Playing the “Final Fantasy” series would be playing any typical role-playing game. However, “Final Fantasy VIII,” “Final Fantasy X,” and “Final Fantasy XII” do somewhat play differently from the rest of the Final Fantasy Games. In order to play Final Fantasy, you need to learn the basics of its typical combat system.
Typically, you have your health points and your magic points. Your health points will be labeled as “HP” while your magic points will be labeled as “MP.”
Remember, to be able to play Final Fantasy you have to treat it like any other role-playing game. If you are familiar with the typical combat system in Final Fantasy, you should do fine. Most of the Final Fantasy games implement a combat system in which you and your party members have an action meter. Depending on your character’s speed, it may take some time for the meter to fill up.
Once that meter fills up, your character can do a certain action.
Your character can do a certain action such as: attack, magic, item, or special skill.
Characters will have certain attacks such as close range or long range fighting. Whenever your character gets hit, s/he will lose points and/or get hit with a status attack. You have to learn to use a combination of basic attacking, spells, items, and special skills.
Certain characters have magical skills that will cure your party members or hurt your opponents. Magical skills will sap your MP. The more powerful the spell you cast is, the more MP it will take. There is also a cap on your HP and your MP. But, the cap increases once your characters reach their next levels.
Also, their attributes increase by about one or two. There are also special items that your characters can equip that increases your attributes. Later on, you can sell those items and buy better items. But, there is the exception in “Final Fantasy VIII.”
There are items in which you can use to restore your MP. In towns, you can eat and sleep for a fee. Your HP and MP will be restored afterwards.
I did not get into Final Fantasy until “Final Fantasy VII” had come out. When playing, you have to think intelligently in battle. There are times where you cannot attack your enemy because you need to cure your party members of different status ailments.
You have a character that may have been knocked out in battle. You can get experience points and money by defeating enemies. The points are needed to level up. The money is needed to buy items.
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