Quote Originally Posted by Tsunami Bren
but that's cheating!
No, it's not cheating. It's just "Not being man enough to take on a good challenge".

But after the first few hours, I didn't find FFII too hard anyway. Just fight a few additional random encounters every now and then and you should be ok.

When I played I let Maria use magic whenever possible (when she still had MP left), thus making her the mage of the group. For the other characters I mostly used the attack commando. Oh, and I would reccomend that you put all the characters in the front row so they get hit more often, and thus gain more max HP.