Re: mahou shojou final fantasy

"Jorge Pratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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>> Blade wrote:
>> > 5parrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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>> >>about the level-pro-rating system, I can't help but roll my eyes
>> >>and go "Oh, you poor thing, you've been deprived of the wonderful
>> >>experience of killing the same grunt enemy AGAIN and AGAIN and
>> >>AGAIN."
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>> > <shrug> Instead, we get the wonderful experience of having to run
>> > away from the grunt enemies AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN.  Or
>> > turning them into cards AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN. 
>> > Yippie-yi-yo-kai-yay.  I'd rather kill them.
>>
>> Point: Enc-None.
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> <shrug2> So kill them, then. Nobody's saying you can't, just that
> you don't *need* to. The point is, you don't have to go hunting for

Not only do you not "need to", you get WEAKER by so doing.

> grunt enemies again and again just so your characters grow in power.

Very few good RPGs force you to do that.

> As for earning AP to learn the better Junction skills, you can do a
> bit of creative exploration and never have to actually "level up."
> Since FF1, 4, 5, 6 and 9 do require lots of levelling-up to avoid

Baloney.  You most certainly do not in FF6, which can be beaten with 
contemptuous ease just by running straight through the game.  Stopping to 
get the optionals is just if you want to kill Kefka in one round.

Nor did 9 require levelling up, at least through the first two discs.

> getting slaughtered in battle, FF8 and 10 demonstrate that pacing
> and strategic combat can avoid that almost entirely. 

<shrug> I hate FF8 for it's plot and characters.  But it's asinine 
"level-ups are useless and make you weaker" system doesn't help.  Lunar 
has a similar system, but it's implemented RIGHT: the enemies level up 
too so there's still challenge, but levelling up still makes you, 
overall, better.

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