Final Fantasy 1 Club

[OldSkoolFF]

Phantasy Star 1 says hi (thought granted that’s a Master System game but its held up a lot better than most games from that era, including FFs I and II).

That said, FFII leveling system isn’t that bad. Its more due to the fact that most of the people who play it fall for the game’s trick, by which I mean that the game is hilariously easy (at least for an NES game). The trick is to realize that the game’s enemies follow an exponential curve where most of the game is spent fighting against scrubs and that most items are useless. You don’t really need to buy anything outside of a few Cure scrolls until you can purchase Mithral equipment. Your characters shouldn’t need to touch any weapon type outside of their starting equipment (Firion=Sword/Shield Maria=Bow Gus=Axes). If you can easily fight enemies outside of Altair you can easily fight enemies until Kas’on Kastle, if you can get through the Dreadnought you can get through Deist, fighting around Mystida means fighting around Mystida Tower, and from the Cyclone to the Jade Passage. The game is a cinch as long as you have enough Gold Needles and MP. Also once you land the Aspil/Osmose scroll you’re set for life as MP drain is hilariously broken. Just stick it on your healer and call it a game.

The tl;dr is that FFII is the most breakable NES FF game.

Yes but the ability to break a game gives it depth believe it or not.
It takes a lot of preperation to break a game, for instance with this FFT glitch you can master almost all the jobs.

And we all know how much depth FFT has, there’s also the Lionheart on the first disc objective in FF8 ( don’t think I’ve ever heard of another FF were you can get the best move in the game (arguably) so soon. But look at FF9 or FF1, a lot of its just simple leveling and item grabbing, are these games easily broken? Not really there’s little you can do to speed up either of these games. A game is really only broken if you know to much about said game, FF2 is hard to me but I’m not doing all this subject study on it so…

[LockeJV]

I can’t really blame you the game is very old and somewhat boring.
Still imagine if there were no other games but Atari and you happened to be one of those lucky kids who got FF1 on NES the year it came out. There would be no game at all like it yet besides maybe Dragon Warrior. In that regard it would probably be one of the best games ever…

I considered it one of my favorite games when I played it in '91. Fighter / Fighter / White Mage / Black Mage. I loved it, replayed, fought Warmech dozens of times just because, and…I even wrote a fanfic for a sequel. Granted it was about two pages, but that’s all you could fit on a cart back then anyways. It beat the hell out of Dragon Warrior I and the Ultima games on the Commodore 64 that I played.

Why would you buy it?

You can download a ROM but you can’t download a cart. People buy carts because they enjoy playing the game with the original hardware or because they are collectors. Classic games generally retain their value over time or even increase in value, if you keep the box / manual / etc. in good condition, especially if they weren’t over produced.