Final Fantasy 2 is consistently talked about as the black sheep of the Final Fantasy games. Now I can only speak on this Pixel Remaster as this was my first experience with it. But I always heard about this extreme grinding you had to do to complete the game and I don’t get it. I never had any problems during any point of the game. I do get the leveling system is different and not a great way of going about it. I think they did the right thing trying something new to further their franchise it just did not work out for them in a very similar fashion to Zelda 2, Mario2, and Castlevania 2. While it wasn’t the best it’s is not nearly as bad as people make it out to be in my opinion.

The story was a major upgrade from the original as were the character. The originals story was told in like 10 minutes at the very end and was convoluted. This story, while not the best, at least played out throughout the game and made sense. While the characters didn’t have any real depth, they were at least named characters with some dialog. The 4th rotating character was a cool idea and I enjoyed all of them outside of the final character you end the game with. The music was also better in the 2nd attempt as well.

This isn’t the best game in the series but is is severely underrated and worth a playthrough.