How long is FF2?

[Sora96]

How long is FF2? Going by this: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Walkthrough:Final_Fantasy_II/HenryA/Part_3 it appears to be kinda short.

 

[Fin]

It's not very long but the amount of grinding necessary to stay at a comfortable power level as the story progresses took me a really long time. There are too many difficulty spikes to play through the game without any stat grinding.

I had to set up a system where I'd go through bags of hard candies and play some music that would keep me mentally engaged long enough to suffer through a few hundred battles of my characters beating themselves up and selecting actions only to cancel them immediately.

While I did it just to say that I beat it, in retrospect it was a real waste of my time. Good ideas, horrible/broken execution. SaGa handled it much better.

 

[Sora96]

It's not very long but the amount of grinding necessary to stay at a comfortable power level as the story progresses took me a really long time. There are too many difficulty spikes to play through the game without any stat grinding.

I had to set up a system where I'd go through bags of hard candies and play some music that would keep me mentally engaged long enough to suffer through a few hundred battles of my characters beating themselves up and selecting actions only to cancel them immediately.

While I did it just to say that I beat it, in retrospect it was a real waste of my time. Good ideas, horrible/broken execution. SaGa handled it much better.

What version did you play?

 

[Fin]

I played the playstation version. I think it would be less tedious on a handheld because you could watch a movie while you input an endless string of "select select cancel"s.

But I heard some versions of the game are different-- removing the stat grinding exploits and upping (!) the difficulty. Which is hard for me to come to grips with because for me it was the hardest FF game to get through and I did the Dark Aeon side quest in FFX, beat the weapons in FF7, etc. With FF2 I just never felt a sense of accomplishment.

I'd say do research into the features of the version you are looking at before making any purchases.

Some people really like FF2 but it's really one of those love-or-hate things, it seems.

 

[Sora96]

I played the playstation version. I think it would be less tedious on a handheld because you could watch a movie while you input an endless string of "select select cancel"s.

But I heard some versions of the game are different-- removing the stat grinding exploits and upping (!) the difficulty. Which is hard for me to come to grips with because for me it was the hardest FF game to get through and I did the Dark Aeon side quest in FFX, beat the weapons in FF7, etc. With FF2 I just never felt a sense of accomplishment.

I'd say do research into the features of the version you are looking at before making any purchases.

Some people really like FF2 but it's really one of those love-or-hate things, it seems.

I'm already playing it on my Android phone. Haha. Android version is of course based off the PSP version.

 

[ScienceNonfiction]

Too long. I've only watched a playthrough of it at one point, and that completely turned me off from ever playing it. From what I've seen and heard, it looks more tedious than fun. Good luck.