Quote Originally Posted by johnboy3434 View Post
As for my progress with the first game, I've reached Elfland and have just gotten silver swords for my party (3 Fighters and a Red Mage, since I heard that was the easiest group)
I feel that two Fighters, one Black Mage and one White Mage is easier, since you can pull black magic and white magic on the same turn. That's just my opinion though. You still won't really have much difficulty with three Fighters and one Red Mage.

Quote Originally Posted by johnboy3434 View Post
To be honest, while I'm impressed with the size of the world (by 1987 standards, it's frickin' huge!), the story is paper-thin at best and the amount of grinding needed to get the best equipment is almost unforgivable, but I'm trying to remember throughout that this IS an NES game, so I'm withholding judgment until I get to platforms better-suited for storytelling and until the FF team polishes everything. Wish me luck!
That's a good attitude to have when playing older FF games. It's silly to expect an in-depth story with game length and gameplay rivaling less dated works such as FF IX, Chrono Cross, FFT, etc. With that in mind, we actually are able to appreciate how much they were able to create considering the limitations of the NES [I think when you play through FF II, you'll be quite impressed at what they were able to pack into that primitive little NES cartridge].

As for Elfland, that's my favourite part of the game. I love elves!

Quote Originally Posted by Captain Maxx Power View Post
If you don't play FF3 you're doing yourself a massive injustice. It's far and away much better both technically and from a narrative perspective than FF1. It's easily the best NES FF.
And this is true by the standards of most people that have played these games, but I don't think it's very fair to compare it to FF I. Of course they are for the same console, but let's not forget that FF I was there very first attempt at this, and they were quite new to it all at the time.