Quote Originally Posted by Elly View Post
don't know what you're talking bout there Crop, i personaly agree with Helix... before XIII i hardly ever saw a "game over" screen, i could just steamroll over anything with enough grinding done, but XIII puts an end to power leveling... i found myself having to switch paradigms frequently in order to survive many fights, especialy bosses, and if my paradigms weren't set up right it was all over, i found myself having to redo several boss fights simply because my paradigm setups weren't cutting it...
Well of course I had to change my paradigms but that hardly counts. In every single FF game you've had to set up at least something.
In VII you had to organize materia, in VIII you had to junction your magic, X you switched characters and chose your path on the sphere grid (a sight better than the straight line of the Crysterium), XII had gambits.

The paradigm took about 2 minutes to set up every chapter, and a split second to swtich to in battle. Even then I very very rarely used something other than attack to get through the game, only ever really coming unstuck at a couple of bosses.