LogFAQs > #973755062

I had a bit of a misunderstanding on how the team order was gonna work, but since there were 4 phases, these (best I remember, don't take the order too seriously) were my teams for each phase. Cyan was really dragging the team down in terms of damage output. Sabin wasn't much better, but at least he died quick. I gave pretty much everyone healing though, so they weren't wholly useless.

Cyan
Sabin
Strago
Edgar

Cyan
Shadow
Sabin
Setzer

Cyan
Shadow
Sabin
Setzer

Relm
Shadow
Mog
Celes

I got lucky with Shadow dodging the counterattack on death from the third phase, I didn't bring any intentional protection for that. Final phase of Kefka died way faster than I expected. I thought he was about to launch another huge attack when he started melting, then he just melted to death. Last team was certainly my strongest of the 4, so that was fortunate. I felt like I didn't use that much of my team, but I was only missing about 3, being Terra, Gau, and Locke.

Good game overall, though I'm sure I hurt my experience. I was afraid of missing out on stuff, but that ends up kinda stopping some surprises from happening. I'm not really in the mood to go into the post game stuff, I mostly just wanted to finally beat it. I'm glad I did.

Over the years (though mostly after I started playing it), I heard mentions of the large cast being a detriment. I can understand that, but I don't think that was the issue. There just weren't too many opportunities for the party to all chat and hang out. The moments they did, like when they helped Gau meet his father, were excellent. I can imagine how much more amazing the game would have been if there was party chat, a la Dragon Quest. But that would have tripled the script, at least.