Not true, I've beat the game. The bosses are harder yes, that was the appeal for me. But they aren't impossible.

"Hard" is in the eye of the beholder. What is hard to me may not be hard to you. I don't think it's easy to argue on this point... I need to start reviewing my posts.

Unless you really want to grind that high you don't need Rydia to know Meteor. Many enemies just counter it anyway. My Rydia did not learn Meteor. Bahamut ftw.

I guess considering that Meteor is supposed to be legendary and stuff, Squeenix decided it should be hard for Rydia to learn it, but still, I like meteor... even though they basically replaced it with Bahamut.

All enemies' counter attacks are caused by doing something specific, so stop doing whatever causes the counter-attack.

They counter EVERYTHING. There have been battles in which nearly every action I take is countered. It eventually becomes very annoying.

Either run away or fight these enemies and get to higher levels.

I do run away from the battles with the non-magical attacks, but it kind of damages my EXP gain.

His Dark wasn't really useful in the first place, so there really isn't much change here. You'll only have Cecil for as a Dark Knight for about 3 hours anyway.

Dark was useful for large groups of enemies. I am a dark knight enthusiast, so if I only have a dark knight for three hours, I don't want that dark knight to be so completely different from most other dark knights in the series.

You couldn't play as everyone in the original. That was a special addition to the GBA just like augments are to this one.

The GBA version of this game spoiled me, I'll admit. I still think playing as all the characters was better than the augment system, though.

I'll be playing through it again for EoFF Plays next month. I intend to play both the DS and then GBA version for speed completion. Sometimes there's also a "SNES on a SNES" completion so I might need to do that, too.

That wasn't a very good argument, and I've deleted it. Especially considering that I'm going to be doing New Game+ too... guess I'm a glutton for punishment.

I don't hate FFIV DS per se... I just have a love-hate relationship with it. It's a good port, but it can get really frustrating at times.