And at the end of the day i played this game mostly the same way I learned to play FF1. Magic is worthless, just attack. And that's what i did. Picked 4 of your physically strongest characters and just attacked. Soon enough they do max damage either way. Hell, one of the best things to do is take shadow and turn him into an Imp. Shadow, cyan, Edgar, sabin. Cyan used lvl 1 swdtech cause it was slightly stronger until he had weapons that would randomly do magic. Edgar used drill or chainsaw but in the end just attacked. Sabin was about the only one i kept using abilities but only cause i enjoyed doing the inputs and changed it up cause they all did max anyways.

And for all the comments about genji glove offering, possible in FFV as well. Most of the relics were just abilities from FFV.

Making it so only certain people could learn certain spells is completely against everything the storyline is. Making espers harder to find and making say terra learn spells faster down to Sabin/Cyan slower i could get on board with though. Terra learns ice 2 with 100 points. Sabin learns it with 1000 or whatever. In the end terra can learn ultima pretty easy but everyone else would take a lot more to. So in this way people can be more aligned with spells, but anyone can still learn anything.

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