Why should I keep my characters at low levels in Final Fantasy VI?
up till now I've played only FF Tactics Advance and FFI (also on GBA). Now I started playing newly bought FFVI for android devices. I've made a few steps, fought a few battles, then thought that maybe I should read about how should I raise my heroes ... and gamefaqs.com killed me with the info, that on my first battle I should kill Terra. Further reading of other guides/walkthroughs made me think that I really should do it and always try to keep my level as low as possible because of some level averaging. I understand that at some point levels of my "heroes" is going to be "averaged" ... ok, whatever, but why should I keep my levels low? usually in RPG games it's better to be on as high level as possible, so WTF?
Can anybody tell my how should I play this game (i ask only about this leveling stuff) and why? should I really run away from most of my battles? that's really unusual style for me so it would mean to me that I must play with the guide all the time :| this takes away all the fun
Best Answer
For a fair chunk of the FF games (VIII, IX and IV), leveling up doesn't do much on its own. The only way to grow your characters stats in those games was via Espers (VI), Junctions (VIII) and Equipment (IX) that were equipped when the character levels. (The remake of IV also had characters gain stats based on what abilities they had equipped between levels 70 and 99, but to get "ideal" stats you needed to beat the game twice before, so that's clearly optional)
That means, for a certain subset of players, gaining a level without having the optimum Esper/junctions/equipment is a waste. If you wish to play optimally (in the case of 6, you can beat the last boss is one round before it has a chance to do anything), keep your levels as low as possible. It's by no means a requirement, the game is perfectly beatable without playing optimally. There are no extra scenes or achievements for playing the games "perfectly," it's personal preference.
(There are two other ways to get stats in FFVIII (other than junctioning) that have nothing to do with levels; the Devour ability and consumables that increase your stats)
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