Quote Originally Posted by Frostwake View Post
Unless you are way overleveled obviously... Its easy until you have to go back to baron to get Cid's airship... After that the bosses are simply insane...

I thought something was wrong with my game so I went to check some videos of FF IV advance on youtube and bosses are SOO SLOW there... If you have the GBA version you have NO IDEA how hard the original (hardtype) game is... Bosses are SUPERFAST and always get 2-3 turns between EVERY CHARACTER... you can just barely keep up with the healing

Im playing using an emulator (thank god, because I cant imagine having to load from save points) and at that boss with the regenerating arms (Baigan) its just insane... every arm hits up to 400 damage (Cecil having the highest HP at 800.. imagine the slaughter) I was about to throw my keyboard out of the window after the 30th try.. God bless the save states LOL

The worse is, after this one boss, every single enemy in the game becomes super fast and does insane damage to characters in the front row.. a typical group of 4 monsters WILL get about 8 attacks before your whole party can act, by which time someone will probably be dead already..

Just wanted to "vent" my frustration :P am I the only one here or is this really the hardest FF by far?
No, I found FFI (NES) to be the hardest so far. I haven't even come close to beating it. FFIV is a great game, and the difficulty is what makes it all the better. And it shouldn't be that hard if you're using savestates. I have the Playstation version and the GBA version, and I beat them both and yes, the PS/SNES version is much harder than the GBA, but you need that level grinding to beat Zeromus. A little trick that I use for leveling is going into the moon dungeon, loaded with cottages, run around the area close to the save point, and when you get to a battle, kill off one or two of your characters (or four if you're confident) and when you win, the exp earned is divided by your characters, and the dead ones get nothing, so the characters that need more EXP get it, when the stronger and dead ones get none. It's good for balancing your party, or getting Rydia and Rosa's final spells faster.

EDIT: And yes, Edge does suck. The only redeeming part of him is his steal (for stealing dark matter from Zeromus) and his throw (the spoon, fuma shurikens, and the Excalibur at Zeromus) abilities. He's pretty lame otherwise, unlike other ninjas. Even the fact that he can wield 2 swords isn't that great, he still can't match up to an attack from Cecil equipped with the Crystal/Ragnarok (depending on version), and he can't take a hit either, and his magic sucks compared to Rydia's magic.