Final Fantasy II, a forgotten tragedy - Retro Review #12 

What an underrated channel, just stumbled into this video, and as a major retro final fantasy fan, i think you hit a pretty good mark on final fantasy 2. Heres hoping your channel grows!

It’s insane how much they had the FF team working. From 87-94; they put out FF 1-6. So if they started working on FF1 in 86, that’s 6 FF games in 8 years. And think about how big some of the games are ! And the fact that we know they were working with only a small team. They really had them working in Japan, like it must have been 12+ hour days for them, for months. Hats off to them. When I go back and play the old games, I often wonder about the original devs, what they must be doing. And I really wish I could thank them personally. Think about the joy they provided for so many people. I wonder how it all came about in the first place.

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If they made Strangers of Paradise:FF2 I think it would be interesting. I feel like FF2's leveling system better suits an action game. Or they could go the Souls-Borne route and have you allocate points.

Strange how this video has so little views. Very profesional naration for a chanel with so little views.

I liked the PSP FFII but that was emulated and I decided I need to play this on my real deal 1986 NES. Even if it is on a clone cart.

in general: the story is kinda good and very dark (ok it's kinda ripped of Star Wars and had several "i give my live to protect you" ..and then the same character is kinda happy and alive but hey) but the game system is... so weird. I played the remake on the GBA and the grind ... oh boy. But it could be made easy by the swap spell. It switched HP and MP with the enemy (if it worked) and since HP and MP grow happend when you lost HP / MP you could get to big numbers quickly but then your stats increase / decrease depending on use. So if you use melee weapons your spellcasting get's worse and vice versa. for me FF4 (or II in the US) is kinda still my favorite. Might be because it was the first game i downloaded an Emulator and the Rom from the net in the 2000s with my 56k modem and playing it with a dictionary since my english was good (it's my first forreign language i learned in school) so i thought but NOPE i had to play with dictionary and even made notes for words i didn't know.

So final fantasy 4 is final fantasy 2 and final fantasy 2 is final fantasy 2

Console peasents, rage please. I want to enjoy your tears as you go off the rails about emulation. While we PC gamers enjoy your roms AND your refreshments.