A question about Spells.

[Claire_Pendragon]

to be more clear, it wasnt that Ra and Ga were too confusing, it was that the japanese version (and i believe all versions excluding the english version) used these suffixes in other places as well, such as Materia. (There were other items, but i forget what they were)

If anything, the fact Cure3 isnt actually better than cure2, and how Blizzard2 has a completely different function than the other blizzard spells, makes the numbers be more confusing. (They received many complaints about players thinking level 3 spells were better than level 2 spells, and used them incorrectly, as they never bothered to read the tool tip.)

So why does materia having those suffixes, instead of "grade 5" cause issues?
because they were not consistent.
I forget the order (and the other suffix), but ill make the order up, to get the point across.
Cure > Cura > Curaga > Curaja> Curaza
Materia Grade > Gradra > Gradama > Gradaja > Gradaga

The items used different sufixes, AND didnt even go in order, where JA was before GA for example.

So to make it easier to understand, they changed everything to numbers...

Except.. they could have just gave them the same suffix in the propper order, or gave JUST items "Grade Numbers" instead of the suffix if they really felt a need to clarify.

In the end, it was rather silly on both sides parts on how they handled it.