Final Fantasy 3

[Vallug]

I thought it was the most difficult FF, but I have not played I, II or XI. Mobs can kill you easily when you enter if a new area, there's a lot of grinding to do.

Personally I hated it. The job system is very clunky and it discourages you from trying out everything or frequently swapping between classes (unless you like grinding), the characters have almost no personality and the story is a very generic crystal tales. The only thing I save is the soundtrack, which is Uematsu's best work. Worst FF I've played.

Ugh I barely like turn based as it is (Which makes it hard to enjoy most FFs.) so the thought of grinding alloot makes me not wanna touch it.

[Gramul]

Ugh I barely like turn based as it is (Which makes it hard to enjoy most FFs.) so the thought of grinding alloot makes me not wanna touch it.

I'd have to say it's the most grind heavy of the series. Especially frustrating as they job you choose changes the stats you gain when you level, and the jobs unlock at different points in the game. Meaning your character will never be the perfect Viking simply because you level up under other jobs up to that point.

[Kletian]

I'd have to say it's the most grind heavy of the series. Especially frustrating as they job you choose changes the stats you gain when you level, and the jobs unlock at different points in the game. Meaning your character will never be the perfect Viking simply because you level up under other jobs up to that point.

The only stat that's affected by "what job you had when you leveled" was max hp (because it was calculated based on current vit). Everything else hard resets to static value. Therefore, as long as you spend 20 or so character levels as a high VIT class (just be that class during the battle you "ding") at the end of the game, you'll cap HP long before you hit level 99. The weakness and raising "job level" can be done by going to level 1 monsters and spamming defend.

I played through the Ouya version, which should be the same as Steam, and I didn't have to grind much by not wasting time on inferior jobs, which to be fair, most were. Occasionally, a dungeon would have a dangerous rare mob, but I only got killed by them maybe 4 times. The final boss can be beaten around level 40-50 as usual, it's only the secret boss, the Iron giant, where getting to 70+ is worth doing. To get through smoothly, start everyone as a red mage; then you can leave 1 as a perma-redmage to get the job 99 bonus (learn to love casting spells through weapons and dual wielding). Jobs worth switching to include Knight, Darknight, Geomancer, Whitemage/Devout, Summoner (not Evoker), Ninja, and Sage. The Master class is best for HP raising. While guides will say spam dragoon to defeat Garuda, I did just as well with a balanced party with better job levels (I tried both ways).

[Moqi]

Ugh I barely like turn based as it is (Which makes it hard to enjoy most FFs.) so the thought of grinding alloot makes me not wanna touch it.

If you want to use a job, you have to level it from stratch and (my most hated mechanic) every time you change class you get a debuff on your stats (like weakness after being raised in this game) for a set number of encounters. That really put me off from experimenting with classes.