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And I guess that's it. Final Fantasy 1, barring some extra content added in the GBA version, laid out for both I and anypony reading the thread to see. Did I discover what I set out to determine? Yes.
25 hours of random encounters and 80% of them were solved by selecting the Fight command until combat ended. The other 20% were solved by one party member casting Fira. Bosses were cleared by casting Haste on the Fighter and Monk. There were no real exceptions to this. Healing was done almost entirely out of combat, spell damage paled in comparison to physical attacks, a full quarter of spells went unpurchased, and a lot of the ones I did purchase were so worthless they went unused. My most used spells, outside of Healara and Fira, were utility spells. Though I only managed to actually make use of the Exit spell once, despite the many many time prior to getting it that I would've loved to have it. Verdict:
The game has no diversity at all. And what's worse, it pours battles on top of you almost non-stop towards the end of the game. If I wasn't playing at over 10x speed I don't think I would've even made it all the way through because the game is just so boring.
And with that said, I'm still somewhat interested in playing it again, to try out different combinations of members. I feel like my party was far from optimal given how things played out. Adding more monks for offense, or more fighters for defense, or red mages for the ability to cast all the useful spells without giving up weapons and armor, or just seeing what the thief can do, if anything, kind of makes me want to play through it again. Without getting lost this time, either, so I wasn't so ridiculously over leveled that even the final boss went down in maybe 10 turns and couldn't keep up with my mediocre healing.
In short, the entirety of your combat strategies are chosen from the very beginning of the game, leaving the rest of the game an endless slog through boredom, but that first part where you name your party and choose what you're doing is neat enough for me to give this game two stars out of five.
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