Grade : CGrade : C
Time to complete: 14 hoursTime to complete: 14 hours
Final Boss: ChaosFinal Boss: Chaos
My Thoughts:My Thoughts:
Considering this game hit consoles during the dawn of home gaming, this game was okay.
The story was quite average and mostly forgettable. The combat system seemed random, with elements like determining who goes first and buying spells to gain magic. Occasionally, I faced challenges, but if you battle and grind through the dungeons, you usually have enough experience to defeat the dungeon boss. Since I had limited time, I activated the experience and Gil 4x buffs about 10 hours into the game.
I would have given this game a solid B if the following things didn’t take place
- Got stuck had no idea where to find the skys ship. Used AI to find out after I got a certain artifact had to go to a random patch of sand raise it up
- Got stuck again looking for the Rosetta Stone and the Oyate (oxygen) had to use YouTube to find the random patch of sand to enter the caravan to buy the farie.
A strong shoutout to those gamers who beat this back in the day! Chaos was hard even with all the buffs! I cant imagine all the grinding one would have had to do to beat him.
On to Final Fantasy II
Blast from the past. I played it many years ago. Should I replay?
If you got time sure
I played the original Phantasy Star over again last year. That was a lot of fun.
Ahh I sunk many hours of my life into Phantasy Star Online for GameCube
Phantasy Star is great. I like final fantasy too but couldn't really get into the new ones.
Your frustration with the obscure triggers and hidden items speaks to how game design evolved over time toward more intuitive exploration. In many ways, the raw difficulty of old titles was not just in combat but in deciphering the rules of the world itself. This makes beating games like Final Fantasy without help feel like a badge of honor for those who managed it back in the day...