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EO has Piercing blunt and slash damage weapons, and then it has elemental attacks and weaknesses. sometimes you work with both at once.

Elemental rock paper scisors is pretty common. A lot of games you can get through by just using your strongets attacks, but you should know that you can do that with pokemon if you grind hard enough. How do you think any of us beat the elite 4 as kids?

We stacked our teams high with legendary birds and starter pokemon, and hunted down every nugget in the game for cash to buy revives.

Ookay, whatever. It's the other differences that make it stand out, then. I hated the EOIV demo...

I'll just quote this one then!
Jeez, I didn't know Ryan quit Gaia. D: Wow, the second-best! I need to play it again. Wow, MSN. XD
I dunno, MM2 does seem easier. I beat it pretty quickly, and I was even using virtual buttons. (Maybe I'm just good, though? Naaaah)

Hmm... I don't think I've played 4 yet. I was trying to go in order (skipping 1) on the Mega Man Anniversary Collection. I got stuck in 3. And then I had college.
I don't remember if I played with Bass or not. I need to revisit 10 again too.

DISAGREE I LIKED YELLOW DEVIL IN POWERED UP

So what if you have to fight him a few times? When you memorize what pattern you have to jump in and defeat him, it becomes like the most satisfying thing ever.

He was more frustrating in MM1.

http://www.gamestop.com/wii/accessories/wii-balance-board/91433

This is tempting. I've always wanted to check out this peripheral. I am slightly ashamed to say I got really into the sony eyetoy back in the day. Because, you know, I was like 13 or something, but yeah, I have a history of enjoying dorky peripherals too much.

Man, I could get back into DDR...

This only worked as intended when I opened the blinds all the way on snowy days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6OmmNeYL8U

DDR is so ******** hard. I used to be okay at it but now I'm not so okay at it and I don't know what happened.

On the subject of Persona, it might be the whole "obtain and battle monsters!" thing that I like, more than the rock paper scissors thing. I actually thought about making a youtube channel about games where you raise/fight monster-type things and about virtual pets, buuut that was just an idea sweatdrop

On the subject of Mega Man, maybe the Yellow Devil was easier in Powered Up since I'd done it in Mega Man 1 first (and recently). >_< I hope not. He's not THAT hard... he just does like the same thing every time he attacks. It's just memorization.

I heart Mega Man 3

One time I watched Fish play a ROM of Mega Man V on the Game Boy and that one seemed really cool! I hope they put it on the eshop!!!

I hope they put old Pokemon games on the eshop too! At least Pokemon Trading Card Game! I would so play that all over. I still play it on my phone and challenge an NPC to a match in it once in awhile just for the fun of it. So proud of my "Jasmine deck". <<

I don't know how EOIV compares, but the weakest point of the first game was definitely the first stratum. It really says what it needs to that the tutorial quest (map the first floor) is pretty much impossible to complete without leaving and healing several times, and that the strategy for beating FOEs and the boss in that section is completely different from the other stratums (max poison and spam it vs. playing exactly how you'd expect to). I really liked the game by the third stratum or so, but those first several floors were a slog to get through.

That said, the series isn't really heavy on story or character development so if that's what you're looking for you won't really enjoy the games. Check out the Untold demo since that has a story mode, I guess?



None of the other games you mention use elemental rock-paper-scissors in the way that MegaTen does, but that doesn't mean that there aren't certain tactics present or that just grinding through them will work. Fire Emblem isn't completely reliant on figuring out and avoiding weaknesses, but you're also not just going to grind for a few hours and then just punch everything, either. The strategy of FE is figuring out which party members to use, where to have them go and who everyone should attack, and how to avoid having characters die since there's (usually) permadeath. Since you were asking about Square games, Tactics Ogre also operates on the same rules.

(Tactics Ogre is also awesome in that your choices actually affect how the story progresses and who will team up with you, but that's getting into a completely different topic.)