Wired FFXII review, not so good.

[dtewi]

Khuutra said:

dtewi said:
I hate grinding.

I haven't played FF yet (not until tomorrow) but in KH, I defeated Sephiroth 23 times to level up.

That was long and boring. I can't see the appeal of repetition.

If FF7, 8, 9, or 10 makes me grind for hours, I will hurt someone.

Multi-barred boss fights are almost never the most efficient ways to level up, even when they do provide experience

Why would you level up with Sephiroth of all fights

Because he gives eactly 18000 exp, and, quite conveniently, that is the exact amount of exp needed to advance a level past like level 70.

He is the only replayable optional boss that gives such an enormous amount of exp. The Ice Titan gives only 5000 and he takes far longer to defeat. Sephiroth is rather basic when you get the hang of him and shouldn't take more than 3 or 4 minutes to beat at high levels.

Basically, the amount of heartless needed to get 18000 exp is... a lot and incredibly time consuming.

At level 76, or something like that, it really only took like 5 minutes, but multiply that by 23 and you get 2 hours.

Albeit, that isn't too bad, but that's still annoying.

But yeah, Sephiroth was in fact the most efficient way to level up considering he gets really easy after 10 battles. At like level 40 though, it is the worst way.