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Silent Cartographer is my favorite level. There's different ways to progress and it felt so open and fun to play back in the day.

I wonder if the stats in the GBA version are the same as in the PSP version?

They should’ve changed the dashes to x’s or asterisks to more effectively communicate that it’s the amount of times you can hit/dodge, would’ve been a lot clearer as to what it means

Are you playing from the snes or the ds? Just wondering. Its snes sorry for bothering you. I could tell by Frog's 16th century english.

This video has a ton of charm. Love what you do!

This game is AOK. After every you have to fight on average every 8 seconds and it gets very very very annoying

In the nes version you can just cancel your attack on a monster after selecting a monster, then repeat it over and over for weapon xp

What sucks is they removed the glitch there was in the Final Fantasy Origins version.

Here's hoping your disk doesn't crap out on you like mine did.

I see why most say FF2 was there most hated game. The best way to level is attacking your own party. I'm trying to get through the nes version but I think I will skip this and move to ff3. I enjoyed ff1 but this is just terrible.

They should never have removed Yoshitaka Amano's art !!

What an awesome game

Someone correct me but this version doesnt seem to have the degradation of stats like the original... such as building too much strength lowers your intelligence and intelligence degrades spirit... also originally hp and mp only goes up by getting hurt or using magic... its kinda unfortunate that they made it so easy for noobs in my opinion... still a great game though

"Promosm"

holy cow- the NES had the best music! who knew? ill have to get 1

Me when someone disagrees with me online: HYPERBEAM!!!

Btw, in case you've been living under a rock, Diablo 4 released and Diablo 3 has always been trash

I randomly got reccomended this video. It's solid. Nice work!

Wrong decade bro

When I first played through Final Fantasy II, I used the old fan translation of the NES version by NeoDemiforce. For my second and third playthroughs, I used the PSP version. For my last playthrough, I used the Pixel Remaster version on Steam.

The Final Fantasy Origins PSOne version of Final Fantasy II is similar in gameplay to the NES version.

Square Enix could do a future remaster of Final Fantasy I-VI, using the high resolution graphical assets of the last 2D version before Pixel Remaster, and at the same camera angle as Pixel Remaster or wider. Final Fantasy III would have to be upres’d from scratch. It would reinstate the content from Finest Fantasy for Advance and later, except for Final Fantasy III. There could be Final Fantasy Modern Remaster, Final Fantasy Mode 7 Remaster, or Final Fantasy HD-2D Remaster.

The Toad stat ailment helps in fisticuffs skill grinding in the Pixel Remaster version.

The middle installments of the first two Final Fantasy trilogies are grindy.

Black magic skill grinding is harder than weapon skill grinding. Getting the Magic Tactics trophy/achievement in the Pixel Remaster version is a challenge.

Why am I having flashbacks to FF8 draw system....

I have to say, all the "I think" and "I'm pretty sure"s in this video are not very confidence-inspiring

Quick question about weapon levels. I just started the PR version and nearly all my weapons, including bare handed, are at level e. Do I need to get better equipment or fight stronger monsters to rise to higher levels? Thank you!

You shouldn't give up! the satisfaction of following through is all you'll remember looking back on this game.

