Quote Originally Posted by Raagnar View Post
This is not entirely true.. You never actually gained xp from completing any quests, you indirectly lvl up by getting in random battles along the way and depending on how many you had you could be weaker or stronger then needed when you get to your destination. On average you could handle the content with some skill but it was not guaranteed that you were strong enough just because you did the story. And I didnt even mention the games where they removed random battles.
I think his point is you didn't have to go out of your way and grind to make it to end game, following the story progression as long as you didn't run from a lot of encounters was sufficient enough. That pretty much sounds like what Yoshi is going for which is like every FF game (aside from XI and current XIV).