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Did you find it confusing when you were younger?

I don't mind it on a main story playthrough, but it's such a weird way to manage leveling up and it makes maxing out for the postgame an annoying chore.

I think it was lame in the original. It didnt open up until much later, so any branching is not used for a long time. And then everyone just turns out the same anyway.

International is better as it opens up much earlier, but same problem. Everyone turns out the same.

Essentially, it looks cool but they could have just made it linear and had the same effect.

Its crazy in that diablo clone. I forget the name of the game but people say it's not a skill tree but a skill forest

Oh. Path of Exile

It made every character feel very samey at the end game.

Which, to be fair, was a problem that a lot of the PS1/PS2 Final Fantasy games suffered from.

It's basically just normal leveling up but they make you add everything manually. There was some cool stuff you could do but not until late in the game. Most of the time it boiled down to "do you want to spend a few extra levels to get some extra stats or just beeline through the important stuff?"

Well, originally at least. I never bothered with the "expert" version.

It was a great concept that was executed kinda poorly in retrospect. When it first came out it was pretty damn cool though.

i was cool with it at the time but like legit every character ends up exactly the same so it was weird.

like should have been like you get 1-3 unlock tokens per character and then they could upgrade with those characters upgrades as well. or what i'm thinking just 1 and make each characters like twice as big. like 25 levels in each grid to learn all the different abilities except the final one you need to put 50 levels into the grid to get and it's exclusive to the starting character. so you can just focus on that and once you hit 50 have that character maxed and then start your 2nd grid. or just get to 25 and then focus on the 2nd grid and then will have 2 near maxed by time you hit 50. then the extra points is just a bunch of stat ups and stuff till you get 99 and maxed out.

weaker than ff5-9 but better than 12-16

Zikten posted...

Its crazy in that diablo clone. I forget the name of the game but people say it's not a skill tree but a skill forest

Oh. Path of Exile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZ_R7dEmDQ

darkknight109 posted...

It made every character feel very samey at the end game.

Which, to be fair, was a problem that a lot of the PS1/PS2 Final Fantasy games suffered from.

This. I like characters to be more differentiated.

Nice for the main game, an absolute chore for the post game. Really needed a toggle to just activate a sphere if you passed over it and had the required item. Takes longer to traverse the grid than to get the level ups in post game.

I liked it but I also spent months of afternoons just grinding to try to unlock as much of it as possible which probably ruined the purpose of it >_>

As a dumb teenager, I screwed up Kimahri in FFX because I chose the wrong path....that solo fight with him was rough. I went down Yuna or Lulu's path and well, he was very squishy with shit magic haha

I don't like that story progression prevented me from leveling up my character.