Quote Originally Posted by Yasuhiro View Post
Koji Fox obviously didn't have faith in the playerbases intelligence if he thought they couldn't get their head around suffixes
Or he was planning ahead to when we reach Fire/Cure/Thunder/Whatever V/VI/VII and such. And FFII didn't have -ra, -ga, -ja either because the spell leveled up so you would go all the way to Fire XII (or XIV? I think XIV was the cap...). The localization has a lot of fanservice for the american audience, not those that think that if you didn't play it in the original japanese in the famicon means you're not a real fan.