Quote Originally Posted by Rez09 View Post
The leveling system in Romancing SaGa 3 and for humans in SaGa Frontier are similar to what you mentioned. They differ a bit between themselves, but the general idea is that using magic improves your magic using stats and using physical skills increases physical stats. However, unlike FF2, these stat increases aren't determined by using command 'x' 'y' times, but rather semi-randomly depending on what skills you used and your relative stat levels compared to the enemies you are fighting. This makes the system much harder to exploit, while still providing you the ability to develop your characters however you'd like based upon their actions. The games also level enemies, sans bosses as I recall, with your party, so there isn't ever a need to grind stats, and enemies aren't generally a cakewalk either.
Damn, that does sound good. I'll definitely have to put those on my looooooong to do list.