A (mostly) solid remaster of a JRPG that would've been extremely ambitious in its time, but aged like milk. I think the leveling system is really cool! The most fun I had in FF2 was grinding in the early game to do stuff that I shouldn't have been able to. It's fun to break a game over your knee like that. Unfortunately I think the leveling is by far the most interesting aspect of FF2, and once the novelty wears off you're left with a JRPG with some of the worst dungeon design I've ever seen and a sky high encounter rate. It's just not fun, and that's coming from an unironic Strange Journey stan.

I will say I'm much more willing to give SaGa a chance after this, cuz it can't be any worse.