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Eh... FFT is way easier then FFTA... outside of the one battle vs Wiegraf.

I actually missed a lot of PS1 era RPGS.

The thing about FFTA is that it has a lot of sidequests which take the place of level grinding. I can see how someone would think that FFTA would be easier if they completed most of the sidequests before they went on.

Overall though it'll be a lot harder to progress in FFTA with minimal time spent on side stuff. FFT just seems harder because everything feels like it takes forever if you decide to level up your guys outside of the main story at all.

Now an actual hard SRPG. That's either Hoshigami Runing Blu Earth or a Fire Emblem.

Hoshigami you can level grind... so it's easier... in theory. But you have to level grind after like every battle... because your always ountnumbered and facing higher level opponents.

Once you get a couple of the killer classes FFT it's cake cause the game isn't balanced well.

Sorry, but FFTA has no difficult parts, every part of the game is easy (heck, when the game came out, I didn't understand how you learned abilities, didn't read that part of the tutorial, and reached the final battle with Marche knowing just two abilities)

FFT has a kinda strange difficulty curve. It stars very hard, then the difficulty decreases until you reach Gafgarion, which is hard, then Wiegraf is VERY difficult, then it's normal till you get Orlandu, if you use him, it's a cakewalk.

The counter you speak of is a reaction ability. You have 5 abilities. The main ability set for your job (that can't be changed), the secondary one (whihc is any other job you have a skill in), a reaction comand, a support command (which gives you some kind of buff or extra ability) and move (which does something based on movement). The reaction one is eassentually a counter. It does something after an attack of some kind, depending on what it is. Theif can learn counter.

Your best bet is to use long range attacks and magic on the wolves. Try to attack the other enemies first, then attack the ones with counter. Also, try and aim for the same guy. Dont space your guys.

And I almosty forgot, buy equipment. Gear is very importaint in this game. VERY.

I'm with you on this one. I'd also add that Tactics needs you to have a good grasp on the job system if you're going to have any chance of getting far without a lot of grinding, whereas Advance is much more forgiving in a lot of ways. The fact that Advance (mostly) lacks permadeath, and that characters can take more than two hits before dying, makes it easier to blunder through, although if you know what you're doing Tactics' qualities can be easily turned to your advantage, as enemies can be slaughtered quickly with the right technique. Just make sure you gang up on the right enemies quickly, and never spread yourself too thinly.

I've gotta ask if you actually tried to "Speed run" through advance or if you played most of the missions you were given? Because you don't need to actually complete most of the missions... the only reason FFT seems harder is because it was more poorly developed.  There were almost no sidequests so any leveling up you do seems to take forever because your playing the same 3-4 battles over and over.

FFT characters are so fragile it's really easy to set up opponents and wipe them out.

This is ALL you need to do. Just level your guys some on the easier levels, and focus on the Monk class for most if not all of your characters. You will not leave these characters as monks, but the monk's ability set is very useful, especially early game.

Eventually you will diversify of course (I LOVE the Samurai ability set, but having more than one can be impractical) since you will have more special characters, Ramza will be a Squire, etc., but concentrating on monks will get you a long way.

The key to Wiegraf is auto potion, I remember when I originally played it I neglected the chemist class as was laid out....had to restart the game....good thing was that when I got there again I trounced it.