Just Finished - Observations and Questions

[Ender]

That so called great equipment in Pandemonium is actually pretty terrible. You'll take more damage for wearing it.

Very true. I made sure to keep the three main characters at 99% evasion even if I had to equip "lesser" armors (wizard robes, black armors, goldpin helmets, thief gauntlets)...that definitely proved to be way better for this game.

It's fun to collect the entire Genji set though, and while the math might prove me wrong, it might not be an awful choice for Leon since his evasion is going to be just average anyway (unless one gets really obsessive about leveling him out with the other three).

I'm an item hound though, and like owning the "elite" equipment (I'm guessing the Genjigear was intended to be that but the game mechanics rendered it not very good) as long as I have inventory space, whether I ever use it or not.

[Sefie1999AD]

That so called great equipment in Pandemonium is actually pretty terrible. You'll take more damage for wearing it.

Hmm, you're right. Well, at least you still get to fight a lot of special bosses and hear their great special boss theme (Battle Scene 2 on NES, Battle Scene A on other versions). Getting the Masamune is also great.

[Bolivar]

I have alot of respect for anyone that completes the original NES FF's.

I recently completed Dawn of Souls (still need to try Rebirth) and just beat FFII about a half hour ago. It was really fun, but I'm sure alot of the experience has been lost in the port. One day I'll have to beat the roms to see what it was really all about back then.

[Sefie1999AD]

I don't know about experience being lost in the porting. I've beat both the NES version and the GBA version, and I definitely prefer the GBA version. Go ahead and play the Souls of Rebirth extra quest. Just remember, it's extremely challenging.

[LoKuS]

I got the GBA version.

[Bolivar]

I was wondering, was Ricard known as Ricard Highwind in the original NES one, or did they add in his surname in the port?

[Sefie1999AD]

I somehow remember the name Richard Highwind in the NES version. The boy was called Kain only in the DoS version, though.

[Evastio]

It didn't mention the name Highwind at all in the NES Version.

[Sefie1999AD]

It didn't? Oh, okay. SE must have added the names Kain and Highwind only to the remake versions to have a reference to FFIV's Kain Highwind.

[Martyr]

I guarantee you that when they were planning FFIV, they were not thinking of ways that they could reference FFIIj.

[ReloadPsi]

My thought is that the ending totally sucks and is really ungratifying.