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[KasaiDraco]

Yeah I hate the NES FF1 and FF2 battle systems. It takes like 10 minutes to finish a battle that would take like a minute or so to finish. Because almost every hit is ineffective or a miss. Those games would be SO much better if the battles weren't like that. Glad they changed the battles in 4 and later. Never played 3 so don't know about that.

[Sephiroth1999AD]

The Ineffective feature is only a matter of strategy, though. I once played a game of FFI WSC with the Auto-Aim disabled (i.e. Ineffective enabled), and I didn't find that game any harder than a game of FFI WSC with the Auto-Aim enabled. However, I also think it's annoying when your mages need to do something stupid and near-useless or something that will weaken their magic when you're going through dungeons. Every version of FFII, except for DoS, was pretty much discouraging the use of mages.

[KasaiDraco]

I only use physical attacks in those 2 games, never magic.

[FuzZerd]

I virtually stoped losing any stats about half way through the game.

[silentenigma]

it reminds me of hamlet, which is.... kinda good...

[darksword12]

Yeah, I've never lost stats in DoS. I reccomend that version, it's the one I played. And believe me, you don't want a version that discourages magic. Wait til you get to deist cavern. The hill gigases still make me shudder.