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Black_Crusher posted...

Giving the black wizard the option of learning 3 of 4 possible spells in any given magic level is cool and promotes replays (barring the bugged spells of course). If that same black wizard can somehow equip axes and better armor later.. or your fighter can eventually learn the same black magic spells than they're essentially the same thing.

Which is why it's kind of ironic that the second FF game ever was the one where literally every character could do everything, and only specialized as you did those things.

Keep casting black magic spells? Your magic power grows stronger. Keep hitting people with axes? You start doing more melee damage. You as the player essentially decide whether your group is going to be all mages or all fighters or what, and which character is going to be your healer/tank/damager/etc simply by virtue of how you use them.

And then everyone hated it.



11110111011 posted...

It's why Dragon Warrior 3 is the best NES RPG.

The funny thing is, I'd agree - just for entirely different reasons.

DW3 had more in-depth narrative and story, and has the most interesting setting to explore. It's probably the one I played the least back then (because by the time it came out I was already moving on to Final Fantasy and the SNES), but it's also the one I enjoyed the most.

I never cared much about the party composition at all (especially since all of your companions were basically nameless, faceless mooks - as opposed to the prince and princess in DWII and the diverse cast in DWIV), and I never really used class change options (except to get myself a Sage), but the rest of the game was what appealed to me (so much so that 10+ years later I worked a couple of ideas from it and DWI into a Changeling tabletop RPG campaign I was part of).