I taught one to heal but healing was weird in ToS2.  At seemingly random times I would just seem to get a ton of HP.  

The three monsters I used most were:  Fenrir, Were Bear, and Nereis.

ToS2 isn't worth that level of effort to me.

@WoW
is any game that you can think of worth that level of effort? Outta curiosity.

Effort as in maxing out characters/stuff or effort as in the number of hours Soriku has played ToS2?

@Soriku : I saw.  Emil and Marta were like <50 while my monsters were around 70-80ish despite being on their 3rd evolutions.

Yeah, like doing everything possible in a JRPG, I guess you could count different genres but they don't take the pure man hours that maxing out a JRPG does.  I've never found a JRPG that I wanted to do that personally, but I'm big into story so when that's done I lose alot of motivation.

Some JRPGs have made it really easy.  Super Mario RPG for the SNES let you max your level like halfway through the game and getting just about everything was a piece of cake.  Not hard to get "100% completion" in games like that.

The games that require you to replay the game to get everything are the ones that bother me.  I think the one exception is probably Chrono Trigger (I got all 14 endings).  I just have no incentive to replay Tales of Symphonia 2.  I mean sure it'll be easier but it was easy already.  I might get a few more interesting tidbits but not enough to make it worth another 32 hours of play.  I'd really rather not have to ever see the Temple of Lightning again as well.

I think the only type of JRPG where I would have the motivation to continue game to completion if I wasn't done when the main story finished would be a game like Disgaea where they have a side-ish story that follows after the main story.  Unfortunately I really liked Disgaea 3 but I don't have the kind of will power to do the type of grinding that is required to continue with the side story.

Even Earthbound which I have probably beaten 20 times I never tried to max out any kind of level, I just play through the story again and again because it's awesome. 

Skies of Arcadia legends compelled me to do everything.

vgChartz 2.0, being the wonderful new system it is, ate my post leaving only the first quote.  One minute while I rewrite things...

@Torillian:  Disgaea 3 has the fastest grinding of all the Disgaea games so... maybe your standards are a bit too high.

@shakarak:  I did almost everything in SoA in one playthrough.  I missed maybe 1 chest and the last stuff that would have required a few hours of monster grinding but that's it.

@Soriku:  Not hard, annoying.  Just way too much backtracking through areas that were pretty boring to begin with.  It just wasn't fun.

There is a way to skip cut scenes? Arg all the time I wasted because I didn't know that.