ok good game but.....

[basche12]

alright ff1 is a good game but come is it really necessary for EVERYTHING to be completely ludicrous in price??? seriously, magic being 1500 and 4000 on the 3rd town in the game??? what the hell?? am i making to much of a big deal about this or am i not along??

[demondude]

I never had a problem with money.

[Hayabusa]

Fighting and collecting gold will in turn make you buff.

[Captain Maxx Power]

The game can be a bit grindish at this stage. You'll just have to spend (a lot of) time killing Ogres for cash and exp. By the time you've completed the marsh cave you'll have enough cash to buy the spells before you set off to the wider world.

[Elite Lord Sigma]

You're going to need to do a fair bit of fighting if you want to outfit your mages with every spell you want. You'll have to fork over 20,000 gold or more for some of the best spells in the game.

[Momiji]

Depends what version you're playing. If you're playing the GBA version, black magic pretty much fades into the background late into the game. I prefer a party with a Fighter, Thief, White Mage, and Red mage. White magic is much more useful than black. Or if you're playing the NES version, magic is pretty much essential, so spend spend spend~.

[ValiantKnight]

GBA version had better hit rates on most characters except black belt if i recall.. They really upped the thief's damage capability early on.

In the GBA version, however... magic is more Fixed/smaller range and not like the NES.

Fire won't vary from 10-40 with a level 1 black mage... iirc it hits for about 31-33 most of the time and it strengthens with caster stats.

This makes a certain 100-400damage spell later on alot more useful on GBA than it was for me on the playstation version....

But melee is upgraded in general on the GBA, so yes I can see your point.

[abrojtm]

By the end of the game, you'll have insane amounts of money and nowhere to spend it.

[ReloadPsi]

This is why the game's easier without a Black Mage.

[Crossblades]

I never had a problem with money.

Neither have I. I'm always getting money whenever I level, it's like killing two birds with one stone. Plus, I always have a Monk in my party, and we all know he doesn't need much

[LXX]

You have to kill alot of monsters to get level anyway so you get alot of money to.

[i_like_ff8]

This is why the game's easier without a Black Mage.

Black Mages rock:D

[cloud21zidane16]

I never really had money problems.

[gothic_fantasy]

You obviously haven't played FF2j yet...I was a pauper throughout the game, no matter what I did.

[Azalar]

By the end of the game, I couldnt carry anymore cash, and I had all the magic's, and level 70 on all my characters, with optimized weapons and armour.

It kind of sucked taking on the last boss, it was no fun.

[GuitarGuy1181]

You will have to look it up, because I cant remember the exact location, but at this point in the game there is a small area in which very strong enemies (at this point in the game) can be found. If you can manage to win a few battles you will be set. I believe it is the peninsula to the NE of the town in which you encounter the pirates.

[Peter_20]

If you keep in mind that the first Dragon Quest game is entirely about grinding Ogres-in-Elfland-style, it isn't that bad. XD

[Lenneth]

Yeah.. The training is a little rough, but that's the way games were back then. Hard and time consuming.

[Yar]

Yeah.. The training is a little rough, but that's the way games were back then. Hard and time consuming.

I agree. Newer games, including the FF Series, today are a cakewalk compared to some of the NES, and SNES games of yesteryear.

People probably just got fed up with losing so the gaming industry had to dumb it down. It's a shame really. Here's an idea: try not sucking so much!

[Realm25]

As soon as I started the game I started grinding, I didn't even save the princess till my group of 2 Fighters, 1 Thief, 1 Red Mage were all level 10 or so. From then on I sailed through everything. At every new town I visit I do at least an hour of exp grinding. I only have earth and fire crystals and already I have so much gil I cannot spend it all. If you go into the right dungeons there's chest after chest full of gil, also.