I LOVE the Lunar series!! Those super rare boxes of Lunar 1 and 2 are the crown jewels of my video game collection! ^_^
Another series that has a fantastic battle system is Grandia. The first Grandia blew me away (it was my the first JRPG I ever played). It's similar to Lunar in that the enemies walk around on the field and the actual battles rely more on strategy than just being a tool to pad the game's length.
As for Final Fantasy...I hate to bash the franchise as a whole because I really do enjoy those games (except FF8. That game should rot in a landfill with those infamous ET cartridges). And some Final Fantasies have brilliant battle systems. But, yeah, a lot of FF games do have a pesky habit of forcing the player to spend HOURS level grinding just to do the sidequests. I mean, what's the point of getting to level 99, killing the super hard optional boss, and getting a sweet rare weapon that you don't even need because your characters are level 99 tanks? ESPECIALLY when you don't even have the option to carry your sweet rare weapon into a New Game+ like you can in most Tales games.
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Date: 2010-05-28 06:57 am (UTC)Another series that has a fantastic battle system is Grandia. The first Grandia blew me away (it was my the first JRPG I ever played). It's similar to Lunar in that the enemies walk around on the field and the actual battles rely more on strategy than just being a tool to pad the game's length.
As for Final Fantasy...I hate to bash the franchise as a whole because I really do enjoy those games (except FF8. That game should rot in a landfill with those infamous ET cartridges). And some Final Fantasies have brilliant battle systems.
But, yeah, a lot of FF games do have a pesky habit of forcing the player to spend HOURS level grinding just to do the sidequests. I mean, what's the point of getting to level 99, killing the super hard optional boss, and getting a sweet rare weapon that you don't even need because your characters are level 99 tanks? ESPECIALLY when you don't even have the option to carry your sweet rare weapon into a New Game+ like you can in most Tales games.