Quote Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm View Post
I don't miss any of that trout. The challenge came as an exercise in patience by and large. Want to spend 100 years battling imps to max out your level as much as possible in FFI....go for it. I don't generally care for all of that time. I prefer how Xenogears and Chrono Cross handled it. In Cross the normal battles didn't help you worth a jack and it was the boss fights that leveled you up thus making sure they could give you a good challenging fight. Xenogears accomplished this same thing with Mech Boss Battles by limiting the equipment you can buy.
Actually, come to think of it, FFXIII did limit your levelling too with the whole crystarium level system. That was quite good, and meant you couldn't accidently get overpowered.