Without looking back to that time, it's easy to say "yeah, this game is easy" but back then it was one of the more challenging games to wrap your head around with regards to the job system. If you leveled up the wrong jobs at the wrong time, and equipped the wrong passive abilities without understanding them, then you were in for some hell.

I find this game to definitely be up there on the challenge scale, even to this day. Every other game has some kind of kink that totally destroys it, that a normal person can figure out in 10 seconds, or is so painfully easy that you don't even have to try (hello, FFVII).