In Pixel Remaster from what ive seen it works like this: You get a small max HP increase for one character every 2nd-3rd battle or so regardless. You get more HP and Stamina up if you get big hits in battle and survive(this includes hitting yourself). Using a weapon increases that weapon types dmg and hits for the character using them, plus you might get strength boost when winning battles. Using magic increases your magic lvl, intelligence, spirit and MP, depending if youre using white or black magic. You get agility boost every now and then when you keep blocking/evading enemy attacks, how high that will be will depend of the gear you put on your characters and it shows the percentages. Gaining HP is a lot easier in the pixel remaster version than others. This system is very versatile, you can make any character specialize in any type of situation, a frontline fighter, a mage or a healer, or maybe be proficient in all if you really want to grind them. This system was refined even more in FF3 with the addition of the class system, also found in FF5. However there are certain limits, for instance the starting area enemies only increase your weapon levels to 3 or so before it becomes very slow, if you want to keep advancing them, you need to find more powerful enemies. In the Bestiary this is listed below the monsters name, as a monster rank. The higher this number is the more powerful the foe is considered and a higher boost you can get, until a certain limit(I think the hard cap is lvl 16). This is different from other versions, where it didn't matter which level of enemies you face, you could still advance or use the drain trick. I guess they wanted to balance it around. In short, the more battles you do and the harder enemies you face, the more powerful your characters become, steadily. In the Pixel Remaster this has been made considerably faster and easier. You should gain a stat boost of somekind every other battle or so, considering the enemies you face are on your level. This game basically keeps you on an average level for your adventuring area, as long as you don't avoid battle too much. There shouldn't be much trouble on that front. You still need to grind spells if you want them to be powerful, though. Lvl 5 fire spell for instance does very poor damage when multi targeting, but better on single target. The spell cost increases with how powerful you make it, for example lvl 3 fire costs 3 MP, while lvl 10 costs 10 MP to use. Warning for new players: In the first mission where you are send to Fynn to locate Scott, DO NOT talk to the imperial troops stationed in Fynn, they are very powerful, and will attack and murder your party. Also do not venture much north or west of Fynn to the swamps and beyond, the enemies become SIGNIFICANTLY harder there for starting characters. Once you get Minwu, who is good at keeping the party alive, you can try that area if you want to power level and boost your characters more, though it is rather unneccessary as this version is easier. Some of the enemies in that area, mainly magicians and ogres, have a chance to drop decent new spells or even some equipment. The area that wraps up from northwest to the southeast of the map does come more deadlier the further up you go(It eventually leads to the hostile Palamecian Empire territory, the huge desert, and enemies there are very hard to handle for starter groups). Also later some types of enemies can poison, stun, blind or turn party members to stone just by hitting them, so Id keep leveling spells Esuna and Basuna(better lvl of Esuna heals more serious conditions) or have a steady supply of curing reagents in the backpack to cure them. Sometimes physical attack will deal 0 dmg on enemies, cause your melee weapons or weapon levels are too weak and the enemy defense is high, in such a case(first instances you see this is on some turtle like monsters, slimes and imperial officers) try using offensive magic on them to deal decent damage.

In the NES/Famicom version your stat increases have a chance of dropping. But the bigger change is that equipment (every piece of equipment you wear) will lower your effective INT/Spirit stats in combat by a set amount. Like the Blood Sword will drop your INT/Spirit stats by I think 80 points EACH. Another thing is that armor lowers your evade percent, so in a lot of cases you're better off taking more damage per hit but having a higher chance of evading attack by having weaker armor or even no armor. Instant kill spells (like teleport) at higher levels are capable of wiping the battle field. Of all the JRPGs I've ever played only SMT games and DQ2 have as high of a kill rate for instant kill spells. Higher HP is actually counter productive later in the game when more and more enemies have on hit status effects (stone, poison, mute, and especially drain). In the NES/Famicom translation Absorb is defense similar to FF1 on NES. EDIT: The bow sucks because you can't use a shield with it so your chances of getting agility or evade increases drops, especially if you put the character in the back row where they will be attacked less often (but still be able to be hit by skills or if everybody else dies).

Super helpful, thanks!

Good stuff my guy

Any tips on the weapons part cause after a while there is a stand still. Like I said the spells seem to be much easier than the weapons is

The spells are the easiest for me to figure out since you just have to use the spells. The rest are A bit more confusing(playing the pixel remaster)

this game is hilarious

30 ummm min video uhhh could have ummmm been ten uhhhhh minutes with a script and some re recordings of you not saying unmm. I dont know every ten seconds. Kinda made the vidoe unwatchable for me. Sorry.

I. Playing the pixel remaster and for some reason its not showing my weapon xp bar fill up after a fight or on the statues screen. I'm playing on ps5 also

I just have to say ty to ff2 for inspiring the skills system in xi

I don't normaly subscribe to people, but I feel like this is a good exeption

'Promo sm'

a rampage strength build! nicely done, so close vs the awakened one!

Hey getting to the end of act 2 on your first try is pretty good! welcome to the addiction ;) this game has several hundred hours of playability.

glad that youtube is pushing smaller channels in the recommended videos section again, good luck with the content grind my man

nice video i hope your channel does well

Good old Whispering Rock. The music always makes me nostalgic.

Huh a psychonauts 1 Letsplay in 2022 alright.

It never released for PC right? How can I get it :D

Increasing agility here is such an oxymoron in practice. In my every gameplay of ff2 when maxing stats, agility is ALWAYS the thing that will max up on the very last. Heck, leveling up evasion is more practical of "polishing your agility" because the method is how much your party member being targeted for physical attack. Which you can exploit it by changing order from which party member you want to increase evasion to front while letting the other 3 to the back, either grinding their bow levels with their least effective hand to deal minimum damage as possible, hit themselves with their bows, or not. Agility increase here is super randomly chosen. Equipping 2 shields to make 99% of evasion is just adding some chance to the most chaotic randomly chosen stat increase that is agility, but you'd better let your party member naked and have 99% than never. Agility here is actually teaching players patience and luck rather than actually telling them about how agile are you to dodge this attack.

I love psychonauts! I'm a bit through the start of my playthrough, cool to see someone playing the game!