Hardest Final Fantasy Game?

[feioncastor]

My vote goes to the original FF1 for the NES. The newer versions are much easier. The ridiculously small amount of space that you had to carry Weapons and Armor forced you to budget everything you brought. The new equipment is usually too expensive when you first arrive in a new town, so you have to go fight to save up the GP. And then the battle system is rather wacky. If you cast "LIT 2" on two of the same enemy, it could do 178 damage to one and 23 damage to the other. Buying 99 HEAL potions requires extensive pushing of the A button since you can't buy in quantity. There is also no means of filling up your MP outside of an Inn, except by using a "House", but Houses are expensive and if you do have one, you'll probably never use it because you'll be "saving it for emergencies". This, of course, makes magic worthless in almost all of the fights, except boss fights. When fighting a boss, the right magic can make the fight stupidly easy. However, because you only have a couple of casts of your best spells through the whole game, you can only use good magic against the boss, making your mage a waste of space the whole way through the dungeon. And once you get to a high enough level to have an abundance of lower level spells, you'll be up against monsters who aren't fazed by them. Also, there are no save points. In fact, the only way you can save the game is with a Tent/Cabin/House or by staying at an Inn.

To some, it may seem as though the game's difficulty relies on luck. For example, you'd need luck to avoid running into 8 zombies in the Earth Cave. And luck would decide whether or not they stunned all four of your characters immediately and then slowly kill them off. However, if you're good enough, you can run into 8 zombies and deal with it. You can cast HARM or HRM2. You can have all four characters attempt to run. You can cast FIR2. So it's luck that gets you into situations, but preparedness and strategy can save you. Except from 9 pirates, especially the kind that hang out in Pravoka.

[Safis]

So far for me, it's FF2. The first half of the game was easy as hitting the ground when you're falling from the sky. Then it got about as easy as taking candy from a baby, which really isn't as easy as they say! But still not hard. Then I hit Pandaemonium. I can whip into shape anything that comes my way until then, but BOOM! Death Riders squash me like a bad simile. All of a sudden the game is near impossible.

The other FFs I've played to the (near) end I found to be that way too, except it's the final boss that's much harder. IX and X anyway. Not I. Chaos was a joke.

[Avarice-ness]

I had issues with FF1(GBA) because after the dancer stopped telling me what to do, I wandered aimlessly leveling up so bad that I beat Chaos, while not paying attention, while eating at a chinese Buffet.

FFVII was my easiest, FFVI second easiest, FFIV a tiny bit harder, FFV alittle harder (DAMN YOU DRAGON!!!! *issues*), FFII hard, and FFI really hard 'cause I didn't know what was going on.

Oh and yeah FFX was easy, all the one's I didn't mention basically mean I don't like them AKA FFVIII, FFIX, FFXII (Yeah I don't like it.)

[DarkLadyNyara]

None of the ones I've played have been too hard, but FFII will rape you if you don't know how the system works. Or, rather, it'll allow you to rape yourself. ^_^

[Ashley Schovitz]

XII and IV for me, no definetly XII.

[Ben]

I had rented IX but I kept renting it until i got stuck... I'm not very persistant as you can see. So its the hardest for me.

[Holy Lancer]

XII and IV for me, no definetly XII.

XII is easy if you use the Liscence Board wisely.

[DarkHeat787]

^XII is teh funnessness.

I put FFX. :O

Yunalesca was a female puppy.
Final Aeon was a female puppy.
Yu Yevon was a female puppy because it wasn't hard. I cried at the easiness of that battle.

[Goldenboko]

Yu Yevon was a female puppy because it wasn't hard. I cried at the easiness of that battle.

... You do know that battle is suppose to be easy because you can't lose.

Out of the ones I've played fully I'd say FFIV. (DAMN YOU ZEROMUS!)
The easiest was probably FFVI because you could make your party uber but the bosses never had more then about 65,000HP. (My Locke can take out Atma Weapon alone and he's only level 51)

[DarkHeat787]

Yep. I'd prefer if I wasn't Auto-Life'd the whole time. >>;

It's sad though; I actually had some problems with Yu Yevon because I hadn't done any Celestial Weapons cept for the Nirvana, and I only half-powered it. I'm glad I had Yuna with Doublecast. /luzrbecauseIhadtroublewithteheasiestbossevar

[Goldenboko]

Yep. I'd prefer if I wasn't Auto-Life'd the whole time. >>;

It's sad though; I actually had some problems with Yu Yevon because I hadn't done any Celestial Weapons cept for the Nirvana, and I only half-powered it. I'm glad I had Yuna with Doublecast. /luzrbecauseIhadtroublewithteheasiestbossevar

Actually if you use Zombie attack he'll literally kill himself, and if you don't have that you could always cast reflect on him so he heals you.

[Disco Potato]

What was the hardest Final Fantasy game?

Out of the ones I've played, FFXII, for the sheer patience and willpower I'm having to draw on to finish it >_<

[Yuffie514]

for me, it was Final Fantasy Tactics. the game was difficult and i remember being frustrated and quite irked. i don't think all the hours i spent on there even accumulated to half a day's work. i just gave up and left it to be part of the collection display. i supposed i'd say the same for Final Fantasy XI too, but it actually takes a lazy person to not enjoy it for themselves...

[chocobo hunter]

The hardest one yet has got to be FFXII, because of its lack of random battles and gambit system. I always seem to get KO'ed by other party members going after a super hard monster and then when flee does'nt work I end up killed. And the story isn't much of a incentive for me to actually finish it.