/vr/ - Retro Games

Might and Magic 2. Even fans of the series tell people to start with 3 at the earliest, with many recommending 4+5 or 6 instead. No one recommends 2. And with good reason.

The game does not play fair. At any given time throughout the game, it will throw monsters at you that you realistically have no hope of beating. The majority of the enemy encounters in the first town you start in can not be beaten by a new party. Unless you know the shortcut around the initial grind, there's pretty much only one way to get started in the game. Have a robber/ninja, buy lockpick, go to locked door just SE of starting location, pick lock. Lock pick failed? If hurt, rest. If someone died, go trade them out for a new one, since you don't have money to spare for reviving. Once lock is picked, go inside and fight skeletons. Have cleric cast spell that will kill about half of skeletons. Finish off the rest. Is robber/ninja dead? Try again with new team. If alive, search for treasure and have robber/ninja disarm traps on treasure. Did trap kill robber/ninja? Try again with new team. If alive, pick lock to get back out. If robber/ninja dies, try again with new team. Made it out alive? Go rest and use gold to get better armor for team. Save, go back and do it again. Keep doing it until your team can fight and survive against something besides a small group of skeletons.

That being said, I enjoy it a lot since the game is horribly broken. Fighting against 250 enemies, they call for reinforcements, now I'm fighting against 1000+. I've got a +54 armor. I have so much HP that the screen no longer displays it. I've got a STR of 245. I've got potions that will put me +5 levels for a single fight, and more than enough to push myself over level 200. And even with all that, I'll STILL run up against enemy groups that will stomp my team, and I still haven't beaten the 66 Demon Kings.

It's not really a good game, or a good RPG. Still love it.

>>1325079
>It's a genre flaw
Now you're just generalizing. Many RPG games do handle the gameplay portion with much more care than Chrono Trigger does. None of which get even half the praise for it that this game gets. These games have faster pacing, at least some stuff to do outside of combat and following the story path, more exploration, challenging combat, challenging puzzles.