is Warrior

[darsparx]

oh XD I got it mixed up for the monk or whatever the one is that fights better bare-handed in the game...

[CavZee]

Finished Mario & Luigi SuperStar Saga yesterday. Another thoroughly enjoyable and humorous adventure. I didn't enjoy it quite as much as SMRPG or the Paper Mario games but I'm sure later games in this series get alot better. I seem to be on a GBA trip as of late so the next RPG I start up soon will probably be Golden Sun.

[darsparx]

You'll enjoy golden sun, that one just takes a good bit of patience especially if you aim for 100% with all the djinn....(I couldn't do it I always seemed to miss a spot where the one i was looking for might be and had to use a walkthrough which still didn't help)

[BoneSnapDeez]

Final Fantasy II

Just got sucked into the whirlpool. In the Leviathan now.

The game has picked up a lot of steam, I don't feel like I have to grind as much anymore.

[MrPopo]

Final Fantasy II

Just got sucked into the whirlpool. In the Leviathan now.

The game has picked up a lot of steam, I don't feel like I have to grind as much anymore.

I'm not too far from that point. I picked up the game when I was doing a good chunk of my FFX grinding and I just took back Fynn and got the White Mask. My party is more evenly leveled this time around and I still feel like I'm steamrolling everything. If I get hit with an attack it's a minor miracle for the enemy units.

[BoneSnapDeez]

I did a little "swap trick" grinding for three of my four party members. I don't bother leveling the 4th member too much, until I get the final one that is.

Not being able to use the "cancel spell trick" makes leveling certain magic (like Life) a pain in the ass in this game. Thankfully I probably won't need most of these spells anyway.

[TheSSNintendo]

I got the first summon (Sylph) last night in Tales of Phantasia.

[MrPopo]

I did a little "swap trick" grinding for three of my four party members. I don't bother leveling the 4th member too much, until I get the final one that is.

I've actually avoided any major tricks. The only thing I've done was I started by grinding Captains in Fynn with a massively stacked set of Blinks. Each one would take 10-20 minutes to down but it was a guaranteed major boost to the majority of my parameters. That got me to the point where I can walk through the rest of the game and make sure I manage my equipment so as to maintain a high evade % (so no armor at the start, then as my stats get high enough I can start putting on pieces). The only grinding I do these days is grinding up my support spells, and that's just a single cast by everyone per battle.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I did a little "swap trick" grinding for three of my four party members. I don't bother leveling the 4th member too much, until I get the final one that is.

I've actually avoided any major tricks. The only thing I've done was I started by grinding Captains in Fynn with a massively stacked set of Blinks. Each one would take 10-20 minutes to down but it was a guaranteed major boost to the majority of my parameters. That got me to the point where I can walk through the rest of the game and make sure I manage my equipment so as to maintain a high evade % (so no armor at the start, then as my stats get high enough I can start putting on pieces). The only grinding I do these days is grinding up my support spells, and that's just a single cast by everyone per battle.

The "strategy" associated with leveling in Final Fantasy II is one of my favorite aspects of the game. You can't just "press A" through a series of battles and level all of your party member's stats.

Out of curiosity, are there any other RPGs that have something similar to FFII's leveling system?