Oof, it pains me to know Bloodborne is going to be taken out here.
As far as I know, the remakes all removed the penalty. Though you should still equip mages with robes over armor due to stat bonuses and better Magic Defense.
So remind me, does magic actually impact spellcasting in the remakes of II? Like is there any reason Maria shouldn’t wear heavy armor?
Yeah if your stats are good enough and you use buffs properly, he can't really touch you. That's kind of the main thing I've learned from Kawazu's design philosophy, "buffs make or break a game" with most of his works. It's actually amusing how trash tier a lot of offensive magic is in the SaGa series.
I am a bit worried if I’ll be able to beat the game if I give Richard the Blood Sword, but then I remembered I did just fine without one last time
That's more or less the setup I like to run.
So you asked me about FFII builds. In general I’m thinking of something similar to the last time, giving Firion a sword and shield and white magic, making him kind of a paladin who’ll be my main healer, Maria will get a vow and black magic, Guy either gets an axe and shield or two axes and very minimal white magic later on, while Leon will get either two swords of a shield. Any thoughts on that setup?
Lol, well as I mentioned in the main thread, a lot of the old school things were voted by a few people and you're the only one likely to vote for them. I have a strong notion where the voting is going to go with some of the entries, so this will likely not end the way these usually do. My category format has also thrown a wrench into some entries since I feel SMTIV would have likely survived if the category was anything not story related. Most of the die hard Tactics fans are not active anymore and even then, it's up against a forum darling like IX which has always been a wild card entry in these types of events. I'm just sad because I'm pretty sure Bloodborne is going to lose its round. Not so much because its not liked on the forum, but because so few have played it compared to the entry it will be going up against. That's the other issue is that this list has some seriously niche titles on it, so it only takes a few people abstaining from voting to get some more interesting results.
I mean, that’s fair. It did get a lot of hate at the start. But from what I’ve seen watching some videos lately, it looks like hardly anyone has anything bad to say about FFIX anymore. But then that’s probably because it didn’t get as many years of unstoppable praise like the other titles you mentioned did. But even though I do like IX a lot, I think it’s ludicrous that it lost to FFT And in the story category, no less!
I feel it's really this forum to be honest. I still know a lot of vocal people who hate it still. I don't quite feel it gets as much love as WW does outside of this forum. Most would argue the game is good but not quite to the unjust levels as VI, VII, and X are uplifted by the fans.
